http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/taxonomy/term/59/0 en http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/node/49 <p>Nov. 9, 2009 - legal issues? As we prepare to launch our website - we are wondering if<span> anyone has insights on legal issues/disclaimers? I've looked at Brian's e-flora stuff and borrowed some of his langugage around copyright, etc., and also borrowed some disclaimers from geocaching.com re: dangers of going into the wilderness.</span> </p> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span>But does a blanket copyright statement cover the intellectual property of the data? Or should that be stated explicitly? When VGI is generate, does that implicitly transfer the intellectual property to the owners of the <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>-site? If those data are eventually used to form wildlife policy, or show up in a paper, I imagine there would be a blanket acknowlegement to VGI contributors (which is the norm in scientific papers that use citizen science data - eg. Christmas Bird Count data) - but how explicitly does this have to be spelled out on the website?</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span>cheers,</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span>Yolanda</span></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Here's a place where we discuss the factors that enhance or inhibit the move from desktop GIS or online mapping or online GIS onto <a class="glossary-term" href="/geoide/taxonomy/term/162"><acronym title="A phrase coined by the book publisher, O'Reilly, to describe the next generation of the web. ">Web 2.0</acronym></a>.</p> <p>I've attached a chapter from Woodgate, Peter. 2007. "Factors of Innovation for the Australian Spatial Industry. Ph. D. Dissertation. Business Administration. RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia.</p> <p>I'm hoping that we can use some of Woodgate's factors of innovation in geospatial technologies. Hopefully this can form the basis for a user needs assessment.</p> http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/node/49#comments adoption geoweb Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:25:03 +0000 admin 49 at http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide