Good morning all,

Below this message is the announcement of the forthcoming e-conference on
this list, starting 1st October. I would be very happy to hear off list from
any list members who would like to make a longer presentation on a
particular topic or current initiative that they are working on, as part of
the conference. Please copy the announcement below to anyone that you think
would be interested, but note that, to avoid cross-posting and annoyance of
other list owners, I will contact the owners of the following lists to ask
them to circulate it:-

smrforum
britarch
gis-arch
ESRI archaeology discusion forum

In addition, there is a Word97 version of the anouncement, (which is a bit
prettier to look at!) that you can download and circulate or put on notice
boards in the FISH list archive - point your web browser at
 http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/FISH/E-conGISAnnounce.doc or send the
following email to [log in to unmask]

get fish\E-conGISAnnounce.doc
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to get sent a copy by email.


Thanks,

Ed
Forum Co-ordinator / fishmonger...whatever.


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GIS E-conference announcement

"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.