Abstract
Across the globe individuals and organizations are creating geographic data work products with little ability to efficiently or effectively make known and share those digital products with others. This article outlines a conceptual model and the accompanying research challenges for providing easy legal and technological mechanisms by which any creator might affirmatively and permanently mark and make accessible a geographic dataset such that the world knows where the dataset came from and that the data is available for use without the law assuming that the user must first acquire permission.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
National Research Council, Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest 1999, A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press
Commission of the European Communities, Public sector information: A key resource for Europe (COM(98)585 European Commission, Brussels) (1999), http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/docs/policy/docs/COM(98)585/
Pira International Ltd., University of East Anglia and KnowledgeView Ltd. 2000, Commercial exploitation of Europe’s public sector information: Final report for the European Commission Directorate General for the Information Society. Surbiton, Surrey, UK
Weiss, P.: Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and Their Economic Impact, U.S. National Weather Service (2002), http://www.weather.gov/sp/Borders_report.pdf
Moglen, E.: Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture. In: Fourth Annual Technology and Law Conference. Portland, ME: UMaine Law School, oral recording (2003)
Maurer, S., Hugenholtz, P.B., Onsrud, H.: Europe’s Database Experiment. Science 294, 789–790 (2001)
Benkler, Y.: Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm. Yale Law Journal 112(3), 369–446 (2002)
Hill, L., Janee, G., Doulin, R., Frew, J., Larsgaard, M.: Collection Metadata Solutions for Digital Library Applications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(13), 1169–1181 (1999)
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), Metadata Content Standards (1999), http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/contstan.html
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, DCMI (2003), http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces
Smith, B., Mark, D.M.: Geographical Categories: An Ontological Investigation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 15, 591–612 (2001)
Association for Geographic Information, AGI (2003), http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html
Alexandria Digital Library Project, ADL (2003), http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu
Egenhofer, M.: Toward the Semantic Geospatial Web. In: ACM GIS 2002, McLean, VA, November 8- 9, pp. 1–4 (2002)
Rodriguez, M.A., Egenhofer, M.: Determining Semantic Similarity Among Entity Classes from Different Ontologies. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 15, 442–456 (2003)
Bateman, J., Farrar, S.: Spatial Ontology Baseline [Preliminary], May 18 (2004), Available from http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/project.html?project=I1 [cited 30 Jun 2004]
IBM Electronic Media Management System (EMMS), http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/emms/features/
Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server (2003), http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/rightsmgmt/default.msx
Freeman, N., Boston, T., Chapman, A.: Integrating Internal, Intranet and Internet Access to Spatial Datasets via ERIN’s Environmental Data Directory. In: The 26th Annual Conference of AURISA, Perth, Australia, November 23-27 (1998)
Sharad, C.N.: Public Commons for Geospatial Data: A Conceptual Model, MS Thesis, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine (2003)
Huber, W.: Vector Steganography: A Practical Introduction, Directions Magzine (2002), http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=195
Knuth, D.E.: The Art of Computer Programming, Searching and Sorting, vol. 3, pp. 513–558. Addison Wesley Publishing, Reading (1998)
NASA Clickworkers Project, available at http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, available at http://www.wikipedia.org
Rivlan, G.: Leader of the Free World. Wired, pp. 152-154 (November 2003)
Raymond, E.: Homesteading the Noosphere. 8/00 (2000), http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ [cited 12/26/2003]
Raymond, E.: The Cathedral and the Bazaar. 9/00 (2000), http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathredral-bazaar/ [cited 12/31/2003]
Koha Open Source Library System, available at http://www.koha.org
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Onsrud, H., Camara, G., Campbell, J., Chakravarthy, N.S. (2004). Public Commons of Geographic Data: Research and Development Challenges. In: Egenhofer, M.J., Freksa, C., Miller, H.J. (eds) Geographic Information Science. GIScience 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3234. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30231-5_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30231-5_15
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-23558-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-30231-5
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive