Toward a virtual research environment for the spatial humanities: heiMAP.

This article describes the context and design of heiMAP, a virtual research environment (VRE) currently under development at Heidelberg University. heiMAP is aimed at users from a wide spectrum of disciplines within the Humanities, allowing them to collaborate and share data using space as their com...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 429 - 441
Autores principales: Pfeiffer, Michelle, Eller, Dirk, Carré, Cyril
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2020
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          Junior Research Group Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage , Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg
          Department of History , University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg
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