{"id":82,"date":"2013-11-15T19:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-12-02T21:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:31:20","slug":"82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/82\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Howser awarded the NEURISA Special Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Library staff Michael Howser was recently awarded the New England Chapter of the\u00a0Urban and Regional Information Systems Association&#8217;s (NEURISA)\u00a0Special Achievement Award at their Annual Conference in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/files\/Michael-award_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-83\" alt=\"Michael &amp; award_sm\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/files\/Michael-award_sm-220x300.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/files\/Michael-award_sm-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/files\/Michael-award_sm.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>The award is given to an individual who has made a\u00a0significant contribution that greatly enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization through the use of geospatial or other information technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is the Team Leader for\u00a0Digital Scholarship and Data Curation and also serves as the Digital Repository Coordinator. \u00a0According to NEURISA, he received the award for his work to\u00a0transform &#8220;CT&#8217;s Map and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC) over the past five years. \u00a0He has had a role in creating a seamless statewide 1934 aerial data set of CT. \u00a0He helped to establish the CT State Data Center, a collaboration of academic and state organizations that serve as a liaison to the US Census. \u00a0He has helped to digitized a wealth of historical information through a massive scanning and metadata project of over 200,000 documents. \u00a0The comprehensive collection of digital GIS datasets available through MAGIC has exploded in the past five years, yet still remains easy to navigate and simple to use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Michael!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library staff Michael Howser was recently awarded the New England Chapter of the\u00a0Urban and Regional Information Systems Association&#8217;s (NEURISA)\u00a0Special Achievement Award at their Annual Conference in September. The award is given to an individual who has made a\u00a0significant contribution that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/82\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9NLr1-82","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}