What do you get when you cross archives and artifacts with timelines, modern and historical maps, and an appreciation for the interpretive aims of humanities scholarship?
Today, the Scholars’ Lab is proud to announce the launch of Neatline, our set of Omeka plugins for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation. Here, you can download the 1.0 software, see sample exhibits or play in the sandbox, and read more about the project, including news and history.
Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences from collections of archives and artifacts, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines that are more-than-usually sensitive to ambiguity and nuance. In other words, Neatline lets you make hand-crafted, interactive stories as interpretive expressions of an archival or cultural heritage collection.
Every Neatline exhibit can be your own close reading of a humanities collection — expressed in the visual vernacular. Ours is a small-data approach in a “big data” world.
Stay tuned to the Scholars’ Lab blog and to this site for a series of posts and screencasts to be shared over the course of the next two weeks. We’ll be providing support for this open-source software on the Omeka forums and dev list.