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Historical GIS as a Platform for Public Memory at Mammoth Cave National Park

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  • Katie Algeo

    (Western Kentucky University, USA)

  • Ann Epperson

    (Western Kentucky University, USA)

  • Matthew Brunt

    (Western Kentucky University, USA)

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The Mammoth Cave Historical GIS (MCHGIS) fosters new understandings of a national park landscape as a historic farming community and offers a web-based platform for public memory of pre-park inhabitants. It maps the 1920 manuscript census at the household level over a streaming topographic map and georeferences Civilian Conservation Corps photographs of dwellings for visualization and analysis of the area’s population on the eve of creation of Mammoth Cave National Park. A web interface to the MCHGIS permits broader dissemination of archival holdings. Public participation GIS techniques are adapted to initiate a virtual site of public memory to supplement the history presented by institutionally-held materials with those donated from private holdings.

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  • Katie Algeo & Ann Epperson & Matthew Brunt, 2011. "Historical GIS as a Platform for Public Memory at Mammoth Cave National Park," International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), IGI Global, vol. 2(4), pages 19-37, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jagr00:v:2:y:2011:i:4:p:19-37
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