Towards a potential research agenda to guide the implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructures—A case study from India

Georgiadou, Yola; Puri, Satish; Sahay, Sundeep

doi:10.1080/13658810500286950

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“…Venugopal et al (2006) identified a few unique features of data grids such as geographically distributed and heterogeneous resources under different administrative domains, and a large number of users sharing these resources and wanting to collaborate with each other. These features are similar to the challenges facing the development of a national SDI as mentioned in numerous SDI research papers (Georgiadou et al 2005 Rajabifard et al 2006). They also correspond to the 'federation-by-accord' data sharing model mentioned by Harvey and Tulloch (2006).…”

Section: Data Gridsmentioning

confidence: 65%

Address databases for national SDI: Comparing the novel data grid approach to data harvesting and federated databases

Coetzee

Bishop

2009

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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The original purpose of addresses was to enable the correct and unambiguous delivery of postal mail. The advent of computers and more specifically geographic information systems (GIS) opened up a whole new range of possibilities for the use of addresses, such as routing and vehicle navigation, spatial demographic analysis, geo-marketing, and service placement and delivery. Such functionality requires a database which can store and access spatial data effectively. In this paper we present address databases and justify the need for national address databases. We describe models used for national address databases, and present our evaluation framework for an address database at a national level within the context of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). The models of data harvesting, federated databases and data grids are analyzed and evaluated according to our novel framework, and we show that the data grid model has some unique features that make it attractive for a national address database in an environment where centralized control and/or coordination is difficult or undesirable.

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Section: Data Gridsmentioning

confidence: 65%

Address databases for national SDI: Comparing the novel data grid approach to data harvesting and federated databases

Coetzee

Bishop

2009

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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“…To date, it is difficult to point to an unequivocally successful SDI that has all or even most of Star (38). Several researchers have pointed to the lack of critical evaluation in SDI research in favor of an emphasis on the technology and the utopian promises of SDIs (39,40). There is general agreement among critics of SDI research that it could benefit from more emphasis on such interpretive methods as Star and Ruhleder's ethnography (41,42) and that users need to become a more central focus of SDI research (9).…”

Section: Implications For Spatial CImentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, spatial CI research must go beyond cartographic user studies to consider how the end user interacts with the entire system, including the interface, as well as how organizations use tools to generate, analyze, and provide access to data (48). Although some have argued that SDI research is too often mired at the level of data (39), data are precisely where a bottom-up study should begin (46). Studies of CI have shown that: Data, and the anxieties and tensions it occasions, represents the front line of CI development; its main site of operation, its most tangible output, and in some ways (as the NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Vision document lays out) the target of its highest ambition (ref.…”

Section: Implications For Spatial CImentioning

confidence: 99%

Users as essential contributors to spatial cyberinfrastructures

Poore

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Current accounts of spatial cyberinfrastructure development tend to overemphasize technologies to the neglect of critical social and cultural issues on which adoption depends. Spatial cyberinfrastructures will have a higher chance of success if users of many types, including nonprofessionals, are made central to the development process. Recent studies in the history of infrastructures reveal key turning points and issues that should be considered in the development of spatial cyberinfrastructure projects. These studies highlight the importance of adopting qualitative research methods to learn how users work with data and digital tools, and how user communities form. The author's empirical research on data sharing networks in the Pacific Northwest salmon crisis at the turn of the 21st century demonstrates that ordinary citizens can contribute critical local knowledge to global databases and should be considered in the design and construction of spatial cyberinfrastructures.C yberinfrastructure (CI) will simultaneously transform the technical tools and the social arrangements of contemporary scientific work according to the Atkins Report (1) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Following the models of modern biological or climate change research, many sciences will become datadriven, relying on high-performance computing grids capable of processing, analyzing, storing, and indexing enormous datasets. Cross-disciplinary collaboration among teams of geographically dispersed researchers will become more prevalent. Spatial cyberinfrastructure (spatial CI) or CyberGIS, as the similar research trend in geographic information science (GIScience) is alternately referred to, combines the tools and computing technologies of CI with the power of spatial analysis to address complex environmental and social issues such as climate change, disaster response, transportation planning, and national security. Although the use of CI in GIScience is relatively recent, there is an important tradition of spatial data infrastructure research that emphasizes the social aspects of online data sharing and interoperability among data communities. In addition, the recent efflorescence of Internet mapping by private companies, mapping agencies, and ordinary citizens, commonly referred to as the geospatial web (2) can be a resource for GIscientists as they undertake the development of spatial CIs. Spatial CIs can contribute new insights to the more general CI effort by promoting research on the social and organizational aspects of infrastructure development and by demonstrating the important role that ordinary citizens might play in CI.To date, writings on technical and social transformations projected to result from CI and spatial CI efforts have focused on professional scientists. Both the way scientists work and how they interact with others are expected to change. Crossdisciplinary collaborations will become the norm and they will require new technologies to support interactive virtual environments, shared analytical tools, and in sili...

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“…When setting up a program aimed at establishing NGIIs, policy advisors take organisational aspects seriously, but do not treat them as manageable phenomena [6,7]. Technical aspects are regarded as crucial [3], and those involved in implementing the programs generally seem to overlook the organisational consequences, denying the relationship between organisational change and NGII implementation [8].…”

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confidence: 99%

Narrating National Geo Information Infrastructures: Balancing Infrastructure and Innovation

Koerten¹,

Veenswijk²

2009

JSSM

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Towards a potential research agenda to guide the implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructures—A case study from India

Cited by 48 publications

References 18 publications

Address databases for national SDI: Comparing the novel data grid approach to data harvesting and federated databases

Address databases for national SDI: Comparing the novel data grid approach to data harvesting and federated databases

Users as essential contributors to spatial cyberinfrastructures

Narrating National Geo Information Infrastructures: Balancing Infrastructure and Innovation

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