The experienced staff and user base of the GIS/Data Center have written and collaborated on several scholarly papers, articles, and conference presentations.

Papers

• Garza, E. "Rice University's GIS/Data Center: How do we do GIS?" 6th Annual ESRI International Education User Conference proceedings, San Diego, California, 2006
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• Diaz G. “Using Free Demographic Datasets to Support Teaching and Researching Projects”, 6th Annual ESRI International Education User Conference proceedings, San Diego, California, 2006
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• Díaz, G. and Seed, P. “Electronic Restoration: Eliminating the Ravages of Time on Historical Maps” Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences: 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005, Proceedings, eds. Edward A. Fox, Erich J. Neuhold, Pimrumpai Premsmit, and Vilas Wuwongse (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2005)
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• Diaz, G. and Garza, E. “The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) Project: Researching and Exploring the Middle East Through Online Maps”. Middle East and Africa Conference for ESRI Users, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 6 December - 8 December 2005
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• Seed, P. and Diaz, G. “Rewriting the History of Mapping”, 3rd Annual ESRI International Education User Conference, San Diego, California, 2003
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• Diaz, G. and Sweeney, L. “Providing US Decennial Census Data To Users In A GIS Format. Census 2000, Summary File 1, Harris County”, GIS Application presented at ESRI International User Conference 2002, Software Applications Fair - ArcGIS: VBA, San Diego California, 2002. Voted the second best ArcGIS VBA application (documentation for this conference submission coming soon)

Articles

• Sallyport article on TIMEA (Travelers in the Middle East Archive)
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• News from Fondren article on TIMEA (pg. 4)
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• News from Fondren article on GIS Mentors (pg. 6)

Diaz, G. "GIS/Data Center Introduces High School Students to GIS Use." News from Fondren (Spring 2006)

News from Fondren article on ESRI-Middle East Conference, Egypt (pg. 5)

Garza, E. "Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: A Truly Peaceful City." News from Fondren