On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, join Notre Dame as we celebrate GIS Day. This annual salute to geospatial technology and its power to transform and better our lives and the lives of those around us will include workshops, lunch, and lightning presentations. GIS Day will take place in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, 246 Hesburgh Library.
Milan Budhathoki is the GIS Specialist for the CRC/CSSR. Milan provides technical input to geospatial data users. He is specialized in GIS analysis, spatial data management, web GIS and server applications, and remotely sensed data processing. He is also a certified FAA Part 107 remote pilot and flies UAS (small Unmanned Aerial System) for research related aerial photography.
Milan has a lab, ND-GAL (Geospatial Analysis Laboratory), at Innovation Park. ND-GAL is established in the Center for Research Computing in collaboration with the Environmental Change Initiative to connect the Notre Dame community with geospatial services. For more information about ND-GAL visit: gis.crc.nd.edu.
Matthew Sisk is the GIS Librarian in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship. He received his Ph.D. in Paleolithic Archaeology from Stony Brook University in 2011 and has worked extensively in GIS-based archaeology and ecological modeling. Some of Matthew’s current research is focused on assessing the spatial scale of urban lead exposure. In the CDS, his primary role is to assist Notre Dame students and faculty with general GIS questions, satellite imagery analysis, workflow automation, coding, and data curation. He also teaches a series of workshops and a credit bearing course on these topics.
The Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, the Center for Research Computing, and the Center for Social Science Research invite proposals for short presentations (either podium or poster/electronic poster) for our annual GIS Day symposium. GIS Day will take place on November 13, 2019.
Presentations should be related to GIS in some way (tools, data or visualization), but do not need to be directly methodological and are otherwise not limited by field. Podium presentations will be 5-10 minute lightning talks (length will depend upon the number of presentations). Work-in-progress presentations and posters will be accepted to help researchers get methodological feedback.
To participate, please submit a short abstract with title and all author affiliation(s) to Matthew.Sisk@nd.edu by November 1, 2019.
| MORNING WORKSHOP SESSION I | |
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| 10:00am – 11:00am |
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| MORNING WORKSHOP SESSION II | |
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| 11:00am – Noon | ArcGIS Online ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based collaborative platform for a web GIS application where users can discover and share geographic data. One can create interactive maps and applications without any prior knowledge of web programming. In this workshop, participants will explore various functionalities of ArcGIS Online, such as displaying geographic data, creating interactive map and application, and also how to perform basic spatial analysis on spatial data. More information can be found at the ArcGIS Online website. |
| LUNCH | |
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| Noon – 12:30pm |
Lunch is complimentary. Advance registration required by November 8, 2019. |
| AWARDS & CAMPUS GIS SPOTLIGHT | |
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| 12:30pm – 12:45pm | Awards Faculty: Pam Butler, Gender Studies Students: Drew Marcantonio, PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Peace Studies, and Sean Field, Graduate Student, Anthropology |
| 12:45pm – 1:00pm | Campus GIS Spotlight “Spatial modeling of ecosystem change before the Anthropocene” Presenter: Jason McLachlan, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences |
| LIGHTNING TALKS | |
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| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Lightning Talks |
| RECEPTION & DEMOS | |
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| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | GIS Day Cake Celebration |
GIS is a system of hardware and software for the storage, retrieval, mapping and analysis of geographic data. It provides a system for organizing spatial and related information into a single analytical framework and is used in a variety of academic and industry settings for understanding spatial relationships. This workshop will address the question "What is GIS?", provide a variety of examples, and present the resources available in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship.
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based collaborative platform for web GIS application. Users can discover and share geographic data as well as create interactive maps and applications without any prior knowledge of web programming. In this workshop, participants will explore the functionality of ArcGIS Online like: displaying geographic data, creating interactive maps and applications, and performing basic spatial analysis on spatial data. More information about ArcGIS Online can be found here: ArcGIS Online.
For convenience, estimates of the ecological impact of human activity in the Anthropocene (1850 to present) often assume that ecosystems were roughly stable before the disruptions of industrial society. This allows us to maintain a pre-industrial "baseline" from which we can estimate human impact. We tested this assumption by developing a spatial statistical model of changing forest composition for the 2000 years before 19th-century land clearance across the Upper Midwest. This model confirmed previous findings of ecosystem change from the paleoecological literature, but our statistical approach allowed us to estimate the magnitude of these changes and to show which trends emerged from the statistical noise. Across the region, most of the landscape was stable, but some areas showed surprisingly significant trends.
Rachel Bohlmann, American History Librarian and Curator, Hesburgh Libraries
“Uncovering Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Maryland Using Bible Subscribers and GIS”
The Hesburgh Libraries holds in its collection two important Bibles for Catholics of the Early American Republic: the first Catholic Bible published in the United States in 1790, and a second one, published fifteen years later and by the same printer, Mathew Carey of Philadelphia. The books were displayed as part of a library exhibition in 2017. Both Bibles contain subscriber lists: names and locations of people, mostly Catholics, who helped finance the Bibles' publication. Using GIS, a library team mapped out where Catholic Bible subscribers lived during the Early Republic. Further work revealed a network of slaveholding among rural Maryland Catholics that was more than twice the average rate of slaveholding in the South. The densest subscriber locations also traced a discernable path along the pattern of Jesuit plantations in southern and eastern Maryland, a parallel between piety and slaveholding the map made visible.
Taylor Wiley, Application Developer, City of South Bend
Bill Moody, GIS Manager, City of South Bend
Thomas Sniadecki, GIS Specialist, City of South Bend
“GIS Projects at the City of South Bend”
ALICE and Poverty Levels Project: ALICE, the acronym to describe households of "Asset Limited, Income Constrained, and Employed”, which means not all citizens are below the Poverty Level but are vulnerable to a single crisis wiping away their assets. The team collected data from the US Census and mapped a comparison of areas with high/low percentages of both Poverty Level or ALICE households in the South Bend Community.
RSVP Project: Due to many unsafe rental properties reported in South Bend, the City initiated the Rental Safety Verification Program (or RSVP) to ensure rentals are safer for residents. Inspectors use a Collector App in order to complete inspections. The City of South Bend’s applications team utilized Python scripting in tandem with a Collector App to automatically create new tickets in order to make it easier for inspectors to complete inspections. Then they worked with the Code Enforcement office staff to gather requirements and to complete testing.
ReLeaf Program: ReLeaf is the residential leaf collection service provided by the city. In 2017, South Bend began collecting field data on the ReLeaf service. They configured an application using ArcGIS that allows leaf crews to easily create and submit service records for each property they collect from. This initial year of data collection allowed them to analyze their routes and identify possible ways to optimize the program. The success of the GIS services has prompted them to make the ReLeaf web app available to the public.
Marsha Stevenson, Visual Arts Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries
Mikala Narlock, Digital Collections Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries
“Not a Fan(dom): Migrating from a Wiki to an Interactive Map”
For researchers interested in the Churches of Rome, the current wiki platform Fandom is lacking in many ways: with a site that is overrun by ads, many of which feel inappropriate when juxtaposed with the scholarly content of the wiki, and an interaction that leaves much to be desired, it was clear that migrating the content out of the site was of a high priority. Through discussions, it became clear that an interactive map would provide a better experience for scholars and users that would best embody the original spirit of the project.
Hannah Early Bagdanov, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
“Mapping Egalitarian Democracy: Subnational Regimes, Public Goods, and Citizenship in Jerusalem, Israel”
The growing literature on variation in democracy at the subnational level has thus far largely considered the electoral dimension of democracy; namely, the presence of free, fair, and contested elections resulting in the peaceful transfer of power at the subnational level. However, in multinational states marked by high levels of ethnic and racial inequality, variation in the egalitarian dimension of democracy is also relevant for understanding the democratic-ness of subnational regimes. Testing for the egalitarian dimension of democracy requires a consideration of the extent to which ethnic and racial groups enjoy equal access to political power and equal distribution of public goods and services. As such, this project makes use of an original GIS dataset to measure the quality of waste management in Jerusalem, Israel’s ethnically divided Old City neighborhood. Mapping patterns of waste collection and public waste infrastructure highlights the ways in which institutional inequalities amongst groups can manifest at the neighborhood level, despite the presence of a functioning electoral democracy at the subnational level. This project also highlights the utility of GIS data collection methods for tracing policy outcomes and measuring inequality in resource distribution amongst ethnic and racial groups in multinational societies.
Andrew Sama, Director of University Facilities Information
“Enterprise GIS at Notre Dame”
Enterprise GIS is a new University initiative to develop one source for all university space and facilities data. By using GIS technology to combine departmental data of maps and floor plans, Enterprise GIS will ensure one campus map and one set of floor plans across the University. And using cloud-based services can offer access control and enhanced mobile capability. The vision is to create an integrated, map-based information system that fosters collaboration and efficiency within Facilities Design and Operations and enables targeted data sharing throughout the University by offering a wide range of accurate, verifiable, secure, current and accessible information.
Katie Oswald, Assistant Teaching Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
“Using Maps to Understand the Origins and Transmission of the Legend of Bernardo del
Carpio”
The earliest surviving witnesses to the medieval Spanish legend of Bernardo del Carpio are three thirteenth-century chronicles—the Latin Chronicon mundi and De rebus Hispaniae and the Castilian Estoria de España—and the historical introduction to the Poema de Fernán González. Beyond the surviving accounts of Bernardo’s tale, we know through the Estoria de España that there were also songs (cantares and romances) and tales (fablas and an estoria) about the hero, which have since been lost. Of particular intrigue are the Estoria de España’s references to cantares and fablas, through which the chroniclers report an alternate origin version of the hero’s birth. Given the disparate origin stories and the multiple references to now-unknown sources for the legend, it is clear that the chroniclers of the Estoria de España attempted to reconcile the details of more than one legend in their account of the life and deeds of Bernardo del Carpio. What exactly was included in those legends and how such tales were transmitted, however, remain the subject of speculation. The following presentation will explain how references to toponyms in the Estoria de España can allow us to map the legend and, therefore, gain insight into the origins, content, and transmission of the tales that came to be known as the legend of Bernardo del Carpio.