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Mapping Jewish Culture

https://mapping.judaic.lsa.umich.edu

Esri Education SummitJuly 6th, 2019

Background

● 2014: Prof. Shachar Pinsker uses Story Maps for ‘Urban Cafes and Modern Jewish Culture’

● Situate historical events in space, and visualize movement of people and ideas.

● Evolved from individual to group assignments, and into multiple courses

Source: LSA Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, “A Digital Map of Historical Cafes”

“I was a little confused by the technology at first, but I thought it was a dynamic way to interact with the materials we learned in class”

“I was surprised by how much creating the maps helped me to understand the material”

Jody Liu, Anthropology

Rachel Schuster, considering Psychology

Source: LSA Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, “A Digital Map of Historical Cafes”

Project Objective

● Digital companion to “A Rich Brew”

● Several ways to explore data○ Linear vs non-linear○ Guided vs individual discovery

○ Themes, places, people, time

● Space to evolve and grow

● Appeal to multiple audiences

The Team● Faculty● Undergraduate & Graduate

students

● Website development

● GIS expertise

● Data visualization experts

Django AGOLFeature Layer Google

Web Maps TimelineJS

https://mapping.judaic.lsa.umich.edu

Scalar

ArcGIS JavaScript Web Mapping Application

Story Maps

Django AGOLFeature Layer Google

Web Maps TimelineJS

https://mapping.judaic.lsa.umich.edu

Scalar

ArcGIS JavaScript Web Mapping Application

Story Maps

Data

● Locations, photos and descriptions of Jewish cafes and historical figures

● Historical city maps

Django AGOLFeature Layer Google

Web Maps TimelineJS

https://mapping.judaic.lsa.umich.edu

Scalar

ArcGIS JavaScript Web Mapping Application

Story Maps

TimelineJS

● Interactive,sourced from google sheets

● Embed in Scalar, Story Maps

Django AGOLFeature Layer Google

Web Maps TimelineJS

https://mapping.judaic.lsa.umich.edu

Scalar

ArcGIS JavaScript Web Mapping Application

Story Maps

Story Maps

● Curated stories of themes (Women in the Cafe), people (Shalom Aleichem) and places (Warsaw).

Scalar

● Visualize networks of people and places● Non-linear exploration

Web Mapping Application

● Explore cafes by city, time● Custom JavaScript web application

The Website

● Built to mimic the cascade style story map

● Multiple paths of exploration

Django AGOLFeature Layer Google

Web Maps TimelineJS

https://mapping.judaic.lsa.umich.edu

Scalar

ArcGIS JavaScript Web Mapping Application

Story Maps

Demo

Lessons Learned

● Demonstrated ease of combining platforms

○ Different areas of expertise○ Components complement each other

● Data management plan is critical

○ Plan for ownership of items in AGOL organization■ Group ownership of items would be helpful

○ Backing up primary data

Questions?

Contact: lsats-gis@umich.edu

Project funded by:MCubed