Method

The idea of Beautiful Spacesis to expose the myriad ways in which pieces of the historical record are connected across diverse contexts, at a variety of scales, and with a range of implications. To that end, the project uses three primary tools built…

Curation is, among other things, a means of establishing connectivity: either by making existing connections visible, or by forging new ones. Either way, the goal is to create (some semblance of) order from chaos, coherence from disarray, meaning…

Geospatial context matters. Pure and simple.

Producing geospatial content, however, is a complex process.

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Narration occurs at nearly every level of the project: in the maps, the Item metadata, the collections. But it occurs in two more explicit, intentional forms as well: Annotations: Sketches:Sketches resemble traditional forms, but are built on the…