OPEN GEOSCIENCE DATABASE Anton V. Bashev*, Denis M. Zhilin**, School #192, Moscow, [email protected] Moscow Institute for Open Education; [email protected].

OPEN GEOSCIENCE DATABASE

Anton V. Bashev*, Denis M. Zhilin**,School #192, Moscow, [email protected] Institute for Open Education; [email protected]

maps.sch192.ru

WHAT FOR?mapping scientific parameters linked to a position on a space image or geographical map

value of a parameter color

A RESULT ISA value of a parameter in certain positionof a certain object type (river, soil, air …)obtained by a certain contributorin a certain time

Requirements to uploading dataFilters for viewing data

PARAMETERS AND COLOUR SCALES

What can be a parameter?Anything (number or name)

Discrete colour scaleOne interval or value – one colour

Smooth colour scale (for metric parameters)

The colour is interpolated within the range of border colous

Personal scales

DIFFERENTSCALES

EC 0-100 mkS EC 0-400 mkS

INTERFACE

Add – only for

registeredusers

View – for guests also

Upload data amounts in *.csvName;Lat;Long;Source type; Parameter type;Value;Date11-001;56.19292;Swamp;29.67995;EC;18;2010-12-3111-002;56.19373;Stream;29.67281;EC;116;2010-12-3111-003;56.19462;River;29.67041;EC;93;2010-12-31

COPYRIGHTSOnly open standarts and formats (*.kml)Public maps and space images (Google)

All the results send to the database go to the public domain

Allowed to copy, use and distribute not charging money and with the reference to the database

TOOLS EMPLOYEDPHP as the program language, MySQL as database management systemJavaScript for interaction with GoogleMaps

Should be automated• The reputation of a contributor

(peer estimated???) • Cross-checking (basing on statistically

based patterns) – needs correct procedures• ???

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS

ESTIMATION OF RELIABILITY

Rights to add new source and parameter types (not to get different name to one thing

Strong input format mundane job + source of errors

GIS and EDUCATIONPowerful tool for development

geoscience models and patterns (compressing information in mind)

education needs GIS, adapted to this task and patterns got from them

Decision making systems, applicable for general public life are based on GIS

General public should understand how they works to trust them decision making should be transparent and “playable”

THE MAIN PROBLEM

One should effectively compress data to under-stand the ideas of GIS

Experts do. Others do not.Bases obvious for experts

are vague for othersWhat, the devil, ontology is?

<10 bit/s

GIS

1010 bit/s

Experts

Others

DEVELOPING COMPLEXITY

MAP

+ VALUE

+ HEIGH OR DEPTH

+ TEMPORAL VARIATIONS

5D

WE NEED A REASONABLE WAY TO DEVELOP COPMLEXITY OF GISALONG WITH STUDYING!

4D

3D

2D

WHO CANIMAGINE 5D?

ZONEOF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT

A person can understand an answer if it can ask the corresponding question

Zone of proximal development (ZPD) a set of problems that a student can raise but still can not solve (after Vygotsky,1934)

All the studies are effective only in ZPD

ACTUAL ZONE

ZPD

PROSPECTIVEZONE

EVOLUTION OF ZPD IN RELATION TO GIS

Look! It works!It is important

for you!

GIS

How? Let me play with it

I am sick and tied to do it manually. How to automate?

What to dowith all thatfigures?

EXPERT

We need an opportunity!

LINKS AND CONTACTSDenis Zhilin [email protected] database maps.sch192.ruSome results fenevo.narod.ru

Thank you for attention

Poster presentation “Neogeoscience and Scientific Education” Tue 17:30-18:30 XL179