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The Digital South: summary for ACS GIS Symposium, 28 February 2003

Hugh Blackmer, Science Librarian (blackmerh@wlu.edu)
John Blackburn, Head, Instructional Technology Group (blackburnj@wlu.edu)
Skip Williams, Research and Academic Technology Specialist (skip@wlu.edu)
Washington & Lee University

A draft of most of our presentation is available at 25ii.html

Some useful links for current developments [most of these are no longer functioning]:

Pirarucu, a personal digital library environment with facilities for creating and managing collections and collaborations, and searching the complete library.
SnipIt, a toolbar utility that allows a user to highlight text on a Web page and send the text and URL to Pirarucu.

We have been working with ArcIMS for more than a year, and have a variety of demos of functionality, including

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

MIT's DSpace

Links to various documents that trace the evolution of the Digital South:

June 1999 e-mail to Bob Whyte re: ACS GIS
November 1999 GIS: an insurmountable opportunity? (remarks from ACS Information Fluency Symposium)
December 1999 A GIS Server for ACS Partners
January 2000 Developing Geographic Information Systems for ACS Partners: Toward a GIS Server
March 2000 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Across the Curriculum: Implementing Distribution to 15 Campuses (LAAP proposal)
December 2000 GIS in Undergraduate Teaching
July 2001 GIS in midsummer 2001
December 2001 Collaboration to Manage Spatial Information on ACS Campuses: prototyping an information infrastructure (Information Fluency Grant Proposal)
Summer 2002 Pirarucu Project
November 2002 GIS on ACS Campuses
January 2003 Updating and Extending the Digital South Project
February 2003 R.E. Lee Summer Project Proposal: The Civil War and the Digital South
February 2003 Thoughts on NITLE and NSDL and GIS and Environmental Studies
February 2003 Outlining our presentation(s)