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... -- Levy 2004, p.78 T he announcement of the first Virtual Globes Scientific Users Con ference1 caps three decades of rapid technological change that has had profound and challenging impacts on the mapping sciences. Geographic information systems (GIS)
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... It examines the forces that drive and accompany the need for GIS/GIScience professionals, including technological change, demand for geographic information, and changes in organizations. It assesses education and research needs, including essential training and education, new curriculum challenges and responses, quality assurance in education and training, and organizational challenges.
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... The mapping sciences, despite numerous attempts to formulate one, still lack a coherent, comprehensive research agenda. Scientists from the multiple disciplines engaged in GIS/GIScience should make a concerted effort to achieve consensus on such an agenda, using the most recent outline proposed by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
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... The goals of the UCGIS are: · To unify effort by providing ongoing research priorities for ad vancing theory and methods in geographic information science and to as sess the current and potential contributions of GIS to national scientific and public policy issues; · To facilitate the expansion and strengthening of geographic infor mation science education at all levels and to provide the organizational infrastructure to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research in geo graphic information science; and · To benefit society by promoting the ethical use of and access to geographic information and by fostering geographic information science and analysis in support of national needs. SOURCE: UCGIS website, http://www.ucgis.org (accessed May 24, 2006)
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... Through its member-driven consensus programs, OGC works with government, pri vate industry, and academia to create open and extensible software appli cation programming interfaces for geographic information systems and other mainstream technologies. Its mission is to lead the global develop ment, promotion, and harmonization of open standards and architectures that enable the integration of geospatial data and services into user appli cations and advance the formation of related market opportunities.
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... e. The UCGIS Model Curricula Body of Knowledge3 should be maintained and widely adopted and implemented, since it provides a basis for determining the eligibility of education achievement claims for GIS certification.
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