Publication Date
12-2010
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Dr. Katie Algeo (Director), Dr. Jun Yan, Dr. Fred Siewers, Dr. Kevin Cary
Degree Program
Department of Geography and Geology
Degree Type
Master of Science
Abstract
This project laid the groundwork for an Internet-delivered Public Participation Geographic Information System to facilitate exploration and discovery of the past communities of the Mammoth Cave Park area. The emergence of Internet Web 2.0 design along with distributed GIS services allows for anyone to interact with and add to the information found on central Internet sites. Historical geography often relies upon public participation from individuals outside the academic world to provide narrative descriptions, photographs and manuscripts of past places and events to augment information held by institutions and academia. A public-participation website for the Mammoth Cave Historic GIS (MCHGIS) created a central Internet location for dispersed and disparate data related to pre-park communities to be presented with a geographic context. The MCHGIS project allowed for visualization of the pre-park communities in unique ways and contributed new understandings of this pre-park area.
Disciplines
Geographic Information Sciences | Geology
Recommended Citation
Epperson, Ann E., "Internet GIS as a Historic Place-Making Tool for Mammoth Cave National Park" (2010). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 227.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/227