ABSTRACT
The spatial humanities, as manifested as a branch of the literature, discourses and institutional environments of the humanities more broadly, have been accelerated and, to an extent, defined, by technological developments – most notably the emergence of Geographical Information Systems as a tool used by humanists to explore their research questions. The spatial humanities require cognate processes to handle the complexities of mapping socially constructed place from historical and archaeological source material. The importance of spatial literacy teaching and learning at all levels has been recognized in the university classrooms of the humanities. A Digital Humanities project setting out to digitize a text would be broken down into several stages. In the spatial humanities, an equivalent process must be undertaken by the contemporary digital cartographer who might be removed from the point of platial cognition and construction by many centuries, or even millennia. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
