theLab is a compendium of publications, early computer-generated maps, newsletters, memorabilia, and photographs from the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

The site is intended primarily as a resource for those associated with the Lab in preparation for a reunion planned for August of 2004 at the ESRI User Conference.

Our goal is to build a useful if not comprehensive collection of resources, to stimulate further contacts among people and wider awareness of theoretical geography, early computer mapping, and the history of GIS systems. Please contact us with any corrections, comments or suggestions for improvement.

theLab is housed (with permission) on a Mann Library server but has no official connection to Cornell University or Cornell University Library.

The presentation Ontologies for Open Ended Web Resources describes some of the motivations, design, and goals of this type of site organization.