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PROJECT PHASE

Following the 12-day course in Castellón, students from eduGI.LA institutions will collaborate in one of several research projects, during an additional 2-week residence at either Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University Münster, or Universitat Jaume I. Project work will also be primarily in English.

Students should indicate their first and second preferences; the course organisers will try to meet these preferences.

Project offering at Universitat Jaume I.

“ACE-GIS: Adaptable and Composable e-Commerce and Geographic Information Services”. Funded by the European Union, through Sept 2004.

Tasks to be undertaken at UJI:

Ø Research and write-up state of the art in Web Service Chaining.

Ø Test and document user experiences with Geographic web service (WMS, WFS) conformance testing engine.

Ø Research and test free software (open source) tools to be used in geographic web services development.

Ø Assist in updating project multilingual website (www.acegis.net).

Project offering at University Münster.

“ACE-GIS: Adaptable and Composable e-Commerce and Geographic Information Services”. Funded by the European Union, through Sept 2004.

Tasks at Uni-Münster:

Ø The students of the summer school are introduced to ontology engineering techniques and tools.

Ø The students conduct a mini project split into small groups. Each group will construct an application ontology for one of the ACE-GIS web services. In a second step the students reference their application ontologies to a domain ontology, developed by the ACE GIS project earlier on.

Ø The developed application ontologies are evaluated and missing concepts in the domain ontology are identified. The goal of the mini project is to evaluate how the students referenced the application ontology concepts to the domain ontology. This will give valuable indications for domain ontology engineering.

Project offering at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Ø The students of the summer school resume the work developed in the practical session at Castellón,

Ø Split into small groups students will conduct a project which consists on the development of a Geodemographic classification for the Lisbon area, with emphasis on identifying deprivation areas,

Ø Each group will receive the census database for the Lisbon area, and will be proceed with the preparation and preprocessing of data,

Ø The groups will develop different classifications, possibly using different implementations of SOM (available at ISEGI-UNL) and present a final classification.

Ø The findings and conclusions of each group will be reported, discussed and compared in a final session.