Chinese Civilization in Time and Space--Links

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Digital Library Projects at Columbia

	Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
	ECAI is a collaborative project which combines global mapping, imagery, and texts. ECAI provides scholars and other users with a research resource based on digital technology which presents complex combinations of data from multiple disciplines visually and immediately.
	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
	creating a major GIS that will contain the changing boundaries of all the major administrative and statistical reporting areas of Great Britain.
	Historical Atlas of South India
	The historical digital atlas combined maps, photographs, illustrations, texts and GIS functionalities to provide a novel and dynamic way of presenting historical knowledge related to a geographical region. The prototype in 2005 can be available either from a CD-Rom or on the internet.
	Mapping Europe's Historic Boundaries and Borders
	Our concern is with mapping the changing boundaries of administrative units, from parishes and communes up to nations and empires, as a framework for studying the European past.
	Qing Demographic History: Lower Yangzi Valley
	Reconstructing the age-patterns of marriages, births, and deaths in Qing-dynasty China has depended in the past primarily on genealogies. Professor Mark Elvin and his colleagues present a study of the lower Yangzi valley that demonstrates in action the technical methods needed to use a different sort of information for this purpose: the biographies of virtuous women in local gazetteers. The reader is invited to download the data files containing more than twenty thousand cases, to use or adapt executable PERL programs, and to examine, improve on, or refute the reconstruction based on the consistent interlocking four main types of data and probabilistic computer models.
	UKBORDERS On-Line Digital Boundary Data (Edinburgh Univ.)
	It is a web-based Interface that provides digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many GIS formats.
	FGDC(The Federal Geographic Data committee)
	The Federal Geographic Data Committee coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).
Gepgraphy	Earth Week
	A weekly summary of important natural and manmade events in the environment worldwide.(Archive summaries available.) archives of 95-97 are on earthweek.com.
	Earth and Moon Viewer
	A Web site where you can view the Earth in many different ways, including by latitude and longitude, above various cities, etc.
	Geography-about
	A Web site with a lot of information about geography, including many maps, news, and a glossary of terms. It also includes many links to other sites.
	GEOnet Names-National Imagery and Mapping Agency(NIMA)
	The GEOnet Names Server(GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's(NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names.
	Oceanogrphy from the Space Shuttle
	This is a photographic survey of oceanic phenomenon visible to the naked eye acquired by NASA astronauts. Included are sets of internal waves, pollution at sea, and coatal phenomena.
Maps	Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
	An extensive collection of online maps of regions around the world; files are usually large and can be slow to download, but maps are excellent.
Reference	CIA World Factbook 2001
	Provides detailed information about specific countries, such as geography, population, land use, natural resources,etc.
	OpenGIS Consortiun
	OpenGIS Specifications Click for for access to approved OpenGIS Abstract and Implementation Specifications
	D. ISO TC211
	Geomorphology from Space:A Global Overview of Regional Landforms
	A good resource for teachers. This out of print book is available online and on CD-ROM; order CD from Goddard DAAC for free:daacuso@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
	Goddard Institute for Sapce Studies
	GISS is a NASA facility that primarily studies global change. This site has extremely technical data on surface temperatures, vegetation, human population density, wetlands, ect.
	Library of Congress Country Studies
	This site includes descriptions of 85 countries. Each study is written by a multidiscplinary team of social scientists and includes sections on history, geography, economy, society, and others.
	Mad Scientist Network
	This is a fun, yet informative site where students can ask scientists questions. Already asked questions are available for viewing.
Catalogs	Map Appeal:Earth & Sky Portraits
	This catalog contains large satellite image prints of the Earth and of specific regions. It also includes antique maps,overhead transparencies of landforms, and more.call 1-800-363-0938.


Chinese Civilization in Time and Space is published by Academia Sinica, Taiwan. All rights reserved. Enquiries: ccts@sinica.edu.tw