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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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!

A screenshot of a force-directed network model set up in Gephi software. Nodes represent cities colored by modularity and sized by degree.

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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."

A screenshot of the EMDigIt ArcGIS WebApp interface showing a red, transparent dot on a journey mapped in northern France.

A screenshot of the EMDigIt ArcGIS WebApp interface showing a red, transparent dot on a map in southern England.

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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.

A map of Europe with many points shown in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical way-stations

A map of Europe with lines in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical travel routes

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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 🗃️

Map of Italian Peninsula with legend representing proxy measure for difficulty of travel, as shown by heat scale

Map of Italian Peninsula with waypoints from Rome to Bologna shown in green

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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 🗃️

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📯 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...

The cover of a white paper booklet titles Early Modern Digital Itineraries and featuring an early printed map of Europe

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

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)!

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

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

Screenshot of a browser window with text entry, live mapping, and PDF views open.

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