[569] in I/T Delivery
Spatial Data Services Phase 1 Delivery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fitzgerald)
Mon Sep 10 08:10:43 2001
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>Project Name: Spatial Data Services Phase 1 Delivery
>Project Leaders: Bill Fitzgerald, Dan Sheehan
>Report Date: September 7, 2001
>Submitted by: Bill Fitzgerald, Dan Sheehan
>URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/delivery/spatialdata/spatialdata.html
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>
>General
>
>As expected, vacations and travel again took a toll on progress during
>the month. Still, the project moved forward. We continued our collaboration
>with Sarah Williams, the Libraries GIS Specialist. We continued to provide
>input for Sarah's planning process. Data loading is continuing. We
>did obtain
>the code for running ArcIMS as a data server from the GIS/Libraries programmer
>at Harvard, as expected. We hope to work with this during October and
>November. Sarah Williams is extremely excited about using ArcIMS as the
>primary data distribution tool.
>
>No further work was accomplished on the Apache web server software issue.
>
>We continued to deliver training, consulting, and faculty outreach.
>Plans were
>made for Sheehan to work on 1.961 (Environmental Engineering
>Applications of GIS) with Dr. Eric Adams, Director of the MEng
>program for Course 1,
>1.992 (Software Tools for Environmental Field Study) with Enrique Vivoni, PhD
>candidate in Course 1, and 12.114 (Field Geology I) with Professors
>Clark Burchfiel
>and Kip Hodges.
>
>Accomplishments during August
>
>-Daniel Sheehan continued to work with the new Libraries' GIS specialist.
>
>-Daniel Sheehan and Tom Grayson continued to load data.
>
>-Continued documentation efforts. We are close to having a final version of
>documentation for implementing ArcSDE on an Athena platform.
>
>- Discontinued effort to install web server software on Arrowsmith.
>
>- Arranged with Facilities to obtain current, clean data for
>whereis.mit.edu in September.
>
>Plans for September
>
>-Install working web server on Arrowsmith. Start to work on
>whereis.mit.edu page when complete.
>
>-Continue Data loading.
>
>-Determine projection engine needs.
>
>-Continue to consult with Harvard on their ArcIMS/SDE/Oracle
>implementation, which is in service in Sept, 2001.
>
>-Continue to work with Libraries' GIS Specialist.
>
>-Continue outreach, finding further classes to work with in Spring
>2002 semester.
>
>-Continue with documentation. Miki Lusztig is due to deliver
>documentation to Esther for inclusion in general SDS documentation.
>
>-Site visits with Libraries' GIS Specialist to UConn.
>
>Issues
>
>-Classes will take substantial time away for Sheehan and Grayson.
>
>-We need to confirm Tom Grayson's 1 day a week engagement with IS
>through Fall 2001 semester.
>
>-We hope that the web server software issues are solved during
>September and October. This will take hard work by Miki Luzstig,
>who needs to collaborate with Tom Grayson.
>
>-Second phase of documentation (Oracle installation) stalled. We
>hope to engage Miki this month.
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Bill Fitzgerald
Asst. Director, Finance and Project Coordination
Academic Media Production Services
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 10 Room 256
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(P) 617-253-3171
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Email: wjfitz@mit.edu
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