Katie McDonough
@kmcdono.bsky.social
History + DH @ Lancaster University. MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France.
Things you can do with the new text on maps #dataviz interface by @bertspaan.nl with Machines Reading Maps data:
- Compare geolocated text from 18th- & 20th-c. maps: here Trenton, NJ from an early American road maps & 1929 US real estate maps (Rumsey Coll.).
1/n (an occasional thread...)
#ff2025
- Compare geolocated text from 18th- & 20th-c. maps: here Trenton, NJ from an early American road maps & 1929 US real estate maps (Rumsey Coll.).
1/n (an occasional thread...)
#ff2025
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Things you can do with the new text on maps #dataviz interface by @bertspaan.nl with Machines Reading Maps data:
- Compare geolocated text from 18th- & 20th-c. maps: here Trenton, NJ from an early American road maps & 1929 US real estate maps (Rumsey Coll.).
1/n (an occasional thread...)
#ff2025
- Compare geolocated text from 18th- & 20th-c. maps: here Trenton, NJ from an early American road maps & 1929 US real estate maps (Rumsey Coll.).
1/n (an occasional thread...)
#ff2025
Two of my favorite people :)
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Two of my favorite people :)
Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
Lovely to be at Alison Bashford’s talk @lancasteruni.bsky.social as a part of the @victorianhand.bsky.social project.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Lovely to be at Alison Bashford’s talk @lancasteruni.bsky.social as a part of the @victorianhand.bsky.social project.
Not every day that 2 K. Lilley's also share scholarly interests! So glad that @kirstylilley.bsky.social and @profkdlilley.bsky.social have connected, and through MapReader no less :)
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Not every day that 2 K. Lilley's also share scholarly interests! So glad that @kirstylilley.bsky.social and @profkdlilley.bsky.social have connected, and through MapReader no less :)
The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester & @n8cir.bsky.social Environmental #DH Seminar is up!
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester & @n8cir.bsky.social Environmental #DH Seminar is up!
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
Excellent example (from ARTEMIS project) of the challenges of working with maps as data at the level of whole collections!!
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Excellent example (from ARTEMIS project) of the challenges of working with maps as data at the level of whole collections!!
Wonderful to hear from Iason Jongepier (Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent ) on ARTEMIS work at the intersection of history, planning, environmental science, and heritage & preservation.
Learn about future events from the Env DH Seminar - www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Learn about future events from the Env DH Seminar - www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Wonderful to hear from Iason Jongepier (Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent ) on ARTEMIS work at the intersection of history, planning, environmental science, and heritage & preservation.
Learn about future events from the Env DH Seminar - www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Learn about future events from the Env DH Seminar - www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Someone from Germany please explain, to a French speaker, what in the world this means.
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Someone from Germany please explain, to a French speaker, what in the world this means.
Wonderful series of talks from Lancaster PhD students. Kind of makes you think everything will be ok.
September 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Wonderful series of talks from Lancaster PhD students. Kind of makes you think everything will be ok.
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
August 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
More Oxford wonders this morning… and amazing clouds too!
August 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
More Oxford wonders this morning… and amazing clouds too!
Wonderful day yesterday at #dhoxss2025 with @agneatha.bsky.social @david.deroure.org & the whole @discoxford.bsky.social team! Plus got to see @mcollardanuy.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social & Kaspar Beelen teaching their amazing Text2Tech class. Wrapped things up with pizza on the water!
August 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Wonderful day yesterday at #dhoxss2025 with @agneatha.bsky.social @david.deroure.org & the whole @discoxford.bsky.social team! Plus got to see @mcollardanuy.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social & Kaspar Beelen teaching their amazing Text2Tech class. Wrapped things up with pizza on the water!
Schedule and speakers:
July 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Schedule and speakers:
Very dark humor this week, @qmucu.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Very dark humor this week, @qmucu.bsky.social
I am about halfway though The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Leeds author @sarahbrooks.bsky.social and am having such a good time with this book! Trains! Mysterious landscapes! Intrigue! Lots of languages! And this wonderful train map:
July 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I am about halfway though The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Leeds author @sarahbrooks.bsky.social and am having such a good time with this book! Trains! Mysterious landscapes! Intrigue! Lots of languages! And this wonderful train map:
Wrapping up with final takeaways, “computationally modeled iconography is linked to this large-scale analysis of visual patterns, but domain-specific context continues to center human intelligence.”
#DH2025
#DH2025
July 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Wrapping up with final takeaways, “computationally modeled iconography is linked to this large-scale analysis of visual patterns, but domain-specific context continues to center human intelligence.”
#DH2025
#DH2025
July 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Meanwhile, some Alps scenery
July 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Meanwhile, some Alps scenery
This graffiti in Lyon helped improve my mood yesterday amidst horrible redundancy news at Lancaster.
June 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This graffiti in Lyon helped improve my mood yesterday amidst horrible redundancy news at Lancaster.
Amazing to spend this morning at l'Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya and the afternoon with @mcollardanuy.bsky.social at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center!!
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Amazing to spend this morning at l'Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya and the afternoon with @mcollardanuy.bsky.social at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center!!
Counting the days until this is my view:
June 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Counting the days until this is my view:
Very good example of why it's important to scan the back of documents too...
This map has a legend written on the back saying what alphabetical letters refer in this village on the Bretagne-Normandie border in 1745.
This map has a legend written on the back saying what alphabetical letters refer in this village on the Bretagne-Normandie border in 1745.
June 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Very good example of why it's important to scan the back of documents too...
This map has a legend written on the back saying what alphabetical letters refer in this village on the Bretagne-Normandie border in 1745.
This map has a legend written on the back saying what alphabetical letters refer in this village on the Bretagne-Normandie border in 1745.
Personally offended that Empire Records has a 35% score from Rotten Tomatoes. This movie epitomised the best weird, music-centered aspirational teenager vibes when I was in middle school.
April 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Personally offended that Empire Records has a 35% score from Rotten Tomatoes. This movie epitomised the best weird, music-centered aspirational teenager vibes when I was in middle school.