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Folie 1
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First public screening of the high resolution version of the GRASS GIS video from 1987.
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Good :-) I bugged Bob about sending a photo of himself.
slide 19. Our first GRASS computer was a Sun 150U rack mount computer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1
Was ist der mehrwert des alten films? Blick zurck in eine kaum noch vorstellbare vorzeit. Aber wir denken heute hnlich smallBig data on the rise! Identify trends in mash ups and hoto videosDream big!
Nochmal in das gang of 3 anschreiben email schauen
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The Who ?
German: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
largest science and technology library globallyover 9 Mio. items,
180 Mio. Documents (GetInfo Portal)
125 km of shelving
national library of Germany for engineering, technology, and the physical sciences.
funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the 16 German states.
the world's first Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency for research data sets (since 2005).
operates in conjunction with the Leibniz University, Hannover.
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The TIB acquires literature in all engineering fields as well as architecture, information technology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and other basic sciences. the world's first Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency for research data sets in the fields of technology, natural sciences and medicine (since 2005).
The Library Angle:
Open Source + Science = Open Science
http://www.hannover.de/var/storage/images/media/01-data-neu/bilder/redaktion-hannover.de/portale/initiative-wissenschaft/tib/7405927-1-ger-DE/TIB_image_full.jpgScience advances only if knowledge is shared.
Accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge accelerates the advancement of science.
While scientists focus on the final frontier, (data-driven libraries) will work on designing
a different kind of space
full of physical and virtual tools
that
capture imagination and
enable researchers to explore it.
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/data-driven-library-future
Christopher Erdmann, 2014
John G Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics
http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com
The future:
Data-driven Libraries
John G Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: recommended digital tools for scholarly research:For moving beyond the book:Oculus Rift Intuilab (Interactive Experiences) For creating collaborative, interactive articles and notebooks:Authorea ShareLaTex IPython For capturing research software/data releases and citation:Zenodo Figshare For managing and raising research impact:ImpactStory Altmetric ORCID For reference management:Mendeley Zotero Google scholar For peer review credit:Publons PeerJ For the cutting edge:O'Reilly Atlas Jupyter & coLaboratory
What about GRASS GIS ?
http://grass.osgeo.org/uploads/images/logo/grasslogo_vector_big.pngGRASS GIS: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
Development started in 1982
One of the initial OSGeo projects
http://grass.osgeo.org
GPL-licenced
Current versions:
GRASS 6.4.4
GRASS 7.0 (beta)
Volumes, rasters, topological vectors
Temporal data
Cooperation with QGIS
> 400 core modules, > 100 add-ons
The GRASS community
Alive, kicking and growing
GRASS GIS is going strong - for over 30 years
GRASS is people
New generations of developers and users emerge
People address new problems
People retire from the project
The GRASS history trail is growing
Knowledge + skill needs to be preserved
30 YEARS OF GRASS GIS!Hamish.jpgHelena.jpgMarkus.jpgLucadelu.pngMaris nartiss.jpgMlanda.pngMichael.jpgJachym.pngDaveSampson.pngCedric.jpgMaciek.pngRadim.jpgScott.jpg
Madi.jpgHellik.png
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Lets go back to the 1980s
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Sol Katz
STAR TREK MOVIES !
How did pac man really look likeHow did computer maps look likeComputing was done in small boxesWhat kind of problems fit in small boxesThe boxes grew to fit larger problems or were abused for this
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Iron Curtain in Potsdam !
Star Trek Movie !
Walk Like an Egyptian"The Bangles"Open Your Heart"Madonna"Livin' on a Prayer"Bon Jovi"Jacob's Ladder"Huey Lewis and the News"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"Starship"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"Aretha Franklin and George Michael[16]"(I Just) Died in Your Arms"Cutting Crew"With or Without You"U2"You Keep Me Hangin' On"Kim Wilde"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"Whitney Houston"Alone"Heart"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"U2"Who's That Girl"Madonna"La Bamba"Los Lobos"I Just Can't Stop Loving You"Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett"Didn't We Almost Have It All"Whitney Houston"Here I Go Again"Whitesnake"Bad"Michael Jackson"Mony Mony"Billy Idol"(I've Had) The Time of My Life"Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes"Faith"George Michael
The early days of GRASS
Growth of GRASS installations from 1982 1991(Westervelt 1991)
Year
Installations
GRASS Version
1982
1
-
1983
3
-
1984
5
-
1985
20
GRASS 1.0
1987
100+
GRASS 2.0
1988
1000+
GRASS 3.0
Sun 150U
2014: $90k
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CITE PRICES BY DOI !
In this decade before the advent of the WWW, the user base of GRASS was measured in sites installations.
From its launch in 1982 until 1997, GRASS GIS was hosted at U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers Research Laboratory (USA CERL). Baylor University, Texas, maintained the software from 1997 to 1999. Beginning in 1998 GRASS GIS was hosted at University of Hannover, Germany until 2001, when ITC-irst in Trento, Italy took over. In 2006, GRASS GIS became one of the first projects to join the OSGeo Foundation. Since then its main repository is hosted by the OSGeo in the USA.Since the beginning of the project, the GRASS user base has continuously grown. From 1982 to 1991 the dropping prices for computer equipment were the driving factor. In this decade before the advent of the WWW, the user base of GRASS was measured in sites installations. See table 1 for details.
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GRASS GIS:
The starting point of OGC standards
Markus Neteler, 2013
Apache,1999
BEGRIFFE FINDEN:
OPEN GRASS FOUNDATIONhttp://geospatial.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83476d35153ef01a511915d73970c-320wi
OPEN GIS CONSORTIUM
Open Geospatial Consortium
LOGOS fr WMS/WFS/WCS/WPS/SOS
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From a niche to a global user community: Open Source GIS and OSGeohttp://de.slideshare.net/markusN/from-a-niche-to-a-global-user-community-open-source-gis-and-osgeo?qid=0dbbc3cf-3c1c-4da7-88ea-9da3d634d2c1&v=qf1&b=&from_search=2
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) celebrates 20 years of progress
in geospatial interoperabilityLast night in Crystal City the Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) celebrated its first 20 years. To
appreciate the OGC's remarkable achievements it is valuable to look
back to where geospatial was before the OGC was formed.The Canada
Land Inventory, which is considered the world's first GIS, was
designed in the late 1960's and implemented between 1967 and
1977.In the early 1980s, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers'
Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) developed GRASS
(Geographic Resources Analysis Support System). Subsequently
several U.S. government agencies including the Corps of Engineers,
the Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, and the
National Park Service standardized on GRASS. Like Unix GRASS was
freely available and universities around the world adopted it. In
1992, the GRASS user community formed a non-profit organization,
the Open GRASS Foundation (OGF), intended to stimulate private
sector support for GRASS and to create a consensus-based membership
process for management of GRASS community affairs.
To put this in context Richard Stallman founded the Free Software
Foundation in 1985. Development of the NCSA HTTP Server began in
1995. Subsequently a group of eight developers working on the NCSA
HTTP Server came to be known as the Apache Group and the legal
entity, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), was founded in 1999.
The Open Grass Foundation preceded the ASF by about seven
years.
But GRASS did not provide a basis for comprehensive
interoperability between different geosoftware packages. The
OpenGIS Project envisioned diverse geoprocessing systems
interoperating directly over networks by means of a set of open
interfaces based on the "Open Geodata Interoperability
Specification" (OGIS). To implement this vision, in 1994 the Open
GIS Consortium (OGC) was founded with eight charter members Camber
Corporation, University of Arkansas - CAST, Center for
Environmental Design Research at the University of California
Berkeley, Intergraph Corporation, PCI Remote Sensing, QUBA, USACERL
(US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research
Laboratory), and USDA Soil Conservation Service.Today OGC standards
comprise a platform for geospatial interoperability. They have been
implemented in hundreds of commercial geoprocessing products, both
proprietary and open source, and are being implemented by
governments and non-government organizations around the world. An
indication of their success is that other industries look to the
geospatial sector and the OGC as a model for implementing
interoperability.http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2014/03/open-geospatial-consortium-ogc-celebrates-20th-anniversary.htmlEarly
success of GIS led to a problem no vendor could solve aloneBy the
mid-1980s, geographic information system (GIS) software was heavily
used in the natural resources and defense domains, especially
within government agencies. Other market sectors, such as state and
local government, civil engineering, transportation and business
marketing were seriously exploring the technology. The future
looked bright, but there were frustrations brewing among
users.Users liked the power and potential of the new mapping and
spatial analysis tools. However, the expensive software's limited
extensibility and flexibility and inability to share geospatial
data between systems caused severe frustration. Users were forced
to use inefficient, time consuming and error-prone data transfer
methods.While several commercial GIS products were available, for a
variety of reasons related to funding, some agencies developed
their own GIS software. Late in the 1970s, the US Fish and Wildlife
Service contracted for the development of MOSS (Map Overlay and
Statistical System), an open source vector GIS that was used in
many U.S. Department of Interior agencies and in a number of state
and local governments. In the early 1980s, a raster GIS, GRASS
(Geographic Resources Analysis Support System), was developed at
the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' Construction Engineering
Research Laboratory (CERL). The Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department
of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, and National Park Service
standardized on GRASS and it was used in universities around the
world. GRASS took advantage of the openness of the UNIX environment
and the internet and became one of the first global open source
software projects. Coordinated by CERL, developers from around the
world contributed code. GRASS was successfully integrated with
other public domain spatial, statistical and imaging analysis
packages.A major setback leads to an ultimately successful path.The
Corps, despite receiving a congressional award for its GRASS
initiative, had to transition the project to the private sector
because of other considerations. Leaders of the GRASS community,
led by multiple public sector agencies, needed support from the
private sector for the software to effectively support users in
government, industry, and academia. In 1992, the GRASS user
community formed a non-profit organization -- the Open GRASS
Foundation (OGF) -- chartered to stimulate private sector support
for GRASS and create a consensus-based membership process for
management of GRASS community affairs.With the demand for more
software choices, better and faster integration,and a speedier
procurement process, the GRASS group focused on the issue of
cooperative planning and facilitation of interoperable
geoprocessing. Instead of focusing solely on open source software,
the group aimed to create a process that might (1) make more
commercial as well as non-commercial geoprocessing choices
available in the marketplace, (2) act as a sounding board for the
user community to articulate its requirements to the developer
community, and (3) speed up procurement by aligning the needs of
the users with the product plans of the vendors. GRASS, though
free, modular, and maintained in a process driven by user input,
did not provide a full interoperability solution. It had an open
data format, but that was not sufficient to enable interoperability
with other software packages. The OpenGIS Project, which preceded
the formal launch of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) in 1994
(now the Open Geospatial Consortium), defined (with the
participation of the principal MOSS developers) a vision of diverse
geoprocessing systems communicating directly over networks by means
of a set of open interfaces based on the "Open Geodata
Interoperability Specification" (OGIS).OGC was founded with eight
charter members at the time of its first Board of Directors meeting
on September 25, 1994. These members were Camber Corporation,
University of Arkansas - CAST, Center for Environmental Design
Research at the University of California Berkeley, Intergraph
Corporation, PCI Remote Sensing, QUBA, USACERL (US Army Corps of
Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory), and USDA
Soil Conservation Service. Intergraph was OGC's first commercial
Principal Member.From 1994 to 2013, the membership has grown from
20 to more than 475 government, academic, and private sector
organizations. Traditional GIS vendors are involved, along with
technology integrators, data providers, and companies at the
cutting edge of location services.Liaisons with other standards,
professional and educational organizations have been established
and maintained.OGC has always been a worldwide organization,
concerned with global outreach and education as much as with
standards development. Though founded in the US, the OGC now has
more members in the US than in North and South America.In the early
years, OGC engaged the major GIS companies and some major user
agencies in a consensus process to define and agree to the details
of the OpenGIS Abstract Specification. OGC has continued to make
progress, from the OGC Standards Program's first approved
implementation standard in 1997 and the first OGC Interoperability
Program testbed (Web Mapping Testbed) in 1999 to today's broad
array of standards and initiatives. More than thirty-five approved
OGC implementation standards are now freely available to address
the challenges that were identified at OGC's founding and many
other challenges that have been identified since then. The real
measure of OGC's success is that these standards, which
collectively comprise a platform for interoperability, have been
implemented in hundreds of commercial and open source geoprocessing
products and are being implemented in communities and organizations
around the world. Today OGC standards are key elements in the
geospatial communication interfaces, encodings and best practices
for sensor webs, location services, Earth imaging networks, climate
models, disaster management programs and national spatial data
infrastructures around the world. To ensure consistency across the
Internet and Web ecosystem, the OGC has alliance partnerships with
many other standards development organizations and industry
associations, who work closely with the OGC on a wide range of
topics such as Indoor/Outdoor location integration, sensor fusion,
urban modeling, location based marketing, aviation, meteorology,
the Internet of Things,Points of Interest and the Semantic
Web.http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/history
GIS Customer demands were driven by
Star Trek
1983Our For McClellan customer [] was impressed with the new computer and software for his office and, upon seeing the first map image on the screen asked Can you rotate it ?
We were amazed that he wasnt aware of what was required to just get the image on the screen- and in color.
http://grass.osgeo.org/uploads/grass/history_docs/westervelt2004_GRASS_roots.pdf
Stephen Collins as Cmdr. Willard Decker in Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979)Stephen Collins as Cmdr. Willard Decker in Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979)Stephen Collins as Cmdr. Willard Decker in Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979) - Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
The Star Trek television series had really raised expectations within our target user community.
Jim Westervelt, 2004
Movie - Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan Wallpapers and Backgrounds ID : 260126http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=260126http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FAvQzOamW0o/UVsL9YhrfhI/AAAAAAAAEQs/7WTcJeT_9cs/s1600/star_trek_2_the_wrath_of_khan_poster_by_tanman1-d57gd23.jpghttp://images.alphacoders.com/260/260161.jpg
1982: The Wrath of Khan
GEGENGESCHICHTE ZU HERNY FORD (FASTER HORSES)
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Technicall challenge people see problems and services, but not the size of the current boxes. Dream big!Flying a spaceship thats what people expectAdd defender screenshot !
Quote from Jim:
From the early days of GRASS GIS development, user feedback to the developers had been influenced by the concepts of advanced information visualization as foreseen by the Star Trek TV show, thereby indirectly affecting the evolution of the GRASS software (Westervelt 2004). http://media.theiapolis.com/d4-i1OJD-k2-l1UO/stephen-collins-as-cmdr-willard-decker-in.htmlhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pkVLEItyW_M/Tg-ytp1wAbI/AAAAAAAAAB8/ToPC2pHpeOQ/s1600/2653037108_9e20faed16.jpg
The 1987 promotional GRASS GIS video
1987: USA-CERL has a video for GRASS GIS produced.
Narrated by William Shatner (a.k.a. James Tiberius Kirk of Star Trek)
Video was distributed on VHS tapes
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The making of the GRASS video
Recollections from Robert Lozar (PI, CERL)
The project took about 6 months.
Script by Robert Bob Lozar, story board by Carla Peyton.
When Roger Inman bid low to make the video (special effects were his), we had extra money, so we said, lets get a big name to do the audio.
Carla Peyton and I flew in to Los Angles, but the plane was late,
Carla's luggage was literally melted by the conveyor belt and we got in a traffic jam on the way to Hollywood.
So we were a little late;
Roger
Bob
Carla
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Roger InmanProduction took six months and was managed by Robert Lozar as the Principal Investigator (Robert Lozar, oral communication, 2014). Filming and special effects were carried out by Moving Pictures Productions Champaign Illinois. For audio, a soundtrack was composed by Scott Wyatt and the audio script was narrated by the professional actor William Shatner.
The TV show Star Trek (IMDB: Star Trek 2014) was initially broadcasted between 1966 and 1969. The actor William Shatner, who would provide the voice-over for the GRASS video in 1987, stars in the TV show as the Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the fictional starship USS Enterprise. The choice of William Shatner to narrate the promotional video was not accidental, as the actor Leonard Nimoy, who played the alien Mr. Spock from the fictional planet Vulcan in the same TV show, would have been the backup for Mr. Shatner (Robert Lozar, oral communication, 2014). The launch of a sequel to the original Star Trek TV show in 1987, named Star Trek: The Next Generation, without the original cast, seems to be coincidence (IMDB: Star Trek: The Next Generation 2014).From the early days of GRASS GIS development, user feedback to the developers had been influenced by the concepts of advanced information visualization as foreseen by the Star Trek TV show, thereby indirectly affecting the evolution of the GRASS software (Westervelt 2004). The striking similarities of the tolerance-based behavioral codes among the fan communities devoted to the Star Trek TV shows and the meritocracic values of OSGeo project communities remain to be analysed (Shatner & Kreski 1999, Lwe & Neteler 2014).
Bob on the full version:[20140416]The original version was
longer. It started with a tv news broadcast talking about how a
GRASS analyse was used to catch some archaeology poachers on an
installation. It was a great beginning. Just before its release, we
found out it didn't really happen so we had to edit that
introductory portion out. I haven't seen a copy of that version in
many many years. Because it was incorrect, it really should never
be distributed anyhow.
Roger Inman on outtakes[20140411]There were only two versions I remember. A long one that had a segment we had to delete and the shorter one. It is possible that we made a few other changes. My U-Matic machines that accept full size cassettes are not working at this time. I found an RF dub of the long version on a small cassette and edited out the segment we deleted. I did not remember any other changes, but I should look at your version and conform mine to it, I suspect
There were only two versions I remember. A long one that had a segment we had to delete and the shorter one. It is possible that we made a few other changes. My U-Matic machines that accept full size cassettes are not working at this time. I found an RF dub of the long version on a small cassette and edited out the segment we deleted. I did not remember any other changes, but I should look at your version and conform mine to it, I suspect.
Bob[20140326]Peter there are a lot of stories associated with this project. I was the Principal Investigator on the project to make the GRASS video. It was a small amount of funding. When Roger Inman bid low to make the video (special effects were his, no George Lucas involvement at all), we had extra money, so we said, lets get a big name to do the audio. I wrote the script, Carla Peyton refined it to a "story board" format that video makers actually use. Shatner actually read the story board script, having never seen the video or not having any idea what a GIS was. It took about 4-6 months from the start of the project to completing it. Shatner autographed the cover of the GRASS Manual - that was either version 1 or 2. It was hanging the the GRASS studio for years. Now Marji Larson has it now.-> Marji Larson, Urbana IL !
[20140325]But Peter here is a little story that you might wish to relate to the group. Carla Payton and I flew in to Los Angles, but the plane was late, Carla's luggage was literally melted by the conveyor belt and we got in a traffic jam on the way to Hollywood.So we were a little late; Shatner was very impatience and gruff. (He is also really short - you never realize that in the movies.) So he went to the sound studio I had rented (with my own money because I didn't think the government would reimburse me for renting the "Salty Dog" studio). I went to the control booth with the technicians and started to relax because Shatner was there and had the script ready to start. Then he looked up and asked, "Who is directing me?" Since I was the only one that knew what was going on, I said I was. My first job in Hollywood was directing William Shatner. It was also my last... they never invited me back!
The making of the GRASS video
Recollections from Robert Lozar (PI, CERL)
Shatner was very impatient and gruff.
I went to the control booth with the technicians and started to relax because Shatner was there and had the script ready to start. Then he looked up and asked, `Who is directing me?`"
Shatner actually read the story board script, having never seen the video or not having any idea what a GIS was.
Since I was the only one that knew what was going on, I said I was. My first job in Hollywood was directing William Shatner.
It was also my last... they never invited me back!
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/11800000/ST-Behind-the-Scenes-william-shatner-11886186-2022-2560.jpgProduction took six months and was managed by Robert Lozar as the Principal Investigator (Robert Lozar, oral communication, 2014). Filming and special effects were carried out by Moving Pictures Productions Champaign Illinois. For audio, a soundtrack was composed by Scott Wyatt and the audio script was narrated by the professional actor William Shatner.
The TV show Star Trek (IMDB: Star Trek 2014) was initially broadcasted between 1966 and 1969. The actor William Shatner, who would provide the voice-over for the GRASS video in 1987, stars in the TV show as the Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the fictional starship USS Enterprise. The choice of William Shatner to narrate the promotional video was not accidental, as the actor Leonard Nimoy, who played the alien Mr. Spock from the fictional planet Vulcan in the same TV show, would have been the backup for Mr. Shatner (Robert Lozar, oral communication, 2014). The launch of a sequel to the original Star Trek TV show in 1987, named Star Trek: The Next Generation, without the original cast, seems to be coincidence (IMDB: Star Trek: The Next Generation 2014).From the early days of GRASS GIS development, user feedback to the developers had been influenced by the concepts of advanced information visualization as foreseen by the Star Trek TV show, thereby indirectly affecting the evolution of the GRASS software (Westervelt 2004). The striking similarities of the tolerance-based behavioral codes among the fan communities devoted to the Star Trek TV shows and the meritocracic values of OSGeo project communities remain to be analysed (Shatner & Kreski 1999, Lwe & Neteler 2014).
Bob on the full version:[20140416]The original version was
longer. It started with a tv news broadcast talking about how a
GRASS analyse was used to catch some archaeology poachers on an
installation. It was a great beginning. Just before its release, we
found out it didn't really happen so we had to edit that
introductory portion out. I haven't seen a copy of that version in
many many years. Because it was incorrect, it really should never
be distributed anyhow.
Roger Inman on outtakes[20140411]There were only two versions I remember. A long one that had a segment we had to delete and the shorter one. It is possible that we made a few other changes. My U-Matic machines that accept full size cassettes are not working at this time. I found an RF dub of the long version on a small cassette and edited out the segment we deleted. I did not remember any other changes, but I should look at your version and conform mine to it, I suspect
There were only two versions I remember. A long one that had a segment we had to delete and the shorter one. It is possible that we made a few other changes. My U-Matic machines that accept full size cassettes are not working at this time. I found an RF dub of the long version on a small cassette and edited out the segment we deleted. I did not remember any other changes, but I should look at your version and conform mine to it, I suspect.
Bob[20140326]Peter there are a lot of stories associated with this project. I was the Principal Investigator on the project to make the GRASS video. It was a small amount of funding. When Roger Inman bid low to make the video (special effects were his, no George Lucas involvement at all), we had extra money, so we said, lets get a big name to do the audio. I wrote the script, Carla Peyton refined it to a "story board" format that video makers actually use. Shatner actually read the story board script, having never seen the video or not having any idea what a GIS was. It took about 4-6 months from the start of the project to completing it. Shatner autographed the cover of the GRASS Manual - that was either version 1 or 2. It was hanging the the GRASS studio for years. Now Marji Larson has it now.-> Marji Larson, Urbana IL !
[20140325]But Peter here is a little story that you might wish to relate to the group. Carla Payton and I flew in to Los Angles, but the plane was late, Carla's luggage was literally melted by the conveyor belt and we got in a traffic jam on the way to Hollywood.So we were a little late; Shatner was very impatience and gruff. (He is also really short - you never realize that in the movies.) So he went to the sound studio I had rented (with my own money because I didn't think the government would reimburse me for renting the "Salty Dog" studio). I went to the control booth with the technicians and started to relax because Shatner was there and had the script ready to start. Then he looked up and asked, "Who is directing me?" Since I was the only one that knew what was going on, I said I was. My first job in Hollywood was directing William Shatner. It was also my last... they never invited me back!
GRASS Manual autographed by W. Shatner
Image: Marji Larson, 2014
For the Grass teamWill Shatner
Frontpage of the GRASS Manual Version 2.0
It was hanging in the GRASS studio for years.
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Bridging the digital divide
2004
1990s
While the GRASS project evolved and addressed new kinds of geospatial challenges,
the GRASS video tape became legendary and a preservation/access issue.
2004
Jim Westervelt digitizes a VHS copy.
First screening at the FOSS/GRASS Users Conference in Bangkok 2004.
Jeff McKenna receives video on USB stick
.mov-file on the GRASS Webportal
2011 The video is uploaded to YouTube with limited Metadata
FOSS4GGets coined
The challenge according to
2013
Wired magazine features the GRASS movie in an online article and describes both its limbo status and significance, being a historic document:
Absence of references/links to the movie:
not on the International Movie Database (IMDB)
not on Wikipedia
not on Mr. Shatners website
Source: http://www.wired.com/2013/08/shatner-loves-digital-maps/
World leaks out**Significance** according to WIRED !Dawn of geospatial legacy for the digital century
LOOK BACK IN TIME Part of Heritage
Why is this cool -> Look back in time -> days hardly conceivable today. No webmapping, etc.
Praise by
Were pretty confident that if you really like Shatner, or you really like maps, you will really like this video.
But we are absolutely certain that if you are a professional geographer,
youve probably already seen this video 100 times but
still get super excited every time you watch it and
can only barely contain yourself at timestamp 1:50
when Captain Kirks voice tells you,
Source: http://www.wired.com/2013/08/shatner-loves-digital-maps/
Why is this coolWhy is it mrentioned in wired?Part of heritageVhs legacy for the digital century8 track tapes!
Praise by
Were pretty confident that if you really like Shatner, or you really like maps, you will really like this video.
But we are absolutely certain that if you are a professional geographer,
youve probably already seen this video 100 times but
still get super excited every time you watch it and
can only barely contain yourself at timestamp 1:50
when Captain Kirks voice tells you,
Dont keep your information about soils, vegetation, roads or archeological sites rolled up in map tubes or stuffed into drawers.
Source: http://www.wired.com/2013/08/shatner-loves-digital-maps/
Why is this coolWhy is it mrentioned in wired?Part of heritageVhs legacy for the digital century8 track tapes!
Praise by
Were pretty confident that if you really like Shatner, or you really like maps, you will really like this video.
But we are absolutely certain that if you are a professional geographer,
youve probably already seen this video 100 times but
still get super excited every time you watch it and
can only barely contain yourself at timestamp 1:50
when Captain Kirks voice tells you,
Dont keep your information about soils, vegetation, roads or archeological sites rolled up in map tubes or stuffed into drawers.
Keep it in a computer.
Source: http://www.wired.com/2013/08/shatner-loves-digital-maps/
Why is this coolWhy is it mrentioned in wired?Part of heritageVhs legacy for the digital century8 track tapes!
Bridging the digital divide: 2014
The GRASS video is chosen as a test case for the new TIB portal for nontextual audio-video content.
The project team from 1987 was contacted via Jim Westervelt:
Roger [] seemed interested in finding the original copy which would yield a much better digital version
If luck continues, Roger may be able to read that original with some old equipment to create something of archive quality.
Carla Peyton: She was intimately involved with the development of the video and did a lot of the post-editing; a behind-the scenes creative genius (passed away 2005)
[Jim Westervelt]
Jim
Jim WesterveltRoger Ingman (Pic)Robert Lozar
Success:
The GRASS 1987 video on the TIB AV-Portal
The high resolution version of the GRASS 1987 video is available:
Citable by Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Searchable
Long term preserved for the future.
GRASS Video
!This is just a showcase. OSGeo Communities need to consider what portals to use.
Enhanced search capabilities:
Navigation by film segments and search strings
Visual index
Download Options
New (open) formats will be added in the future.
Navigation and Citation by audio-transcript
Caption
DOI + Media Fragment Identifier (MFI)
Keep it in a computer
Star Trek: Late 80s
1986: The Voyage Home 1989: The final frontier
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Star Trek: Late 80s
1986: The Voyage Home 1989: The final frontier
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Star Trek: Late 80s
1986: The Voyage Home 1989: The final frontier
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Star Trek: Late 80s
1986: The Voyage Home 1989: The final frontier
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Enjoy Have a great FOSS4G !
For the Grass teamWill Shatner
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For closing: Kirk Statement: Keep it in a computer,Stay calm and put your maps in a computer
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