Public lectures at VUW: Mapping the World through Time (Julie Sweetkind-Singer) and Mapping texts: Using GIS to understand the geographies in large collections of texts (Ian Gregory)

As part of the Australasian Rare Book Summer School, two free public lectures will be held in Wellington in January 2015, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington and the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand. We hope you can join us!

Mapping the World through Time

Speaker: Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & Services, Stanford University Libraries

Date: 27 January 2015

Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Cost: Free

Location: Tiakiwai (lower ground floor), National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, Aitken Street entrance.

Mapping texts: Using GIS to understand the geographies in large collections of text

Speaker: Ian Gregory, Professor of Digital Humanities, Lancaster University, UK

Date: 29 January 2015

Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Cost: Free

Location: Stout Research Centre, Room 203, Victoria University Kelburn campus.

For more information please visit http://wtap.vuw.ac.nz/wordpress/digital-history/rbss-public-lectures/

Happy new year and helpful hints for those writing resolutions

I hope you had a great start to 2015.  I've finally managed to catch up on the MGIS admissions this year and it looks like it's a bumper year for really interested and enthusiastic students.

And just because every post should have a photo...

 

Rory McPherson (MGIS student) and Roger Smith (Geographx) looking at Roger's award winning rock printed map at the Dominion Observatory in the Botanic Gardens, Wellington.

I've also been working though my feedly backlog and found two useful writing resources.

1. Style checks for academic and non fiction writing: https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/top-ten-style-checks-for-phds-or-creative-non-fiction-writers-9ca63542f5d

Particularly good if you need to think about sentence and paragraph construction.

2. How to get published in academia: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/03/how-to-get-published-in-an-academic-journal-top-tips-from-editors

Includes hints on dealing with reviewers as well as picking a journal.