In our work we discuss data quite a bit – where to find it, how to assess it, how to use it, metadata standards, and so on. The upcoming course I am teaching online at the University of Denver from January-March 2019 will focus on exactly these themes, along with location privacy, copyright, crowdsourcing, and hands-on work in solving problems with GIS from local to global scale. I thought some GISCO people (or a colleague of yours) might be interested in taking the course.
GIS 4630: GIS and Public Domain Data
http://universitycollege.du.edu/courses/coursesdetail.cfm?degreecode=gis&coursenum=4630
Course description:
Geospatial data are the foundation upon which GIS and spatial analysis rests. As GIS has matured, the challenge has evolved from generating data to managing the enormous volume of data from government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and industry, and increasingly, from ordinary citizens through citizen science and volunteered geographic information efforts. Key to working with this volume of data are essential issues such as privacy, copyright, public domain, cost recovery, metadata standards, and data quality that GIS professionals must grapple with to be effective in the 21st Century.
This class will discuss and apply these issues and work with a rich array of data sources to enable effective decision-making in a GIS environment.
Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D., GISP
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(11/24/2018)