GIS at Columbia UniversityFriday, May 6th 2005

Speakers:

Doug Miller

Jeremiah Trinidad

What is GIS?

A systems of hardware, A systems of hardware, software, data, people, software, data, people, organizations, and organizations, and institutional arrangements institutional arrangements for collecting, storing, for collecting, storing, analyzing, disseminating analyzing, disseminating information about areas of information about areas of the earth the earth

What do people use GIS for?

Maps– Illustrations– Documentation– Advocacy

Data analysis– Distance and proximity measures– Environmental models

Web based applications

GIS at Columbia

Where?– Departments– Labs– Classrooms

What kind of software– ESRI ArcGIS, ArcView– MapInfo– MultiSpec

Academic Quality Fund (AQF)

History – Interdisciplinary Collaboration Who’s involved Webpage Summer Fellows StartGIS Metadata

AQF Summer Fellows Program

Designed to foster spatial research and interdisciplinary communication amongsocial-science graduate students.

Course module and curriculum development

Bibliography and resource list compilation

Individual Research

Summer Fellows

Anthropology – Heather Atherton Economics – Francesco Brindisi GSAPP – Michelle McEwen Journalism – Laura Forlano Political Science – Jeronimo Cortina Public Health – Cynthia Golembeski Sociology – Emily Bernstein Social Work – Amanda Geller Teachers College – Heather Schwartz

StartGIS Project

Grad Assistant jointly managed between ISERP & the Libraries

Help with creating short term mapping & spatial analysis

Available to faculty, graduate students, and other Columbia/Barnard researchers

StartGIS Project

Who has used the service?– Economics

– East Asian Languages and Cultures

– Middle East Institute

– Political Science

– Sociology

– Social Work

– Weatherhead East Asian Institute

What are they using it for?

As part of the AQF grant, free GIS support was offered to help people start using GIS in

their research

Tanisha Fazal

Death and survival of states in the international system

Mountainous areas and border conflict

Russia

Ukraine

Turkey

Poland

Italy

Sweden

Finland

Belarus

Romania

Germany

Norway

Bulgaria

Greece

Austria

Hungary

Latvia

Croatia

Lithuania

Slovakia

Estonia

Czech Republic

Italy

Serbia & Montenegro

Moldova

Albania

Slovenia

Macedonia

Syria

Denmark

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Denmark

Denmark

Estonia

Denmark

Denmark

Switzerland

San Marino

Vatican City

Lou Cristillo Muslims in New York

Project for the Middle East Institute

Metadata

What is metadata?– Data about data

Using FGDC metadata standard Urban Planning and Libraries creating

metadata for spatial layers Goal – a spatial metadata catalog

GIS Workshops

Attendance Audience Topics Process Speakers Results Requests

Sudan

Angola

EthiopiaNigeria

Mauritania

Zambia

Somalia

Botswana

Congo

Uganda

Benin

Liberia

Sierra Leone

Lesotho

Equatorial Guinea

Comoros

Seychelles

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Kilometers

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Plotted Coupe Attempts3

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None or no data

Introduction to GIS(Creating a Choropleth Map)

0 1 2 3 40.5

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total felonies512 - 1640

1641 - 2363

2364 - 3200

3201 - 5148

5149 - 9487

Working with NYC Spatial Data

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1.6% - 3.4%

3.5% - 8.6%

8.7% - 25.4%

25.5% - 50.9%

US Census and GIS

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Geocoding Using ArcGIS

Basic Spatial Analysis Concepts

GIS Librarians Professional Meeting

When was it? What schools attended?

– Yale, University of Maryland, Cornel, MIT, Brown, NYPL

What did we talk about?– Comparison of programs and

services– How GIS offered in the

Libraries fits in with whole campus

– Problems and challenges faced

GIS Librarians Professional Meeting

What will the next step be?– NYPL will host next years

meeting– Will work with Cornell

and possibly MIT on Metadata Conference

Future of GIS at Columbia

Spatial metadata catalog GIS project competition Survey Research Center with GIS

capabilities Dedicated GIS modeling lab for the social

Sciences