Foundational Research for the Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge 2.0

该项目将在相对较新、快速发展和多学科的地理信息科学与技术(GIS&amp；T)领域创建和维护当前的知识体系(Bok)。需要一个新的环境，能够以动态、交互和协作的方式维护和扩展地理信息系统与技术的知识库。新的环境还需要提供新的方式来促进地理信息系统与技术领域的教学、研究和专业发展。在这样一个新的、快速发展的、多学科的领域开发一种共同的语言对其未来的生存至关重要。该项目通过利用持续的身临其境的合成环境、本体分析和知识可视化方法，为地理信息系统与技术领域的教学、知识构建、话语、协作和研究创造了一个变革性的、动态的环境。该项目有四个关键组成部分。第一部分评估了2008年出版的现有知识体系的长处和短处，并为下一个版本的博科制定了一个更全面和更具包容性的组织框架。其次，这个项目研究了一种通过自上而下的开发和自下而上的知识发现过程来生成本体的混合方法。第三，将开发以视觉为中心的高度交互的地理信息系统与技术知识领域的表示法。这种交互表现形式将作为修改现有知识和建立新知识的基础。最后，该项目探索了动态维基和持续沉浸式合成环境在知识构建、教学和研究方面的有效性，以创建可行的主动协作虚拟社区。本研究的预期结果将是构建一个坚实的基础，在此基础上建立和扩展现有的地理信息系统与技术的知识领域，在一个新的变革环境中，通过创建学生、教师、从业者、行业和研究人员的功能虚拟社区来促进学习、协作知识构建和研究。该项目将为地理信息系统与技术知识领域制定一项扩建计划，将开发出可视化、导航和建立地理信息系统与技术领域本体的可行方法，将有助于全面了解地理信息系统与技术知识领域的最佳虚拟环境。该项目将为地理信息系统和技术领域的研究和教育创造一个基础资源，将促进该领域的进步，并保持美国在这个国家经济基础和科学基础的关键组成部分的领先地位。该项目的成果将提供一个资源，将许多地理信息系统和技术学科联系起来，为跨学科活动奠定基础。

This project will create and maintain a current Body of Knowledge (BoK) in the relatively new, rapidly evolving, and multi-disciplinary field of Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T). A new environment is needed that will enable the maintenance and expansion of the knowledge base of GIS&T in a dynamic, interactive, and collaborative fashion. The new environment also needs to provide for new ways to facilitate teaching, research, and professional advancement in GIS&T. Developing a common language in such a new, rapidly evolving, and multi-disciplinary field is critical to its future viability. This project creates a transformational, dynamic environment for pedagogy, knowledge building, discourse, collaboration, and research in GIS&T by leveraging persistent immersive synthetic environments, ontological analysis, and knowledge visualization approaches. This project has four key components. The first component provides an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing Body of Knowledge that was published in 2008, and develops a more comprehensive and inclusive organizing framework for the next version of BoK. Second, this project examines a hybrid methodology for generating ontology through top-down development and bottom-up knowledge discovery processes. Third, a visually centered and highly interactive representation of the GIS&T knowledge domain will be developed. This interactive representation will serve as a foundation upon which existing knowledge will be modified and new knowledge will be built. Finally, this project explores dynamic wikis and persistent immersive synthetic environments for their efficacy with respect to knowledge building, pedagogy and research to create viable active collaborative virtual communities.Expected result of this research will be the construction of a solid foundation upon which to build and expand the existing knowledge domain of GIS&T in a new transformative environment which fosters learning, collaborative knowledge building, and research through the creation of functioning virtual communities of students, teachers, practitioners, industry, and researchers. This project will produce a build-out plan for the GIS&T knowledge domain, will develop viable methods to visualize, navigate and build an ontology of the field of GIS&T, will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the optimal virtual environments for the GIS&T knowledge domain. This project will create of a fundamental resource for both research and education within the field of GIS&T that will promote the advancement of the field and maintain the United States' lead in this critical component of our national economic and scientific base. The results of this project will provide a resource to link many of the GIS&T disciplines for grounding interdisciplinary activity.