http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/taxonomy/term/181/0 en http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/node/246 <p>We're in the latest edition of the <a href="http://joomla.wildlife.org/Biodiversity/images/Documents/dec2009_bdwgnewsletter.pdf">newletter</a> of the Biological Diversity Group of The Wildlife Society. The article focuses on the launch of the <a href="http://www.nlnature.com"><a href="/geoide/freelinking/NewFoundland" class="freelinking">NewFoundland</a> and Labrador Nature <a class="glossary-term" href="/geoide/taxonomy/term/157"><acronym title="“Integrative, discoverable collection of geographically related web services and data that spans multiple jurisdictions and geographic regions” (Lake et al. 2007) "The Geoweb provides the means for interconnecting individual GIS databases. Desktop GIS can access and ingest data that’s found on the Geoweb as well as publish data to it. We can consume services that reside on the web, and can integrate different perspectives through the common network that is the web. The Geoweb framework provides the means of integrating our collective knowledge. While there are means of consuming and representing our data in globes and maps, the entirety of the Geoweb is not yet a GIS. The barrier at present is largely data access and discovery, particularly when looking at the popular geographic exploration systems. There’s no access to data at the database level to unlock metadata and the multiple attributes that have been collected about our world. There’s also a lack of analysis functionality." (Ball 2008)">Geoweb</acronym></a></a>.</p> http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/node/246#comments biodiversity Memorial Newfoundland The Wildlife Society Web 2.0 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:37:53 +0000 admin 246 at http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide