[Freegis-list] Thesis on Enterprise GIS

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Hi,
Brent Wood wrote:

>--- "Brundage, Robert G" <robert.g.brundage at us.army.mil> wrote:
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>>Hello Group:
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>>I am interested in doing my thesis on whether it is possible to compose an
>>'Enterprise GIS' scenario using shareware software on a Windows computer
>>network.
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>Hi Robert,
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>You may be interested in a paper I had published in the SECOND INTERNATIONAL
>SYMPOSIUM ON GIS/SPATIAL ANALYSES IN FISHERY AND AQUATIC SCIENCES.
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>See http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/2nd/pdf/contents.pdf which lists the paper by
>Brent Wood on constructing a Fishery GIS from free/Open Source components.
>(This was not formally presented at the symposium, but arose from another paper
>I presented, which used OS GIS tools & generated sufficient interest to have
>the second paper written for the proceedings) 
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I'm interested on this paper. We've build a full SDI over free software 
(geonetwork, mapserver, geoserver, mysql and gvsig),
and had done some presentations too, and I'm interested in contrast 
prespectives. It's your paper available?

>I have also given presentations on standards based GIS, where the various
>functional components of a corporate GIS are different (but interoperable) GIS
>packges. The focus was on not buying into proprietary systems, but ensuring
>that the components of a corporate GIS adhered to appropriate standards (eg:
>OGC) so the user could choose the most appropriate package for their needs out
>of the available commercial or Open Source offerings to build a customised
>suite of GIS tools to best meet their needs. I guess such a suite could equate
>to an enterprise GIS.
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Well, the point of my group was to prove the maturity of free GIS 
solutions to build a reald world solution.
Another point for us was to use free (and not only open source) tools. 
Our proposal was presente at GisPlanet on
Lisbon (Workshop 09 on wednesday, june 1: An Open Source Solution for 
the GI World)

>>I am having trouble finding literature on this topic.
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I agree with Jan-Oliver Wagner than maybe you'll have an easy path to 
yor goal tryin to integrate free GIS
pieces into a 'enterprise' integrated solution. It may be, and has be done.

>>Can anybody out there help me locate published studies, reports,
>>presentations, books, conference papers...
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Look at the literature from the main free servers: Mapserver, GeoServer, 
Deegree, GeoNetwork. Look too at
the GSDI Cookbook, and as client tools you can try QGis, uDIG. gvSIG by 
now has his docs only in spanish and
the current version available for download only has WMS conectivity.

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>>Cheers,
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>>  Brent Wood
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Greetings
    Luis W. Sevilla