Objective The GEOWORKS project aims to provide assistance services for information selection and presentation which meet the demands of geo-reference, non-technical data users in the European public sector who need access to multimedia data.Municipalities and public organisations are an important and growing target market for IT products, and particularly for office and multimedia systems (electronic document management, photographic libraries) and geographical information systems (GIS). Many important tasks of these organisations, such as urban planning, public transport development, and the management of visitor and tourist information services, require facilities that make it easy for users to retrieve and combine information coming from new systems (multimedia systems, GIS) and from more traditional resources (databases, online services). Similar needs can be found in other markets. Concurrent computerised handling and accessing of this type of information is a very complex task. It necessitates mixing different types of graphic and non-graphic data such as digital maps, statistics, technical material and legal texts. These data are often located in separate proprietary databases and may be stored on different media and platforms. The work undertaken in GEOWORKS will consist of the design and development of new tools and in the adaptation and interconnection of the external systems integrated in the platform (assistant services). The main result will be a user-friendly environment allowing non-technical users to benefit from the integrated multimedia/GIS platform without any knowledge of the underlying assistant services. The products and services developed in GEOWORKS will be pilot tested by two large local government administrations and a national administrative agency. These have been chosen because they are representative samples of the European public sector with respect to size, geographic coverage and IT usage patterns and will provide a strong basis for development of exploitation activities. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographycartographygeographic information systemssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commercesocial sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transport Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Bull SA Address Tour bull 1 place carpeaux puteaux 92039 Paris la défense France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (12) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CMSU-COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM UNIT Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address Evelpidon street, 31 11362 Athenes See on map COMUNE DI BOLOGNA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Piazza maggiore 6 Bologna See on map DECISION SYSTEMS Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Earlsfort terrace Dublin 2 See on map INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Apartado 10105, rua alves redol, 9 1017 Lisboa See on map ISSI France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9 rue de conde 75006 Paris See on map Institut Géographique National France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 39 rue gay lussac 75005 Paris See on map KOMMUNEDATA Denmark EU contribution € 0,00 Address Vester soegade, 10/vi 1601 Copenhagen See on map NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Denmark EU contribution € 0,00 Address Vejlsovej 8600 Silkeborg See on map SIEMENS AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Otto-hahn-ring 6 81739 München See on map Systena Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Piazza del colosseo 9 00184 Roma See on map TELESYSTEMES France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 115 rue du bac 75341 Paris See on map VILLE DE LILLE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 59033 Lille See on map
