Horizontal Across the Verticals - Enterprise Geospatial Technology Applied to the Emergency Management, Cultural Resources & Environmental Domains - Santa Monica, CA

Horizontal Across the Verticals - Enterprise Geospatial Technology Applied to the
Emergency Management, Cultural Resources & Environmental Domains

Please join the RICS Southern California Chapter, Geospatial LA, RAND, the Getty Conservation Institute, UCLA CENS and HIFLD members for a collaborative event focusing on the synergies (and cost savings in these lean times) of geospatial technologies used in: Homeland Security & Emergency Management Cultural Resources and Facilities Environmental Considerations

Date:
Friday, October 22, 2010

Time:
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Location:
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street - Room 1226
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Cost:
Free to attend!
To register, please contact Mr. Adrian Overton at overton@rand.org or by telephone: +1 310-393-0411 ext. 7138.
Registration is required and will only be accepted through Tuesday, October 19.

Agenda:

Introductions by RICS, RAND and Geospatial LA.

Dissemination of Research Products in the Application Marketplace: A proposal for turning knowledge into discoverable tools Daniella Meeker - Associate Information Scientist, RAND Corporation Daniella Meeker received her PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from California Institute of Technology in 2005. She completed a fellowship in Health Economics at RAND in 2009 and joined RAND’s staff as an Associate Information Scientist. Her current research includes health economics, machine learning, and social network analysis. Presentation Overview: The results of research of the type conducted at RAND are typically disseminated through print media. However, many valuable research products can be developed as services and packaged as “apps” to enhance decision support, analytic methods, and data visualization. Daniella will highlight some examples from GIS and other domains that are active areas of research at RAND. Finally, for discussion she will bring up some of the challenges of translational research and propose some protocols and practices to address some of these challenges. Online resources: http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/fellows.html Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA) - Jordan: An Open Source GIS-based Archeological Site Inventory and Management System David Myers - Project Specialist, Field Projects Department, Getty Conservation Institute David Myers is a project specialist in the Getty Conservation Institute’s Field Projects department where he has worked since 2001. He now works on projects developing the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA) for Jordan and Iraq, preparing a site management and conservation plan for the Valley of the Queens on the West Bank of Luxor, Egypt, on research on applying consensus building and conflict resolution methods to cultural heritage place management, and on building capacity for conservation and management of rock art in the countries of the Southern African subcontinent. He received an M.S. in historic preservation in 2000 and an advanced certificate in architectural conservation and site management in 2001, both from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 1995 he served as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Presentation Overview: The emergence of new digital technologies and rapidly spreading internet access together present possibilities for widely accessible, Web-based national information systems for the inventory and management of heritage sites. The increasing development of Open Source software tools further provides that such systems may be purpose-built, adaptable and extensible to the needs of specific situations, and that once developed they can be available to heritage authorities, which are often poorly funded, without associated licensing or upgrade fees. Working collaboratively with the Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA), the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and World Monuments Fund (WMF) have developed MEGA-Jordan as a tool to inventory, monitor, and help conserve and manage the thousands of archaeological sites in Jordan. MEGA-Jordan allows DoA officials to address needs such as infrastructure and development control and the development of national and regional research strategies. MEGA-Jordan is Web-based, bilingual (Arabic-English), and was developed using state-of-the art and Open Source information technologies. It was designed to be modular and easily extensible, allowing it to evolve with the DoA’s changing institutional requirements and to be adapted by other countries. Work on an Iraq version of MEGA is slated to begin after the Jordanian system is fully deployed, which will include the system’s expansion to contain data for the protection of historic buildings. The GCI and WMF plan to subsequently make the system available for adaptation by other countries. Online Resources: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/field_projects/jordan/index.html, http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/ & http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/arts/design/25getty.html. Building a Sustainable Enterprise GIS at the Port of Los Angeles Daniel Elroi – President, NorthSouth GIS LLC A GIS consultant with 20 years of solid in GIS implementation and software development, Daniel has been consulting in GIS in the US since 1990. Daniel studied Geography, Cartography, and GIS at UCLA in the early days of commercial GIS, and began his career with one of the first ESRI sites, the City of Los Angeles. He then spent eight years honing his skills as a consultant and software developer in mining, local government, nuclear waste disposal, real estate, pipelines, and engineering, before setting his own course in business in 1998. Since then he has worked with over 100 clients, developing custom software applications and integrating GIS into various clients' business processes. Presentation Overview: The Port of Los Angeles - the largest container port in the US - hired NorthSouth GIS to develop an enterprise-wide GIS. The resulting server infrastructure, geodatabase design and content, and software applications are very solid and based on best-practices. However, it is the way in which the "soft" side of the implementation - people, group dynamics, training, user buy-in, and management participation - that make this implementation stand out and will ultimately determine the project's long-term success and its sustainability. The presentation will focus on the means taken to accomplish the "soft" side of this successful implementation. Online Resources: http://www.northsouthgis.com/ & http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/cahinvrug10/papers/user-presentations/nsg_overview_cahinv_rug_01302010.pdf Participatory Sensing and Named Data Networking Jeff Burke - Director, Technology Research Initiatives, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television & Area Lead, Participatory Sensing, NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) Jeff Burke is Director of Technology Research Initiatives for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Executive Director of REMAP, a joint research program of TFT and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. REMAP’s core projects investigate the interrelationships among community, culture, and technology and how embedded and mobile computing can support community development and cultural expression. He also helped to form what is now the Participatory Sensing area at the National Science Foundation Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). Presentation Overview: This talk will briefly introduce Participatory Sensing and Named Data Networking, and discuss their intersection and relevance to the geospatial community. Participatory Sensing seeks to enable everyone to use their mobile phones, along with cloud-based computing resources, to safely collect, analyze and share data about things they care about most. Named Data Networking (NDN), also known as Content Centric Networking, replaces the so-called “thin waist” of the internet, the IP protocol, with a name-based protocol that enables communication to be routed based on content names rather than host addresses. It also provides intrinsic content caching and per-packet data signatures. NDN is the subject of a recent National Science Foundation “Future Internet Architecture” award to a group led by UCLA and PARC, in which Participatory Sensing is a driver application for the NDN architecture. Online Resources - http://research.cens.ucla.edu/ Closing Remarks & Acknowledgements

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