Welcome to MapServer — MapServer 5.6.6 documentation The Social Sciences began experimenting with visualization as early as the 1910s, when Franz Boas applied Kwakiutl place-names to an ordinary map to help him better explain the Kwakiutl world view. In the 1940s, scholars of folklore began abstracting these geographical diagrams into "synoptic diagrams" that showed concepts in relationship to each other. Since that time, scholars around a range of disciplines have used mental maps and synoptic diagrams for their powers at synthesizing a range of information from diverse fields. James A. Briefly, visualizations do two things to rational argument that text is very bad at doing. Synoptic diagrams are excellent at getting people on the same page. Visual diagrams are also particularly useful for ability to pan out. For both of these reasons, I've found, as a scholar who produces text, that visual diagramming aids both my ability to recall large numbers of facts -- and to organize them into a larger picture without repeating myself.
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ZOO Project - Open WPS Platform The web is thirsty for efficient, effective ways of retrieving useful information about the state of the field. This pressure creates an enormous market for those instruments that help individuals locate authoritative discourses and situated scholarship, and this, of course, is one of the traditional roles of the academic journal. Academic Journals are in the course of rethinking their management, methods, and publication standards. This year saw major panels at the AHA (American Historical Association) and MLA (Modern Language association), largely through the leadership of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. If they face this transition with courage and ingenuity, journals have the opportunity to plant themselves firmly as pillars of professional utility, scholarly collaboration, and authoritative knowledge as a public utility. I list here four major headings for the consideration of those trying to adapt academic publication to a web 2.0 world. 1.c) The need for permanence.
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ZOO Project - Open WPS Platform ZOO is a WPS (Web Processing Service) open source project released under a MIT/X-11 style license . It provides an OGC WPS compliant developer-friendly framework to create and chain WPS Web services. ZOO is made of three parts: ZOO Kernel : A powerful server-side C Kernel which makes it possible to manage and chain Web services coded in different programming languages. ZOO Services Introduction Example ZOO Services ZCFG Reference ZOO API introduction ZOO API examples ZOO API classes ZOO Kernel introduction ZOO is based on a 'WPS Service Kernel' which constitutes the ZOO's core system (aka ZOO Kernel). A ZOO service is a link composed of a metadata file (.zcfg) and the code for the corresponding implementation. The ZOO API is a simple and concise JavaScript library designed to call and chain the ZOO Services easily, and adds the capability to define logic in the chaining of your ZOO Services.
The Humanities Go Google - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher By Marc Parry Palo Alto, Calif. Matthew L. Jockers may be the first English professor to assign 1,200 novels in one class. Lucky for the students, they don't have to read them. As grunts in Stanford University's new Literature Lab, these students investigate the evolution of literary style by teaming up like biologists and using computer programs to "read" an entire library. It's a controversial vision for changing a field still steeped in individual readers' careful analyses of texts. Data-diggers are gunning to debunk old claims based on "anecdotal" evidence and answer once-impossible questions about the evolution of ideas, language, and culture. The debate over the value of the work at Stanford previews the disciplinary battles that may erupt elsewhere as Big Data bumps into entrenched traditions. Authors and publishers have besieged Google's plan to digitize the world's books, accusing the company of copyright infringement. Once scholars like Mr. Partners in Provocation You need a team.
Kyris GeoBI GeoShield | Division of geomatics The GeoShield project is released. Download page: here New site at here Introduction In the last few years, here at the Institute of Earth Science (IST), we begin using OGC services for map generation (WMS, WFS), geodata processing (WPS) and sensor data interaction (SOS). Until our services were publicly accessible there aren't many problems, but when external entities (such as the Government) order some geo-application the data-confidentiality through the web became the main issue. Searching around the web for a simple solution that suite our need we didn't find anything really simple, so we decided to develop ourself a security solution to garantee a strong protection for our geo-services. the first thing is to decide the project name: GeoShield. GeoShield is a project born to offer a centralized way to define security access-control to geo-services. GeoShield is able to manage users and groups, it handles authentication and privileges settings among groups and registered services.
Chronicle of Higher Education Article | Matthew L. Jockers This week the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article written by Jennifer Howard about “literary geospaces.” The article featured some work I have done mapping Irish-American literature using Google Earth (and also profiled the work of Janelle Jenstad who has been mapping early modern London). Photo by Noah Berger The bit about my Google Earth/Irish-American literature mash up resulted in several emails from folks wanting to know more about the project and more specifics about my findings. . . beware what you ask for. . . I began building a bibliographic database of Irish-American literature many years ago when I was working on my dissertation (Jockers, Matthew L. “In search of Tir-Na-Nog: Irish and Irish-American Literature in the West.” Ironically, on St. I was also worried about the amount of time that went into the preparation of the Google Earth mash-up. What I discovered was that Irish writers in the western U.S. were largely undeterred.
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