Digital Maps and Historical Inquiry

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This issue is dedicated to the lesson currently under preparation with the title "Digital Maps and Historical Inquiry". Based on an initial proposal of the Herder Institute (attention, this is the initial and not the updated and working version of the lesson), and authors Peter Haslinger, Christian Lotz, and Tabitha Redepenning, this lesson now contains parts authored by Eliane Schmid (@PublicUrbanGreen), and a subassignment based on teaching materials made available from the Minett Stories project, authored by Werner Tschacher and adapted by Stefan Krebs and Sofia Papastamkou for the current lesson. The draft of the current version of the lesson received extensive edits and new additions by Sofia Papastamkou mainly to a) ensure that the draft follows the structure of the Ranke.2 lessons, b) enrich the dimension of digital source criticism, sometimes with adding new blocks of text, and c) adopt a more pedagogical style (clear learning objectives, detailed exercises).

The draft can be viewed here: https://github.com/C2DH/ranketwo-submissions/blob/master/lessons/drafts/digital-maps-and-historical-inquiry.md

The lesson still needs:

• confirmation for full references and rights of use of a certain number of images of maps used in the exercises by authors Haslinger, Lotz (@christian-lotz), and Redepenning (request email sent on 2 June)
• approval of the new edits in order to start the peer review process.

[spapastamkou]

@christian-lotz and @PublicUrbanGreen - if you wish to exchange foe whatever between you about the lesson, feel free to use this space.

[spapastamkou]

The lesson is now under review. First reviewer is Lauren Coetzee. Feedback can also informally be submitted by interested readers with expertise in the subject.