Projects
Campus Mapping Project
The campus mapping project is an ongoing effort to identify and map physical and ecological resources on Evergreen’s 1,010 acre campus. This project has stemmed from faculty research, staff work and student academic projects. These data are part of an evolving database that help to catalogue campus resources and gives students a real-world practical experience in developing and disseminating GIS information. We maintain a repository of this data on our server.
Central Eurasian Information Resource (CEIR)
The CEIR project has been built by the University of Washington based on work conducted by a consortium of institutions including Evergreen. This work is framed around building a uniquely cataloged collection of information resources, some developed at the University of Washington, others acquired contractually (such as the UW Libraries’ subscriptions to online Russian and East European newspapers), and the remainder freely available on the Internet, but identified as particularly valuable by subject and area specialists, and selected for inclusion in the CEIR Online Resource Collection on the strength of their quality. The collection is expected to number between 500 and 1,000 cataloged resources by the completion of the current stage of the CEIR project in late 2002, and it will be added to continually thereafter. The CEIR Resource Collection is cataloged using a set of controlled metadata that differs from conventional library metadata, and it is searchable through a specially designed portal.
Currently, Evergreen faculty and staff are developing and designing a set of interactive historical maps of Russia covering its development from Kievan times to the present day, and an ecological and environmental DataMap of the Tatarstan region.
Evergreen student Janet Rhoades has been working with Climate Solutions, a local non-profit specializing on dealing with issues of global warming through publications, scientific expertise, positive media coverage, and strategic partnerships on global warming and clean energy. Her particular focus has been to revise the current Thurston County Bicycle map to be available throught the web through ArcIMS. This project has now been redone a using Google Earth and Google Maps.