Geospatial Technology. Mapped.
Introducing the first comprehensive knowledge reference system, base map, and exploration platform for the Geospatial Technology domain.
Geospatial Technology
Base Map
You are looking at the first comprehensive knowledge reference system and the first detailed base map of the Geospatial Technology domain.
We drew deliberate inspiration from hundreds of years of cartography and geography, mixed with our proprietary text mining and machine learning workflow.
More than 100,000 artifacts of diverse type and origin were processed, from scientific articles to glossaries, teaching materials, and encyclopedic entries.
Explorer
Armed with the basemap and the underlying inference engine, the Geospatial Technology Explorer web application allows you to perform in-depth exploration of this knowledge space.
Users can freely type or paste arbitrary text queries against the base map. Queries can consist of individual terms, phrases or whole documents.
Analyst
As is the case in the mapping of geographic space, the existence of a detailed reference system is prerequisite for performing meaningful analytical operations. In fact, the Explorer web app is already allowing some overlay-type analysis.
However, the vision driving this project reaches much further. In the long-run, any document relevant to the domain can be projected into this space. A dashboard web application called Geospatial Technology Analyst will allow users to:
- switch between different content types (e.g. research articles, working papers, glossaries)
- perform text queries
- browse the best-matching artifacts
- sort documents on various parameters
- examine patterns and relationships in the map
- gain access to content snippets and full-text links
User Scenarios
Ok, but what will I actually be able to DO with this Geospatial Technology knowledge platform?
Learn & Discover
- Don't know what Geospatial Technology is all about? — Zoom out for the big picture, zoom in for detailed concepts.
- Can't find a particular concept on the map? — Query and SEE where it is located!
- Evaluating job applicants? — Just paste their resumes and SEE them mapped.
- What are your competitors up to? — Paste their web sites, white papers, or patent filings and SEE where they're going.
Gap Detection
Are there technologies you should be engaging, concepts you should be learning, things you should be doing?
Find structural holes in your organization's knowledge-based activities. They will show up as gaps when overlaying whole documents.
Overlap & Difference
You want to directly compare multiple documents, like the resumes of multiple job applicants?
Just switch up the overlay color and commonalities and differences will become instantly apparent.
In this example, the Wikipedia pages of Esri (blue), Google (red), and Microsoft (green) are compared, relative to the Geospatial Technology domain.
Clusters & Outliers
Need to find documents pertaining to a particular topic, but also discover unknown unknowns?
The Geospatial Technology Analyst app will enable you to find out where documents are clustering, but also if outliers exist and where they are located. And yes, you can preview and follow links to those documents.
Hands-on
If you've ever used an interactive map, you already know how to navigate the Geospatial Technology Explorer: zooming, panning, queries — that's it!
Acknowledgements
The Data Science & Analytics base map and web apps were developed by BigKnowledge , utilizing its BoKMap platform, in collaboration with and support by the Open Geospatial Consortium ( OGC ).
Copyright: The BoKMap software is protected by copyright law. Please contact info@bigknowledge.net for further information.
Trademarks: BigKnowledge is a registered trademark of BigKnowledge LLC. BoKMap and the BigKnowledge logo are trademarks of BigKnowledge LLC. OGC is a registered trademark of Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
