Colloquium Details
Towards a 2nd Age of Discovery: Emerging Research Priorities in Geographic Information Science
| Author: | Dawn Wright Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University |
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| Date: | November 30, 2000 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
Abstract
Geographic information science (GISci) addresses the fundamental issues surrounding the use of digital technology to handle geographic information; namely, information about places, activities, and phenomena on and near the surface of the Earth that is commonly stored on maps or in images. It includes questions of data structures, analysis, accuracy, meaning, cognition, visualization, and many more, and thus overlaps with the domains of many traditional disciplines. But it is not central to any of them, and instead represents a new kind of scientific collaborative that is defined by researchers from many distinct backgrounds working together on particular sets of interrelated problems.