To add yours here, email hgiscarolina@gmail.com
We'd like to add visual interest to the website by displaying images derived from members' work. To contribute, send us images by email, to hgiscarolina@gmail.com.
Three events are planned for the semester. The first will be a general meet-up, for networking, chatting, and brainstorming, on September 14. The second event is a brown-bag lunchtime discussion, addressing the question "How is GIS helping me organize/display/analyze my data?" Come prepared to talk, to listen, or both on October 17. And lastly, Rebecca Dobbs will give a hands-on workshop on November 9. See the events page for details on all three events.
The big news on campus is the founding of the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative, or CDHI. Got to our HGIS Carolina blog site at http://hgiscarolina.web.unc.edu/ for comments from the co-directors regarding historical GIS and CDHI, and links to more CDHI information.
Don't forget you can use that blogspace to post news, thoughts, images yourself. If you want to post something and haven't already gotten yourself added to the list of people who can, email Rebecca Dobbs at grdobbs at email dot unc dot edu to set that up. Once you're signed up, go to the bottom of the site's main page and click on the tiny "Manage website" to get access to the dashboard.
We now have posted some student output from courses listed on our teaching page. Instructors, if you have student work you'd like posted, please send it to hgis_carolina@gmail.com--or put it up yourself on the blog site!
The 2011 special issue of International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research on historical GIS work, edited by HGIS Carolina members Rebecca Dobbs and Mary Ruvane, has been acquired by UNC and lives at Davis Library. See the catalog entry for info.
Davis Library is also in the process of acquiring access to International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. This journal is a major outlet for HGIS work, along with many other aspects of digital humanities.
HGIS Carolina is an transdisciplinary, campus-wide working group and community of interest for anyone at UNC-Chapel Hill practicing, studying, or interested in the use of GIS to research, model, analyze, or visualize the past. What the group ultimately becomes will depend on the interests and energies of the members, but the founders' vision includes
Here we link to short descriptions of members' projects, with a graphic or two and further links to full project pages. To be included, send us a blurb and images, to hgiscarolina@gmail.com.