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GIS at Columbia University Friday, May 6 th 2005

GIS at Columbia University Friday, May 6 th 2005. Speakers: Doug Miller Jeremiah Trinidad. What is GIS?. A systems of hardware, software, data, people, organizations, and institutional arrangements for collecting, storing, analyzing, disseminating information about areas of the earth.

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GIS at Columbia University Friday, May 6 th 2005

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  1. GIS at Columbia UniversityFriday, May 6th 2005 Speakers: Doug Miller Jeremiah Trinidad

  2. What is GIS? • A systems of hardware, software, data, people, organizations, and institutional arrangements for collecting, storing, analyzing, disseminating information about areas of the earth

  3. What do people use GIS for? • Maps • Illustrations • Documentation • Advocacy • Data analysis • Distance and proximity measures • Environmental models • Web based applications

  4. GIS at Columbia • Where? • Departments • Labs • Classrooms • What kind of software • ESRI ArcGIS, ArcView • MapInfo • MultiSpec

  5. Academic Quality Fund (AQF) • History – Interdisciplinary Collaboration • Who’s involved • Webpage • Summer Fellows • StartGIS • Metadata

  6. AQF Summer Fellows Program Designed to foster spatial research and interdisciplinary communication amongsocial-science graduate students. • Course module and curriculum development • Bibliography and resource list compilation • Individual Research

  7. Summer Fellows • Anthropology – Heather Atherton • Economics – Francesco Brindisi • GSAPP – Michelle McEwen • Journalism – Laura Forlano • Political Science – Jeronimo Cortina • Public Health – Cynthia Golembeski • Sociology – Emily Bernstein • Social Work – Amanda Geller • Teachers College – Heather Schwartz

  8. StartGIS Project • Grad Assistant jointly managed between ISERP & the Libraries • Help with creating short term mapping & spatial analysis • Available to faculty, graduate students, and other Columbia/Barnard researchers

  9. StartGIS Project As part of the AQF grant, free GIS support was offered to help people start using GIS in their research • Who has used the service? • Economics • East Asian Languages and Cultures • Middle East Institute • Political Science • Sociology • Social Work • Weatherhead East Asian Institute • What are they using it for?

  10. Tanisha Fazal • Death and survival of states in the international system • Mountainous areas and border conflict

  11. Lou Cristillo • Muslims in New York Project for the Middle East Institute

  12. Metadata • What is metadata? • Data about data • Using FGDC metadata standard • Urban Planning and Libraries creating metadata for spatial layers • Goal – a spatial metadata catalog

  13. GIS Workshops • Attendance • Audience • Topics • Process • Speakers • Results • Requests

  14. GIS Librarians Professional Meeting • When was it? • What schools attended? • Yale, University of Maryland, Cornel, MIT, Brown, NYPL • What did we talk about? • Comparison of programs and services • How GIS offered in the Libraries fits in with whole campus • Problems and challenges faced

  15. GIS Librarians Professional Meeting • What will the next step be? • NYPL will host next years meeting • Will work with Cornell and possibly MIT on Metadata Conference

  16. Future of GIS at Columbia • Spatial metadata catalog • GIS project competition • Survey Research Center with GIS capabilities • Dedicated GIS modeling lab for the social Sciences

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