femkeReitsma
news
I'm starting a new project that will involve developing a 3D model of the University of Canterbury. OK, so plenty of people are doing 3D models of urban spaces, why develop another one, other than to support day-to-day university business? Well, the aim is to try an inject a little (geo)semantics and create a rich knowledge-scape at a small town scale (i.e. 20,000 students + staff) that allows us to test out all kinds of related research ideas. The beginnings are here: http://www.virtualcampus.canterbury.ac.nz
geographic knowledge systems
It makes for a fun thought experiment to think what a geographic knowledge system might look like, in the sense of richly blending semantic web technologies with geographic information technologies, or better still, knowledge models with spatial data models, which might give us spatial knowledge models.
publications
Reitsma, F (2010). Geoscience Explanations: identifying what is needed for generating scientific narratives from data models. Environmental Modelling & Software 25(1):93-99. [pdf]
Stock, K., Robertson, A., Bishr, M., Stojanovic, T., Ortmann, J., Reitsma, F. and Medyckyj-Scott, D. (2009). eScience for Sea Science: A Semantic Knowledge Infrastructure for Marine Scientists. 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, UK, December 9-11.[pdf]