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<div><font color="#1F497D">I was just informed that this invitation went out with the wrong date. It is in fact scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 18.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">Apologies for the spam! </font></div>
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<b>From:</b> Michelle Baildon <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 10, 2014 12:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'sci-tech-public@mit.edu'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> NOW WITH DATE/TIME: Worldmap: A Spatial Infrastructure to Support Teaching and Research (BROWN BAG TALK)</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">The WorldMap platform <a href="http://worldmap.harvard.edu/"><font face="inherit" color="#005C9C"><b><u>http://worldmap.harvard.edu</u></b></font></a> is the largest open source collaborative mapping
system in the world, with over 13,000 map layers contributed by thousands of users from Harvard and around the world. Researchers may upload large spatial datasets to the system, create data-driven visualizations, edit data, and control access. Users may keep
their data private, share it in groups, or publish to the world. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">The user base is interdisciplinary, including scholars from the humanities, social sciences, sciences, public health, design, planning, etc. All are able to access, view,
and use one another’s data, either online, via map services, or by downloading. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Current work is underway to create and maintain a global registry of map services and take us a step closer to one-stop-access for public geospatial data. Another project
is working on tools to support the visualization of spatial datasets with over a billion features. Current collaborations are underway with groups inside Harvard, such as Dataverse, HarvardX, and various departments, and with groups outside Harvard, such as
Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. Major additional contributors to the underlying source code include the WorldBank, the U.S. State Department, and the United Nations.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">The source code for the WorldMap platform is available on GitHub <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://github.com/cga-harvard/cga-worldmap&k=AjZjj3dyY74kKL92lieHqQ%3D%3D%0A&r=yQ8m8To9b1nwNozW9luGQxeYlRUwXdmDMKNVdzjfv%2BU%3D%0A&m=bFXFS7gfgc5%2BTtZtylz8%2Bvzg064UkC2a3QnlOJuA5no%3D%0A&s=e691c77b47ad60f2ab1a320d3e6fde64a2ed5ec2e23a2a97ebef494083c1ddcb"><font face="inherit" color="#005C9C"><b><u>https://github.com/cga-harvard/cga-worldmap</u></b></font></a>.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="inherit" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;"><b>Date/Time: </b><font face="Arial"><strike>Wednesday, September 17, 2014</strike></font><font face="Arial">, </font><font face="Arial" color="#1F497D">Thursday,
September 18, 2014, </font><font face="Arial">12-1pm</font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="inherit" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;"><b>Location:</b><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Arial">E25-202</font><font face="Arial" color="#1F497D"> </font></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="inherit" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;"><b>Discussant:</b><b> </b><font face="Arial">Ben Lewis is system architect and project manager for </font><a href="http://worldmap.harvard.edu/"><font color="#005C9C"><b><u>WorldMap</u></b></font></a><font face="Arial">,
an open source infrastructure that supports collaborative research centered on geospatial information. Before joining Harvard, Ben was a project manager with Advanced Technology Solutions of Pennsylvania, where he led the company in adopting platform independent
approaches to GIS system development. Ben studied Chinese at the University of Wisconsin and has a Masters in Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. After Penn, Ben helped start the GIS Lab at U.C. Berkeley, founded the GIS group for transportation engineering
firm McCormick Taylor, and coordinated the Land Acquisition Mapping System for South Florida Water Management District. Ben is especially interested in technologies that lower the barrier to spatial technology access.</font></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="inherit" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;"><i>Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the MIT Libraries’</i><font color="#1F497D"><i> </i></font><i>Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming
sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the
lead discussant.</i></span></font></div>
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<div>For more information, contact:</div>
<div>Randi Shapiro, <a href="mailto:shapiror@mit.edu"><font color="blue"><u>shapiror@mit.edu</u></font></a> </div>
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