Many thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s Geography Awareness Week events! In reflection of last week, Dorris Scott, social science data curator and GIS librarian, talked with Jennifer Moore, head of Data Services, about how academic libraries are using and spreading the word ...
Geoff Ward is associate chair of Washington University’s Department of African and African-American Studies, where he is associate professor. His project the Racial Violence Archive is an interactive digital research tool that uses geographic information systems (GIS) to explore the history and l...
A senior at Washington University, Austin Tolani has taken a number of courses focusing on geographic information systems (GIS) and is now pursuing a certificate in GIS at WashU. Tolani, who is majoring in economics and computer science, has applied his GIS skills at a variety of private, nonprof...
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis, a cross-disciplinary project involving the Washington University Libraries and campus and community partners, is bringing attention to an important facet of St. Louis history. Through the creation of a digital map plotted with locations related to LGBTQ culture, the initi...
Geography Awareness Week (GAW) takes place November 10-16. An international event that promotes the importance of geography in people’s lives, GAW was created by a joint resolution in the U.S. Congress in 1987 and is held annually on the third week of November. To celebrate the week, on November ...
Data services is holding a discussion session on Wednesday, July 24th at 12pm to collectively think about data literacy and how it fits into services we collaboratively offer. The discussion is in Olin Library, Instruction Room 1. Here is the reading list: Situating Expertise in Practice: Domain-...
The RDAP Education and Resources team is excited to announce another upcoming webinar from our colleagues at the Data Curation Network: “Primerpalooza: Introducing Data Curation Primers.” On behalf of the DCN Education team, presenters include: Cynthia Hudson Vitale (Pennsylvania State Universit...
WashU has joined the Data Curation Network (DCN). We are coming into the project in Year 2 of the implementation phase which runs through June 2021. Read more… The Data Curation Network (DCN) serves as the “human layer” in the data repository stack and seamlessly connects local data sets to expe...
The Data Services team offers spatial analysis services that can boost many types of research projects. A recent request from Radha Gopalan, Professor of Finance in the Olin Business School, provides a great example of the types of questions we regularly field and the services we provide. Profess...
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