March 2004
Posted March 28, 2004Summer 2004 Internships
The District has posted the Summer 04' Internships.
I hope you can get the information out to your students.
Application information and project descriptions should be on the web in the next few days at www.ebparks.org
RISA 2004
URISA's Annual Conference will take place November 7-10 in Reno, Nevada. A comprehensive educational program will be developed through an open abstract submission process. Submit a brief description of your presentation proposal for review by the Conference Committee, by April 5, 2004, to be considered as a presenter.
Share your successes, research, theories, and visions for more effective and efficient government operations with other GIS and IT professionals.
All abstract submissions, received by April 5, 2004, will be reviewed and considered for this comprehensive educational program. The Program Committee invites you to submit abstracts in one or more of the following presentation categories:
e-Government
All levels of government are moving toward web- and kiosk-based services. The U.S. Federal Government has a number of initiatives underway on e-Government and on enterprise IT architecture that will affect it and local government. Sessions in this track will look at key components of e-Government including GIS components:
Government without boundaries-What is it and where is it going? What tools and integration are required?
Successful implementations-A number of governments have received awards for their efforts. Papers discussing the success factors, difficulties, and upcoming trends are sought.
Back office issues-What are the design and technology considerations? What tools have been successfully used? What have been the biggest integration challenges?
Geospatial OneStop-Presentations on implementation efforts as well as implications for local government are sought.
Enterprise Operations
To realize the value of investing in IS and GIS, the systems must integrate and staffs must be developed and retained. For many governmental organizations-local, state and federal-there are significant challenges to making enterprise operations a reality. At each of these levels, significant efforts are underway to establish and maintain enterprise systems. Issues like staff turnover, legacy systems, lengthy procurement cycles, and organizational inertia must be addressed and managed. For organizations well down the road to enterprise operations, these challenges continue and new ones, such as flexibility and planning, become even more critical.
Organizing for enterprise integration
Strategic planning at the enterprise level
Database design - enterprise considerations
Maintenance issues and lifecycles
Federal Enterprise Architecture - strategy and implementation, as well as local implications/benefits/liabilities
Management issues
Certification - national and international issues and developments
Staff development and retention
Beyond Maps
As a growing number of organizations now have G/IS online and have a growing amount of data about the local landbase, spatial analysis and modeling becomes possible. Authors are encouraged to discuss how they were able to get to the point that made their work possible, the advantages/benefits to the local community, the results of their work, and the relevance of that type of work for other organizations. Some topics to consider include:
Land use analysis
Spatial analysis of human and other services
Environmental analysis
Planning
Crime analysis
Community participation kiosks
Census data issues and usage locally
Transportation Systems
Transportation systems (such as roads, highways, railroads, public transit, ports, waterways, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and air transportation facilities) move people and goods. Transportation systems involve issues related to land use, demographics, economics and the environment. GIS provides a technology tool to visualize and analyze the interactions between these variables. This track will focus on the incorporation and utilization of IT/GIS technology tools to facilitate transportation system planning, development, deployment, operations, and maintenance.
Public Works and Asset Management
GIS has emerged in the public works arena as a viable tool for inventory of infrastructure and assets, tracking of service requests and work orders, taking data and information into the field and reporting of assets for financial purposes such as GASB 34. This track will focus on the management issues, applications and systems implementation/maintenance.
Public Health and Safety
Awareness of the importance of Public Health and Safety has grown dramatically over the past several years. Public Health is a key component of Emergency Preparedness Planning. Homeland Security is of concern to all levels of government.
Public health threats such as malaria and West Nile Virus What policy changes have occurred or are planned in view of the terrorist attacks? Emergency Response Planning: What lessons have been learned and solutions applied? What viable solutions are currently available?
Personal impact - how have our professional communities been affected and changed as a result?
Homeland Security and GIS
Data Security: What developments are taking place in areas such as confidentiality and freedom of information?
Data Integration:
Data Standards, Policy Issues, and Software Considerations Tools now exist to transparently serve data to disparate users. Increasingly, local governments are taking disparate data sets and using G/IS for spatial analysis and mapping. Furthermore, software developments are now making it possible to transparently process data with geographically dispersed software. Finally, data standards are making it increasingly possible to share data. Some key topics for presentations include: Open GIS Consortium: successfully implemented standards Data Standards: Not only do national and international data standards exist (e.g., Spatial Data Transfer Standard), but regional and local governments are increasingly standardizing data to enable data sharing and data maintenance. Data Policy: As the ability to integrate data and data operations increases, what are the implications for policy? How are agencies already coping and how do they plan to change in view of this ability?
Data Integration Technology: What tools exist to provide data integration?
Census - using the new census data such as the American Community Survey
Integrating Non-traditional Data: How are data sources such as administrative records being integrated with spatial data?
Other Current and Hot Topics
Some topics do not fit neatly into the specified categories. Additionally, there may be important developments that are not included above. In such cases, use this category to classify your submission.
Remember: April 5 is the last day to submit an abstract. Don?t delay. Visit www.urisa.org to submit online or contact URISA Headquarters for more information.
URISA - Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
1460 Renaissance Drive, Suite 305
Park Ridge, IL 60068 USA
847/824-6300, Fax 847/824-6363
info@urisa.org, www.urisa.org
Call for participation: distributed geovisualization
Call for participation: Workshop and Paper Sessions - distributed geovisualization
The 2004 meeting of the ICA Commission on Visualization & Virtual Environments is planned in conjunction with the GIScience-conference in the United States (http://www.giscience.org ) which takes place October 20-23 in University College
Maryland.
The Commission will sponsor 2 kinds of activity.
1. Geovisualization developers workshop. The Commission will organize a geovisualization developers workshop on the 20th Oct. -- devoted to demonstrations, presentations, discussion, and sharing focused on recent geovisualization software developments. We invite abstracts for these demo/presentation sessions -- deadline for receipt is June 28 -- e-mail to: maceachren@psu.edu & kraak@itc.nl. Participation is not limited to Commission members/non-members, so if you have developed innovative geovisualization applications in any development environment, for any platform, we welcome your submission.
2. Geovisualization paper sessions. During the main GIScience event, the Commission will organize several parallel sessions on Distributed Geovisualization. Entry to these sessions can be obtain via the "extended abstract" channel of the main conference web site (deadline for abstracts June 28 http://www.giscience.org/). The abstracts will be judged as all other conference submissions. We anticipate inviting authors of a selection from these papers to submit full papers for inclusion in a special peer reviewed journal issue (with a deadline for full papers in early Oct.).
For both of these activities, we are particularly interested in stimulating discussion and idea sharing about distributed geovisualization -- geovisualization distributed among components (in component-oriented software), geovisualization that draws upon distributed data resources, geovisualization that is distributed in space (e.g., on mobile devices), and geovisualization distributed among individuals (thus collaborative geovisualization). The activities above are not, however, restricted to these topics. We welcome submissions directed to any parts of the science goals within the current Commission "terms of reference" (see below)
Beyond the Commission-organized activities at GIScience, you are (of course) welcome to submit your geovisualization-oriented papers to GIScience as full papers for their planned refereed publication (deadline April 12).
We hope to see many of you at the Commission Workshop and/or the GIScience 2004 conference.
regards,
Alan MacEachren
Menno-Jan Kraak
ICA Commission on Visualization & Virtual Environments Terms of Reference
