2008, ISBN: 9783639096170

[ED: Taschenbuch / Paperback], [PU: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller], How are consumers determining whether spatial data is suitable for them? Today, the Internet provides access to plenty of mappi… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch / Paperback], [PU: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller], How are consumers determining whether spatial data is suitable for them? Today, the Internet provides access to plenty of mapping data of varying quality. To date, literature and industry conventions have both assumed that finding data which is fit for a given purpose, predominantly involves reading standardized data about the data (or metadata ). Metadata has to be written by the data provider and relentlessly updated as the data changes. This approach presumably made sense in 1983, before the Internet and Google were household terms, but where is the empirical evidence of potential consumers using metadata today? This thesis explores consumers experiences and argues that, for the typical spatial data consumer, data quality metadata plays virtually no role in determining whether a dataset is suitable or good enough for their use. Instead, their goals are to (1) try to find an understandable description of the data content and then (2) use the dataset to form their own opinion of its reliability. Therefore, to communicate fitness for use, data providers need to focus on including quality as part of the data description or implicitly portray quality as part of data use., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 204, [GW: 281g], Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, PayPal, offene Rechnung, Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand<

2008, ISBN: 9783639096170

How are consumers determining whether spatial data is suitable for them? Today, the Internet provides access to plenty of mapping data of varying quality. To date, literature and industry… More...

How are consumers determining whether spatial data is suitable for them? Today, the Internet provides access to plenty of mapping data of varying quality. To date, literature and industry conventions have both assumed that finding data which is fit for a given purpose, predominantly involves reading standardized data about the data (or metadata ). Metadata has to be written by the data provider and relentlessly updated as the data changes. This approach presumably made sense in 1983, before the Internet and Google were household terms, but where is the empirical evidence of potential consumers using metadata today? This thesis explores consumers experiences and argues that, for the typical spatial data consumer, data quality metadata plays virtually no role in determining whether a dataset is suitable or good enough for their use. Instead, their goals are to (1) try to find an understandable description of the data content and then (2) use the dataset to form their own opinion of its reliability. Therefore, to communicate fitness for use, data providers need to focus on including quality as part of the data description or implicitly portray quality as part of data use. Communicating Spatial Data Quality via the Internet Buch (fremdspr.) Taschenbuch 01.11.2008 Bücher>Sachbücher>Naturwissenschaften & Technik>Ingenieurwissenschaft & Technik, VDM, .200<

2008, ISBN: 9783639096170

How are consumers determining whether spatial data is suitable for them? Today, the Internet provides access to plenty of mapping data of varying quality. To date, literature and industry… More...

How are consumers determining whether spatial data is suitable for them? Today, the Internet provides access to plenty of mapping data of varying quality. To date, literature and industry conventions have both assumed that finding data which is fit for a given purpose, predominantly involves reading standardized data about the data (or metadata ). Metadata has to be written by the data provider and relentlessly updated as the data changes. This approach presumably made sense in 1983, before the Internet and Google were household terms, but where is the empirical evidence of potential consumers using metadata today? This thesis explores consumers experiences and argues that, for the typical spatial data consumer, data quality metadata plays virtually no role in determining whether a dataset is suitable or good enough for their use. Instead, their goals are to (1) try to find an understandable description of the data content and then (2) use the dataset to form their own opinion of its reliability. Therefore, to communicate fitness for use, data providers need to focus on including quality as part of the data description or implicitly portray quality as part of data use. Communicating Spatial Data Quality via the Internet Buch (dtsch.) Taschenbuch 26.11.2008 Bücher>Sachbücher>Naturwissenschaften & Technik>Ingenieurwissenschaft & Technik, VDM, .200<

2008, ISBN: 9783639096170

How are consumers determining whether spatial data issuitable for them? Today, the Internet providesaccess to plenty of mapping data of varying quality.To date, literature and industry co… More...

How are consumers determining whether spatial data issuitable for them? Today, the Internet providesaccess to plenty of mapping data of varying quality.To date, literature and industry conventions haveboth assumed that finding data which is fit for agiven purpose, predominantly involves readingstandardized data about the data (or 'metadata'). Metadata has to be written by the data provider andrelentlessly updated as the data changes. Thisapproach presumably made sense in 1983, before theInternet and Google were household terms, but whereis the empirical evidence of potential consumersusing metadata today? This thesis exploresconsumers' experiences and argues that, for thetypical spatial data consumer, data quality metadataplays virtually no role in determining whether adataset is suitable or good enough for their use. Instead, their goals are to (1) try to find anunderstandable description of the data content andthen (2) use the dataset to form their own opinion ofits reliability. Therefore, to communicate fitnessfor use, data providers need to focus on includingquality as part of the data description or implicitlyportray quality as part of data use. Buch (dtsch.) Anna T. Boin Taschenbuch, VDM, 26.11.2008, VDM, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9783639096170

How are consumers determining whether spatial data issuitable for them? Today, the Internet providesaccess to plenty of mapping data of varying quality.To date, literature and industry co… More...

How are consumers determining whether spatial data issuitable for them? Today, the Internet providesaccess to plenty of mapping data of varying quality.To date, literature and industry conventions haveboth assumed that finding data which is fit for agiven purpose, predominantly involves readingstandardized data about the data (or 'metadata'). Metadata has to be written by the data provider andrelentlessly updated as the data changes. Thisapproach presumably made sense in 1983, before theInternet and Google were household terms, but whereis the empirical evidence of potential consumersusing metadata today? This thesis exploresconsumers' experiences and argues that, for thetypical spatial data consumer, data quality metadataplays virtually no role in determining whether adataset is suitable or good enough for their use. Instead, their goals are to (1) try to find anunderstandable description of the data content andthen (2) use the dataset to form their own opinion ofits reliability. Therefore, to communicate fitnessfor use, data providers need to focus on includingquality as part of the data description or implicitlyportray quality as part of data use. Buch (dtsch.) Anna T. Boin Taschenbuch, VDM, 26.11.2008, VDM, 2008<