Knowledge Management & GeoCollaboration
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Most work on problems that matter for science and society is
conducted collaboratively by variously organized groups of individuals.
However, geospatial information technology is currently designed
to support one user at a time. Similarly, most data are generated
to meet one objective, but then used to support many tasks.
Enabling group/collaborative work with geospatial information
(geocollaboration) is a fundamental research challenge for GIScience
and information science more generally. Research underway in
GeoVISTA provides a base from which explore fundamental issues
related to both the database and human aspects of geocollaboration.
This current research includes:
- work to develop a national geocollaboratory,
- development of multimodal interfaces
that support group work using GISystems with large screen
displays applied to decision support,
- design and implementation of collaborative
visualization methods and tools and
- development of a semantic framework
for managing the meaning associated with geospatial information
as it is constructed and modified during analysis.
One focus of our ongoing work is to develop a semantically-enriched
geospatial infrastructure that supports data inter-operation,
integration and collaborative work by individuals who bring
different perspectives to a task (e.g., a meteorologist and
an emergency manager coordinating a response to a pending hurricane).
We will also extend current research on multi-modal large screen
displays to enable same-place group work with geospatial information
as well as that on synchronous and asynchronous methods and
technologies to enable different-place group work.
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