Presented at the NEArc 2010 Spring Meeting Lightning Round at Smith College on May 11, 2010

1. FUTURE @ MAGIC

2. WHAT IS MAGIC?
• University
of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic
Information Center - MAGIC
• Collection of over 200,000 print maps
• Providehistoric maps, aerial photos, topographic maps, and
GIS data via the web at: magic.lib.uconn.edu

3. MAGIC’S MISSION...

4. To provide public access to GIS data, historical
maps and aerial photographs with a focus on
Connecticut and New England.

5. BEFORE WE LOOK AT THE
FUTURE...

6. LET’S EXPLORE WHAT MAGIC
OFFERS CURRENTLY

7. Historical Maps also on Flickr!

8. Historical Maps

9. HISTORICAL MASH-UPS

10. AERIAL PHOTO INDEXES
Shapefiles, KML and Previews

11. AERIAL PHOTO INDEXES IN
GOOGLE EARTH

12. CUSTOM MAP CREATION -
MAGIC 2.0 ONLINE MAP

13. GIS DATA PREVIEWS
Preview in Google Maps

14. WEB MAPPING SERVICE (WMS)

15. AND MUCH MORE

16. WE’VE BEEN BUSY....

17. PREPARING FOR THE NEXT
STEPS...

18. BASED ON YOUR FEEDBACK!

19. SO WHAT DOES THE FUTURE
LOOK LIKE?

20. COLLABORATIVE

21. USER-DRIVEN

22. WITH MORE
DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT

23. MORE GIS DATA SETS

24. MORE HISTORICAL MAPS

25. COLLABORATIVE DATA
ACCESS

26. NEW CTSDC WEBSITE
With map friendly data (shapefiles & KML) coming soon!

27. MORE CENSUS DATA

28. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN,
AND HARTFORD RAILROAD
2,000+ maps

29. HISTORIC RAILROAD MAPS

30. MORE GIS DATA!
• Connecticut School District Boundaries - Thanks Trinity
College!
• Census Data - CtSDC
• Metadata Cleanup

31. TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS

32. AERIAL PHOTOS

33. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

34. TO INCREASE ACCESS TO
INFORMATION

35. AND TO ENABLE FUTURE
SCHOLARSHIP

36. WITH MAPS & GEOGRAPHIC
DATA

37. SO YOU MAY BE ASKING

38. WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN?

39. TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS -
JUNE 2010

40. WATER RESOURCE MAPS -
JULY 2010

41. GEOLOGY MAPS - JULY 2010

42. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN, &
HARTFORD RAILROAD MAPS
- JULY 2010

43. AERIAL PHOTOS -
AUGUST 2010

44. HISTORICAL MAPS -
AUGUST 2010

45. WHAT FORMATS?

46. FULL QUALITY TIFF IMAGES

47. GEOREFERENCED MAPS -
WHEN AVAILABLE

48. EXCITED YET?

49. THERE’S MORE COMING!

50. MAP OF THE WEEK FEATURES
Outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com

51. SAMPLE “GEO” CLASSROOM
ACTIVITIES
• Mash-ups for classroom use
• Maps & Dataset collections

52. IMPROVED MAP MASH-UPS
Searchable
Download Images
Multiple Years

53. MAGIC WORKSHOPS!
• Mash-ups Basics & Advanced
Features
• Making Maps for Presentations
• Transforming Data into Maps
• And more!

54. HOW TO VIDEOS
• Videos on how to create mash-ups
• Add MAGIC data to your own research
• Creating mash-ups from MAGIC’s data
• And More!

55. WHO’S DRIVING THIS?

56. YOU!

57. MAGIC IS GROWING

58. THROUGH
COLLABORATIONS

59. TRINITY COLLEGE
Which began with a
conversation at NEArc
Spring 2009...

60. NEH GRANT
• Collaboration with Jack Dougherty of Trinity College
• Hartford Area Maps and GIS data to be added to MAGIC
• More Map Mash-ups
• $100,800 NEH Collaborative grant!
• Starts June 1, 2010 !

61. AND OUR NEXT
COLLABORATION

62. IS WITH...

63. YOU!

64. HAVE AN IDEA?

65. WANT TO INCREASE ACCESS
TO MAPS AND GIS DATA?

66. CHAT WITH US!

67. MAGIC@UCONN.EDU
magic.lib.uconn.edu

68. LET THE FUN BEGIN!

69. SPECIAL THANKS TO
• Jack Dougherty at Trinity College
• CT DEP - Kevin O’Brien & Howie Sternberg
• Bill Miller, Cary Lynch, Doug Sands, Jeff Dunn, Josh Strunk, Chelsea
Leiper, Tia Hogan, Tom Barchant and the rest of the MAGIC crew!
• Tony Molloy, Robert Swanson, Rick O’Toole, Dave Hicking, and
Raul Potenciano from UConn Libraries IT
• Undergraduate Education Team, Susanna Cowan, Scott Kennedy,
Brinley Franklin and the entire UConn LIbraries Staff
• And you!

70. THANKS FOR LISTENING!