GeoChange: an experiment in wide-area database services for geographic information exchange

Author

Drew, Pamela ; Ying, Jerry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

fYear

1996

fDate

13-15, May 1996

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

23

Abstract

The GeoChange project is investigating a distributed database management architecture and services to facilitate the perusal, selection, and retrieval of multiple, third-party geographic information sources (GIS) across wide area networks, such as the Internet. The system uses a quasi-dynamic approach to information exchange which combines loose coupling of the source systems with distributed database management support services to improve the speed and reliability of retrieval. Application developers can use the system for ad-hoc merging of information from diverse GIS sources. Filters and integrity constraints managed as metadata bring further efficiency to the information exchange process. This paper is an introduction to the GeoChange system architecture and its operation. A protoype implementation using real geographic databases provided by the Hong Kong GIS community is near completion

Keywords

data integrity; distributed databases; geographic information systems; information networks; information retrieval; information services; visual databases; GeoChange project; Hong Kong; Internet; database management architecture; distributed database; geographic information services; information exchange; information merging; information retrieval; integrity constraints; retrieval speed; wide area networks; wide-area database services; Distributed databases; Geographic Information Systems; IP networks; Information filtering; Information filters; Information retrieval; Merging; Project management; Web and internet services; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 1996. ADL '96., Proceedings of the Third Forum on Research and Technology Advances in

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7403-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ADL.1996.502512

Filename

502512