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Ian O. Morrison, Scottish Museums Documentation Officer
http://ianmorrison.topcities.com/index.htm
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:07:41 +0100
From: Lee, Edmund <[log in to unmask]>
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: GIS e-conference announcement

Good afternoon,

I am setting up an 'e-conference' on the Forum on Information Standards in
Heritage Jiscmail list, which may well be of interest to your members. I
wonder if I could ask you to post the announcement and details following
this message to your list? You would of course be most welcome to take part
yourselves,

Many thanks

Edmund Lee
Forum Co-ordinator
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage

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Find out more about FISH at
http://www.mda.org.uk/fish
or join the discussion at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/fish
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"Adding Power to Place - linking database content and GIS  standards in
the cultural heritage sector"

A free e-conference from FISH, the
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage.
Launches on the FISH discussion list
Monday 1st October 2001. See below for joining details.

'Power of Place', the heritage sector review published by the UK
government in 2000, emphasised  the contribution of the historic
environment to a sense of place and belonging. The understanding of
this environment resides in text databases maintained by national and
local cultural heritage records.  Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
provide the tools to manage the spatial information that locates and
describes this environment. Common approaches are needed to make the
best use of both technologies and add the power of understanding to the
knowledge of place.

Who is it for?

The e-conference is for anyone and everyone with an interest in the
relationship between cultural heritage information and recent GIS and
spatial standards developments. Discussion will be of particular
relevance to local and national heritage record staff, their software
suppliers, and customers.

What will it cover?

The e-conference will bring together contributors from the GIS sector
and database managers from the cultural heritage sector. One objective
for the discussion is to develop a position statement on how content
standards in the heritage sector should make best use of the
opportunities offered by GIS. In the longer term the conference will
identify issues that need to be addressed in future editions of MIDAS,
the manual and standard for monument inventories, and additional
terminology standards for inclusion in the INSCRIPTION framework
maintained by FISH (see http://www.inscription.org.uk).

...You can join in from anywhere in the world, any time you like... and
its free.

How it works

The e-conference will use the email discussion list facilities of the
National Academic Mailing List service - JISCmail. This is a free text
based discussion list accessible to everyone with an email address. No
additional technology or experience is necessary. Presentations from
speakers will be posted to the FISH discussion list, starting on the
1st October. Additional details and longer presentations will be made
available for optional download via the FISH archive. After each
presentation there will an opportunity for all subscribers to post
responses, and ask questions. For those who wish, 'digest' facilities
will make it possible to have all the discussion delivered to them in a
single daily email.


Joining instructions

To join the conference, simply email the following two line message to
[log in to unmask] .You don't need to put anything in the subject
line.

join fish  [your name]
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replacing [your name] with your first and last name (without the
brackets), and remembering the two hyphen characters on the next line.

You will get a request to confirm your membership, followed by a
welcome message with further information.


It all starts 1st October 2001 - but join up now to see further
announcements.