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Geocollaboration
Related Projects: HERO,
DAVE_G,
NIMA
visualization project, NSF
Knowledge Management,
GeoCollaborative
Crisis Management,
GEON: The Geo-Sciences Network
Ontologies in Action, ARDA,
The strengths and weaknesses of
Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and spatial statistical methods for Prostate
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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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