https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/c9_p6.html
McHarg overlay map
Collaboration between different disciplines
http://ced.berkeley.edu/faculty/ratt/tool_time/suitability_analysis/suitability_analysis.html
McHarg overlay map
Collaboration between different disciplines
Google Maps – GIS as familiar to all
BBC Look East Employment Mood Map
http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?mapid=405
McHarg viewed trust as key to building the overlay maps
Each layer in the overlay has its “value system” attached to it
Trust model
Comes from analysis of the literature in business studies / social sciences
Benevolence: An element within the overall concept of trust, which is defined as care about the well-being of other individuals and the goals of a community.
Integrity shown to be the smallest player in the domain
Trust model
Comes from analysis of the literature in business studies / social sciences
Competence: An element within the overall concept of trust, which is defined as the relevant experience and knowledge of an individual.
Integrity shown to be the smallest player in the domain
Trust model
Comes from analysis of the literature in business studies / social sciences
Integrity shown to be the smallest player in the domain
Integrity: A minor element within the overall concept of trust, which is defined as an individual’s consistent adherence to a set of principles which they find trustworthy.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/nov/14/climate-change-science-email-scandal
Measurable decline in the public trust that research scientists are an authoritative source of global warming
Nature: 4 September 2008
Economist 25 Feb 2010
Economist 25 Feb 2010
O(50) datasets
Open
Linked
DOIs – i.e. as permanent and as stable as we can guarantee
Citable & cited within the scientific literature
http://www.iode.org/mg64
http://www.darrelkirby.com/storyofgloucester/extra_sites/railway.htm
Standards – railway
1846 – Brunel & Stephenson standard meet at Gloucester Station
Matthew Engel 11 Minutes Late – A journey through British Railways
“Doesn’t matter what gauge you pick, as long as you pick one”
Linked Ocean Data - plugs
XKCD – Standards
Linked Ocean Data – Vocabulary Server as travel adaptor
Started out as a paper publication in late 1980s
Moved online (as FTP) in the 1990s
Developed to a full Linked Data resource mid 2000s
http://iode.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewDocumentRecord&docID=875
Blackadder the Third: Dr. Johnson.
Difficult to update a paper dictionary
Moved this online
GTS (as with ship obs, seal tags etc...)
Into your weather forecast!
JISC funded project to digitise historic sea level records
Scanned images & numbers extracted
Rescued from historic ledgers at risk of flood damage
Important long-term record of the sea level around the UK (in particular the Mersey & the Thames)
Mersey – long records
Thames – interest from EA around the barrier