TY - JOUR
T1 - Future directions for geographic information science
AU - Goodchild, Michael I.T.
N1 - Funding Information:
The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Alexandria Digital Library are supported by the National Science Foundation, through cooperative agreements SBR88-10917a nd IRI 94-11330 respectively.
Funding Information:
In early 1994, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), in cooperation with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). solicited proposals for six research projects in digital libraries. One of the successful proposals was the Alexandria Project, a collaboration between the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, several departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and several corporations and libraries. It is the only project of the six focused explicitly on geographic data and other geographically referenced materials such as books about places, or photographs. Information about Alexandria can be found on the World Wide Web at http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/. NSF funding is for four years, during which time the project is expected
PY - 1995/6
Y1 - 1995/6
N2 - Geographic information science! G ISci) can be defined as the set of basic research issues raised by the handling of geographic information. Although geographic information systems are often seen merely as tools, there is ample historical precedent for the role of tools in stimulating science, and provoking new ways of thinking about problems. GISci is a distinct specialty within a more broadly defined information science, with a multidisciplinary base that ranges from surveying to cognitive science. The paper addresses two topics amongthe many potentially fruitful areas for research within GISci at this time. Ittracesthe development of debate in the U.S. over the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and its implications for the research and education communities. Spatial data provides a distinct se t of problems for the development of digital libraries, and the paper reviews the Alexandria Project and some of its more fundamental objectives. The paper concludes with comments on the current status of GISci within the sciences generally.
AB - Geographic information science! G ISci) can be defined as the set of basic research issues raised by the handling of geographic information. Although geographic information systems are often seen merely as tools, there is ample historical precedent for the role of tools in stimulating science, and provoking new ways of thinking about problems. GISci is a distinct specialty within a more broadly defined information science, with a multidisciplinary base that ranges from surveying to cognitive science. The paper addresses two topics amongthe many potentially fruitful areas for research within GISci at this time. Ittracesthe development of debate in the U.S. over the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and its implications for the research and education communities. Spatial data provides a distinct se t of problems for the development of digital libraries, and the paper reviews the Alexandria Project and some of its more fundamental objectives. The paper concludes with comments on the current status of GISci within the sciences generally.
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U2 - 10.1080/10824009509480466
DO - 10.1080/10824009509480466
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:2042483681
SN - 1082-4006
VL - 1
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Geographic Information Sciences
JF - Geographic Information Sciences
IS - 1
ER -