UC GIS Spring Meetup

Interested in GIS?

Please join us for our first UC GIS Meetup.

Each of our three speakers will give a five to ten minute lightning talk, and then we’ll head into breakout rooms for follow up discussions. Finally, we’ll meet back in the main room to share feedback and impressions. Follow up discussions will take place on the UC GIS slack channel.

Program

Using GIS in the public sector and academia — Maggie Isied, UCLA

Maggie will share a brief introduction of her experiences using general GIS skills in the public sector and academia

Maggie is a second year Environmental Science and Engineering Doctoral Student at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Currently, Maggie is an Air Quality Specialist at the South Coast Air Quality Management District, where she works on health effects of air pollution and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) air quality documents and policy.

Welcome to the world of geospatial Linked Open Data—Ryan Horn, UCLA

Ryan will offers an introduction to the expanding world of geospatial Linked Open Data (LOD), and how that data is used in digital gazetteers to create and disambiguate place, names, and location data.

Ryan is currently the Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library Data Coordinator at UCLA library, where he is responsible for metadata processing, creating project workflows, developing digital tools, leading data interoperability work with project partners, and assisting with data modeling and website UX testing and evaluation. Dr. Horne earned his PhD in History (2015) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill after previously working as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin. His specialty is planning, managing, and preserving interdisciplinary digital humanities research projects. He focuses on leveraging Linked Open Data for digital humanities research, and currently serves as an editor for the Pleiades project, a NEH-funded gazetteer and graph offering authoritative Linked Open Data on over 36,000 sites in the ancient world.

Inspiring Maps of 2020—Scott Gruber, UCLA

Scott will open a web browser and do a quick screen share of a several inspiring web maps. Bring a link to share in the breakout.

Scott Gruber is a web designer and developer at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainabilty. He is interested in art direction for the web and using modern CSS layout techniques to build sites that work for everyone, load fast and look good.