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Title: Internet GIS as a Historic Place-Making Tool for Mammoth Cave National Park

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This project laid the groundwork for an Internet-delivered Public ParticipationGeographic Information System to facilitate exploration and discovery of the pastcommunities of the Mammoth Cave Park area. The emergence of Internet Web 2.0design along with distributed GIS services allows for anyone to interact with and add tothe information found on central Internet sites. Historical geography often relies uponpublic participation from individuals outside the academic world to provide narrativedescriptions, photographs and manuscripts of past places and events to augmentinformation held by institutions and academia. A public-participation website for theMammoth Cave Historic GIS (MCHGIS) created a central Internet location for dispersedand disparate data related to pre-park communities to be presented with a geographiccontext. The MCHGIS project allowed for visualization of the pre-park communities inunique ways and contributed new understandings of this pre-park area.

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Authors: Epperson, Ann E.

Institution: Western Kentucky University

Department: Department of Geography and Geology

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Degree: Master of Science

Publisher Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky

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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection

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