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Canadian Communities Gallery - Educational Project Showcase Entry ID: Canada_CCRS_CdnCommAtlas |
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Summary
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Abstract:
The Canadian Communities Gallery (CCGallery) is a service of the Atlas of Canada that provides access to the best and broadest collections of on-line educational geography and social studies projects and community web sites. The CCGallery offers a unique searchable database with an interactive mapping search result. This allows users to conduct a search by subject and geographical area and to explore this search result in an interactive mapping window. Many well-known organizations use the CCGallery to provide easy and well-defined searches of their project collections. The current contributors are: The Atlas of Canada, The Canadian Communities Atlas, Statistics Canada, Profiling Canada, SchoolNet GrassRoots, GrassRoots Communities@ca, ESRI Canada, School and Libraries Program. The CCGallery will be inviting other organizations to use this service for their own collections of on-line projects and community web sites. Our goal is to make this service the most comprehensive collection of on-line projects and web sites describing Canada. Participating Organizations All of the organizations contributing to the Canadian Communities Gallery are doing so in order to share their collections of projects and resources. Each organization's projects and resources have a unique flavour and origin but at the same time all offer something describing a part of Canada's human, economic and physical geography. Many schools combine the projects and programs offered by our contributors to provide the most comprehensive information in their on-line work. Discover Canada through school-based projects and community web sites. Here is a brief description of each organization's contribution: The Canadian Communities Atlas, part of Natural Resources Canada's Atlas of Canada, offers schools the opportunity to create an Internet-based Atlas of their community. The atlas structure is designed around physical, economic and human geographic themes. By linking students' Community Atlas projects to the Atlas of Canada, through the Canadian Communities Gallery, both local and national perspectives of many relevant geographic subjects can be accessed. Statistics Canada is the country's national statistical agency and offers quality and detailed statistical educational resources. These are organized into three broad subject matter areas: demographic and social, socio-economic and economic. Projects produced by schools making use of this information and data in projects such as Profiling Canada and others can be accessed in the Canadian Communities Gallery. The SchoolNet GrassRoots Program, together with its provincial, territorial and corporate partners, promotes academic, employability and computer skills in Canadian youth by integrating information and communication technology into learning. The GrassRoots Program offers funding to schools for the creation of innovative and interactive learning projects on the Internet. All of these projects that are geography and social studies related can be accessed in the Canadian Communities Gallery. GrassRoots Communities@ca is a national competition open to all K-12 Canadian schools. Students working with their local community create a web site to showcase the place where they live. Sites created by students will involve them in project-based learning activities, doing research within their own local communities in such areas as the arts and culture, geography, history, economic life and the environment. ESRI Canada offers schools and libraries a program using ArcView, a Geographic Information System (GIS). It brings the power of interactive mapping and analysis to everyone. ESRI Canada is dedicated to promoting the use of ArcView GIS in schools (Kindergarten to Grade 12 or OAC) and libraries as this exciting technology will allow students to explore their world in a whole new way. The Physical Geography subject categories are: geology; tectonics / seismology; gradation; climate; soil; vegetation; oceanography; hydrology and environment / land use / wildlife / pollution. The Economic Geography subject area breaks down into the following categories. Primary industries are forestry, farming, agriculture, mining, hunting and fishing, and energy; secondary is manufacturing industry; tertiary is service industry; quaternary is high tech; community employment / labour; and the travel / tourism industry. The Human Geography subject categories are: demographics / population; First Nations; cultures and ethnic origins; settlement / community; vital statistics; language and education; social conditions / justice / health; politics / government; recreation and local notables. Other subject areas covered by schools include land use, environmental effects, sustainable development and topography. School and community web sites are from all Canadian provinces and territories: Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Labrador.The Canadian Communities Gallery (CCGallery) is a service of the Atlas of Canada that provides access to the best and broadest collections of on-line educational geography and social studies projects and community web sites. Spatial Data Organization Information - Indirect Spatial Reference: Direct Spatial Reference: Raster Object Type: Row Count: Column Count: Vertical Count: Spatial Reference Information - Horizontal Coordinate System Definition - Planar - Planar Coordinate Encoding Method: Coordinate Representation: Abscissa Resolution: Ordinate Resolution: Distance and Bearing Representation: Distance Resolution: Bearing Resolution: Bearing Units: Bearing Reference Direction: Bearing Reference Meridian: Planar Distance Units: Geodetic Model: Horizontal Datum Name: Ellipsoid Name: Semi-major Axis: Denominator of Flattening Ratio: |
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Link: GET DATA Description: GeoConnections Discovery Portal. Canada's IDN Node. Link: GET DATA |
Geographic Coverage
| N: 74.0 | S: 42.0 | E: -54.0 | W: -141.0 |
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Data Set Citation
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Dataset Originator/Creator:
Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, GeoAccess Division, The Atlas of Canada
Dataset Title: Canadian Communities Gallery - Educational Project Showcase Dataset Release Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Dataset Publisher: Government of Canada Online Resource: http://atlas.gc.ca/sites/english/index.html |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date: 1997-01-01 |
Location Keywords
Science Keywords
| AGRICULTURE >SOILS [Definition] |
| BIOSPHERE >VEGETATION [Definition] |
| CRYOSPHERE >SNOW/ICE [Definition] |
| HUMAN DIMENSIONS >PUBLIC HEALTH [Definition] |
| LAND SURFACE >LAND USE/LAND COVER >LAND COVER [Definition] |
| OCEANS >COASTAL PROCESSES >SHORELINES [Definition] |
| OCEANS >TIDES [Definition] |
| SOLID EARTH >ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS >METALS [Definition] |
| SOLID EARTH >TECTONICS >EARTHQUAKES >EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCES [Definition] |
| SOLID EARTH >TECTONICS [Definition] |
| HUMAN DIMENSIONS >SUSTAINABILITY >SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [Definition] |
ISO Topic Category
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FARMING
BIOTA |
Access Constraints
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None - One exception is the 'Updates' section where project participants enter their project metadata. |
Use Constraints
| Crown CopyrightCrown Copyright |
Keywords
| GCMD |
| CLIMATE AND SOIL |
| COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT AND TOURISM |
| CULTURES AND ETHNIC ORIGINS |
| ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND FORESTRY |
| FARMING / MINING / FISHING |
| FIRST NATIONS |
| GEOLOGY AND TECTONICS |
| HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHICS |
| HYDROLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT |
| LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION |
| OTHER PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND SECONDARY INDUSTRY |
| PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GRADATION |
| RECREATION AND LOCAL NOTABLES |
| SETTLEMENT AND VITAL STATISTICS |
| SOCIAL INDICATORS AND POLITICS |
| TERTIARY INDUSTRY AND QUATERNARY INDUSTRY |
| VEGETATION AND OCEANOGRAPHY |
Data Set Progress
| IN WORK |
Data Center
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Atlas of Canada, GeoAccess Division, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Geomatics Canada, Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada
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Data Center URL: http://atlas.gc.ca/
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Distribution
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Fees:
Gratuit-Free
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Personnel
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KRAMERS Role: DIF AUTHOR Phone: +01-613-947-6267 Fax: +01-613-947-2410 Email: kramers at nrcan.gc.ca Contact Address: Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, GeoAccess Division 615 Booth Street Room 650 City: Ottawa Province or State: Ontario Postal Code: K1A 0E9 Country: Canada |
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KRAMERS Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Phone: +01-613-947-6267 Fax: +01-613-947-2410 Email: kramers at nrcan.gc.ca Contact Address: Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, GeoAccess Division 615 Booth Street Room 650 City: Ottawa Province or State: Ontario Postal Code: K1A 0E9 Country: Canada |
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2002-09-26
Last DIF Revision Date:
2013-02-12
Future DIF Review Date:
2005-02-16
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