You are welcome to come to our presentation if you are around Princeton area on November 17th. Please find a general information about our GIS Day celebration below. Thanks, -Wangyal GIS Day Celebration Map Scanning Project Presentation Come and celebrate GIS Day on November 17, 2004 in the Firestone Library's Staff Conference Room (A-3-C). We will present our Map Scanning Project. The presentation will start at 3:30 and end at 4:30pm. There will be light refreshments after the presentation. The presentation will explain how we converted our paper maps into digital objects, what standards we used (resolution, metadata, and compression ratio), how we designed our system architecture (using ArcCatalog, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, Mapping Science?s GeoJP2 Image Server, and Encoder and Decoder, Microsoft?s SQL Server database and Safe company?s FME and SpatialDirect) and workflow, and how our patrons can search and view these wonderful maps, aerial photographs, GIS data online from their desktops at any time. The Princeton University Library has organized GIS Day presentations since 1999. For the last five years we have celebrated GIS Day by sharing the GIS projects done by our students. This year will be celebrating the day by presenting our map scanning project. The last five years' GIS Day celebration talks were: 1999: Talk by Richard M. Allen, Geosciences graduate student, Does the United States need more natural disasters? 2000: Talk by Dr. Kristina Rothley, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The influence of the spatial patterning of resources on the nest site selection and reproductive success of the Northern Harrier. 2001: Talk by Michael Tantala, Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student, Earthquake loss estimate research for the New York City Area and its applications to the World Trade Center response efforts. 2002: Talk by Dr. Marcia Castro, Post-Doctoral Fellow at OPR, Malaria Transmission in the Brazilian Amazon. Improving Public Health Studies Through the use of GIS, spatial analysis, and remote sensing. 2003: We had three speakers; 1. GIS in Hydrology and Hydrometeorology. Katherine Meierdiercks, Graduate student, Civil and Environmental Engineering. 2. Using Land Cover Data to Study the Ecology of Bee Communities in New Jersey - Rachael Winfree, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Council on Science and Technology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. 3. Urban Expansion in Tegucigalpa, Honduras"- Micah Perlin, Graduate student, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Tsering Wangyal Shawa Geographic Information Systems Librarian Head, Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center Geosciences and Map Library Fine Hall B Level, Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: (609) 258-6804 Fax: (609) 258-4607 www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis Tsering W Shawa ([log in to unmask]),Tsering W Shawa <[log in to unmask]> Geographic Information Systems Librarian Princeton University Library Geosciences and Map Library