{"id":1340,"date":"2012-04-16T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/2012\/04\/16\/mit-gis-services\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:36:23","slug":"mit-gis-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/2012\/04\/16\/mit-gis-services\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT GIS Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Poster Presentation\/Demo Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>MIT GIS Services, a collaboration of the MIT Libraries, DUE&#8217;s office of Educational Innovation &amp; Technology, works to support GIS use by the MIT community.\u00a0 We offer workshops, regular open office hours in the GIS Lab, access to the MIT Libraries Geodata Repository, and collaborate with faculty to implement GIS exercises in MIT classes.<\/p>\n<h2>Statement of the problem or issue<\/h2>\n<p>How can a small collaboration between the MIT Libraries, OEIT, and IS&amp;T serve the diverse population of GIS users, both research and teaching, at MIT?<\/p>\n<h2>Description of activity, project, solution, and outcome<\/h2>\n<p>MIT Libraries, OEIT, and IS&amp;T collaborate to offer comprehensive GIS services to the MIT community both through the individual and group consultation in the GIS Lab, the Geodata Repository, and collaboration with faculty.<\/p>\n<h2>Importance or relevance to other faculty, staff, students, departments, and programs<\/h2>\n<p>We help students and faculty in these areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locating Spatial data<\/li>\n<li>Mapping information<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing data using geospatial tools<\/li>\n<li>Access to GIS data: Geodata Repository (GeoWeb &amp; ArcMap\/ArcGIS Interface)<\/li>\n<li>Development of Educational GIS Tools for classroom use<\/li>\n<li>GIS programming support for research<\/li>\n<li>GIS workshops<\/li>\n<li>Loaning of GPS units<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Daniel Sheehan, OEIT<br \/>\nLisa Sweeney, MIT Libraries<br \/>\n(Presented at MIT Educational Technology Fair 2009)<\/p>\n<h2>Topic Area(s)<\/h2>\n<p><em>7. Others:\u00a0providing Geographic Information System (GIS) services to the MIT Community<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poster Presentation\/Demo Abstract MIT GIS Services, a collaboration of the MIT Libraries, DUE&#8217;s office of Educational Innovation &amp; Technology, works to support GIS use by the MIT community.\u00a0 We offer workshops, regular open office hours in the GIS Lab, access to the MIT Libraries Geodata Repository, and collaborate with faculty to implement GIS exercises in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech-fair-2009","tag-edtech-fair-2009"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}