Wednesday, March 5, 1997

Workshop1

GIS and the Internet: Al-Majlis Conference Room

Chairperson
Abdalla Al-Kuwari, Assistant Head of The Centre for GIS, State of Qatar

Time
08:00a.m. - 01:00 p.m.

Workshop Leader
James G. Linders
Professor, Department of Computing and Information Sciences, University of Guelph, ONT, Canada

Description
The Purpose of this workshop is to acquaint the user of GIS with the power of the Internet and how this can be used for GIS applications. The workshop introduces the user to the Internet and demonstrates its use for both GIS and non-GIS applications. There will be ample time for both discussions and impromptu demonstrations.
  • Internet Fundamentals
    • Description and history of the Internet
    • Internet connections
    • Administration of the Internet
    • Uses of the Internet
  • Internet Operation
    • Internet Protocols
    • Domain Name System
    • Internetworking versus Intranetworking
  • Using the Internet
    • Internet access and sign-on
    • TELNET access
    • Communicating with others through E-Mail
    • Moving files through the FTP facility
    • Reading and posting information through News Groups
    • Tunneling through the Internet using GOPHER
  • World Wide Web (WWW)
    • History and description of the WWW Hypertext Universal Reference Locators (URL)
    • Directories
    • Navigating the Web
    • Comparison of Web and Internet tools
    • Web tools including Java and hot Java
    • Building and maintaining a Web site
  • Issues for Internet Users
    • Networking policies and legal issues
    • Net Etiquette
    • Security
    • Selecting an Internet provider
    • Bandwidth requirements
    • Commercial use of the Net
    • Social impact of the Internet
  • Future of the Internet
    • Commercialization of the Net and Net currency (Finance)
    • Creating and Maintaining repositories teaching and learning via the Net (Education)
    • Multi-Media potential (Entertainment)
    • Communications (personal telephony)
    • Administration (Government)
    • Wireless Access
  • GIS and the Web
    • GIS Web sites
    • Data sources
    • Exploiting GIS functionality on the Web
  • GIS Web site issues
    • Security and access to data
    • Data quality and reliability
    • Access and control
  • GIS futures for the Web
    • Potential access to current remotely sensed information
    • GIS infrastructures
    • Sharing GIS objects
    • Common GIS processing through models
    • GIS applications development

 

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