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

Katie Algeo, Ann Epperson and Matthew Brunt
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Katie Algeo: Western Kentucky University, USA
Ann Epperson: Western Kentucky University, USA
Matthew Brunt: Western Kentucky University, USA

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 2011, vol. 2, issue 4, 19-37

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2011
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