AGILE Short report about its status and activities

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AGILE Short report about its status and
activities

• Fred Toppen

Meeting Secretary-Generals Innsbruck, November
30th / December 1st 2002
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Issues

• Mission
• Membership / partnership
• Working groups
• Conferences
• AGILE Research agenda

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Mission

• .. to ensure that the views of the GI teaching
  and research community are represented in
  discussions that take place at the European level
  ..
• .. to provide a permanent scientific forum where
  (European) GI researchers and educators can meet
  ..
• Reference point for GI research and education
  Network of Excellence

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Members

• Membership
• 62 regular members
• 21 countries

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Other members

• Affiliated members
• (non-academic research groups (e.g. private
• sector) same rights but no voting right)
• Intergraph, ESRI, Autodesk, Bentley, MapInfo
• Partnerships (MOU)
• Intergraph, GISIG, UNIGIS, UCGIS
• others being negotiated

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Working groups

• Environmental Modelling
• Interoperability
• Data Policy
• Education

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Working groups

• Why working groups?
• to explore specific areas of research of current
  importance to members through specialist meetings
  and other collaborative activities
• to help AGILE in its lobbying activities
• to have a forum on specific issues in case of
  continuing shared interests among the members

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Conferences

• Enschede 1998
• Rome 1999
• Helsinki 2000
• Brno 2001
• Palma de Mallorca, April 25-27 2002

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AGILE research agenda

• What is the AGILE research agenda?
• an evolving structure (not a one time shot)
• a common effort of all AGILE members
• for public use and comment
• a European tool for research and debating

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AGILE research agenda

• Status AGILE research agenda
• Research Map of Europe
• Directory of Research themes and topics
• Some information about labs
• Green paper research initiatives

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AGILE research agenda

• Interactive Research Map of Europe

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AGILE research agenda

• Interactive research by country / city

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AGILE research agenda

• Information from members about research

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AGILE research agenda

• Search engine on research themes and topics

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AGILE research agenda

• Example of search results

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AGILE research agenda Green paper

• GI Policy and Society
• The theory of spatial-temporal information
  systems
• Dynamic modelling of environmental and social
  processes
• Integration of social and physical sciences in
  their contribution to space
• Semantic interoperability of spatial data