Big Data in Geographic Information Science Panel 2012
In conjunction with the Geographic Vocabularies Camp Santa Barbara 2012 (GeoVoCampSB2012).
Presented by the Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lectureship in Geography and spatial@UCSB.
University of California, Santa Barbara, 3rd February 2012, 4:30pm-6:00, 1930 Buchanan Hall.
Description
The rapidly increasing information universe with new data created at a speed surpassing our capacities to store it, calls for improved methods to retrieve, filter, integrate, and share data. The vision of a Big Data science hopes that the open availability of data with a higher spatial, temporal, and thematic resolution will enable us to better address complex scientific and social questions. However, on the downside, understanding, sharing, and reusing these data becomes more challenging. Big Data is not only big because it involves a huge amount of data, but also because of the high-dimensionality and inter-linkage of the involved data sets. The on-the-fly integration of heterogeneous data from various sources has been named one of the frontiers of Digital Earth research, Bioinformatics, the Digital Humanities, and other emerging research visions. The panel will discuss which role GIScience plays in the Big Data age. We hope to identify the research trends and major challenges behind the buzzword. Big Data is a big topic, instead of technical issues, e.g., addressed by Hadoop, the panel will focus on the problem of geographic data integration.
Panelists
- Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois, USA
- Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Mike Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany
- Mark Schildhauer, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA
- Krzysztof Janowicz (moderator), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
