================================================
MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L
================================================
Subject: FW: Future Foundations: Mapping the Past -- GIS Conference
December 2-3
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005
From: Boardman, Richard <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
For those in the area, this should be an interesting and informative
conference
Rich Boardman
Map Collection
Free Library of Philadelphia
**forwarded message***
Please forward to any colleagues or listservs to whom this might
be of interest:
FUTURE FOUNDATIONS: MAPPING THE PAST
Building the Philadelphia GeoHistory Network
December 2-3, 2005
Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
PA 19106
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special
Collections Libraries (PACSCL)
Conference information and downloadable registration form now
available at
http://www.pacscl.org/news/2005/conference.html
GIS technology is proving itself a valuable tool for organizing
data for both the public and private sectors - for municipal
infrastructure maintenance and record-keeping, regional
planning, real estate, land use, and tourism. At the same time,
scholars are using the technology in disciplines that embrace
the humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences, and
medicine.
Now PACSCL invites current and potential GIS users to gather to
think about new uses for a geographic based resource, new users
from a range of disciplines, and new ranges of contributors and
contributions. The purpose of this symposium is to focus less on
the "how" of building a GIS and more on the "why." We will
concentrate on finding ways that data from all of these sectors
-- when organized with a sense of place and time -- can offer
new insights into connections across these disciplines. PACSCL's
objectives in hosting this event are to foster increased
cooperation among a widened range of current and potential GIS
users and to give participants the opportunity to consider
issues of how best to work together in the presence of a lively
and informed group of colleagues. The results of this symposium
will be used to further shape the Greater Philadelphia
GeoHistory Network.
This event, together with a pilot project to develop the
Network, are funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
--
Laura Blanchard, Executive Director
Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
c/o Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia PA 19107
215-985-1445, [log in to unmask], http://www.pacscl.org/
(backup e-mail account: [log in to unmask])
|
