Be able to describe the main components of SDIs and know key objectives, benefits and current state-of-the-art of such initiatives.
Understand the conceptual strategies, organizational requirements and legal frameworks for leveraging the advantages of open geographic data infrastructures.
Recognize the importance of standardized data models to store, analyse and manipulate geographic phenomena.
Be able to explain the role of metadata for spatial data shar-ing across distributed networks.
Be able to describe the existing spatial data sharing policies including intellectual property rights, security issues, privacy issues, Open Government data initiatives.
Be able to explain the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concept together with its underlying publish-find-bind principle.
Know internationally accepted geographic- and IT standards (OGC, OASIS & ISO) and apply these in practical projects.
Be able to understand, design and implement geodata models according to standardised approaches.
Be able to publish geodata and geoprocessing services over the web: map services, data services (editing, search, image service), and analytical services.
Be able to define the interoperability needs beyond technical issues like direct access and industry standards on a legal, semantic and organizational level.
Understand the principles and techniques of spatial data organization and apply these principles and techniques to design and build spatial databases.
Based on these concepts, the students will learn how to utilize open, shared GIS resources to design and use Open GIS data structures, workflows and processes leveraging information repositories.
