Accessibility of Scientific Information: GDMC/GISt Research Vision for Geoserving the Networked Society

1. Accessibility of scientific information: GDMC/GISt research vision geoserving the networked society Peter van Oosterom Section GIS Technology, OTB TU Delft, the Netherlands

2. Overview 1. Introduction 2. Geo-Information Infrastructure 3. GDMC and publications • Conclusion

3. GDMC = Geo Database Management Center(within TUD/OTB research institute)

4. 3D Cadastre

5. GML XML for structured exchange of geo data/information

6. Location based services (LBS) • Architecture mobile GIS • positioning (either GSM/GPRS/UTMS or GPS/GLONASS/Galileo) • wireless communication network based on GSM/GPRS/UTMS • GIS data and services form the GII • Common aspect: geographic locations

7. Overview 1. Introduction 2. Geo-Information Infrastructure 3. GDMC and publications • Conclusion

8. Information communities • Today, migration towards integrated GIS architecture: all data in the DBMS • Next step: creation of Geo-Information Infrastructure (GII) • for related organizations and individuals • that is, (geo-)information communities • avoids exchanging copies of data • Parallel between geo-information and scientific information

9. GII goal, new approach • Avoiding copying data • data at the sources • no management at client (user) site • data accessible from all-over the world • Enables fair pricing • ranging from free to charge per used subset (instead of paying for full data sets) • fair for both vendors and buyers

10. GII components • Four main components • geo-data sets • networks • geo-data processing services (geo-DBMS) • interoperability standards • Aspects • technical • financial • organizational • legal and others Note a lot of discussion of the (free) availability of geo-information (NL, Europe, world)

11. GII example On-the-fly access to geo-data: - multi-source - transparent - Java client PGS, 1996: Casema, Almere and Kadaster.

13. Overview 1. Introduction 2. Geo-Information Infrastructure 3. GDMC and publications • Conclusion

14. Different categories of publications • Books, monograph • PhD thesis • Edited books (often related to theme/event) • Conference proceedings • Articles (peer reviewed journals) • Professional publications • Reports • Student MSc theses, case study reports  Perhaps with exception of (edited) book all our publications should be available form our website without cost

15. Some recent books

16. Some more..

17. journal

18. Publications and relevant systems • Idea, plan (Publibase, TUD/OTB xls-based system) • Submission (journal, conference, book,…) • Accepted and published (after revision): • Our GDMC website publication (pdf full text) • Metis TU Delft output registration • Delft Repository (pdf full text, under construction) • If work in context of larger project (consortium), then also on project website; e.g. Bsik RGI • Wish: streamline involved systems and workflow

21. Quality of scientific publications depends on several actors • Researcher/authors for primary content (text, illustrations) • Editor and reviewers for checking scientific quality • Publisher for language checking and graphic layout (important aspect) • Distribution (digital and analogue), discoverability, long term availability (archiving)

22. Overview 1. Introduction 2. Geo-Information Infrastructure 3. GDMC and publications • Conclusion

23. Natural right to distribute own publication • Own website is not complete without this, it is a complete, coherent palette; in our case: research topics, staff, publications, test GIS-data and services • Full papers contain publisher details, which is in fact a kind of advertisement (where to obtain related publications) and compensation for their effort • Distribution via publisher and own website maximizes availability, which is one of the primary goals of a University: distribute knowledge