{"id":239,"date":"2011-07-21T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/07\/21\/mega-gis\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T21:06:00","slug":"mega-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/07\/21\/mega-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"MEGA GIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-7mbJF_K3uKE\/TiiRLe3tk_I\/AAAAAAAAAC8\/o8Y1Gm6q-ss\/s1600\/megajordan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-7mbJF_K3uKE\/TiiRLe3tk_I\/AAAAAAAAAC8\/o8Y1Gm6q-ss\/s320\/megajordan.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Recently, CNN featured <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/meast\/07\/21\/iraq.mega.geodatabase\/index.html?hpt=hp_c2\">this article<\/a> describing the efforts in Iraq to protect the nation&#8217;s historic sites. Alongside the Iraq State Board of Antiquities, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/conservation\/\">Getty Conservation Institute<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmf.org\/\">World Monuments Fund<\/a> are developing MEGA-Iraq; MEGA being an\u00a0acronym\u00a0for &#8220;Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Heritage&#8221;.\u00a0These applications use Google Maps as a base map and layers regarding the historic sites are created by the parties involved.\u00a0The goal is to help manage these sites of antiquity in addition to limiting the illegal trade of artifacts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megajordan.org\/\">MEGA-Jordan<\/a> (pictured above) is already live and running, and can be visited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megajordan.org\/\">clicking here.<\/a><\/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>Recently, CNN featured this article describing the efforts in Iraq to protect the nation&#8217;s historic sites. Alongside the Iraq State Board of Antiquities, the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund are developing MEGA-Iraq; MEGA being an\u00a0acronym\u00a0for &#8220;Middle Eastern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/07\/21\/mega-gis\/\">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":20,"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":[90],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL4O-3R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}