The EduGISmod planning document

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Dao and Tony 824-6345 824-3239

[edit] Dao

Dao – Tony is the Research Computing Specialist for GIS for nacs in Multipurpose Science & Technology and he and I have worked off and on over the last 5 years with the SCCS data on 186 societies in a GIS context. He has incremental chunks of our 186 x 2011 variables in dbf files that we put on ArcGIS desktops and the UCI GIS server that Tony runs.

I went through training workshops this month for the ESRI UC 2009 (10,000 attendees in the ArcGis User community) and documented some of what I learned at the Education_user_conference_ESRI_2009 page, including, most significantly, the new ArcGIS online tutorial which puts a huge amount of GIS data into the public domain accessible through there new browser system which is free, data is free and everything is integrated to find data on ESRI’s and many other servers, including Tony’s.

Tony is advising that instead of putting my SCCS (http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/SCCS) database online on Tony’s server and getting monthly charges for it that he put a GIS server pack up under our UCI license at eclectic.ss.uci.edu aka intersci.ss.uci.edu or even better a new root directory called something like xcultures.ss.uci.edu (for cross-cultural) which would live on our dedicated server and be free of monthly charges.

He can do the setup and I have the needed account for recharges if needed and if you as the socsci computer staff person running that server can be our “onsite” person. We will try to make the workload very lite and self-organizing under my tutelage like eclectic and intersci.

[edit] Tony

Tony – see the intersci site at http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Education_user_conference_ESRI_2009#Introduction_to_ArcGIS_Online

Those notes are about Chapter 8 of the “Education User Conference” course exercises (manual) and the course that Miriam mSchmidts@esri.com taught as instructor of the workshop on ArcGis online (see http://www.esri.com/events/educ/pdfs/agenda.pdf (see p 10 in the pdf "land-on learning labs" -ArcGis online) but the manual containing that tutorial will be free online in a week or so (we can check with Miriam). You can start ArcGis online and do your passwords etc to authorize downloading new basemaps and mashup data WITHOUT HAVING ANY OTHER PAID GIS INSTALLATIONS.

The purpose of our GIS server in social science will be to serve up data from the 30 year long SCCS (http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/SCCS) what has tremendous value for all the social sciences and in relation to earth ecology. It’s a BIG DEAL at LOW COST and can be used through users with ArcGis online (for free) from anywhere in the world. So well WORTH IT.

MY DELIVERABLES TO TONY:

The other dbs for the database, from variables 238 -2011. You have the first with variables 1-237 which can be our test case and we used earlier for classroom instruction.

The http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/SCCS has a link to the online codebook.

Ok, that’s it: can you two talk it up by phone or email, if email, cc: me, and we can video skype when necessary.

I am at SFI this summer and wont be back till Sept 10th but that is no impediment, I will be loaded with computing equipment and now have with Tony’s help my GIS desktop installed on my XP computer and will have that resource at SFI.

Best Doug 17:33, 23 July 2009 (PDT)