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Developing a Culture of Information Stewardship At the Graduate School of Design

Developing a Culture of Information Stewardship At the Graduate School of Design. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Students: 250 Architecture 100 Landscape Architecture 150 Urban Planning and Design. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mission: Train Students To Understand Places

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Developing a Culture of Information Stewardship At the Graduate School of Design

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  1. Developing a Culture of Information Stewardship At the Graduate School of Design

  2. Harvard Graduate School of Design • Students: • 250 Architecture • 100 Landscape Architecture • 150 Urban Planning and Design

  3. Harvard Graduate School of Design • Mission: Train Students • To Understand Places • To develop and communicate alternative futures • To lead firms and agencies associated with shaping the future of the environment.

  4. Studio Culture:An Engine for Place-Based Information Each Term: Entire School deployed on 20 Place-Based Studio Projects. Collaborative groups of 9-15 students.

  5. Studio/Thesis Information Lifecycle Start Semester Finish • Collect Information: • Site Photos • GIS Data • CAD Data • Documents • Synthesis / Study: • Maps • Digital 3D Models • Physical 3D Models • GIS Models • Presentation Materials: • Maps • 3D Models • Animations • Documents Lack of Predictable Organization and Metadata End of Term

  6. Promoting a Culture of Information Stewardship • Develop and document best practices for filing place-based data collections • Provide tools for tagging collections and files with metadata including spatial and temporal references • Provide tools for cataloging and searching collections of data temporally and spatially • Motivate collaborators and leaders to organize their data well

  7. Information Stewardship Best Practices • Documentation: • Beginning your Place-Based Data Collection • http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/beginning • Tools: • MapCat collection metadata tool • http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/ma • Motivation: • Increased productivity of collaborators • Preservation of value in information assets

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