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December 2000
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A project on China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)
The China Historical Geographic Information System project has
been established under the aegis of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and
Harvard University with a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
The CHGIS will establish a standardized coding system to identify
historical administrative units and settlements for different periods in
Chinese History. It will provide a base GIS platform for spatial analysis,
temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical
units as digital maps. The project intends to make the multi-lingual base
GIS available to the scholarly community at no charge through download
sites throughout the world.
The participating institutions are:
Center for Historical Geography, Fudan University (Shanghai)
Computing Sciences Center, Academia Sinica (Taipei)
Australian Centre for Asian Spatial Data and Information Analysis Network,
Griffith University (Brisbane)
Harvard University (Cambridge)
Merrick Berman has been appointed as manager for the CHGIS project as of
January 1, 2001. The project is overseen by a Management Committee with
Professors Peter Bol of Harvard University (chair), Laurence Crissman
(Griffith University), Ge Jianxiong (Fudan University), C. C. Hsieh
(Academia Sinica), G. William Skinner (University of California, Davis)
and Advisory Committee of scholars from East Asia, North America, and
Europe.
Postings of CHGIS data are expected to begin in late Spring, 2001.
Contact Information:
CHGIS
Harvard-Yenching Institute
Vanserg Hall, 25 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Email: chgis@fas.harvard.edu
Further information is available at the CHGIS website:
http:// www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
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