Geoinformatics: Toward Developing a National Geoinformatics System (NGS) Workshop Series

作为新兴网络基础设施的一部分，地理信息学的承诺尚未实现。现有许多单独的数据库、可通过网络访问的工具和信息系统，还有更多的正在开发或计划中。仍然缺乏的是以合理有效或全面的方式跨系统集成数据的能力。通过互操作性将数据库和其他数字资源联网，对于实现地理信息学提供的能力和协同作用至关重要，但这将要求社区应对一系列技术以及组织和社会挑战。这一奖励将资助一系列讲习班和其他社区规划活动，以推进社区建设进程，以支持国家地理信息学系统的发展。

0744187WalkerThe promise of Geoinformatics, as part of the emerging Cyberinfrastructure, has yet to be fulfilled. Numerous individual databases, web-accessible tools, and information systems exist and more are under development or planned. What is still lacking is the ability to integrate data across systems in a reasonably efficient or comprehensive way. The networking of databases and other digital resources via interoperability is critical to attain the capabilities and synergies offered by Geoinformatics, but will require the community to address a range of technical as well as organizational and social challenges. This award will fund a series of workshops and other community planning activities to advance the process of community building in support of the development of a National Geoinformatics System.