2 Dissertations & 1 Scholarly Article

Continuing my previous post about theses and dissertations that caught my eye, here are 2 intriguing dissertations and an article that have...once again...caught my eye.

• Enhancing a domain-specific digital library with metadata based on hierarchical controlled vocabularies
  by Weaver, Mathew Jon, Ph.D., OGI School of Science & Engineering, 2005, 123 pages
• From the abstract: "We explain how Metadata++ integrates with a standard geographic information system to support both spatial and keyword-based information retrieval"
• I have ordered a copy of this dissertation.


• The American space of hunger: Geographic, political and economic change and the ability to eat in the United States in the late 1990s
  by Walter, Nathan Andrew, Ph.D., The Florida State University, 2005, 363 pages
• This dissertation discusses the "sphere of food security, a historically and geographically defined social space."


• Communities of Scholars: Places of Leverage in the History of Automated Cartography
  by Chrisman, Nicholas R., Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 32, iss. 4, pp. 425-433(9)
• From the abstract: "This paper will describe the community into which automated cartography emerged...It makes sense to remember a bit more about the pre-history of geographic information systems, not just to get the history right, but to understand how the events of prior periods influence the way the technology develops."