Community Integrated GIS Pilot Project: Sharing Scientific and Local Knowledge

社区综合地理信息系统试点项目：共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。试点结构最初由缅因州维纳尔黑文岛、伊斯尔斯伯勒岛和匹克斯岛上的三个社区地理信息系统工作站(分别出资)组成，将与位于缅因州罗克兰的岛屿研究所设施的区域中心整合，并得到其支持。该项目得到了其他面向社区的研究机构的支持，包括：龙虾保护协会(缅因州友谊)、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、缅因湾信息交换(GOMINFOEX)和国家测绘项目(USGS)。地理信息系统虽然日益成为科学界和非专业受众之间管理和交换数据的共同媒介，但在小型社区中作为教育和空间决策支持工具具有巨大的潜力，而且在很大程度上尚未开发。然而，需要在实地开展培训和能力建设，以便在社区和科学家之间建立有效和持久的联系，并增加科学数据在当地的实际使用。该提案的两个主要假设是：1)小城镇拥有独特的优势，这些优势在当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)像地理信息系统这样的新技术创造了重新考虑这些模式的新机会。该项目探索了如何通过与当地相关科学数据的联系来独特地增强社区的能力。其目的是建立一种真正的综合能力，通过小社区中的地理信息系统访问、处理、创建和共享科学数据，并促进这些地方信息与更广泛的科学和研究世界之间的联系。当地的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，是正规和非正规地点教育、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.