{"id":1778,"date":"2016-11-07T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:28:07","slug":"week-7-dh-mapping-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/11\/07\/week-7-dh-mapping-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7: DH mapping critique"},"content":{"rendered":"

I examined Revilna<\/a>, a site dedicated to “Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto.” Upon entering the site, it was pretty difficult for me to readily\u00a0understand what the site’s purpose was. I personally had no idea what the Vilna Ghetto was on opening the site, and the site’s landing page didn’t lend me any insight. The copy only refers to the Lithuanian ghetto area as “the Ghetto” and offered no real further clarification, even upon browsing through the site’s various pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

I ventured into the mapping narrative and found it also to be a tad confusing. I couldn’t readily identify the data that\u00a0each map meant to present. Some presented types of institutions, some presented\u00a0data in a more timeline-esque map visualization, others presented sites of events. When browsing\u00a0through the different maps and pages, these shifted data types weren’t addressed, which made it hard to fully comprehend the narrative the site meant to present. <\/span><\/p>\n

I also couldn’t find the source of their presented data, making it hard to understand and analyze the point of view of the narrative. Not knowing the credibility or purpose of the images\/location data\/general information really prohibited me from being able to pick out the biases and perspectival weaknesses of the narrative. <\/span>The map itself, though, seems to leave out a lot of data, since there are a lot of spaces between the data points. It leads me to wonder what the spaces are between these institutions and event locations. Are they neighborhoods, are they government buildings, are they empty lots? Contextually, I’m not sure what’s going on there. In saying that, though, there\u00a0is<\/em> a good breadth of data\u00a0addressing the various types of institutions that were in this ghetto,\u00a0giving insight to what structures were in place for people residing in the area to engage with. The interactions of the residents with these various institutions are somewhat well represented in the brief descriptions and image galleries presented\u00a0alongside the mapped data. I wonder, though, who had access to these various institutions and if there was a stark difference in access based on socioeconomic status. <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps a better map of the area would present\u00a0data about the people who were actually living in the Vilnius Ghetto (economic status\/age\/occupation\/marital status), since the landing page does claim to describe “how the residents lived.” I think that presenting a clear legend\/key to the data points and keeping it consistent throughout the site would have also been very helpful. A more layered map with all various “stories” and narratives as toggle options would have been helpful as well, in order to get\u00a0a more holistic picture while having access to the details of the data points.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I examined Revilna, a site dedicated to “Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto.” Upon entering the site, it was pretty difficult for me to readily\u00a0understand what the site’s purpose was. I personally … Continue reading “Week 7: DH mapping critique”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}