Mar-Apr'15: Maps and the Geospatial Revolution (Penn State)

5 week course beginning March 25 via Coursera (FREE)

https://www.coursera.org/course/maps

The past decade has seen an explosion of new mechanisms for understanding and using location information in widely-accessible technologies. This Geospatial Revolution has resulted in the development of consumer GPS tools, interactive web maps, and location-aware mobile devices. These radical advances are making it possible for people from all walks of life to use, collect, and understand spatial information like never before.

This course brings together core concepts in cartography, geographic information systems, and spatial thinking with real-world examples to provide the fundamentals necessary to engage with Geography beyond the surface-level. We will explore what makes spatial information special, how spatial data is created, how spatial analysis is conducted, and how to design maps so that they’re effective at telling the stories we wish to share. To gain experience using this knowledge, we will work with the latest mapping and analysis software to explore geographic problems.

Feb'15: Using GeoBlacklight to implement your own geoportal (ALA)

http://magirt.ala.libguides.com/resources/trainingsandpresentations#s-lg-box-wrapper-4876252

February 19, 2014 at 3 PM EST

GeoBlacklight is an open-source geospatial discovery technology which expands the Blacklight search platform into GIS data holdings. GeoBlacklight is installable in minutes, easily customizable, and compatible with the Hydra ecosystem (http://projecthydra.org). In this webinar, we will (1) demonstrate the GeoBlacklight technology, (2) define and describe geospatial data holdings, (3) discuss how you can implement your own Geoportal using GeoBlacklight, and (4) field questions you may have.

Oct-Introduction to Spatial Literacy and Online Mapping (RUSA)

Oct. 6 - 26, 2014

Since the emergence of dynamic and easily accessible online mapping tools, there has been a drastic increase in geographic interest and awareness. Whether for personal, social, professional or academic use, people are using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to communicate information in a map format. Whether it’s using Google Earth to study urban change, or creating Google Map Mashups to show cemetery locations, more and more members of society are turning to online mapping programs for their visualization needs. With so many using GIS technology in their daily lives, it is time to train librarians to not only assist library clients with their inquiries, but to use the technology themselves.

This three week course will introduce students and library staff to a variety of mapping tools and GIS technologies that are of interest to both public and academic library users. Librarians will be able to apply their newly developed Web 2.0 mapping skills in their reference work, and liaison responsibilities. Through hands-on exercises, demonstrations and presentations, the librarian will receive a thorough overview of GIS-related technologies that they may be exposed to in the library.
    $130 for RUSA members
    $175 for ALA members
    $210 for non-ALA members
    $100 for student members and retired members

http://ala.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=1ce759297e4f5f76359801907&id=fadc7349e8&e=13358c865f

May: Data Publishing with Dataverse (ACRL)

ACRL Numeric and Geospatial Data Services & Digital Curation Interest Group invite you to attend our next webinar: “Data Publishing with Dataverse”

Speaker:

Mercè Crosas, Ph.D., Director of Data Science, The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University, http://iq.harvard.edu/merce-crosas

Description: 

Over the last decade, our Data Science team at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science has been iteratively developing Dataverse, a data repository framework to facilitate and enhance data sharing, preservation, citation, reuse and analysis. The open source Dataverse software has been installed as a research data repository at multiple institutions worldwide. The Dataverse repository hosted at Harvard University is open to all researchers, and currently has over 53,000 data sets containing 734,000 files. During the last two years, based on user feedback and community practices, we have implemented extensible data publishing workflows and effective ways to link publications to data. In this talk, I'll present what we have learned in the process, and how it has helped us define data publishing.

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm CDT

URL: https://acrl.webex.com/acrl/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=661343559