Spatial Data Infrastructure
GRS-21306
Course Introduction
Arnold Bregt
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Contents
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I Presentation participants and expectations
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II Nature of the course
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III Course structure, reader, assessment and
learning environment
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IV Changes since last year
I Presentation participants and expectations
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What did you remember from last Christmas?
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Name
Country
Course Expectations
Experience with SDI
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II Nature of the course
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Most GRS courses are rather methodological or
technical
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Quite often one best answer
The solutions works
Evaluation is more right/wrong
This SDI course is about technical but even more
on organization, policy and human aspects
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Argumentation, discussion, creativity
Scientific communication (symposium stetting)
Evaluation is more insufficient, adequate, good, very
good
Bloom's taxonomy of six levels of the
cognitive domain
III Course structure, reader, assessment and learning
environment
III Course Structure
III Course Structure (elements)
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Organized in weeks
Every week has a fixed format
Elements of the week are:
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Introduction lecture
Reader
Case and Self-study
( Guest lecture )
Exercise
Student presentations
( Excursion )
Feedback on Exercise
III Course Structure
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Student Group form a team
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Result of the team:
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Every week presentation (oral or poster) on a view on
Spatial Data Infrastructure
Groups need to select their own case
III Reader
Week 1 (SDI concepts)
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1. “Spatial data infrastructure for Sustainable
land management” (background information)
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2. “Spatial data infrastructures as Complex
Adaptive Systems” (essential read)
III Case of the Week
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You compile a group of 5 persons
You select a SDI for further investigation (country,
region, organisation, etc)
Every week you present on aspects of your case
study
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Your SDI case as a complex adaptive system
Your SDI as a technological infrastructure
Your SDI as an organisational infrastructure
The use of your SDI in a context (using ArcGIS online)
III Assessment
Group's case presentations
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Article
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Exercise
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Assessment
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Oral and poster presentations will be marked
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Exercise of week 1 and week 2 will be marked
III Learning environment
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www.geo-informatie.nl/courses/grs21306
IV Changes since last year
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We will publish the papers earlier on web
Now two excursions instead of one
Change in workplace (before Radix)
Stress the importance of the paper (deliver short
outline (by you))
Add a workshop as a method (week 4)
Earlier introduction of ArcGIS online
Update week 3 (Organization)
Final Remark
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Questions?