Today the Internet serves as THE communication infrastructure. We are watching TV, talking with people, chatting, purchasing things, publishing, discovering and reading documents, using apps etc over the Internet. From a technical point of view it is a platform that integrates a distributed set of data and interoperable functional components based on a services oriented architecture. The WEB is an incredible and still exploding source of knowledge, a virtual world representing what is and what happens in the real world.
From the real world we know: WHERE is one of the most important wh-words, simply because aspects like location, spatial extent, direction etc matter very often. Hence providing optimized means to communicate spatial information over the internet (and intranet) is really important.
(Geo)Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI, GDI) are an approach to improve provision of and access to spatial information. A number of specialized standards based on the Internet and on WEB technologies have been developed as to prepare the technical platform for implementations. But as important are policies and organizational issues. In EUROPE the framework directive “Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe – INSPIRE” is an important driving force for implementing SDIs in the public sector.
Goal of both lecture and exercises is to develop a comprehensive understanding of Spatial Information Infrastructures, their conceptual and technical foundations, their implementation within and between organizations, their actual footprint and trends in their development.
- Lehrende/r: Simon Jirka
- Lehrende/r: Albert Remke