Community Integrated GIS Pilot Project: Sharing Scientific and Local Knowledge

社区综合地理信息系统试点项目：分享科学知识该项目开发了一个区域地理信息系统资源中心，该中心将成为一个小型但可扩展的基于地理信息系统的网络的一部分，用于传播和交换科学数据。试点结构最初由三个社区GIS工作站（单独资助）组成，位于缅因州的Vinalhaven岛、Islesboro岛和Peaks岛上，这些工作站将与位于缅因州罗克兰的岛屿研究所设施的区域中心相结合并得到其支持。该项目得到其他面向社区的研究机构的支持，包括：龙虾保护协会（友谊，缅因州）、渔业地图集（麻省理工学院/罗格斯大学）、缅因州地理信息系统办公室、缅因州规划办公室、缅因州湾信息交换所和国家测绘项目。 地理信息系统虽然日益成为科学界和非专业人员之间管理和交换数据的共同媒介，但作为小社区的教育和空间决策支持工具，它具有巨大的潜力，而且在很大程度上尚未开发。然而，需要在实地进行培训和能力建设，以便在社区和科学家之间建立有效和持久的联系，并在当地增加科学数据的实际使用。这一建议的两个主要假设是：（1）小城镇具有独特的优势，在目前的教育和信息管理模式中往往没有得到最大限度的发挥;（2）地理信息系统等新技术为重新考虑这些模式创造了新的机会。该项目探讨如何通过与当地相关科学数据的联系，使社区获得独特的能力。 其目的是建立一个真正的综合能力，通过GIS在小社区访问，处理，创建和共享科学数据，并促进这种本地信息和更广泛的科学和研究世界之间的联系。 当地地理信息系统工作站将是当地相关地理空间信息的通用格式储存库，是正规和非正规地方教育、研究活动和社区资源管理的宝贵资源。

Community Integrated GIS Pilot Project: Sharing Scientific KnowledgeThis project develops a Regional Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Resource Center that will be part of a small but expandable GIS-based network for the dissemination and exchange of scientific data. The pilot structure initially consists of three community GIS workstations (separately- funded) on the Maine islands of Vinalhaven, Islesboro and Peaks, which will be integrated with and supported by the regional center at the Island Institute's facility in Rockland, Maine. The project is supported by other community-oriented research agencies, including: The Lobster Conservancy (Friendship, Maine), The Fisheries Atlas (MIT/Rutgers), the Maine Office of GIS, the Maine State Planning Office, the Gulf of Maine Information Exchange (GOMINFOEX) and the National Mapping Project (USGS). GIS, while increasingly a common medium for the management and exchange of data between the science community and the lay audience, has great, and largely unexplored, potential as an educational and spatial decision support tool in small communities. However, training and capacity-building are needed on the ground in order to forge an effective and lasting link between communities and scientists, and to increase the practical use of scientific data locally. Two of the primary assumptions of this proposal are that 1) small towns have unique strengths which often are not maximized in the current education and information management paradigms; and 2) that new technologies like GIS create new opportunities to reconsider these paradigms. This project explores ways in which communities can be uniquely empowered through linkage to locally relevant scientific data. The aim is to create a truly integrated capacity to access, process, create, and share scientific data through GIS in small communities and to facilitate the connection between this local information and the broader world of science and research. The local GIS workstations will be common-format repositories for locally relevant geospatialinformation - a valuable resource for formal and informal place-based education, research activities, and community-based resource management.