Abstract

Presenting the GeoDesign Knowledge Portal
Track: GeoDesign
Authors: Naicong Li

The GeoDesign Knowledge Portal, developed by the Redlands Institute and the Spatial Decision Support Consortium, offers users the information, knowledge and resources associated with both GeoDesign and spatial decision support. It includes a set of defined, inter-connected concepts pertaining to GeoDesign, such as GeoDesign problem types, application domains, knowledge domains and planning process including phases and steps. It further organizes a representative set of GeoDesign resources, such as planning process workflows, methods, tools and models, data sources, case studies, literature, and so forth. The GeoDesign Knowledge Portal facilitates learning of GeoDesign and accessing GeoDesign resources, promotes semantic clarity by adopting a common vocabulary for the user community, and promotes interoperability among GeoDesign resources by using a standard set of concepts to define and classify these resources.