Archive for 2008

Batch convert DMS to DD

These are instructions for Mac.

Download OpenStreet maps as shapefiles

There are now two sites that offer download of from OpenStreet in varying formats, including shapefiles and GPS: CloudMade and Geofabrik (for Europe).

New Forms of Academic Scholarship

Supporting the “Scholarship” in E-Scholarship The opportunities of cyberinfrastructure have been both heralded and hyped. The express purpose of cyberinfrastructure is to enable e-scholarship: new forms of scholarship that are more information-intensive, data-intensive, distributed, collaborative, and multidisciplinary.1 But what does that mean for scholars, for academic libraries, and for campus information technology? What cyberinfrastructure strategies [...]