The grants referenced here are not for the development of GIS data or
capabilities, but rather for the development and publication of metadata
describing exisiting GIS data. Metadata has become a big thing in the GIS
community because of the difficulties in determining the proper use and
scale of the large volumes of data which exist.

Erich

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Indigo Nights wrote:

> Hope, I wondered about GIS myself when, just the other
> day (maybe Tuesday or Wednesday), I think Pag-Net
> (found at http://www.frommgroup.com ) had some funding
> for this.  I wondered if any museums might be
> incorporating some of it in their research.
>
> Here, I went to the Pagnet page (looks like they've
> now broken Pagnet out separately) and I found this:
>
> http://www.pagnet.info/fedreg-archive/2002/3226-3227.txt
>

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Illinois State Museum GIS Lab      email:erich(at)illinois.state.museum
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