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[IU Scholars' Commons] Wednesday Noon Digital Scholarship Series A Philosophical Journey on the Map: Constructing a Geospatial Bio-bibliography of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) March 8, 2023 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm via Zoom Pouyan Shahidi, Doctoral Candidate, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures / History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Indiana University Bloomington Register for More Information<https://events.iu.edu/libraries/event/811820-1> Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) (980-1037 CE), the renowned physician-philosopher and polymath, lived a life of nonstop writing and constant traveling. Organizing his scholarly works was a task initiated by his disciples, continued by medieval biobibliographers, and grappled with by modern historians of philosophy and science. In my doctoral project I am interested in two of his many fields of scholarship as well as the interaction between the twonamely celestial natural philosophy (celestial physics), and mathematical astronomy. Like my fellow medieval and modern historians of Ibn Sīnās corpora, I found his wanderlust and prolificacy a complicating factor in tracing his authorship in time and space. In this talk, I show how I resolved this complication by visualizing Ibn Sīnā life journey on a multilayered map, and how, using the vector data that I produced in the process, I ran a geospatial analysis to detect the time and place where he was most active in writing on the two abovementioned fields of knowledge. I will outline the workflow behind my digital humanity project including data collection, thinking about taxonomy for data organization, choice of platform, building a geodatabase with multiple layers, data visualization and analysis using a number of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The Wednesday Noon Digital Scholarship Series is held Wednesdays from12:00-1:00 pm EST. The complete schedule, including abstracts, is available at: https://libraries.indiana.edu/wednesday-noon-digital-scholarship-series. Register for each session for more information, including access to the Zoom link. To receive a reminder and an abstract for each presentation, send an email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with the message body: SUBSCRIBE wednesday-noon-l Your Full Name or visit Instructions: At IU, what is Zoom, and how do I know how to use it?<https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfqu> [UITS KB] or, How do I join a Zoom meeting?<https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-A-Meeting-> [vendor documentation] For full Wednesday Noon Digital Scholarship Series schedule, please visit https://libraries.indiana.edu/wednesday-noon-digital-scholarship-series [IU Scholars' Commons] ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit https://www.diglib.org/announce