SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES,
SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN
The Humanist-Social Research Office-GIS Technology and Support of
Teaching
Center
Center Description
The GIS Technology and Support of Teaching Center (
GIS-TST
Center ) is one of the most important cross-departmental units in
Soochow
University . Belonging to the
School of
Arts and Social Sciences, The GIS-TST Center serves professors from different departments and provides database and thematic maps for mainly teaching and also researching purposes. As the diminishing of historical landscapes and other highly changing humanist-social space of Taiwan, the technology of geographic information system (GIS) is even more important these days, which not only needs to fulfill the academic demands but also able to create a space justice for the daily life of human being. However, this valuable technology used to be limited by both the dominant natural science and the overlook of social world.
In recent years, Professor Mo Li Li(莫藜藜) , the current dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, and the former dean, Siu-Keung Wong(黃兆強), all have encouraged for converting part of the GIS-related research project to a more teaching-oriented one, especially on the Localizing GISology project(地方學GIS). This goal is intended to increase the teaching energy that results from the application of GIS technology to the local level, such as the regions of
Taipei 's Sheji island and Tianmu etc. Leading by Professor C.S. Stone SHIH(石計生), the director of GIS-TST Center, this project creates a geographic information system (GIS) and global position system (GPS) in conjunction with social investigation are proposed to establish the database from humanist-social and natural environment. In addition, the geospatial informative framework will also be used to study the possibility of using modern technology to increase the understanding of the local and the global.
The overall goal of the
GIS-TST
Center is to investigate the humanist-social and environmental impacts from the real world and to seek an alternative to increase the teaching and research energy for the
Soochow
University .
To achieve this goal, a considerable amount of information and database is necessary to address the social, political, historical, educational and humanist issues, which heavily rely on information exchange and discussion among these complex groups. An ESRI-global ArcGIS public participatory geographic information system that provides two-way geospatial/environmental information and an informative knowledge among participants is an efficient way to acquire and exchange the desirable information.
The
GIS-TST
Center objects include:
1. Establish a geospatial infrastructure for information exchange and public/private decisions:
◆Create a public participatory GIS system that allows information exchange and provide visual presentation on the change of the regional and global world.
◆Use GPS-GIS-PDA to document the change of humanist-social pattern and environmental assessments.
◆ Experimental design to use 3D GIS and Mobile GIS technologies to provide semi-real time information for the trajectory of human daily movement and the improvement of creative teaching and research.
◆Experimental design to use modern technology to establish a department-oriented data warehouse and thematic digital informative framework.
◆Experimental design to establish a university-wide system to increase the competitive energy in the light of GIS.
◆To improve the cross-cultural and cross-country cooperation in the future.
2. Provide GIS-related teaching, applying education and research:
◆Promote the teacher's awareness on the change of land, environmental, history, society, politics and economy via GIS training.
◆Using GIS in conjunction with Spacial technology to establish a educational framework for teaching and research.
Currently the
GIS-TST
Center has one director, eight co-directors and four part-time research assistants.
Director:C.S. Stone SHIH石計生 (Associate Professor, Sociology Department)
Current Co-directors:
1. Chia-Ming Chang張家銘(Professor and Dean, Sociology Department)
3. Lan-Wen, Huang 黃朗文(Associate Professor, Sociology Department)
4. Laing-Yang Lai 賴兩陽(Associate Professor, Social Work Department)
5. Su-Ke Ye葉肅科 (Assistant Professor, Sociology Department)
6. Shang-Kwang Li李聖光(Professor,History Department)
7. Chiing-Fen Chang 張菁芬(Associate Professor, Social Work Department)
8. Jen-dao Zung 鍾正道(Assistant Professor, Chinese Literature Department)
9. Kanglin Chen 陳慷玲(Assistant Professor, Chinese Literature Department)
10. Ju-shew Lu 呂鈺秀(Professor, Department of Music)
Counselors
1. (加拿大)Terry G. McGee泰瑞麥吉 (Professor Emeritus,
University of British Columbia, Canada )
2. (日本)Keiji Yano矢野桂司(Professor, Department of Geography,
Ritsumeikan
University ,
Kyoto, Japan )
3. (台灣)Tan-ing Cheu 周天穎(Professor, Department of Land Management,
Fung-Ja University, Taiwan )
4. (台灣)Po-wen Tsai蔡博文 (Associate Professor, Department of Geography,
National
Taiwan
University )
Research Assistants:
1. Ying-Ling Huang 黃映翎(MA student, Department of Sociology,
Soochow
University )
2. Ji-jong Fang方志中 (MA student, Department of Sociology,
Soochow
University )
3. Yi-wei Cheng陳翊威 (MA, Graduate School of Social Informatics, Yuan Ze University)
4. Ning-Shing Wu吳寧馨 (MA student, Department of Sociology,
Soochow
University )
5. Fang-Ni Lui呂方妮 (MA, Department of Sociology,
Soochow
University )
6. Chang-Liang Spencer Chi紀建良 (Ph.D.candidate, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning,
National
Taiwan
University )
7. Ze-chang LU劉擇昌 (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Crime Investigation,
Central Police University )
8. Cha-Ling Ma馬嘉凌 (MA , Department of Sociology,
Soochow
University )
The software includes the following(increasing):
1.ArcView 9.2concurrent (25 people educational version)
2.
Taipei
City digital map (1/5000)
3.
Taiwan
Province digital map (1/5000)
and other database and maps.
Information for The GIS-TST Center：
Address: Waishuanghsi Campus ,the GIS-TST center, 70-54, Linhsi Rd, Shihlin,
Taipei,Taiwan 11102,R.O.C.
TEL：886-2-28819471 Ext. 6107-8
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