Digital Scholarship Conversations series is a monthly brown bag hosted by Tisch Library. Each conversation will focus on a different topic, helping us share ideas and build community around the intersection of digital technology and our research and teaching.

In this session Ian Spangler will talk about the digital mapping tools supported by the Levanthal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library, including Atlascope, Allmaps, as well as their extensive digital map collections. He will touch on some of the technical aspects of these tools, such as georeferencing workflows, APIs for querying collections, and use of IIIF for digital image collections.  

Bio: Ian is a cultural & economic geographer with interests in digital mapping, housing studies, and race & landscape in the US. He earned his BA in English & Geography from the University of Mary Washington, and his MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Kentucky. At Tufts, Ian teaches "Introduction to Geospatial Humanities," a course focused on using modern mapping tools to investigate historical and cultural geographies. Ian also manages digital mapping tools, geospatial reference requests, and public geographic scholarship in his full-time role at the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.