DGRP Conclusions

M. Goodchild

Near-term actions

• Bios and papers now posted on conference website
  • website will be stable (it's been there since 1993)

• Draft report to be circulated to attendees for comment
  • getting it out quicly is important

• NSF - Office of Cyberinfrastructure
  • would this group offer to give a presentation there?
  • timeframe: early part of year

• Special issue of a journal - international journal of gi science?
  • time-frame: 6 months to get the papers together, reviewed and edited

• other mechanisms for continued discussion
  • CGGR-L
  • other technologies
  • further meetings
  • specialist workshops at conferences in application domains

• intellectual property
  • under US law, a gazetteer may not be copyrightable
  • ca. 1994 interior govt. conclusion was placenames are not copyrightable, but the design of that gazetteer is copyrightable
  • the Feist decision

Pulling this together

• response and discussion very gratifying
• a major message to take away: what many have perceived as a major expansion in geospatial interest is directly related to what we're interested in:
  • organization of knowledge
  • the search process
  • etc.
• bottom line: this is a very current issue

Kudos to

• Jordan Hastings for logistics
• Karl and Allen, for helping