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

该项目将在地理信息科学与技术（GIS T）的相对较新，快速发展和多学科领域中创建和维护当前的知识体系（BoK）。需要一个新的环境，使维护和扩展的知识基础的GIS T在一个动态的，交互式的和协作的方式。 新的环境还需要提供新的方法，以促进教学，研究和专业发展的地理信息系统T。 在这样一个新的、快速发展的多学科领域开发共同语言对其未来的生存能力至关重要。 该项目通过利用持续沉浸式合成环境，本体分析和知识可视化方法，为GIS T中的教学，知识构建，话语，协作和研究创造了一个变革性的动态环境。该项目有四个关键组成部分。 第一个组成部分评估了2008年公布的现有知识体系的优缺点，并为下一版知识体系制定了一个更全面、更具包容性的组织框架。第二，这个项目研究了一种混合方法，通过自顶向下的开发和自底向上的知识发现过程生成本体。第三，将开发一个以视觉为中心和高度互动的GIS T知识领域的表示。 这种交互式表示将作为一个基础，在此基础上，现有的知识将被修改，新的知识将被建立。 最后，本项目探讨了动态wiki和持久沉浸式合成环境在知识构建、教学和研究方面的功效，以创建可行的活跃协作虚拟社区。本研究的预期结果将是在一个新的变革环境中建立和扩展GIS T现有知识领域的坚实基础&，该环境促进学习、协作知识构建、通过创建由学生、教师、从业人员、行业和研究人员组成的有效虚拟社区，促进教育和研究。该项目将为GIS T知识领域制定一个构建计划，将开发可行的方法来可视化，导航和构建GIS T领域的本体，将有助于全面了解GIS T知识领域的最佳虚拟环境。 该项目将为GIS T领域的研究和教育创造一个基本资源，这将促进该领域的发展，并保持美国在我们国家经济和科学基础的这一关键组成部分的领先地位。 该项目的结果将提供一个资源，连接许多GIS T学科的接地跨学科活动。

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.