GI_Forum 2013, Volume 1 Creating the GISociety – Conference Proceedings
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BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW), DEUTSCHE BANK MÜNCHEN (IBAN DE16 7007 0024 0238 8270 00, BIC DEUTDEDBMUC)
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GI_Forum 2013, Volume 1 Creating the GISociety – Conference Proceedings
ISSN 2308-1708 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-87907-532-4 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-7438-7 Online Edition
doi:10.1553/giscience2013
GI_Forum, Volume 1 2013, 566 pages Print edition is available at Wichmann-Verlag, Berlin
Teresa Battista,
Cármen Caballero,
Fernando Ceballos,
Cristina Carriço
S. 6 - 14 doi:10.1553/giscience2013s6 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Abstract: IDE-OTALEX is the first crossborder spatial data infrastructure between contiguous Portuguese (Alentejo and Centro) and Spanish (Extremadura) regions. IDE-OTALEX was implemented to share official geographic information, from Alentejo and Extremadura, and now Centro region, with everyone. This is the most effective way to have a distributed and flexible system to be used as a territorial observatory for sustainable development and environment protection in these rural and low populated regions. It also contributes to territorial cohesion, one of the tree main pillars of the European Cohesion Policy. IDE-OTALEX is characterized for being a distributed, decentralized, modular and collaborative system, based on standards (OGC, W3C, ISO) and open source technology, developed to guarantee interoperability between the different GIS provided by each project partner. The geoportal is multilingual (Portuguese, Spanish and English) and integrates a Map viewer, Metadata Catalogue and Gazetteer. It consists of central and local nodes which communicate through WMS (Web Map Services), CSW (Catalogue Service Web) and WFS (Web Feature Services). It is now implementing SOS (sensor observation services) and WPS (web map processing). The geographic information available on it results from an extensive work of data harmonisation adapted to INSPIRE Directive (D 2007/2/EC, of the European Parliament and Council, of March 14, 2007). It integrates basic cartography, socio-economic and environmental indicators. Published Online: 2013/06/19 22:18:14 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x002e6c5f Rights:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
GIS as a technology has come a long way, from the
early adoption of technical wizardry to the ubiquitous,
if unconscious use by the masses. The creation
of the GISociety is on its way through technological
development, theoretical and empirical scientific
research and inclusion of technology into education
with increasing pedagogical justification.
Defining new dimensions of hard- and software,
brainware and orgware are all needed to further
develop the GISociety.
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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
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