KGEO Research

KGEO Research is my one–person consultancy for work at the intersection of geography, digital humanities, and software development, established in 2017 following five years at Stanford University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CIDR).

I’m Karl Grossner, PhD – a geographer and digital humanities research developer. My work entails both traditional academic research and software development. I have co-conceived and co-designed a number of DH projects with scholars, cultural heritage professionals, and research groups, then built bespoke tools and/or digital platforms, as required.

Over the past fifteen years I’ve helped design and implement projects involving:

• Route modeling and mapped simulation of historical movement (ORBIS)
• Linked gazetteers and open spatial infrastructures (World Historical Gazetteer)
• Literary-geographical analysis and text-to-map workflows (Authorial London)
• Living archives for multimodal archaeological data environments (Catalhöyük)
• Urban environmental analysis and interactive visualizations (CityNature)
• Computational tools for exploring folklore motifs and myth structure (Geographic Lens on Stories)

These projects are described in more detail in the Portfolio, with links to running sites and code where possible.

What I do

KGEO Research focuses on:

• Concept and data modeling for humanities and social science projects
• Geographic information workflows involving spatial-temporal databases, historical place data, and thematic content
• Building web applications using Python/Django and related software stacks, from pilots to finished platforms
• Narrative and text-analysis pipelines, experimental use and evaluation of AI technologies and methods (LLMs, embeddings)
• Consulting on DH research design, especially where place, time, and story intersect

The common thread is collaboration: I have worked closely with domain experts and project teams to shape the questions, the data models, tools, and interfaces required by research projects. Software follows from that co-design process.

How this site is organized

• Portfolio – selected projects and infrastructures I’ve co-designed and built
• Blog – occasional posts about ongoing work, methods, and reflections
• Personal – more informal notes, photos, and art
• CV – full academic and professional background

Have a look at the Portfolio and CV, and if you’re interested in working together on a project, contact me at .