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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:51:02 -0500
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: China Historical GIS project launched
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>12/20/00
>for immediate release
>
>The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project has
>been established under the aegis of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and
>Harvard University with a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
>The CHGIS will establish a standardized coding system to identify
>historical administrative units and settlements for different periods in
>Chinese History. It will provide a base GIS platform for spatial analysis,
>temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical
>units as digital maps. The project intends to make the multi-lingual base
>GIS available to the scholarly community at no charge through download
>sites throughout the world.
>
>The participating institutions are:
>Center for Historical Geography, Fudan University (Shanghai)
>Computing Sciences Center, Academia Sinica (Taipei)
>Australian Centre for Asian Spatial Data and Information Analysis Network,
>Griffith University (Brisbane)
>Harvard University (Cambridge)
>
>Merrick Berman has been appointed as manager for the CHGIS project as of
>January 1, 2001. The project is overseen by a Management Committee with
>Professors Peter Bol of Harvard University (chair), Laurence Crissman
>(Griffith University), Ge Jianxiong (Fudan University), C. C. Hsieh
>(Academia Sinica), G. William Skinner (University of California, Davis)
>and Advisory Committee of scholars from East Asia, North America, and
>Europe.
>
>Further information is available at the CHGIS website:
>fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
>Postings of CHGIS data are expected to begin in late Spring, 2001.
>
>
>Contact Information:
>CHGIS
>Harvard-Yenching Institute
>Vanserg Hall, 25 Francis Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
>email:  [log in to unmask]
>
>
>Merrick Lex Berman
>PO Box 426028 Cambridge MA 02142 USA
>Tel 978-745-2660  Fax 435-407-3420
>
>
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