Joseph Holler's Open Source GIScience Resources at Middlebury College
: In this lesson, we will investigate data and its social context.
Friday, March 26
Please read the following paper, from a human geographer who both researches the social context of GIS technology and uses GIS in original research. In this paper, Schuurman dives into an ethnography of data to illustrate the significance of context and provenance for our day-to-day use of spatial data in research.
Rather than writing a blog response now, learn from Schuurman’s suggestions about how to investigate spatial databases and apply that to your own inquiry into data from Ramani Huria and the Resilience Academy with the links below. Start thinking of research questions that you could ask with this data and investigating the data layers required for those questions. Start documenting your thoughts for use in a lab report next week!