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Barbara Hui
PhD Student, UCLA/UCHRI

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Barbara Hui is a grad student in Comp Lit at UCLA, where she is finishing up her dissertation entitled Narrative Networks: Mapping Literature at the Turn of the 21st Century. She is also programmer/analyst at the UC Humanities Research Institute, has worked extensively as a developer on Hypercities, the Danish Folklore Data Nexus, and other historical/archival/literary mapping projects, and is currently a fellow of the NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship.

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4:20pm Thursday, 04/01/2010

Mapping Historical Photographs for the Common Good

Mapping
Location: Ballroom III

Jon Voss (LookBackMaps), Barbara Hui (UCLA/UCHRI)

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Old stuff can be sexy too! An overview of various efforts to geotag publicly available historical photos, organize them in a useful fashion, and keep them free and accessible to machines and humans. Includes demonstration of web and mobile applications bringing history to life on the map. We consider noncommercial models to promote mapping within historical and cultural preservation. Read more.