In regard to GIS and its application in the museum environment ... I have briefly discussed this issue with my husband, who is a photogrammetrist and he feels that there are a variety of ways in which GIS can be applied; however, like most of us, he is up to his eyeballs with work and cannot respond directly. He suggests tapping into the PE&ARS site, i.e. Photgrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. There is probably a discussion list there. I do not have the URL at present, but if you are keen I can hunt it down. My personal experience with GIS stems from a 6 month secondment I did in our archaeological sites office. As we were investigating new databases for the museum in general, I did a little pilot project on the feasibility of a graphical database. If we had taken this project to its limit we would have had a database we could query to obtain both textual and graphical results, i.e. "show me all the sites visited by Joe Blow" or "show me all the campsites along river A belonging to culture B" ... We could have produced maps, etc. from this information. Definitely the archaeological community benefits from GPS and GIS technology. The project proved really interesting and showed to me the validity of GIS for this type of info. $$$ prevented us from pursuing this issue. Hope some of this has proven interesting. Patti Davis-Perkins Canadian Museum of Civilization Artifact Documentation ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).