The Significance of the Victorian Era and Digitalized Humanities

This project involves pinning geospatial locations and allowing for easier visualization of their significance during the Victorian era on Central Online Victorian Educator (COVE); thus, digitizing and making the research process easier for Victorian scholars. The project is significant because it allows for easier visualization of integral cities, houses, and other significant locations and displays how these various locations connect and overlap. These locations are then hyperlinked within a multitude of scholarly articles published on British Representation and Nineteenth-Century History (BRANCH). Through deeper research into these locations, and in retrofitting the BRANCH articles with hyperlinks to the COVE map, this project cultivates a furthered understanding of the physical world during the Victorian Era and adds to the materials available digitally in this discipline. This project involves summarizing the main points of interest about these specific locations, researching their exact locations, and finding a suitable image. These map pins are then inserted as hyperlinks in every article within the published, peer-reviewed works of BRANCH so that Victorian scholars can better visualize the locations to which these articles refer and in turn cultivate a deeper understanding of the time period. This resource also allows for a more advanced visualization of the connection between these different locations as well as the vast number of significant events that shaped the development of these different cultures during the nineteenth-century