You are Here: Scholarship and Geographical Information Systems

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You are HereScholarship and Geographical
Information Systems

• Sinclair Auditorium
• Lehigh University
• November 9, 2006

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Welcome

• Susan Cady Friends of the Lehigh Libraries
• Greg Reihman Lehigh Univ. Faculty Development
• Michael Chupa Environmental Initiative / LTS

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What does GIS bring to scholarship?

• Acknowledges importance of place
• Leverages power of the human visual system
• Presents a powerful tool for interacting with
  databases

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Lehigh Resources
http//www.esri.com/software/arcgis/concepts/three
-views.html

• ESRI site license
• Available from Install Software
• LTS seminars
• Contact mike.chupa_at_lehigh.edu

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Maps in the Web 2.0 Era

• Web 2.0 should mean more than The moneys back!
• SOA and Mashups will enable novel applications,
  including mapping

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wayfaring.com maps as a social networking tool
http//www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/26640
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Zane Kratzer

• M.A. studentSociology Anthropology
• Assessing Housing Market Pressure in South
  BethlehemUsing GIS for Social Research

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Steve Firtko

• LTS Government DocumentsCoordinator
• The Postal Savings System in Pennsylvania
  19251935

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Josh Galster

• Post-doc, Earth Environmental Sciences
• Measuring the impact of watershed urbanization
  on channel widths using historic aerial
  photographs and modern surveys

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Thank you for attending