Commons of Geographic Data -- About

What is a Commons of Geographic Data?
Project Overview
White Papers
Published Output from Project
Project Team
Selected Project Bibliography

Project Team Members


Harlan Onsrud
onsrud@spatial.maine.edu
+1 207-581-2175
Co-Investigator, Professor
Focus: legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting the creation and use of digital data, social effects of spatial technologies, ethics driven systems design


Marilyn Lutz
lutz@maine.edu
+1 207-581-1658
Co-Investigator, Director of Library Information Technology Planning, University of Maine System
Focus: library information technology planning and implementation


Silvia Nittel
nittel@spatial.maine.edu
+1 207-581-3681
Co-Investigator, Assistant Professor
Focus: database systems, distributed, heterogeneous systems, and mobile, sensor-based computing


Sudarshan Chawathe
chaw@cs.umaine.edu
+1 207-581-3930
Co-Investigator
Focus: database systems


Jim Campbell
campbell@spatial.maine.edu
+1 207-581-2059
CGD Graduate Research Assistant (Ph. D)
Focus: how to help people find out what they wish to know; protect what they don't wish to have known; preserve and expand our intellectual heritage


David McCurry
dmccurry@spatial.maine.edu
+1 207-581-2059
CGD Graduate Research Assistant (M.S.)
Focus: software engineering


Eeva Hedefine
ehedefine@spatial.maine.edu
+1 207-581-2059
CGD Project Manager Emeritus ... lost to the private sector
Focus: managing this project, spatial information science and engineering, sensors, mobile tracking and privacy


Kenton Williams
Kenton_Williams@umit.maine.edu
CGD Project Manager Emeritus ... lost to the private sector
Focus: remote sensing, photogrammetry, and geographic information systems (GIS)


Advisory Committee
Name Title Affiliation
Prudence Adler Associate Executive Director Association of Research Libraries
Allan Doyle President EOGEO
James Henderson Director Maine State Archive
Mary Larsgaard Assistant Head Map and Imagery Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara Libraries
Douglas Nebert Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Coordinator and Information Architect Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
Mark Reichardt President and Chief Executive Officer Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Eric Saltzman Board of Directors Creative Commons
Peter Suber Open Access Consultant Earlham College
Tsering Wangyal Shawa Head Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center, Geosciences and Map Library. Princeton University
John Wilbanks Executive Director Science Commons