Midterm Assignment: Proposal

Midterm assignment: Proposal for research

The midterm consists of a 5-10 page (double spaced) proposal for an anthropological research project involving GIS data management and analysis.

A. Theoretical goals of the project

  • why use GIS (based on what you've learned so far).
  • what are the strengths and the drawbacks to organizing your research with GIS?
  • how do you anticipate presenting the data (paper, web, tables, summaries?)
  • how would your digital research approach interface with existing data acquired using traditional methods? Is it compatible?

B. Implementation

  • data acquisition and processing issues
  • data organization and table structure.
  • analysis goals. Pick two or three phenomena of interest. How do GIS based analysis methods fit / not fit with these goals?

C. Results

  • dissemination of results
  • web distribution?
  • security / privacy issues?
  • storage of data.

Bibliography using anthropological citation conventions.

Hand in Midterm before class on 6th week.