Columbia Venture Community: Project Two.Eight In 2022, I facilitated a workshop on Deriving Insights for Customer Development through effective user experience research for the inaugural cohort of Project Two.Eight, a startup incubator for female founders at Columbia University. I also serve as a design mentor on a continuing basis. Two.Eight, or 2.8%, is the share … Read more
Since well before 9/11, GISMO, the NYC region’s oldest GIS interest group, has been working on advocacy initiatives to improve the way New York City collects, stores, shares and manages Geospatial Data and the processes and strategies around the City’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related functions. Beginning in 1996, the City’s first GIS Director, … Read more
Oral history as a primary source is being revived through initiatives like Story Corps and World Pulse and through improved storage capacity to archive and exhibit personal stories, making it less expensive for even the smallest and least funded groups. We are moving toward an environment where alternative narratives can be both manipulative (alternative facts, … Read more
Amy Jeu and I curated a weekend exhibit, Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World, on October 29-30, 2016 at the Queens Museum celebrating the map-making community. The event featured talks and demonstrations as well as a hall dedicated to paper and digital maps submitted from the private collections of members of the GISMO community. … Read more
June 6-8 was OpenStreetMap’s State of the Map Conference at the United Nations. I volunteered at registration and during morning sessions and was able to attend interesting talks on OSM data in Wikipedia, the Red Cross presentation on OSM in disaster response and developing a GIS curriculum in higher education. One of the highlights was … Read more
Two upcoming events brought to you by GISMO and OWASP Brooklyn. Agency GIS Forum GISMO Thursday, February 5, 2015 100 Church Street 2:30 – 4:30 PM Join us to hear a round of lightning talks given by GIS directors and managers of City agencies. This will be a great opportunity to learn about innovative … Read more
On November 1, 2014 I participated in a Semiotics Web and Information Architecture meetup at New York Public Library. Mypresentation, “Semiotics in Mapping and Emergency Response,” discusses symbology in mapping as an aspect of semiotics and presents an example of emergency response map symbology and a discussion of applications for first responders and broader uses. … Read more
I have over 20 years of experience in GIS and Mapping, including both modern and historical mapping projects for urban planning and infrastructure, emergency response, and digital archiving of 9/11 geographic materials. I have been a board member of GISMO since 2013. Featured Interactive Maps Geodata Startup Business Development: I am working with GISMO and the New York … Read more
My summer involved a full set of research courses, including Museums & Library Research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Researching Local Histories and the Summer Map Institute at NYPL. The workload was a bit heavy due to the fact that the MetMuseum course was not actually a two week course, as noted in the … Read more
For this literature review I selected two sources, one practical and one fanciful. The practical source is “Digital Map Librarianship: A Working Syllabus” from the IFLA Section of Geography and Map Libraries. The fanciful one is You Are Here: Personal Geographies and other Maps of the Imagination by Katherine Harmon. “Digital Map Librarianship: A … Read more