Hi,
Below is a list of readings selected for the Jan 30 meeting on GIS,
mapping and modeling. They're listed in order of significance.
Ben and I picked a fair number of pieces; the first is the densest;
the two overviews in the middle are fairly brief.
mf
Curry: Digital Places
Chapter 3: Optical Consistency..., pp. 39-56.
Chapter 5: The Reshaping of Geographic Practice, pp. 65-86.
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curry.digital-places.pt1.lib-reserve.pdf
curry.digital-places.pt2.lib-reserve.pdf
Curry's chapters examine GIS as a mode of representation, and the
pressure that it exerts on Geography as a discipline and it's
challenges to scientific method.
Harris: from Pickle, Ground Truth
Pursuing Social Goals..., pp. 196-222.
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harris.pursuing-social-goals.pt1.lib-reserve.pdf
harris.pursuing-social-goals.pt2.lib-reserve.pdf
By Trevor Harris, who will be visiting on Friday. Case study of
use of GIS in South Africa, touching on the social theory
discussions in Geography surrounding GIS and it's uses.
Longley: Geographical Information Systems, Vol. 1
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Chapter 1: Introduction, pp. 1 - 20.
longley.introduction.pt1.lib-reserve.pdf
longley.introduction.pt2.lib-reserve.pdf
This introduction to a comprehensive overview of GIS attempts to
provide a brief, but not deep, history of GIS and the directions in
which it has spun in recent years.
Knowles: Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History
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DRAFT: introduction
knowles.visualizing-the-past.lib-reserve.pdf
A draft introduction to a forthcoming title on GIS as a tool for
historical research. Very brief.
Dodge: Mapping Cyberspace
Chapter 6: Spatializing Cyberspace, pp. 107-128.
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dodge.spatialising-cyberspace.pt1.lib-reserve.pdf
dodge.spatialising-cyberspace.pt2.lib-reserve.pdf
Not really about GIS, but a review of attempts to represent
information technologies and communities spatially. See
http://www.mappingcyberspace.com for color plates from this and
other chapters.
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Mike Furlough
Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
University of Virginia Library
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu
(434) 924-3169
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