Please join Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Center for
Digital Research and Scholarship’s Scholarly Communication Program
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/> for “Open GIS: Extending Boundaries”, the
second event of the academic year in our Research Without Borders
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/events/> panel discussion series. This event
will take place from *2-4pm *on *Wednesday, November 18, 2015* in *Rooms
522 & 523* of Columbia’s Butler Library
<http://library.columbia.edu/locations/butler/directions.html> It
is free and open to the public.
Welcome to GIS Day <http://gisday.com/>! This event is centered on issues
of open Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Geography shapes our world,
but historically geographical information has been a closely guarded
secret. As information itself becomes increasingly ubiquitous so does the
potential for us to experience and use geographical information to increase
our understanding of the world and expand the dimensions of research. What
are the opportunities for discovering and accessing today’s Geographical
Information Systems (GIS) frameworks and data? What are the risks posed by
increased discoverability and accessibility? Panelists will address a
variety of perspectives on what it means to be open with respect to GIS;
what it requires, e.g., open access, open software, #opendata, and data
reuse; and the tension between open and historically closed information
systems.
*RSVP for admission to venue: *http://bit.ly/RWOBrsvp
*Our panelists:*
Carson Farmer
<http://geography.colorado.edu/people/faculty_member/farmer_carson>,
Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder
Laxmi Ramasubramanian <http://hunteruap.org/faculty/laxmi-ramasubramanian/>,
Associate Professor of Planning and Design, Hunter College, City
University of New York
Xinyue Ye <http://www.kent.edu/geography/profile/xinyue-ye>, Assistant
Professor of Geography and Director, Computational Social Science Lab,
Kent State University
*Our moderator:*
Robert S. Chen <http://www.ciesin.org/chen.html>, Director, Center for
International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Earth Institute,
Columbia University
This event is the second event of the 2015-2016 academic year in our
speaker series Research Without Borders: The Changing World of Scholarly
Communication. <http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/events/> It is sponsored by
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Scholarly Communication
Program and Digital Social Science Center. Join the discussion on Twitter
at #rwob <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rwob&src=typd>and @ScholarlyComm
<https://twitter.com/ScholarlyComm>. To watch a live webcast of the event,
and for more information about Research Without Borders, visit the
Scholarly Communication Program website at scholcomm.columbia.edu
<https://us4.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/wizard/scholcomm.columbia.edu>.
*Co-located event: *GEOGRAPHY 2050 <http://geography2050.org/>: Exploring
Our Future in an Urbanized World, November 19-20, 2015 · New York City
.