Congress of Cultural Atlases: The Human Record
May 7-10, 2004
University of California, Berkeley

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ECAI Cultural Atlas Workshop - May 9 and 10th, 2004

May 9th - Location: 120 B & C Bechtel Engineering Center
Time

Duration

Topic

 Leader/Instructor

9:00 - 9:15

0.25 hr

 Introduction

Jeanette Zerneke

9:15 – 9:45

0.5 hr 

 Cultural Atlas Design
Deconstructing the technology and content of the Cultural Atlases demonstrated the day before.  How databases, web resources, images, historic maps, gazetteers, and GIS fit into construction of a cultural atlas.

Jeanette Zerneke

9:45 – 10:30

0.75 hr

 Round Table on Cultural Atlas Development
  • Participant atlas and project descriptions
  • Collaboration possibilities
    		•

    David Blundell

    10:30 – 10:45

    0.25 hr

    Break

    10:45 – 11:45

    1.0 hr

    		 GIS for Humanities Concepts
    Data layers, types of data, projection, themes, views, cartography, analysis

    Ian Gregory

    11:45 – 1:15

    1.5 hr

    Lunch

    1:15 – 1:30

    0.25 hr

    		 ECAI Technology Overview
    Brief description of ECAI IT Architecture, Metadata Clearinghouse, and TimeMap Software Tools

    Kim Carl

    1:30 – 2:30

    1.0 hr 

    		 GIS Technology and Products
    Products and functions
    ESRI – product descriptions and demos

    Ian Gregory

    2:30 – 3:00

    0.5 hr

    		 GIS for Humanities -- Special Challenges
  • Importance of gazetteers
  • Working with ambiguous, inaccurate or incomplete data
  • Cartography for fuzzy data
  • Documenting work,  creating metadata
    		• Jeanette Zerneke

    3:00 – 3:15

    0.25 hr

    Break

    		  

    3:15 – 4:30

    1.25 hr

    		 GIS for Cultural Atlases
  • Working with historic maps
  • Geo-registration
  • Incorporating attribute data
  • Resource discovery – finding data

    • Dan Henderson

     

    May 10th - Location: 212 Wurster Hall

    9:00 – 10:30

    1.5 hrs 

    Creating an Atlas – Project Walk Through
    Demonstrate processes of creating cultural atlases

  • ECAI Iraq and Sasanian
  • CBHGIS and CHGIS
    		• Jeanette Zerneke/
    Ian Gregory

    10:30 – 10:45

    .25 hr

    Lab Computer Logon Instructions

    Kim Carl

    10:45 – 11:00

    .25

    Break

     

    11:00 – 11:45

    0.75 hr

    		 ECAI IT – TimeMap Demo
  • Clearinghouse and TimeMap software
  • Creating a simple gazetteer – point data

    • Kim Carl / Jeanette Zerneke

    11:45 – 1:15

    1.5

    Lunch

     

    1:15 – 1:45

    .5 hr

    		 ESRI Demo - Example Data Creation (Optional)
    Creating a simple map and data layers

    Ian Gregory

    1:15 – 4:45

    3.5 hr

    		 Consulting on project development
    and exercises in GIS

    All

     

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    All events have been generously supported by CITRIS.