Barbara S Poore
Biographic Data
| ID | 5232492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara S Poore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara S |
| FAMILY NAME | Poore |
| SIGNATURE | POORE B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Geological Survey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Metadata
Metadata, or data about data, was first standardized by the Federal Geographic Committee (FGDC) in the 1990s. Metadata describe the origins, contents, quality, and distribution information of geospatial datasets. Metadata were intended to help organizations better manage their investments in data, promote data sharing among organizations, and help users understand datasets produced by others. The FGDC metadata standard and further work by other s…
Wall-E and the “Many, Many” Maps
The symbolism of the film WALL-E is employed to argue that at the heart of problems with ontologies and the “Semantic Web” lies a misunderstanding of the relationship between man and machine. Originally created to be processed by intelligent machines, top-down ontologies for the Semantic Web have so far proved inadequate to deal with the messiness and emergent properties of current developments in social networking on the Internet. Bottom-up onto…
Theory, Practice, and History in Critical GIS
Extending a special session held at the 2008 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, this commentary collection highlights elements of the critical GIS research agenda that are particularly pressing. Responding to a Progress report on critical GIS written by David O'Sullivan in 2006, these six commentaries discuss how different interpretations of ‘critical’ are traced through critical GIS research. Participants in the…
Order from Noise
In the so-called Information Age, it is surprising that the concept of information is imprecisely defined and almost taken for granted. Historic and recent geographic information science (GIScience) literature relies on two conflicting metaphors, often espoused by the same author in adjacent paragraphs. The metaphor of invariance, derived from telecommunications engineering, defines information as a thing to be transported without loss through a …
The open black box
Formalist theories of knowledge that underpin GIS scholarship on integration neglect the importance and creativity of end‐users in knowledge construction. This has practical consequences for the success of large distributed databases that contribute to spatial‐data infrastructures. Spatial‐data infrastructures depend on participation at local levels, such as counties and watersheds, and they must be developed to support feedback from local users.…
Order from Noise
In the so-called Information Age, it is surprising that the concept of information is imprecisely defined and almost taken for granted. Historic and recent geographic information science (GIScience) literature relies on two conflicting metaphors, often espoused by the same author in adjacent paragraphs. The metaphor of invariance, derived from telecommunications engineering, defines information as a thing to be transported without loss through a …
The open black box
Formalist theories of knowledge that underpin GIS scholarship on integration neglect the importance and creativity of end‐users in knowledge construction. This has practical consequences for the success of large distributed databases that contribute to spatial‐data infrastructures. Spatial‐data infrastructures depend on participation at local levels, such as counties and watersheds, and they must be developed to support feedback from local users.…
The open black box
Formalist theories of knowledge that underpin GIS scholarship on integration neglect the importance and creativity of end‐users in knowledge construction. This has practical consequences for the success of large distributed databases that contribute to spatial‐data infrastructures. Spatial‐data infrastructures depend on participation at local levels, such as counties and watersheds, and they must be developed to support feedback from local users.…
Order from Noise
In the so-called Information Age, it is surprising that the concept of information is imprecisely defined and almost taken for granted. Historic and recent geographic information science (GIScience) literature relies on two conflicting metaphors, often espoused by the same author in adjacent paragraphs. The metaphor of invariance, derived from telecommunications engineering, defines information as a thing to be transported without loss through a …
Theory, Practice, and History in Critical GIS
Extending a special session held at the 2008 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, this commentary collection highlights elements of the critical GIS research agenda that are particularly pressing. Responding to a Progress report on critical GIS written by David O'Sullivan in 2006, these six commentaries discuss how different interpretations of ‘critical’ are traced through critical GIS research. Participants in the…
Wall-E and the “Many, Many” Maps
The symbolism of the film WALL-E is employed to argue that at the heart of problems with ontologies and the “Semantic Web” lies a misunderstanding of the relationship between man and machine. Originally created to be processed by intelligent machines, top-down ontologies for the Semantic Web have so far proved inadequate to deal with the messiness and emergent properties of current developments in social networking on the Internet. Bottom-up onto…
Metadata
Metadata, or data about data, was first standardized by the Federal Geographic Committee (FGDC) in the 1990s. Metadata describe the origins, contents, quality, and distribution information of geospatial datasets. Metadata were intended to help organizations better manage their investments in data, promote data sharing among organizations, and help users understand datasets produced by others. The FGDC metadata standard and further work by other s…
Geographic Information Systems Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Cartography (3 works) · Data Management and Algorithms (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Semantic Web and Ontologies (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geographic information system (2 works)