Reading assignment

Reading/presentation assignment

Geog 495: GIS database design

11/7/05

Two persons will form a group to make 15 minutes presentation on given topics. The presentation is scheduled after thanksgiving (week 10). You are expected to provide a summary of the article of your choice. It would be much better if you can come up with some discussion topics so that we can be engaged more actively. Decide the topic by next Monday, and I will provide the reading for you.

If you are interested in some specific topic, you can make a suggestion by yourself, but you should get permission from me.

Expected deliverables would be 2-page short summary of the article.

Those are the suggested topics with readings you can choose from.

1. Ontology and its formalization of spatial concepts

Golledge RG, 2002, The Nature of Geographic Knowledge, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(1): 1-14

Couclelis H, 1992, People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS, in Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 639, edited by AU Frank, I Campari and U Formentini (New York: Springer-Verlag), pp. 65-77

Kuipers B, 1978, Modeling spatial knowledge, Cognitive Science 2: 129-153

Herring J, 1991, The mathematical modeling of spatial and non-spatial information in geographic information systems, In Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space, edited by Mark D and Frank A (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publsiehrs), pp. 313-350

Peuquet D, 1988, Representations of geographic space: toward a conceptual synthesis, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 78: 375-394

2. Data modeling

Voisard A and David B, 2002, A Database Perspective on Geospatial Data Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 14(2): 226-243

Tryfona N and Jensen CS, 1999, Conceptual Data Modeling for Spatiotemporal Applications, Geoinformatica 3(3): 245-268

Egenhofer M, 1992, Why not SQL! International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 6: 71-85

Jones CB, Kidner DB, Luo LQ, Bundy GL, and Ware JM, 1996, Database design for a multi-scale spatial information system, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 10(8): 901-920

Buliung RN, and Kanaroglou PS, 2004, On design and implementation of an object-relational spatial database for activity/travel behaviour research, Journal of Geographical System 6:237-262

Demirel H, 2004, A dynamic multi-dimensional conceptual data model for transportation applications, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing 58: 301-314

3. Case studies of object-oriented database implementation in ArcGIS

In Arctur D and Zeiler M, 2004, Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling. ESRI Press

Chapter 2: Streams and river networks, p.36-85

Chapter 3: Census units and boundaries, p.86-125