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Geospatial Outreach and Support at Stanford University
Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & Services
Stanford Facts 6,887 undergraduate students
34% H&S, 13% Engineering, 2% Earth Sciences, 51% Undecided
8,779 graduate students 39% Engineering, 25% H&S, 11% Medicine,
11% Business, 7% Law, 4% Education, 3% Earth Sciences
1,903 total faculty
Centers for Spatial Research Spatial Analysis Center (Earth Sciences):
Environmental change research Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (Biology) Carnegie Institution for Science(Dept. of
Global Ecology): Earth ecosystems study Natural Capitol Project (Woods Institute for
the Environment): Conservation projects Spatial History Project (History) Visualizing the Rural West (Bill Lane Center
for the American West)
Branner Earth Sciences Library Computer Lab 8 high end machines with dual monitors
Site License Management ESRI: ArcGIS, ArcPad, ArcSDE
ArcGIS on over 800 machines across campus Google Earth Pro
Installed on all library-owned, publicly available computers (600+ machines)
Stanford Geoportal (under development) Geospatial programmer
Stanford Digital Repository
SU Library’s Technical Infrastructure
Earth Sciences(Fundamentals of GIS)
Anthropology(Spatial Approaches)
Political Sciences(Spatial Approaches)
Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering
(Fundamentals of GIS)
AcademicTechnology Specialists
The Spatial History Project
Digital HumanitiesSpecialist
Undergrads
Grads & Post-docs
Faculty
Staff
Geography Week & GIS Day
WhereCamp:CommunityParticipation
GIS SpecialInterestGroup
Branner Library
GIS Services
CollaborationData Resource Center
Technical Support
Outreach
Class Support
InstructionConsultationData Center
Support Center
Support Infrastructure
Geospatial Support at Branner Library
http:lib.stanford.edu/gis
Patricia Carbajales, Geospatial Manager Support for aspects of GIS that are a commodity Workshops and teaching
Over 100 workshops in the last 2 years for over 450 students
Integration into classes Fundamentals of GIS (principal instructor) Urban Mapping Practicum (technical assistant)
Student project and research support Advance training for power users Staffing:
2 student assistants (20 hours/wk)
Resources include: Software instructions, ability to download the
instructors’ slide deck, step-by-step tutorials, presentation tools, and programming code.
Formal GIS/Spatial Teaching Global Positioning Systems (Aero/Astro) Digital Methods in Archaeology (Anthropology) Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology & Anthropological Research Cities in Comparative Perspective (Anthropology/Urban Studies) Spatial Approaches to Social Science (Anthropology/Poly Science) Environmental and water resources engineering design (C & EE) Modern Journeys in Ancient Lands (Classics) The Earth from Space: Intro. to Remote Sensing (Elect. Eng.) Remote Sensing of Land Use/Land Cover (G&ES) Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (G&ES) Statistical Methods for Earth/Enviro Sciences: Geostatistics
(G&ES) Remote Sensing of the Oceans (Geophysics) Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems (History)
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Creation of content Map scanning lab Internal materials from Branner Earth
Sciences Library, Special Collections External materials from private donors:
Digital Philanthropy
The Spatial History Project
http://spatialhistory.stanford.edu
http://spatialhistory.stanford.edu/
The expansion of the western railroad, 1879-1893
Tooling up for Digital Humanities Collaboration between the Spatial History
Project and the Computer Graphics Lab Weekly workshop series in 2011
Library Presenters (4 of 8 workshops): Digitization & Archives: Glen Worthey - Digital
Information Services File Management & Databases: Claudia Engel - ATS,
Anthropology Text Mining & Analysis: Matt Jockers – Co-director,
Stanford Literary Lab Visualization in the Humanities: Nicole Coleman – ATS,
SU Humanities Center
http://toolingup.stanford.edu
Nicole Coleman: Academic Tech. Specialist Runs the SU Humanities Center Research Lab Large-scale international collaborative research Linking humanities projects to design and computer
science researchers Spatial visualization rather than geospatial analysis https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
Franklin’s Letters
Voltaire’s Letters
Claudia Engel: Academic Tech. Specialist
Assigned to the Anthropology Department Research support and teaching Outreach directly to the faculty
Spatial and numeric data, video, field research http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/
Spatial Approaches to Social Science
Urban Studies: 31 (BA) Anthropology: 10 (Phd), 6 (BA) Human Biology, Earth Systems: 4 Education, Classics: 3 Archaeology: 2 African Studies, Art & Art History, Chemistry,
Civil Engineering, Economics, Education, English, Environmental Engineering, Environment & Resources, Heath Services Research, Political Science, Law: 1
Elijah Meeks: Digital Humanities Specialist
Dedicated support for faculty integrating spatial or network analysis into their research.
Proposal process Stability of research support
Projects changes, he stays Blog: https://dhs.stanford.edu
Integration of network and sea routes in Imperial Rome
Outreach and Collaboration GIS Day/Geography Week GIS Special Interest Group
http://gissig.stanford.edu Joint project with NYPL on their Map Warper
application Sponsorship of WhereCamp 2011 Collaboration with Google on workshops Participation in ThatCamp, the Data Visualization
MeetUp Group, Digital Humanities 2011 Conference at Stanford
Challenges Demand is up Competing needs Complexity of the software / high
learning curve Increasing need for robust computing
infrastructure Lack of coherent curriculum for teaching
spatial thinking and methodologies
Overall value Support of high profile research High visibility of services Demand continues to grow Services provided to an impressive array
of departments and schools
The Future VITA (Visualization and Textual Analysis) Library/Faculty collaboration to capture,
distribute and retain faculty data Expansion of digital humanities support Expansion of digital maps program
Contacts Julie Sweetkind-Singer
[email protected] Patricia Carbajales
[email protected] Nicole Coleman
