The GEOSS user requirement registry: Linking users of GEOSS across disciplines and societal areas

Plag, Hans‐Peter; Foley, Gary J.; Jules-Plag, S.; Kaufman, J. G.; Ondich, G.

doi:10.1109/igarss.2012.6350661

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“…Hollingsworth et al, 2005;Percivall et al, 2013;Plag et al, 2012). The development of these systems remains fundamentally driven by new scientific and technological developments.…”

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WebGIS as boundary tools between scientific geoinformation and disaster risk reduction action in volcanic areas

Cozannet

Bagni²,

Thierry³

et al. 2014

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.As the amount of spatial data is growing, there is increased interest in developing tools to explore, visualize and interpret them, with the final aim of informing decision making efficiently. Within the European MIAVITA project, we examined this issue in the case of volcanic areas, where existing geospatial databases are particularly complex due to the number of threats to be considered, including volcanic (e.g. lava flows, ash fall) and non-volcanic hazards, such as landslides or tsunamis. We involved a group of hazard and risk analysts and managers, civil security officers, GIS analysts and system developers to design a Web-based geographical information system (WebGIS). We tested the system at the Mount Cameroon volcano, taking advantage of a complex hazard and risk geographical database. This study enabled identifying key requirements for such tools in volcanic areas, such as the need to manage user privileges differently according to their profile and the status of the volcano. This work also highlights that, in addition to the development of large geoinformation clearinghouses, there is a need for sitespecific information systems focused on working procedures of users, in order to fill the last gap between data producers and users.

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“…Hollingsworth et al, 2005;Percivall et al, 2013;Plag et al, 2012). The development of these systems remains fundamentally driven by new scientific and technological developments.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

WebGIS as boundary tools between scientific geoinformation and disaster risk reduction action in volcanic areas

Cozannet

Bagni²,

Thierry³

et al. 2014

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…In the first ten years of GEO, considerable efforts were made on the feedback part of the loop to improve the knowledge of societal needs in support of defining EO priorities, both in communities of practice that mostly originated in IGOS-P themes, see, e.g., [26], and dedicated efforts to gain overviews of observational requirements derived from societal needs, see, e.g., [27][28][29][30]. For the development of GEOSS, the main effort was on improving data discoverability, availability, and accessibility, while the integration with other data and models had much lower priority.…”

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“…Individual persons can be integrated as nodes into the graphs. During the development of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) User Requirements Registry (URR), which initially only captured user types, users of the User Requirements Registry (URR) repeatedly requested the possibility to link themselves to user types and establish a social network of users within the User Requirements Registry (URR) [30]. It is expected that similar requests are made for the knowledge base.…”

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A Transformative Concept: From Data Being Passive Objects to Data Being Active Subjects

Plag

Jules-Plag

2019

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The exploitation of potential societal benefits of Earth observations is hampered by users having to engage in often tedious processes to discover data and extract information and knowledge. A concept is introduced for a transition from the current perception of data as passive objects (DPO) to a new perception of data as active subjects (DAS). This transition would greatly increase data usage and exploitation, and support the extraction of knowledge from data products. Enabling the data subjects to actively reach out to potential users would revolutionize data dissemination and sharing and facilitate collaboration in user communities. The three core elements of the transformative DAS concept are: (1) “intelligent semantic data agents” (ISDAs) that have the capabilities to communicate with their human and digital environment. Each ISDA provides a voice to the data product it represents. It has comprehensive knowledge of the represented product including quality, uncertainties, access conditions, previous uses, user feedbacks, etc., and it can engage in transactions with users. (2) A knowledge base that constructs extensive graphs presenting a comprehensive picture of communities of people, applications, models, tools, and resources and provides tools for the analysis of these graphs. (3) An interaction platform that links the ISDAs to the human environment and facilitates transaction including discovery of products, access to products and derived knowledge, modifications and use of products, and the exchange of feedback on the usage. This platform documents the transactions in a secure way maintaining full provenance.

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A Virtual Center for the Community Addressing the Challenge of Marine Debris

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Jones

Garello

2021

OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto

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The GEOSS user requirement registry: Linking users of GEOSS across disciplines and societal areas

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WebGIS as boundary tools between scientific geoinformation and disaster risk reduction action in volcanic areas

WebGIS as boundary tools between scientific geoinformation and disaster risk reduction action in volcanic areas

A Transformative Concept: From Data Being Passive Objects to Data Being Active Subjects

A Virtual Center for the Community Addressing the Challenge of Marine Debris

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