Agmaps: a partnership between cornell university's mann library, new york county extension offices and the national agricultural statistics service of the USDA

摘要

AgMaps is a system thai allows Mann Library to distribute customi/ed numeric data sets and thematic maps over the Web. To further the efforts of the AgMaps project, Mann Library is actively engaging in in?tellectual and financial collaboration with three New York County Extension offices, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Cornell faculty, and the National Agricultural Statistical Service of the USDA. After a brief discussion of the need for CIS and AgMaps in particular, this paper focuses on the roleseach agency played in the process of creating AgMaps, describes the partnerships, highlights a user study employed for the interface design andpresents AgMaps and some of its features.