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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
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
