2016-05-05

• Spectrum got their DRS Project Toolkit installation
• The Toolkit intern has been working on the Catskills project, and Sarah is meeting with Phill Brown next week.
• The interns are done for the semester, but there is a new DRS intern for the summer, who will likely work on ingesting RISE and MarCom materials.
• Simmons interns will get a small blurb on the website.
• The IMLS preliminary grant results are back. 2 of the 3 were accepted to give a full proposal, and due to time constraints, we have chosen one (Culturally sensitive forum) and sequestered the other for re-submission in the fall (networked repositories.)
• Bibliography is available in the google doc
• Proposal is due June 1st.
• We also have full dongle availability.
• Bahare attended an event on Python script for ArcGis.
• She also went to Harvard for "Space, Place and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities."
• Focused on WordMap, a descendant of the AfricaMap project.
• Second day had a presentation by Dr. Anne Knowles, historical geographer,
• Takeaway: When you are working with humanities data, you have to think like an artist as well as a geographer.
• Bahare is considering partnering with Steven for a cartography workshop.
• Dietmar and Steven have been talking about a regular series of invited speakers around info design, lots of good speakers in cartography for that.