---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 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]). __________________________________________________________ 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/ _________________________________________________________