IGU Global Database Planning Project - Part 2: First Meeting; London England; May 1988

这个项目专门用于预先规划和组织关于建立全球数字地图数据库的两次主要会议中的第一次会议。首先，将邀请所有已查明的现有和计划中的全球数字数据库的代表讨论现有努力的现状、对全球数据库的需要和必须服务的决策环境。还将重点关注它们的使用所要解决的问题、理想的数据结构、（未来十年）计算机硬件和人工智能概念对数据结构的潜在贡献以及理想的拓扑编码程度、用作基础的地图系列数据中的矛盾、它们的成本、管理、访问策略、集成度和可靠性。地球观测的最终存储和整合方式将有效地决定对全球空间过程的理解程度。将委托编写关于潜在问题领域的系统审查文件，供1988年春季在英国举行的第一次会议使用。此后将设立工作组，研究确定的关切领域，为目前暂定于1990年在华盛顿特区举行的第二次会议作准备。这些会议由国际地理联盟（IGU）主持，是国际地圈-生物圈计划的一部分。

This project is devoted to the pre-planning and organization of the first of two major meetings on the establishment of global digital map data bases. At the first, representatives of all identified existing and planned global digital data bases will be invited to address the status of existing efforts, the need for global data bases and the decisionmaking context which has to be served. Attention also will be focussed on the questions to be solved by their use, the desirable data structures, the potential contribution of (next-decade) computer hardware and concepts of artifical intelligence to data structures and the desirable degrees of topological coding, the contradictions in map series data used as a base, their cost, management, access policy, degree of integration and reliability. The way in which earth observations are eventually stored and able to be integrated will effectively determine the degree to which global spatial processes can be understood. Systematic review papers of potential problem areas will be commissioned for the first meeting to be held in England in the Spring of 1988. Working groups will be established thereafter to study areas of identified concern in preparation for the second meeting in Washington, D.C., now tentatively scheduled for 1990. The meetings are under the auspicies of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and are part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere program.