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| Subject: | GISList: Re. GISList: GIS P2P |
| Date: |
01/20/2003 08:21:53 PM |
| From: |
John Lee |
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Dear all,
Forgive me for reiterating what has already been said, but as soon as I saw
the original message I thought metadata! I use environmental and ecological
data and the majority of these are held by national and local government
organisations. Increasingly in the UK these are being made available
centrally either in organisation's websites or in dedicated repositories
(e.g. www.magic.gov.uk and www.nbn.org.uk). From my experience there are
still some, mostly small, data sets that are held by individuals and small
organisations. A Napster or P2P network would be perfect to facilitate
access to these data, but the HUGE problem with these sorts of data is
metadata - not just the geography and projection, but also who collected the
data, when, how etc. Currently there is no appropriate metadata schema or
ontology for ecological/environmental data which would enable building the
large volumes of metadata needed - at least not as far as I am aware.
Furthermore, in the UK at least, there are strong institutional barriers to
sharing data in an essentially uncontrolled way, though this may change with
time.
On the other hand, I think P2P offers a fantastic opportunity to share
datasets. At the moment I am thinking of using computational GRIDs and P2P
networks to share ecological experience and expertise with GIS as a focus of
spatial data organisation and visualisation.
Just some thoughts
Regards
John
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Dr. John Lee
Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics
GIS & Habitats Research Group
School of Biological and Molecular Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Campus
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
OX3 0BP
United Kingdom
Tel. (+44)(0)1865 483269
Fax. (+44)(0)1865 483242
Email. jlee@brookes.ac.uk
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