The UCGIS GIS&T Body of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

Model Curriculum Task Force (1998-2003)

COMPETENCY BASED APPROACH

• THE GEOECH CENTER

THE FUTURE OF BoKFoundational Research

Regular user tasksJAVA RESTful WEB SERVICES +

JENA FRAMEWORD

JOSEKI – SPARQL ENDPOINT

Live Ontology (LO)Triple Store (JENA – TDB)

Regular Users

Software Client

Relational DB

GIS&T Manager

Web Application

Requires admin Feld expertEmployer

Job SeekerAccount to log in

SPARQLDirect Query Page

Store/ Retrieve Proposed Edits

e.g. JAVA applet embedded into an HTML page for interactive visualization

Apply approved edits on the repository (using JENA Framework)

Should allow read-only operations, no update queries should be allowed

The triple store will store the repository (metadata and the instances). The ontology will be prepared using OWL and SKOS

By accessing each web service directly via it’s URLAccessed this way, the web service will return results as Jason, HTML, Text or XML

BoK SCORECARD APPLICATION

http://carto.byu.edu/bokscore

BoK VISUALIZATION APPLICATION

CONCEPT MAPPING

Concept Map

Example Concept Map: Data Mining

Visualization of the “Data Mining” Concept map

Retrieving neighboring concepts of “Data Analysis”

Creating a new concept node.

Entering New Concept Name

Connecting New Concept to Existing Concept

CONCEPT SKILLS MAPPING

Concept and Related Skills Visualization

GIS&T BoK Bibliography Map

References Map Visualization

MODULE MAPPING

GIS&T BoK Module Map Visualization

BoK TEXT MINING APPLICATION

BoK VIRTUAL PERSISTANT ENVIRONMENT APPLICATION

Web Scraping Inside Second Life

Primative

Mesh

Limited Multi-media Capabilities

Self-contained User Interface

Network Friendly

Video