Abstract

Campus stakeholder participation in building a university GIS
Track: Facilities
Authors: Rama Sivakumar

In these days of shrinking budgets finding resources to develop and maintain a GIS database to support education, research, infrastructure management, asset inventory, etc in a higher education university campus is a challenge. Benefits of well developed GIS system is widely recognized and understood, but often resources to fund such a effort is lacking. One approach is for a GIS database custodian, in this case the Center for GIS to work directly with individual campus stakeholders who may benefit from a campus wide GIS such as academic departments, space planning, facilities, health and safety, to name a few. Stakeholders fund and own one or more data layers of campus GIS and decide on how it is used. This paper tries to outline some experiences learned by Georgia Tech in this approach to build a campus wide GIS database and how it is leveraging its ESRI site license and EDC status.