Links to Spatial Resources
The websites in this collection provide spatial information, tools, and research to aid spatial analysis efforts in the social sciences. We are selecting the best sites that we find, cataloging them, and annotating them for rapid search and sorting. To recommend a website, use this form.
- AI-GEOSTATS
- GIS & Spatial Statistics on the Internet.
- Alexandria Digital Library Project
- The name Alexandria comes from the library of Alexandria, Egypt, which was considered the center of all knowledge/learning. No one place now can claim that distinction - but all data sources together (libraries, academic institutions, private companies, government agencies, etc.) are Alexandria. The project began in 1995 with the development of the Alexandria Digital Library, a working digital library with collections of geographically referenced materials and services for accessing those collections.
- American Historical Association
- The American Historical Association website with online journal and newsletter access and extensive resources on history education.
- Amsterdam Realtime
- During during the last months of 2002 Amsterdam's residents were invited to be equipped with a GPS enabled tracer device developed by the Waag Society. Using satellite data the tracer calculated its geographic position and sent the data in realtime to a central point. By visualizing this data against a black background lines appeared depicting each participant's movements. From these lines a partial map of Amsterdam was constructed showing not streets or blocks of houses, but the movements of real people.
- Anthropology Resources on the Internet
- The American Anthropological Association has posted a page of anthropology resources.
- Atlas of Global Inequality - UCSC
- This Atlas explores global inequality and globalization. It provides maps, graphics and data for use by teachers, researchers and others.
- CensusMapper
- CensusMapper is a geographic information system designed to make maps and tabular reports of historic U.S. Census and related data. Unlike GIS software, CensusMapper has pre-loaded quality assured/quality controlled data available for immediate analysis and a pre-defined set of mapping and statistical tools to process it. No data acquisition and validation, GIS technicians, or graphic artists are necessary to produce publication quality results.
- Center for Demography and Ecology
- "CDE is a multi-disciplinary faculty research cooperative for social scientific demographic research whose membership includes sociologists, rural sociologists, economists, epidemiologists, and statisticians. CDE is one of the leading centers of social science research in the world, as indicated by the scholarly productivity of its faculty, the level of extramural funding secured by researchers, the production and distribution of high quality demographic data, and the quality of its graduate training program. The intellectual and collegial environment of the Center makes it an exciting and stimulating place in which to conduct research."
- Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
- The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences is devoted to the triple mission of galvanizing collaborative research between social scientists and statisticians, developing a menu of new graduate courses for social science students, and putting together an innovative case-based undergraduate statistics sequence for the social sciences.
- Child Abuse Prevention Network
- The Child Abuse Prevention Network is the InternetNerve Center for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect. CAPN provides unique and powerful tools for all workers to support the identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention of child abuse and neglect.
- Corinth Computer Project
- Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography
- CYBERGEO is intended as a response to the specific needs of academic communication, by offering the possibility of a rapid exchange of information, immediate feedback on articles and events relevant to geography, on-going discussions, the latest research on specific questions, offers of results or documents, information about the availability of maps, and so on. CYBERGEO aims to be an instrument for networking the geographical community, as well as helping to increase the external visibility of the discipline.
- Daskin's Sitation
- Mark S. Daskin provides facility location software as Excel spreadsheets to solve the traveling salesman problem, facility location problems, and to analyze queues.
- Department of Political Science at UC Davis
- e-Mapscholar
- "The project proposes to enhance the usability and learning potential of spatial data resources, extant within the tertiary education sector, by developing three sets of new resources. The resources to be developed fall into the following categories: Teaching case studies, Learning resource centre with customisable on-line learning materials, and Virtual work placement."
- EconData.net
- EconData.net is a guide to regional economic activity with over 800 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the Web's premiere data collections, and a list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data.
- Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture
- The mission of ERS is to inform and enhance public and private decisionmaking on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural development. To accomplish this mission, highly trained economists and social scientists develop and distribute a broad range of economic and other social science information and analysis. You'll want to explore this site widely--try especially "rural America" or "population" topic areas. Also, be sure to check out their maps.
- Economic Research Service - Map Gallery
- The ERS Map Gallery is a large collection of maps pertaining to the economics of agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural development.
- ESRI
- Home of ArcView, ArcInfo, and other GIS and mapping software.
- Geosimulation Homepage
- The geosimulation site is focused on developments in spatial simulation technology and its application to the study of human systems.
- GIS for Health and Human Services
- "Most problems facing the world and health today--environmental, economic, political, social--exist in a geographic context and any analysis must considers that. Understanding issues ranging from epidemiology to access to healthcare providers requires understanding the geographic context of these issues." - ESRI
- GIS initiative for NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education)
- NITLE is working to plan programs that facilitate the incorporation of GIS tools into the curriculum and sponsors yearly workshops at which college faculty and staff can learn about ways in which to incorporate GIS into their teaching.
- Go-Geo! Portal
- Go-Geo! is an online resource discovery tool which allows for the identification and retrieval of records describing the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of geospatial data that exist within UK tertiary education and beyond.
- Great Britain Historical GIS Project
- A unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps, assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts.
- Harvard-MIT Data Center
- The Data Center is Harvard's and MIT's principal repository for computer data files, and accompanying documentation, in the social sciences. It serves as the Universities' official representatives to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
- HealthVIS
- The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics has created a new resource for visualizing health statistics, HealthVis. HealthVis is a prototype dynamic interface used to explore georeferenced health, environmental, and demographic data.
- Humanities and Social Sciences at CMU
- Home page of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
- IGU Commission on the Geography of Information Society
- Within the lifespan of the commission the focus in the social sciences at large moved from the vehicle (i.e. telecommunications) to a focus on the subject matter, namely information. The proposed new commission intends to provide an international forum for the study of geographical aspects of emerging information societies.
- Ingenta
- The world's largest website for the search and delivery of research articles, ingenta.com offers you access to article summaries from over 25,000 publications linked to the full text of over 5,200 titles.
- Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD)
- The Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) serves faculty and students of the University of California, Berkeley, conducting research into processes of urban and regional growth and decline, and effects of governing policies on the patterns and processes of development.
- Instituto de Estudios Regionales (INER)
- Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Columbia, sponsors a Master�s program on */Sociospatial Studies/* to investigate spaces of power and power of spaces.
- International Association for Social Science Information Service &
- International Society of Political Psychology
- ISPP's purpose is to facilitate communication across disciplinary, geographic and political boundaries among scholars, concerned individuals in government and public posts, the communications media, and elsewhere who have a scientific interest in the relationship between politics and psychological processes.
- Internet Scout Report -- Social Sciences & Humanities
- The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. The target audience of the Scout Report for Social Sciences is faculty, students, staff, and librarians in the social sciences. Each biweekly issue offers a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the field that have been chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given area of study.
- Map Comparison Kit
- Most of the products developed by RIKS generate quantities of output in the form of time series of maps. The MCK handles series of maps in a user-friendly and transparent manner and offers tools to analyse the spatio-temporal data. The MCK offers besides a number of comparison algorithms also advanced options for visualizing, organizing and exporting raster maps.
- MapHist
- MapHist, the Map History Discussion List, is an e-mail discussion group whose primary focus is historical maps, atlases, globes and other cartographic documents. The list is open to all persons interested in the history of cartography and discussion is encouraged on all aspects of this broad subject.
- Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS)
- Established in 1997, the goal of the center is the promotion, research, evaluation, development, and dissemination of GIS (geographic information systems) technology and the spatial analysis of crime.
- Mapping Crime in Principle and Practice
- Crime Mapping Research Center has created this on-line journal of mapping crime in principle and practice.
- Matrix
- Based at Michigan State University, MATRIX is devoted to the application of new technologies in humanities and social science teaching and research. The Center creates and maintains online resources, provides training in computing and new teaching technologies, and creates forums for the exchange of ideas and expertise in new teaching technologies.
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Centre for e-Social Science ( NCeSS)
- The National Centre for e-Social Science. NCeSS is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to "investigate and promote the use of e-science to benefit social science research". The overall goal of NCeSS is to stimulate the uptake and use of emerging e-science technologies within the social sciences.
- National Historical Geographic Information System
- NHGIS is a project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000.
- NetEC
- Projects that are sponsored by NetEc are RePEc, a large distributed catalogue of economics papers, and HoPEc, a service to register and search for authors within RePEc. This server is located at the Department of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis.
- New York State Department of Health
- Office of Population Research at Princeton University
- Online Data Archive at UW
- An extensive online data archive hosted by the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Planetary Interactive GIS-on-the-Web Analyzable Database (PIGWAD)
- Political Methodology Society of the APSA
- This is the entry to the Political Methodology Society, Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, and the central web site for the political methodology community. The primary purpose of this site is to serve as the gateway to the Electronic Paper Archive.
- Population Reference Bureau
- The Population Reference Bureau is the leader in providing timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications. PRB informs policymakers, educators, the media, and concerned citizens working in the public interest around the world through a broad range of activities, including publications, information services, seminars and workshops, and technical support.
- Population Studies Center
- Established in 1961, the Center has a rich history as the main work place for an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the field of population studies.
- Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph
- A free on-line monograph sharing the concepts, methods, and US census tract poverty data for improving monitoring of - and research on - social disparities in health.
- Redistricting Data in Los Angeles County
- This is the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors 2001 Supervisorial Redistricting website. This site provides the documents and information needed to prepare a Redistricting Plan, plus a variety of demographic data that can be used to help determine the impact of proposed Supervisorial district boundary changes.
- Regional Science Association International
- RSSS
- RSSS is Australia's major institution for theoretical and empirical research in the social sciences, and is also a significant presence in the nation's postgraduate and postdoctoral training activities in the disciplines represented in the School. It provides a distinctive multi-disciplinary environment for research, including presences in economics, political science, urban and environmental studies, history, philosophy, demography, sociology, and law.
- SANET: Spatial Analysis on a Network
- SANET: Spatial Analysis on a Network (Version 2) SANET is a software package for spatial analysis on a network, developed by Professor Atsyuki Okabe and colleagues at the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo.
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SimSeg
- A computer simulation of segregation dynamics by Mark Fossett of Texas A&M University.
- Social Explorer
- Provides maps and other graphics portraying demographic change, articles pertaining to New York City demography, and tools so that you can explore these changes for yourself. You can use their mapping tools to examine population shifts among neighborhoods over time as well as chart the movement of ethnic and racial minorities.
- Social Science Computing Cooperative
- "The Social Science Computing Cooperative has developed over the past 20 years to provide computing services to organizations in the social sciences on the Madison campus." This website has extensive documentation on social science computing and analysis.
- Social Science Data Analysis Network
- "The Social Science Data Analysis Network makes the latest US census surveys and demographic trends accessible to educators, policymakers, the media, and students at all levels. SSDAN is a university based project located at Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, SUNY - Albany and the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan."
- Social Sciences Directories and Data Archives
- SocioWeb
- An independent guide to sociological resources on the internet.
- The Digital Ethnographer
- Paper by Bruce Mason and Bella Dicks, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
- The Urban Institute
- "The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices . . . Leaving politics to others, the Urban Institute brings three critical ingredients to public debates on domestic policy initiatives: accurate data, careful and objective analyses, and perspective. Our staff also evaluates government programs�practical work that grounds our policy research in the experiences of the people who create, run, and use these programs. Our strong suits are rigorous analysis, innovative methodology, fresh thinking, and technical expertise. Much of our research spans several disciplines and blends quantitative and qualitative approaches to problem-solving. We are involved in research projects with partners in more than 45 states and 20 countries."
- TimeMap Project�
- The TimeMap Project� employs an explicit methodological approach to recording cultural data in time and space. This site also provides background information on the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI).
- TopoZone
- On-line, printable topographic maps covering the entire United States. In addition to serving maps, the site also provides custom digital topographic data for Web, GIS, and CAD applications.
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
- This is the website of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, with extensive online journal holdings. Major headings include Organizational Information, Education, Initiatives, Publications, and Resources. Under education there is an extensive discussion about Professional GIS certification, which is an important current issue.
- Using The Web for Social Research
- Website to accompany the text "Using The Web for Social Research" by Craig McKie, Carleton University, . McKie's book and this website have extensive information about web-based resources in 20 social science disciplines and research areas. This domain name used to host the Universal Codex for the Social Sciences.
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