International cooperation and technology transfer

Fras, Mojca Kosmatin

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Persistent identifier:: 856490555

Author:: Fras, Mojca Kosmatin

Title:: International cooperation and technology transfer

Sub title:: Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 2 - 5, 2000 : proceedings of the workshop

Scope:: VI, 163 Seiten

Year of publication:: 2000

Place of publication:: London

Publisher of the original:: RICS Books

Identifier (digital):: 856490555

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: A MAP-BASED WEB SERVER FOR THE COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA. G. Guariso, M. Ferrari, D. Macchi

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81 Large projects like Alexandria at the University of Berkeley (http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu), aimed at creating an extensive digital library including maps, photos, texts and multimedia documents, are still under way. A fuzzy, as opposed to crisp, geographical selection may perhaps better satisfy the needs for some environmental applications. However, the simple system described in this paper has already shown definite advantages. It exploits geographical relations that can be automatically managed, to provide a structure to non-homogeneous data sets, so that they can be conveniently searched and retrieved. This greatly eases the exchanging of information and allows its archives to grow wider and wider to better satisfy the needs of various types of users. Its disadvantages are due to the effort that the users still have to make to manage the data they have found. Each data set is in fact stored in its original format (plain text, word processor, worksheet, and database, GIS) and thus requires a specific program to be elaborated. However, given the number of actors working in the field, this seems almost unavoidable: the adoption of a common standard would pose such a burden on the data suppliers to practically prevent their contribution to the growth of the data repository. The only feasible alternative to this approach seems the creation of a unique organization (even if formed by a federation of agencies) than has the power of imposing a certain data description standard. The web site is presently a part of a larger web project (http://pc-ambiente.como.polimi.it) basically built for teaching purposes. It includes a section with downloadable map files of the Lombardy region, a direct connection with some instruments showing in real-time the main meteorological values in Como town, and a modelbase containing description and reference for some 200 environmental models. Finally a number of case studies are presented, developed within the framework of the GAIA EU Project (http://www.ess.co.at/GAIA). They illustrate how to deal with actual environmental problems from problem statement, to data collection, model implementation and policy consequences. REFERENCES ESRI, 1996. Building Applications with MapObject. ESRI. Federal Geographic Data Committee, 1994. Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. Washington D.C. (http://www.mews.org/nsdi) Foresman, T.W., Wiggins, H.V., Porter, D.L., 1996. Metadata Mith: Misunderstanding the Implications of Federal Metadata Standards. IEEE Transactions. Huse, S., 1995. GRASSLinks: A New Model for Spatial Information Access in Environmental Planning. Doctoral Dissertation, Univ. of California at Berkeley. Kazakos, W., Kramer, R., Nikolai, R., Rolker, C., 1998. WebCDS - A Java-based Catalogue System for European Environment Data. In: Proc. Inti. WS on Issues and Applications of Database Technology (IADT'98), 482 - 490, Berlin, Germany. Koschei, A., Kramer, R., Nikolai, R., Lukács, G., Heinemeier, T., 1997. Data and Metadata Management in Distributed Environmental Information Systems. In: Denzer R. et. al. (Eds.), Environmental Software Systems 2, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), 144 - 151, Chapman and Hall, London. Library of Congress, 1997. USMARC Home Page (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/). Miller, D., Bullock, K., 1994. Metadata for Land and Geographic Information. An Australian Standard. Proc. AURISA 94, 251-259, Sydney, Australia. Phelps, T. A., Wilensky, R., 1996. Multivalent Documents: Inducing Structure and Behaviors in Online Digital Documents. Proc. of Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences '96. Stonebraker, M., Chen, J., Nathan, N., Paxton, C., Wu, J., 1993. Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications. Proc. 19 th Int. Conf. Very Large Data Bases, 25-38, Morgan Kaufmann Publ.

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