-------- Original Message -------- Subject: NACIS conference--Cartographic and Geographic Data Collection Day Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:37:45 +0000 From: Tsering W. Shawa <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> This year North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference is at Greenville, South Carolina from Oct. 9-11, 2013. The first day of the conference is focus on Cartographic and Geographic Data (CGDCD) and Practical Cartography. Interested person can register the conference from this link (http://nacis.org/index.cfm?x=2). The program for Cartographic and Geographic Data Collection Day are below: Morning session: 8:40 – 10:15 (Map digitization workflows) Salim Mohammed from Stanford University Janet Spitz from Boston Public Library Tsering Wangyal Shawa from Princeton University 10:15-10:40 Coffee Break 10:40-12:15 (Collection development and sharing Cartographic resources) The State of Topographic Mapping of Latin America –Geoffrey Forbes from Landinfo Worldwide Mapping OCUL’s Scholars GeoPortal: Cartographic Considerations for Web GIS Portals- Jo Ashley from University of Toronto Providing Access to the Geospatial Data Collections Using East View’s GeoCloud -Carol McAuliffe from University of Florida 12:15 – 1:30 Lunch Break Afternoon session: 1:30 – 3:00 (Accessing Geographic Data) Search Multiple Data Websites Simultaneously Using APIs –Jeff Essic from North Carolina State University MarineCadastre.gov: An Ocean of Information -Anna Verrill from NOAA Esri Image Server – Managing and serving large collections of scanned maps and other imagery data – Aileen Buckley from ESRI 3:00 – 4:00 Networking Thanks, -Wangyal