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Papers
All these papers are written by members of the Know
Edge Consortium with their customers and partners. Each paper has
been presented at a refereed conference and together they represent the
range and depth of our work.
Please feel free to download these papers and use them in your own work,
however we do ask that you reference the paper, quoting the author and
the Know Edge Consortium.
Please Select a Document from the list below:
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Technology barriers to acquiring, processing and using environmental information continue
to fall, often dramatically. Yet policy oriented barriers still exist, especially in regard to data access, use and
re-use. This paper examines policy issues by comparing information access policies of several international
(global and regional) environmental monitoring and global climate change programs, highlighting commonalities
and disparities, especially where the later may prevent access to data required to achieve the objectives
of allied programs.
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Organisations have found it difficult to create a definitive address that is sustainable, used for many purposes and can pass the quality tests. This paper explores the reasons for this and provides a number of suggestions for consideration to widen the debate and find practical solutions to the issue.
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The approach to producing the Best Practice Guidelines and
preliminary results of this investigation, identifying the key lessons learned in key aspects of
the case studies, including:
· Drivers Initiating City Wide Land Information Management (LIM)
· Institutional Framework
· Legal Framework
· LIM Governance & Organisation
· Financial Management
· Human Resource Management
· Technology Management
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Guidelines for developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Produced by an FIG working group under Commision 3 with the support of UN-HABITAT
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This paper examines three issues. Why should
Coastal Spatial Data Infrastructure be considered of such importance that its explicit specification within national and regional SDI
warrants extra effort? What are the main requirements for CSDI components? How have various
nations approached CSDI implementation?
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Defence Estates reviewed their current GIS solutions against the new
pressures on the business. It was found that the current regional based
solutions would not meet the emerging requirement for corporate data. This
paper describes the new vision that was defined for land and property
Information Management and the lessons that are still being learnt as that
vision is implemented.
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Will INfrastructure for SPatial Information in Europe deliver....and what will it deliver?
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This paper reviews the progress of local and central government organisations in Scotland
in meeting government targets and, through the lessons learned, will explore the reasons why more
complex service delivery requiring cross departmental co-operation has been so difficult.
Finally, the paper highlights new e-government services where spatial information
management has been fundamental to the successful service delivery.
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This paper looks at the ethical use of spatial information, specifically in
regard to location based services, while also re-examining requirements for a code of ethics
for a national GIS association. This leads to the conclusion that effort is needed in
creating a more formal foundation for understanding ethical concepts at early stages of
training for GIS professionals, as well as establishing codes of ethics to be followed in later
professional life.
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Joint ODPM/Ordnance Survey research is developing methods to populate and maintain new land use and
enhanced land cover attributes using OS MasterMap™. The current focus of this work is on automated
methods of attribution in which existing data sources are integrated with OS MasterMap™ followed by
spatial inference procedures to extract land use and land cover. A large-scale trial, based on South
Yorkshire, is providing prototype data to evaluate the technical and business feasibility of these methods.
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This paper examines the information infrastructure developed by the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission’s (IOC) International Oceanographic Data and Information
Exchange (IODE) group of experts.
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This paper looks at the typical Coastal Spatial Data Infrastucture components in exisiting initiatives. It also looks at the problems if different disciplines continue to develop their own Spatial Data Infrastructures in isolation from one another.
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Legal Issues in the Use of Geospatial Data and Tools for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
This primer examines concepts of Intellectual
Property (IP) and other legal issues relating to
GIS used in agriculture and natural resource
management. The intent is to provide a guide
for day-to-day activities of people involved in
agriculture and natural research management.
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In this paper we argue that, because of the complexity of the coastal zone, it is not possible to develop a
coastal SDI (CSDI) in isolation from broader Global, National and Regional SDI initiatives. Globally, initiatives are needed in areas such as standards to describe CSDI
components, e.g. marineXML and related ontologies for the marine environment, and consistent
application of marine boundary definitions across multinational legal jurisdictions.
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Changes in current brownfield policy have resulted in a change to a "Plan, Monitor and Provide" Approach to housing provision. The paper looks at these changes and how data from Land Use Change Statistics data series and NLUD Previously Developed Land project can be used to support implementation.
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Formal specifications of spatial data infrastructures have been underway for nearly adecade. Yet only limited success has been acheived at the regional level in Europe, despite several million Euro having been committed. Is it a coincidence that the more successful national SDI initiatives have been implemented in countries that support a "Freedom of Information" culture?
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Scottish Enterprise acts as an information broker to facilitate broadband roll out in Scotland. GIS based extranet system for sharing broadband provision information between competing suppliers to reduce supplier costs. GIS based broadband demand model to enable marketing to be targeted at areas with marginal requests for broadband
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The vision of the National Land Use Database (NLUD) is to establish a complete, consistent and detailed geographical record of land use in England, which is kept up to date and delivers information to users that meet their business requirements (NLUD, 2001). To achieve this vision the NLUD project is working to establish an integrated framework for land use information at the national, regional and local level. The framework will consist of a series of core data specifications for land use, including toolkits and good practice guidance, underpinned by a data infrastructure comprising national data standards.
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As part of the existing Scottish Executive Modernising Government agenda, the fourteen regional assessorsin Scotland are working together to develop and deliver the Scottish Assessors’ Portal. For the first time this will provide single point Internet access to the Valuation Roll and Council Tax information on a Scotland-wide basis sourced from regionally managed and maintained databases held by each of the 14 Assessors
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One of the key issues - and service delivery promises - that appears in e-Government statements,
visions and strategies globally is that of “transparency”. Tell the citizens, customers, and
consumers what they need to know, when they need to know it, as quickly, easily and accessibly
as possible. Adopt this as one of your responsibilities. Make it part of your internal information
culture. Transparency helps ensure accountability, restores trust in government and in business
and personal relationships.
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