Earlier this week EO4GEO 5th Newsletter was published.

It is particularly interesting to see synergies between EO4GEO project and other on-going projects and initiatives like The Construction blueprint sectorial skills alliance and Next Tourism Generation Alliance. Same happens with the constant increasing of Associated partners, who enrich the EO4GEO alliance: GeoTech Center (for skills and and competencies development for the GeoSpatial sector) and EIT Raw Materials.

But this Newsletter is special for GEOTEC since main UJI’s contribution to the project becomes now a reality. Sven Casteleyn, as WP3 coordinator, introduces the EO4GEO ecosystem of tools for educators and practitioners, which GEOTEC has been conceiving and developing since the very beginning of the project.

“The EO4GEO tools are envisioned as an ecosystem of independent yet collaborating software tools, which are all based on the Body of Knowledge (BoK) as a formally described, shared vocabulary of the knowledge and skills constituting the EO/GI domain. We discern two types of tools: platform tools, which serve to visualize, edit and maintain the BoK, and end user tools, which logically are aimed at end user”

Platform tools form a first layer of tools, with direct access to the BoK and capable of visualizing (BoK Visualizer), searching (Find in BoK) and editing (Living Textbook) the BoK. These tools are mainly aimed at project partners and collaborating experts who build the BoK. The second layer of tools consists of the BoK end user tools, which are logically aimed at the main stakeholders that use the BoK, i.e., practitioners of the educational and commercial sector of the EO/GI fields. Examples of such end user tools developed in the EO4GEO project include the Curriculum Design Tool for the educational sector, the Occupational Profile Tool and the Job Offer Tool for the commercial sector, and the BoK Matching Tool which bridges and serves both.

We invite you to read the full entry (5 minutes) to get an overview of the each tool forming part of this ecosystem.

The tools are now in a testing phase and their final release is foreseen for June 2020. We will keep you posted once the tools are ready and open for all.