Click, See, Explore: A Multimodal Approach to Better Understand the Early Modern Colonial World through Old Maps

Activity: Talk or presentationAcademic

Description

The presentation explores a multimodal method for analyzing Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives by integrating historical maps with textual records. It highlights a pilot project that enriched early modern VOC maps using semi-automated techniques to add three layers of annotations: georeferencing, transcribed labels, and visual elements like agricultural plots and buildings. This approach deepens the understanding of spatial and colonial dynamics, offering new insights into early modern colonial studies.
Period25 Sept 2024
Event titleSpatial Humanities 2024
Event typeConference
Conference number5
LocationBamberg, Germany, BavariaShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Historical maps
  • Early Modern History
  • Colonial History
  • Dutch East India Company (VOC)
  • Spatial Humanities
  • computational humanities