About MARTHA...

The development of the Multimedia ArcView Research and Tutorial Help Assistant was funded by the University of British Columbia's Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. MARTHA was created to assist Geographic Information Systems students at UBC with their use of Environmental Systems Research Institute's ArcView GIS Version 3.1 software. MARTHA provides GIS students online help for procedural and conceptual problems, interactive problem solving and keyword search abilities, links to online tutorials and other useful GIS Web resources, and links to useful Web building resources. Furthermore, the utility of MARTHA is not limited to the UBC Department of Geography. MARTHA will be useful in other departments using ArcView GIS such as Archeology, Commerce, Geology, Forestry, and Urban Planning, here at UBC and around the world.

MARTHA was created in the summer of 1999 by Dr. Brian Klinkenberg, Jose Aparicio, and Sunny Mak. Technical support was also provided by Catherine Griffiths and Vincent Kujala. A second year of funding for MARTHA was received from the University of British Columbia's Centre for Educational Technology. During the summer of 2000 Eager Ip and Fritz Denoth developed a new database-driven front-end to MARTHA using php and MySQL that makes it easy to update and add content to the pages.