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CISG BOD: Chair (1-year): Chaowei (Phil) Yang, George Mason University
Vice-Chair (2-year): Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Secretary/Treasurer (1-year): Xuan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Board (2-year): Rob Raskin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Board (1-year): Zhong Ren Peng, University of Florida
Board (2-year): Michael Finn, United States Geological Survey
Board (student, 1-year): Wenwen Li, George Mason University
Help define the vision of the Geospatial CI of the future, including its components. Produce a White Paper vision document that captures the CI needs of Geography (in all subdisciplines) and which can be presented to NSF and other stakeholders.
Chair: Shaowen Wang, University Illinois, <shaowen@ad.uiuc.edu>
Vice-Chair: Ningchuan Xiao, Ohio State University, xiao.37@osu.edu
Educate geographers as to what CI is and what it can do. Generate articles about CI for the AAG Newsletter. Gain buy-in from all components of the Geography community so that we can build up allies. Identify relevant educational resources.
Chair: Chaowei Yang, George Mason University, cyang3@gmu.edu
Michael Finn
James Wilson
Website and Electronic Communication:[3]
Be responsible for the content of our web site including the wiki. Establish an electronic communication forum that enables proposal teams and other teaming activities to emerge. Maintain a list of funding opportunities.
Chair: Hannes Wu, hwu8@gmu.edu , George Mason University
Email list Manager: Qunying Huang, George Mason University
Wiki Manager: Jing Li, George Mason University
Website Manager: Zhenlong Li, George Mason University
Chair: Qingfeng Guang, U.S. Geological Survey
Vice Chair: Eric Shook, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Application & Visualization Committee:
Chair: Ben Tuttle, University of Colorado at Boulder
Vice Chair: Michael Page, Emory University
Knowledge & Metadata Committee::
Chair: Rob Raskin, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
SOA, SOC, Middleware Committee::
Chair: Xuan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Free and Open Source Geospatial Software Committee:
Chair: Sung-Gheel Jang, Ohio Kleveland State University
Vice Chair: Eric Wolf, U.S. Geological Survey
Awards:[4] Establish and disseminate awards that recognize progress in CI. Organize student paper competitions. Look for partners willing to fund awards.
Chair: Dawn Wright, Oregon State University
Vice Chair Mike Finn, U.S. Geological Survey
CI Specialty Group
Chair: Chaowei Yang
Members: Rob Raksin
Wenwen Li (student position)
Zhong-Ren Peng
Shaowen Wang
Dawn Wright
Xuan Shi
Candidate Statements
Sung-Gheel Jang Cleveland State University
Wenwen Li George Mason University
Zhong-Ren Peng University of Florida
Rob Raskin Jet Propulsion Labratory
Xuan Shi Georgia Institute of Technology
Dawn Wright Oregon State University
James W. Wilson James Madison University
Shaowen Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chaowei Yang George Mason University
Planned Activities
Education and Outreach:
Educate other geographers about CI and its capabilities
Address what CI can do for Geography (and geospatial science)
Engage geographers to invite their insights into CI
Bring our experiences back to our communities
Educate GI scientists at GIScience 2008 Conference
Provide briefings to NSF that include inputs from the entire community, speaking with a single voice
Organize discussions with other Specialty Groups and with computer scientists
Products:
A vision document analogous to NSF Vision statement (the one that NSF should have created)
AAG Newsletter article that describes CISG and opens dialog with all geographers (high priority)
Working models and examples of CI spanning all of Geography
Talking points for geographers to take to their communities
Proposal to NSF for Workshop to engage entire community
AAG Meeting Activities:
Establish CISG as a featured Specialty Group at a future Meting
Organize illustrated paper session in conjunction with other Specialty Groups with invited noted geographers
Web Presence and Internal Communication:
Develop Web portal that captures CI capabilities (see GEON web site as a good example)
Use our Wiki discussion to define christmas gift ideas and identify CI expertise
Management:
Set short-term and long-tern goals
Establish budget and create reports
Setup ad hoc committees for each of the nine CI Components (see next page)
CI Components
High performance computing for large-scale geocomputation
o Grid enabling
o Wireless communication
o Distributed computing
o Supercomputers
o Clusters
Software
o Analytical tools/ software for spatial analysis
o Visualization
o Spatializaiton from non-spatial information
Services
o Registries/catalogs
o Interoperable Web services
o Standards/protocols of torrent files and relevant downloads.
o Specifications
o Digital Earth technologies
Knowledge
o GIS&T Body of Knowledge
o Ontologies
o Metadata
o Best practices Online estimating software
Data
Examples
o Google Earth
o GeoVista Studio
Applications
o Demonstrations of how CI supports domains
Education
o Learning modules to introduce CI
o Serious games (location-based)
o Educational support at all levels
Communication
o Virtual organization/community to facilitate communications with experts
o Facebook for geographers (who knows who)
o Social networking tools (LinkedIn, FOAF)
