Papers and other Publications

Integrating Spatial Data Integration: An Architecture for Complex Transformation Services A Humboldt Paper, April 2010: This paper has been written by Thorsten Reitz, Daniel Fitzner, Marian de Vries and Ana Belen Antón Gironés for the INSPIRE 2010 Conference.; The short paper is available at the conference website as DOC (41.5 kB).; More information on HUMBOLDT's participation in the Conference can be found here.
Data Harmonisation Put into Practice by the HUMBOLDT Project A Humboldt Paper, April 2010: This paper has been written by Astrid Fichtinger, Joachim Rix, Ulrich Schäffler, Ines Michi, Moses Gone and Thorsten Reitz for the INSPIRE 2010 Conference.; The short paper is available at the conference website as DOC (29.5 kB).
The full paper will be published in the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research.; More information on HUMBOLDT's participation in the Conference can be found here.
Efficient Conceptual Schema Translation for Geographic Vector Data Sets A Humboldt Paper, April 2010: This paper has been written by Thorsten Reitz, Daniel Fitzner, Eva Klien and Ulrich Schäffler for the AGILE 2010 Conference.; The short paper is available at the conference website as PDF (214 kB).
HUMBOLDT: Providing Tools to Harmonise Geographic Data A Humboldt Paper, April 2010: This paper has been written by Mark Charlesworth for the Marine Data News and can be found here.
A Mismatch Description Language for Conceptual Schema Mapping and Its Cartographic Representation A Humboldt Paper, March 2010: This paper has been written by Thorsten Reitz for the GIScience 2010 Conference.; The full paper is available as SpringerLink.
Datenharmonisierung im Kontext von INSPIRE A Humboldt Paper in German, March 2010: This paper has been written by Astrid Fichtinger and T. Kutzner and is available in the conference proceedings of the 15. Münchner Fortbildungsseminar Geoinformationssysteme, pp. 222-238.
Grenzüberschreitende Datenharmonisierung für ein Hochwasser-Anwendungsszenario A Humboldt Paper in German, March 2010: This paper has been written by Astrid Fichtinger and Ulrich Schäffler for the publication of Schilcher, M. (ed.): INSPIRE – Grundlagen, Beispiele, Testergebnisse.; The article is available online as PDF.
Experience Report on the HUMBOLDT Workshop at the AGILE Conference 2009: The Experience Report is available as DOC (115kB).
Experience Report on the Humboldt Workshop at the GSDI11/INSPIRE Conference 2009: The Experience Report is available as PDF (206kB).
Applying Instance Visualisation and Conceptual Schema Mapping for Geodata Harmonisation A Humboldt Paper, February 2009: This paper has been written by Thorsten Reitz and Arjan Kuiper for the AGILE 2009 Conference.; The full paper is available as SpringerLink.
Humboldt: Armonizzazione dei dati a supporto delle Infrastrutture di Dati Territoriali A Humboldt Paper in Italian, November 2008: This Paper about Humboldt was written for the 11th ASITA Conference in Turin/Italy.; The paper (in Italian) is available as PDF (123 kB).
Humboldt: Un paso hacia la armonización de la información espacial en Europa A Humboldt Paper in Spanish, February 2008: This paper has been written by Ana Belén Antón for the GIS Event “Il jornadas de SIG libre” in Girona/Spain.; The document (in Spanish; 242 kB) and the poster presentation (in Spanish; 383 kB) are available as PDF.
Humboldt: Herramientas y procesos para la armonización de la información especial A Humboldt Abstract in Spanish, January 2008: Abstract about Humboldt for the GIS event “4th International Conference gvSIG” in Valencia/Spain (This event was joint by the OGC Technical Committee meeting and the Eclipse Day).
The Humboldt poster made for this event is focused on the known Fast Track Scenario. The methodology and automations provided by the Humboldt Framework are shown here.; The abstract (in Spanish; 24 kB) and the poster presentation (in Spanish; 364 kB) are available as PDF.
The Humboldt Project: Development of a Framework for Data harmonisation and Service Integration Technical Whitepaper, 18th April 2007: This whitepaper describes the aims and current status of Humboldt project, which aims to facilitate the harmonisation of spatial data and metadata by automating the necessary processes as far as possible. The project commenced with a comprehensive state of the art analysis on related themes. The methods and tools for geodata and metadata management were investigated and evaluated ...; The whitepaper is available as PDF (383 kB).
CGtopics1/2007 The EU Humboldt Project – Networking of Spatial Data: Weather, rivers preserve areas are inherently international and don’t care for national borders. The necessary political decisions and challenges resulting from natural disasters or concerning the protection of preserve areas are, consequently, also transboundary concerns. The spatial data required for this in Europe, however, shows an extensive heterogeneity.; The whole article is available as PDF (48 kB).

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Survey on the Geographic Information Market in Europe
The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, as coordinator of the EU project HUMBOLDT, in cooperation with the Technical University Darmstadt prepared a survey on the European GI Market.
The main goal of this study is to deduce certain trends and future developments based on the opinions and expectations of market experts and decision makers and not to obtain a representative empirical study.