Deliverables Metadata standard market launch During the project period the standardization of ISO TC211 19115 was in progress and was finalised in 2003. This standard is considered to homogenise the market for describing geographical data. INVISIP supported the distribution of this standard in the partner countries (Germany, Poland, Sweden and Poland) by dissemination activities, e.g. fairs, and by introducing metadata tools in institutions in the partner countries. Therefore, an existing tool (Metadata EntryTool) was translated into Polish, Swedish and Italian to improve the usability and catalyse the usage of ISO 19115. More information on the INVISIP project can be found at: http://www.invisip.de/invisip/index.html Testing and disseminating INVISIP (information visualisation for site planning) results Following a user centred design process, the core components of INVISIP (Metadata Browser, Entry Tool, Control Unit) were evaluated through all stages of the development process. After building and testing (n=8) a paper based conceptual mockup of the table-based visualisations of the metadata browser at the very beginning of the project, the results of this user test were put into a clickable, more interactive html-prototype. In a user test session with 8 users from the INVISIP consortium, the metadata browser demonstrator I (3d-library plus table-based visualizations mockup) and the entry-tool were tested. Major and minor usability flaws were discovered and eliminated. This evaluation was accompanied by a web-based user centred questionnaire, which was open to the public (preferably target user group) and intended to deliver feedback on a statistical valid basis. 32 persons participated. Interesting facts about the target user group were discovered, like their preferences for usage of metadata, visualization and search behaviour. Additionally, a second web-based questionnaire was established to evaluate the feasibility of the demonstrator I. Questions concerning the usefulness of the components and the data integrated gave important feedback to the consortium. The demonstrator II was evaluated partly with 8 users from the consortium. The table-based visualizations, the visual data mining component and the control unit were set up in a testing environment and evaluated using a formal usability test. Minor redesign issues were generated by this test. The feasibility of the demonstrator II will be evaluated by a web-based questionnaire as well. Some practical tasks concerning the system are given to the test persons, who have to answer questions about the user-friendliness and the system in general. Dissemination of the INVISIP project results took place in form of summarising reports. The final dissemination plan contains the intentions of the partners for the dissemination of the project result and their use in the partners daily activities beyond the end of the project. More information on the INVISIP project can be found at: http://www.invisip.de/invisip/index.html Metadata browser Metadata browser is a core element of the INVISIP (Information visualisation for site planning) and it supports different parties in the site planning process. The metadata browser enables users to locate appropriate geographic data and uses therefore information visualisation and information retrieval techniques. This main result consists of several components, which were developed by FHG-IGD and UKON. Information visualisation approaches, methods and components offer new techniques to the user whereas information retrieval techniques provide search mechanisms for Metadata based on ISO 19115. More information on the INVISIP project can be found at: http://www.invisip.de/invisip/index.html GIS-viewer The webGIS (Geographic Information System) stores geographical data, that are necessary for site planning processes and which is described by the metadata in the metadata base. 3 webGIS are available, one for Italy, one for Poland and one for Germany. They are based on available market products. Each of them contains example data. The webGIS is connected to the other INVISIP-components, so that the user can switch between metadata and original data. End-users of the webGIS are planners in authorities or in commercial offices, citizens or other people interested in site planning. A webGIS is useful in many different sectors. It can be helpful in all sectors, where geographical data is needed, such as environmental, geological, traffic (by ship, car and plane) or forest sectors. As it was not part of the project to develop a new GIS, the standard functions of common GIS-Systems are used. A main favourite of the webGIS is the combination with the metadata base. If the user is working with the metadata browser he has the opportunity to open the webGIS and view the data found. For a commercial application it is necessary to regulate the question about copyrights. In the most of the countries the cadastral data, for example, are data under state control, and other data belong to the entities, which have collected the data. More information on the INVISIP project can be found at: http://www.invisip.de/invisip/index.html Visual data mining components Visual data mining comprises a set of computer programs in the form of applets to use visualisation tools to find intrinsic relations in data sets. The visual data mining component is used in INVISIP as a tool to locate suitable datasets to be used in the planning process. The visualisations are state-of-the-art, providing interactive selection and visualisation of features, highlighting etc. The VDM part is a joint result of the efforts of partners IMATI, UoC and KTH. Additionally a Land price prediction Ttool has been created by UoC. Based on the data concerning land prices offered by Real Estate Agencies, published on the websites, the tool allows predicting the price of ground. More information on the INVISIP project can be found at: http://www.invisip.de/invisip/index.html Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available
