Hello to everybody. First of all I want to give thanks to the organizers for inviting me to this International Congress. And then I want to introduce myself because I am a very curious professional

because I am a digital humanist, a researcher and member for the GHD, the Digital Humanities Group at the University of Minya. And I am developing some things like data analysis.

And then from the other hand, okay, that's okay. Okay, sorry for a moment. And then I focus my analysis on data and social sciences in general in connection with maps.

This is the first quote that I want to start because I believe that this is the focus in my subject of interest. It is no longer hard to find the answer to a given question.

The hard part is finding a right question and as questions evolve, we gain better insight into our ecosystem. Okay, this is the problem that we have nowadays because we need to find the right question, especially for the humanists, because we want to develop new things that are available for our studies.

And especially new tools, new perspectives in order to connect with other communities. And the best way is to put together the right questions, to have a debate like today and these days

in a congress and so on and continue developing new things. This is the point. Okay, this is a special scheme made for a special humanist, a proper special humanist, that is Professor Bodenhammer, who made the most important book in this discipline.

It is called The Special Humanities. It's an introduction that very well recommended and he makes a very interesting difference. There is the big data science on one hand, that is the G-GIS development,

and then a critical GIS, that is in connection with the data. And of course, I am just in the older perspective, in the development of GIS science in connection with the society. And it's very interesting because for the humanists, for the data humanists, there are two types of maps, the participatory maps and the technical maps.

And we need a collective analysis in order not to be only technical. We need solutions, but the solution is not only for technicians, it's for people in general who want to connect and want to participate in that process.

There is not the way to be transformative, the actions, from the basic science to the construction for change. And this is the main point of the GIS science. This is the objective that we need to research and to develop.

What is the overview of the GIS tools? Because we have a perspective in that point. Many digital humanities projects use maps, of course, because they want to discover new features,

and of course the material that has been studied is very different and needs to be focused on one place, because we have different types of data, we have different structures of information, and we need only one place to connect all the information. And they are necessary to interpret the different categories of information

that may be together into the same map. And it's very important to show and hide some facets in the information according to the user's desires. We have a wide array of these persistent data,

and normally are completed by others. And they are not necessary at all, because we need only not to import the things that others make. Maybe they are wrong. We need to produce our own data and put it directly into the map

by using interdisciplinary connections. The way is what kind of context we have in order to compare GIS and digital humanities. We think that it's a free and open-source dev software,

and it's very simple for people who are connected with that kind of tool. But for other people it's very difficult and strange, because they are something that they need to build.

And it's not like web mapping that is commonplace for everybody. And because of that, in order to import historical maps, in order to connect with the people who can merge all the data or help us in the social sciences, it's very difficult to have an interesting connection

between two worlds. There are of course many tutorials in YouTube that help us when we need to introduce the GIS tool. Sometimes we have a lot of difficulties, at least in humanities, to organize all the knowledge

and to be held between the community of GIS and us in different projects. And we need a lot of plugins that we are not in connection with our functionality. Or we need maybe different aspects

or including new developments who can pass in some significant terms. And for example, in order to export that data, we have a lot of problems too, including if we use plugins, which is very common. Okay, when I made a survey, more or less,

between some communities of digital humanists, and they said to me the points that are very interesting and the problems that they find, something positive and negative about the tool. And they said, okay, it's free,

we can add in your data, it's custom, it's available, we have zoom and toggle, visibility of the layers, exporting data, and usability. This is a good point. The other point is that it is not good-based. We have problems with the maps to be public,

to be viewable, and then the custom capacity controls the demographic and sense layers built in, embeddable HTML code, easy to start. This is the main problem. How to start? Because they want to make projects in free software and they can't because they need help to start.

And then they need more features, maybe. And easy printing, they have problems with this too. And their learning curve is the most difficult one because they need to improve. They know the process and etc.

And they need to improve because it appears new things, new plugins, and they need help. And then I made a graphic. It's very interesting because it's the appreciation of the communities of the humanists that are focused on youth.

How is the youth between teachers and artists in Spain? How is the evolution nowadays? Who's who? Where's the legend? Sorry? The legend. The legend. Yeah, because I want to do a performance tutorial, now we'll put the legend.

This is the media between the tools. And then I focused from February to November of 2018. How is the model? I will notice that in blue appears the cookies.

And then the art is just a bit less than the cookies. I will notice, of course. And this is the reference in Spain. In Spain, everything is in cookies. The landscape is very good for Spanish people.

And that's ok. And then in the world, what's happening? I believe that they are mostly in perspective. And, of course, there's the cookies in blue. And in red, there's the artist. I don't know what happened that suffers a decrease,

an important decrease. Ok. And something interesting to say. I believe that it's very important to the economy's misconceptions. How can we abandon the search of gifts? The problem of maintenance?

And, of course, updating the support and the solutions that we can employ. And, of course, the viability of documentation and visibility. This is some aspect that I want to talk and solve if it's possible with us. There's another point that is how to manage the linked data,

for example. We have problems also with publishing and difficulties for the researchers, individual researchers, to upload the data that they manage. Maybe they will be very interested to put a repository, a common repository of data, who help us into the community.

I believe that across data it will be very good for both communities. Then I put a small scheme about how could be the cause of reconciling this perspective.

And the different formats that could be interested to be put into ecosystem. They will be together. The projects of the humanists and other communities in connect with the QGIS community. We'll be very interested in how to reproduce and how to connect that formats that are the most used

in our case. And then the difficult things that we have, the doubts or the problems we find when we are interpreting with data. This is a problem, for example, a mistake that is very common for us with the metadata and we need to solve that kind of problems.

Of course, another thing that should be interesting is a way of solving. Maybe uploading like a mapping, for example, that is developed here in this faculty. It would be very interesting because we can research, social research by using the plugin.

It would be a good integration into the QGIS tool. And I would like to put a good piece of advice in that sense. Of course, another interesting point in order to interact with data would be, for example, the blockchain.

Blockchain maybe would be very interesting in order to connect the physical space and the inter-subjective space, putting the identity in any field. In that case, it is very well suggested by an interesting author that is called Jeff Malpass.

And he said that the crowd-crafting would be a very interesting point in order to research and develop for people who are working in QGIS. And this is a very interesting derivative figure of participation.

And that was the point in my communication. I would like to do something like this maybe in the future. And my goal, of course, about this speech has been the need of work together and the importance of work.

Thank you very much.

In the humanitarian field, in your opinion, what are some of the major difficulties that they found using GNS software? I believe that sometimes I belong to one collectivity school.

It's called Heio Chica. And they were about humanitarian projects and things that are in connection with women. And the difficulty is how to manage correctly

the plugins that help them to put the data correctly. One thing that I put in my communication is a common mistake. How to transform all the collection of data they have

and then put it into the map correctly. Because it appears in many mistakes and errors that they can connect correctly. And the problem is that in the map this in-correction gives problems at the end. Do you think that QGIS speaking

that the documentation of QGIS is how is it? I mean, we are discussing deeply about documentation, quality and... Because if we want to give advice or many to have not only support

information to the others, it's very difficult to appreciate that. Knowing that QGIS says to you that you know and you are a professional that knows very well the tool. And you are provided and accredited correctly

to do that way. This is the problem. And then sometimes the community is very close. It happens with OpenStreetMap because we made a study, also in Quixote Castu. And we managed that it's very difficult to connect the interests of the community

that are focused on technical things from our social interests. It's very very difficult. Are there questions? No? Okay. Thank you. Thank you.