SCCS: Instructions for students in 174AW fall 2008

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Fall 2008 174AW project Standard Cross-Cultural Sample Index Background: The SCCS has for the last several years been featured in Wikipedia:Standard Cross-Cultural Sample as a collaborative project. One of the big contributors was Anthon Eff, who did the maps in GIS, built many of the links, and wrote the accompanying page on Galton's problem.

This quarter with the help of UCI's Tony Soeller we are going to try to use ArcGIS 9.3 to superimpose the two thousand SCCS variables on the worldmap and the regional maps done by Eff. Each node will be clickable and open a page that contains (1) the pinpointing sheets (2) the ethnographic bibliography and (3) the Wikipedia and other links to each culture. The transfer of the pinpointing sheets (the time and place where the ethnography was done) that I posted to the public domain in October 2006 will not be transferred, society by society, to our wiki pages. There are 186 societies and 45 students: if each student takes responsibility for four societies in this assignment you will get familiar with how cross-cultural data are assembled and the whole pinpointing database will be constructed.

EACH STUDENT should follow the instructions on the previous page for four societies -- avoid the societies already done, and sign your name "by [[Your real name used in login]]<nowiki>" to get a grade. In the next step [[Tony Soeller]] will help us set up the maps for societies and use the pages you build for each society as the file that opens for each.