ESRI Archaeology and GIS News, Summer 2007
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Conferences
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- Workshop on Historical GIS
October 24, 2007
King's College, London, England
A no-cost seminar led by Dr. Ian Gregory, author of A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research, will provide a basic introduction to using GIS technology as an approach to the study of history.
- Society for Historical Archaeology 2008 Conference
January 9-12, 2008
Albuquerque, NM, USA
- ESRI Federal User Conference
February 20-22, 2008
Washington, D.C., USA
- 2008 ESRI International User Conference
August 4-8, 2008
San Diego, CA, USA
Call for Presentations deadline is November 2, 2007.
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Welcome to the Summer 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 Presentations
2008 ESRI International User Conference
August 4-8, 2008
San Diego, California
Friday, November 2, 2007, is the deadline to submit abstracts for consideration as user presentations at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC) in San Diego, California. The 2007 ESRI UC conference proceedings are available online. You can also review conference highlights on the UC Blog.
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Data, Maps, and Models
Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventory (TEUI) Technical Guide: Landscape and Land Unit Scales [PDF]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) guide provides information on national standards, methodologies, and classification criteria for developing TEUIs at the landtype, landtype association, and landtype phase levels. See also the FS ArcGIS extension, TEUI Geospatial Toolkit [PDF], designed to streamline the TEUI premapping process.
Digital Historian Forum
The British Arts and Humanities Research Council's Methods Network has an online community forum on the use of technology for historical scholarship. Input is encouraged for working papers that include Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian and other forums including several on electronic publishing. All questions regarding Digital Historian and Methods Network community building should be directed to senior research project coordinator Torsten Reimer.
Yale University Library Map Collection
This site contains not only information on the map collection's inventory but also offers GIS services that cover geospatial data searching, acquisition, data manipulation, instruction, software access, distribution, and output. The collection includes scanned historical Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (dating from 1886) for Connecticut.
PASTMAP Query System for Scotland Datasets
PASTMAP is a map-enabled query system for Scottish National and Regional Archaeological and Architectural Datasets.
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ESRI Software Documentation, How-to, and Tools
ArcGIS Explorer Now Available
The no-cost ArcGIS Explorer download enables you to access ArcGIS Online beta services, which include one-meter imagery for the entire United States and submeter imagery for certain major metropolitan areas. This new version has improved KML support, navigation tools, and printing capabilities. An ArcGIS Explorer resources page gives you access to a blog, a discussion forum, and several globes and maps.
ArcExplorer Education Version
ArcExplorer—Java Edition for Education 2.3 is a no-cost, downloadable, lightweight GIS for Macintosh OSX and Windows 2000/XP. The 2.3 version includes a number of improvements.
Help menu opens the tutorial.
Projects can use relative paths.
Open projects or add data begins in the "data" folder.
Identify tool uses the highlighted layer.
Selected records can be sorted in the attribute table.
Move back and forth between map and layout views.
Note: Before installing a new version, you should uninstall previous versions. You can read about installation tips [PDF], consult the support center, and download the latest version online. Prepared lessons are available at ArcLessons (Search by software: ArcGIS Explorer).
Tips on Using ArcGIS: ArcMap [PDF]
This GIS Best Practices series booklet focuses on increasing your productivity using ArcMap.
Harvard Map Collection GIS Tutorial
Harvard University's Introduction to ArcGIS tutorial includes videos and hands-on exercises.
Archaeology Management Software Based on ESRI Technology
The Heritage Resource Inventory Application (HRIA) is a database system for managing archaeological and heritage sites.
Script Tools at esri.com
ArcPhoto
These tools enable quick import of digital photography into the ArcGIS framework.
3D Multipatch Tools
Updated for 9.x to fix previous problems, these tools convert point features into multipatch 3D shapes.
3D Textured Buildings
This tool provides a command to convert polygon features to textured multipatch features and can be run from ArcScene or ArcGlobe.
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Books, Papers, Images, and More
Understanding Past and Future Land Use
This article on archaeological sensitivity modeling discusses using ArcGIS and SYSTAT statistical software to run a logistic regression technique.
Informing the Future of the Past: Guidelines for Historic Environment Records (Second Edition)
Edited by Paul Gilman and Martin Newman, this manual provides a set of working guidelines appropriate to all United Kingdom historic environmental records (historic environmental sites). It contains a section on mapping and spatial data.
Historical GIS Research Network
The Historical GIS Research Network (HGIS) is a British organization that supports GIS in historical research in Europe. The site includes information on resources, literature, and training.
GIS in Historical Research
This Connexions educational site provides a course module on the use of GIS as a means for animation and visualization in humanities research. The module uses the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) project, among other examples, as a case study and provides interactive GIS maps of Egypt and Cyprus.
University of Oregon InfoGraphics Lab
The Department of Geography's GIS and cartography site has information on an archaeological mapping project in northwestern Mongolia and atlases of Oregon and Yellowstone.
GIS for Archaeology
GIS Monitor interviews Shinu Abraham, Saint Lawrence University, on setting up a GIS application to inventory and analyze ceramics from a site in India.
2007 ESRI UC Paper Presentations in Archaeology
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Where to Find Base Data
Access to Worldwide Geospatial Data [PDF]
A U.S. Department of Agriculture study documents various repositories of geospatial data such as topographic maps, satellite imagery, and aerial photography. The study specifically looks for data pertaining to Haiti, but the repositories identified are useful for finding geospatial data on other countries.
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