Posted by patrick_maue on September 29, 2011 under News | 
We have created two surve with which we try to understand the requirements of the environmental modelling community in respect to the migration of environmental models to the Web. A second survey asks for feedback on the current release version of the ENVISION portal. Both surveys take around 10 minutes to answer, check this page with an introduction and the links: http://www.envision-project.eu/survey/
Posted by patrick_maue on June 20, 2011 under Dissemination, News |
Marcell Roth (from IFGI, University of Münster) has won the second place at this year’s 52°North Student Innovation Price with his work about Geographic Feature Pipes. His implementation includes the Service Model Translator (SMT), which also forms an integral part of the ENVISION platform. Marcell received the price from Mrs. Svenja Schulze, North-Rhine Westphalia’s Minister of Innovation, Science und Research. He also presented his work (and some words about ENVISION) on the Geoinformatics 2011.
The awardees, Marcell from IFGI is second from left.
The following summary of Marcell’s work (as well as the attached picture) is taken from the announcement published on the 52°North website.
Second prize winner Marcell Roth proposes Linked Data as a trendsetting way to solve the problem of linking and aggregating data coming from different web services. OGC standards are combined with subject-specific ontologies to analyze complex spatial or spatio-temporal questions. The Geographic Feature Pipes portray a process for translating data from OGC Web Services in to the Linked Data Model. This process can also be used to continually update spatially dynamic Linked Data data sets. Thus, Geographic Feature Pipes help to build up the Geospatial Semantic Web. 52°North considers this technologically oriented proposal important for future development of spatial data infrastructures.
Posted by patrick_maue on June 7, 2011 under Dissemination, News, software |
More detailed versions of screencasts explaining how to use the ENVISION platform for the annotation, discovery, and composition of environmental Web services have been published on videolectures.net. Head over to the demonstrators section to see a description of all available screencasts, or go directly to our video page on videolectures. Thanks again to our partner IJS for setting this up.
Posted by patrick_maue on April 26, 2011 under News |
Jens Ortmann and Henry Michels from IFGI won the Best Paper Award at the 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science with their paper “Modelling Umwelten”. Our work within ENVISION about the specification of Events and their impact on activities was subject of this paper.
Posted by patrick_maue on December 30, 2010 under News |
This project started January 2010, and with the new year we are concluding our first project year. In the first few months we settled on the architecture and underlying technologies, initiated the open source project which gains more and more momentum, and identified the key research issues which will keep us busy in the remaining two years. I am looking forward to it…
The envision team wishes everyone all the best and a successful year 2011.
