https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/mbooker/Recent content in Mbooker on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USFri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/visualizing-san-francisco-bays-forgotten-past-by-matthew-booker/Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/visualizing-san-francisco-bays-forgotten-past-by-matthew-booker/<p>To begin: One question and one metaphor. The question is, what use is visualization to historians? How does this method add value to the work we do? The metaphor is accretion, the term geologists use to describe the building up of new soils through deposits of materials eroded elsewhere. Accretion works to describe the process by which generations have modified San Francisco Bay without destroying that which came before. That history remains, even if it is invisible to the naked eye. Visualization helps us recapture the forgotten past.</p>