ESRI Archaeology and GIS News, Spring 2007
Welcome to the Spring 2007 issue of ESRI Archaeology and GIS News, a quarterly newsletter for and about the many resources available to the ESRI archaeology and GIS user community.
In This Issue
Call for Papers
12th International Congress: Cultural Heritage and New Technologies
November 5-7, 2007
City Hall of Vienna, Austria-Wappensaalgruppe
Submission deadline: May 31, 2007
Topics include
Workshop 2: Database Management and Excavations
Session 1: Archaeology and Technology - Documenting, Monitoring, and Managing Cultural Heritage
Session 2: Cultural Heritage - Cultural Heritage Conservation in Educational Systems: Risk Management; Cultural
Heritage and Computer Technology: A New Dimension
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Helpful Tools from ESRI
Animating
Data through Time
This ESRI Web help page discusses creating an animation that changes the data in a display or graph over time.
Animation in
ArcMap
This ESRI Web help tutorial covers animation using the ArcMap selection.
Mapping and Modeling Groundwater Chemistry
with ArcGIS 9.2 [PDF-2.89 MB]
This paper covers importing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data into ArcGIS 9.2 to create a simple groundwater quality model.
Script Tools at esri.com
TerraServer Download for ArcGIS 9.2
This tool gives the ability to download imagery hosted by TerraServer directly into ArcMap.
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Data, Maps, and Models
Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
This Web site provides documents, maps, photographs, and tools to help you find information regarding archaeological and historic
sites. It includes Washington Information System for
Architectural and Archaeological Records Data (WISAARD), an online GIS map tool for locating designated historic
sites listed on the Washington state National Register of Historic Places.
CGIAR-CSI and
SRTM
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's Consortium for Spatial Information (CGIAR-CSI) is a coordinating center
for the application of GIS and remote sensing in sustainable agricultural development. It maintains a data download portal that
includes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) worldwide 90-meter digital
elevation model, which has been further processed to fill in the NoData voids.
HydroSHEDS-International River and Watersheds SRTM
Hydrological Data and Maps Based on Shuttle Elevation Derivatives at Multiple Scales (HydroSHEDS) provides international high-resolution
hydrological data derived from SRTM digital terrain data; only South America is completed thus far.
Philadelphia History
The Philadelphia City Archive has photographs dating back to the late 1800s of Philadelphia and its industry, architecture, culture, and people.
World Heritage IMapS
This viewer locates World Heritage
Sites designated by the United Nations Environment Program and World Conservation Monitoring Center.
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Books, Articles, and More
Mobile GIS in Archaeological
Survey [PDF-293 KB]
This article by Nicholas Tripcevich examines a mobile GIS approach to mapping lithic concentrations using ESRI ArcPad.
Origins of the European Economy: Communications
and Commerce, A.D. 300-900
This book by Michael McCormick is an example of using GIS to present historic research. It discusses late antiquity and early medieval
communications and commerce and includes 40 maps designed by McCormick in ArcView.
Geography and GIS Return to Harvard
A Harvard Magazine article discusses the new Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, inaugurated in May 2006.
National Park Service GIS and Archaeology
The "Archeology" chapter of this National Park Service (NPS) publication features four technical articles on using GIS to map
pipestems in Virginia, map cultural resources for the Western Arctic National Parklands, make site predictions and risk assessments,
and manage museum collections.
Mobile GIS and Classical Archaeology Survey in
Turkey
New York University's Connect journal prints an article, "Unlocking Antiquity Using GIS Technology," on using mobile GIS in an
archaeological study in Turkey.
Community Forum: Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian
This forum is related to the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council's information and communications technology
Methods Network. It provides information on activities
and resources and a forum for open discussion of all issues relating to digital history. Discussion topics include
the value of Web 2.0 for research and
electronic publishing tools and methods.
The forum invites comments on a Methods Network working paper:
Tools and Methods for Historical Research
by Neil Grindley. Paper sections include Tools and Web Resources, Database Structures, Data Mining, Quantitative Methods, Visualization,
and GIS.
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