Mapping Workshop
This 3-day institute at the University of Texas-El Paso’s Borderlands Digital Humanities Center will provide participants with conceptual and practical training in the development of digital mapping projects based on borderland archives. The objectives are threefold: First, obtain specialized training on several free and open source tools that can be used to map humanities data in archives. Second, learn about numerous archives that document the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Lastly, cultivate a borderlands community of practice, support, and exchange for researchers and archivists that continues beyond this institute.
To register for this free series of workshops and panels, please go to Mapping Workshops Registration | Registro para los Talleres de Cartografía.
Monday, August 10
- 8:30 – 8:45 am — Light Breakfast
- 8:45 – 10:15 am — Welcome and Introductions
- 10:15 – 10:30 am — Coffee Break
- 10:30 am – 12:00 pm — Mapping Ethics Discussion
- 12:00 – 1:00 pm — Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:30 pm — Archival Showcase — UTEP, NMSU, and UT Austin
- 2:30 – 2:45 pm — Coffee Break
- 2:45 – 4:15 pm — Project Roundtable Discussions
Tuesday, August 11
- 8:30 – 8:45 am — Light Breakfast
- 8:45 – 10:15 am — Workshop on ArcGIS Online, StoryMaps, and Map Warper
- 10:15 – 10:30 am — Coffee Break
- 10:30 am – 12:00 pm — Workshop on Palladio
- 12:00 – 1:00 pm — Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:30 pm — Archival Showcase — UACJ and Border Heritage Center
- 2:30 – 2:45 pm — Coffee Break
- 2:45 – 4:15 pm — Project Roundtable Discussions
Wednesday, August 12
- 8:30 – 8:45 am — Light Breakfast
- 8:45 – 10:15 am — Workshop on StoryMapJS and TimeMapperJS
- 10:15 – 10:30 am — Coffee Break
- 10:30 am – 12:00 pm — Workshop on CollectionBuilder and HistoryPin
- 12:00 – 1:00 pm — Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:30 pm — Project Roundtable Discussions
- 2:30 – 2:45 pm — Coffee Break
- 2:45 – 4:15 pm — Takeaways and Closing
Workshops
Map Warper, ArcGIS Online, and StoryMap
Instructors: Alex Marden, UT Libraries GIS and Geospatial Data Coordinator, and Albert A. Palacios, LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Participants will georeference and pull geospatial data from early 20th-century Sanborn Fire Insurance historical maps of El Paso using Map Warper, then visualize and present the images and data using ArcGIS Online tools.
Palladio
Instructors: Albert A. Palacios, LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Participants will visualize the spatial relationships that unfold in a compilation of royal decrees issued for the military, religious, and social administration of northwest Mexico (New Biscay and Sonora provinces) between 1694 and 1767 using Stanford University's Palladio, a web-based network and spatial visualization platform.
TimeMapperJS + StoryMapJS
Instructors: Camila Lopez-McCarl, Latin American Studies Master's student, and Miriam Santana, English Doctoral student
Participants will explore the multimedia functionality of two Google-based tools, TimeMapperJS and StoryMapJS, to present the geographically-distributed news stories in El Pasoan Abelardo Delgado's newsletter, La Onda Campesina (1978–1980).
CollectionBuilder + HistoryPin
Instructors: Albert A. Palacios, LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Participants will create descriptive records for photographs documenting substandard Mexican American schools and migrant camps in Texas and New Mexico from the 1930s and 1940s to build a digital collection in two open-source archive and exhibition platforms, CollectionBuilder and HistoryPin.
Panels and Roundtables
Mapping Ethics Discussion
This discussion will be loosely organized around a set of core texts shared with registered participants in advance of the institute's opening that engage in the creation and reception of maps as interpretative artifacts.
Archival Showcase 1
Presenters: Dennis Daily, Department Head of Archives and Special Collections at NMSU, Albert Palacios, LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Claudia Rivers, Head of Special Collections at UTEP, and Susannah Holliday, Assistant Head of Special Collections at UTEP
Archival Showcase 2
Presenters: Claudia Romero, Library Archivist at the El Paso Public Library Border Heritage Center, Brenda Guadalupe Rocha Saucedo, Jefa de Gestión, Desarrollo de Colecciones y Colecciones Especiales de UACJ, Fabiola Quirarte Damas, Jefatura de Servicios y Vinculación Bibliotecaria de UACJ, and Patricia Martinez Gutierrez, Subdirectora de Servicios Bibliotecarios de UACJ
Project Roundtables
Presenters: List forthcoming from participants
