The edge sheet is structured for ease of network analysis. Here is an example in Gephi showing the modularity, or denser groupings within the data. Not necessarily the communities or hubs you might assume!

Matching early modern place names is challenging! EMDigIt provide us with clues, including journey bearing and distance from the last stop. "Le buisson" seems like a great match for Le Haute Buisson," but we can even guess the Italian author may have meant "Dartford" where they wrote "dole(f)ort."

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

Two new teasers from the forthcoming Italian Itineraries data for routes in Italy, #16thc - #18thc. On the left, heat map showing difficulty of travel based on elevation and slope. On the right, shortest route by km between Rome and Bologna #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️

Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

Participants are gathering in Arlington for the final (🥲) EMDigIt workshop on Monday to present their work over the last year. You can be a part, too, at the "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel" panel at #DH2024 this Thursday (2-3:30PM)!

Sneak peek of an exciting new itinerary disambiguation tool in development! 👀