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Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm
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29 Dec 2000 (HL)
New in IGCS - History:
China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)
Ed./Corp.:Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
URL: http://fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/).
Language: English.
Supplied note: "The CHGIS project has been established under the aegis of
the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Harvard University with a three-year
grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The CHGIS will establish a
standardized coding system to identify historical administrative units and
settlements for different periods in Chinese History. It will provide a
base GIS platform for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and
representation of selected historical units as digital maps. The project
[which builds on the work of the late Robert M. Hartwell - T.M. Ciolek]
intends to make the multi-lingual base GIS available to the scholarly
community at no charge through download sites throughout the world.
The participating institutions are: Center for Historical Geography, Fudan
University (Shanghai) Computing Sciences Center, Academia Sinica (Taipei)
Australian Centre for Asian Spatial Data and Information Analysis Network,
Griffith University (Brisbane), Harvard University (Cambridge)."
Description: T.M. Ciolek: "Site est. 20 Dec 2000. Close involvement
of Peter K. Bol, Lawrence Crissman, C.C. Hsieh, and Merrick Lex Berman
augurs well for the success of the Project. Definitely a site to be watched."
Site contents: Introduction; Web maps [under construction]; Data sets
[under construction]; Members.
Resource suggested via the Asian Studies WWW Monitor (21 Dec 2000) by
Merrick Berman ([log in to unmask]).
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Hanno Lecher
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/lecher/
Librarian
Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
Akademiestr. 4-8, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel.: (+49-6221) 54 76 34 Fax: (+49-6221) 54 76 39
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/
Editor
China WWW Virtual Library: Internet Guide for China Studies
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/
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