Our key focus areas, detailed in our critical policy issues and questions below, are as follows:
• How emerging and developing technologies are likely to impact the future UK geospatial ecosystem, and how best to track its adoption and use in the economy.
• Further developing our understanding and methodology for valuing location data, applications and services to the economy and society.
• Building confidence in the geospatial ecosystem – including understanding changing public attitudes and growing the future pipeline of geospatial skills.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The advent of new standards and initiatives for data publication in the context of the World Wide Web (in particular the move to linked data formats) has resulted in the availability of rich sources of information about ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: ORDNANCE SURVEY LTD
Partially relevant as it focuses on linked data applications, but does not directly address the factors that constitute data as authoritative.
The Urban Big Data Centre aims to promote innovative research methods and the use of big data to improve social, economic and environmental well-being in cities. Traditionally, quantitative urban analysis relied on data ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
Partially relevant as it discusses the challenges and benefits of using big data in urban analysis, but does not directly address the factors that constitute data as authoritative.
The proposed UBDRC will bring together an internationally outstanding combination of researchers, data resources and engaged local and national stakeholders to establish a unique linked data resource based in the Univers...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
Partially relevant as it focuses on creating a linked data resource for urban research, but does not directly address the factors that constitute data as authoritative.