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Historical GIS as a Platform for Public Memory at Mammoth Cave National Park

Historical GIS as a Platform for Public Memory at Mammoth Cave National Park
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Author(s): Katie Algeo (Western Kentucky University, USA), Ann Epperson (Western Kentucky University, USA)and Matthew Brunt (Western Kentucky University, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 19
Source title: Geographic Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2038-4.ch079

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Abstract

The Mammoth Cave Historical GIS (MCHGIS) fosters new understandings of a national park landscape as a historic farming community and offers a web-based platform for public memory of pre-park inhabitants. It maps the 1920 manuscript census at the household level over a streaming topographic map and georeferences Civilian Conservation Corps photographs of dwellings for visualization and analysis of the area’s population on the eve of creation of Mammoth Cave National Park. A web interface to the MCHGIS permits broader dissemination of archival holdings. Public participation GIS techniques are adapted to initiate a virtual site of public memory to supplement the history presented by institutionally-held materials with those donated from private holdings.

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