Neatline, funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, is a tool for the creation of interlinked timelines and maps as interpretive expressions of the literary or historical content of archival collections. It promotes collaboration by libraries and cultural heritage institutions with scholarly end-users, who will build on standard EAD (Encoded Archival Description) metadata to produce rich, evocative – even theoretical – geospatial and temporal visualizations of the textual content of catalogued letters and manuscripts. Neatline is therefore a geo-temporal framework for fruitful interchange among scholars and the stewards of primary resources. It builds on Omeka, OpenLayers, GeoServer, and SIMILE Timeline, and provides a seamless, out-of-the-box experience for users without deep Web development skills. Adam Soroka and Bethany Nowviskie have conceived Neatline as a contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular. Learn more about our Neatline-related Omeka plugins, or visit the Neatline page.
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