[appgema] New web site, First Meetings, and other information

[Jordi Corominas]

Dear Paolo and colleagues,

I apologise for my late answer. I was trying to arrange my agenda in 
order to attend to the Birmingham meeting but I am having difficulties. 
I committed some months ago in attending to a workshop in south-america 
and even though the exact dates have not been confirmed yet it seems 
that it will take place during the first of july. Once I had the 
confirmed dates I will let you know my availability for the meeting.

Best regards
Jordi Corominas

Paolo Paron wrote:

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> following the launch of our new web site (www.appgema.org 
> <http://www.appgema.org/>) brought by Mike I would like to add some 
> few more information about: a) outputs; b) the need for section 
> coordinators; c) our first meetings.
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> a)      *OUTPUTS*: as you can see on the left hand side of the new web 
> site six different outputs are listed (under the Outputs word). For 
> most of them there is a brief description of target, objective, etc. 
> Let me just spend few more words about these.
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> −         The “Reference database” and “Glossary”  are meant to be 
> live outputs, growing through time by means of the contribution of 
> each of us. As already has been done, we can add entries to both of 
> them. At the end of the day we will have built a proper Glossary of 
> terms and a Reference Database that could be left on the web site and 
> accessed by everyone for free. Before releasing it as a final product 
> it will undergo a peer refereed processes by some acknowledge scholars.
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> −         The “Professional Handbook”, “Digital Atlas”, and “Pamphlet” 
> are still meant to be live outputs, but they will need a more thorough 
> editing phase. Few more words on these. The Professional Handbook is 
> supposed to be more a didactic resource, with plenty of real case 
> studies, many of which form the professional world; the Digital Atlas, 
> should be a reference collection of already existing applied 
> geomorphological maps, translating their legends and notes into the 
> main languages; the Pamphlet is a side product of the WG that will 
> benefit also from the input of other WGs and of people from the 
> professional world, international institutions, etc.
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> −         The “Library” should be a physical place where to collect 
> the paper based maps for further researchers. This will constitute a 
> future warehouse of applied geomorphological maps for the ones that 
> could not be scanned and transformed into a digital product.
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> −         The “Technical” section (under the main AppGeMa menu, still 
> on the left hand side of the page) is meant to be a resource mainly 
> for: Cartographic symbols, GIS tools and resources, on-line maps, etc. 
> The links can be pointed at web-sites or ftp.
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> −         The “Web Links” (under the main AppGeMa menu, still on the 
> left hand side of the page) wants to be a collection of sources of 
> more general information, institution, journals, etc but strictly 
> related to geomorphological mapping. As for the previous one they can 
> be links to web sites or ftp.
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> Together with Mike Smith we have also thought of having a Special 
> Issue of the Journal of Maps dedicated to the advancement of Applied 
> Geomorphological Mapping.
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> b)      *SECTION COORDINATORS*: as you can imagine there is the need 
> for having some coordinators to most of the section. This role will 
> not be too much time demanding, but is needed in order to organize the 
> inputs that arrive from the members. Some of you already expressed 
> their wish to give their active contribution to the Group. We are 
> currently looking for coordinators for the following sections: 
> Technical, Web Links, Reference database, Glossary and Library. If 
> this availability is still there, please, just let us know.
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> c)       *FIRST MEETINGS*: we have received the clearance for holding 
> our first official meeting in conjunction with the Annual Conference 
> of the British Society of Geomorphology, /_4^th to 6^th of July 2007, 
> in Birmingham, UK_/. Further information will follow soon from Mike 
> Smith, who is the responsible for this meeting. Actually there will 
> also be an informal meeting of AppGeMa members going to the IAG 
> Regional Conference in /_Kota_//_ Kinabalu, Malaysia, 25^th to 29^th 
> of June 2007_/: please refer to Colin Pain for this.
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> Any suggestion is highly welcome and if there is the need for some 
> further information, do not hesitate to contact us.
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> It is only with a collaborative effort that we can reach these outputs.
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> Our last deadline will be the 2009 International Conference in 
> Melbourne, Australia.
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> Best wishes,
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> Paolo Paron and Mike Smith
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