@article{GranellCanut2014,

title = {Geospatial information infrastructures to address spatial needs in health: Collaboration, challenges and opportunities},

author = { Carlos Granell-Canut and Óscar Belmonte-Fernández and Laura Díaz-Sánchez},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/89109},

doi = {10.1016/j.future.2013.04.002},

issn = {0167739X},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},

volume = {31},

number = {1},

pages = {213-222},

abstract = {Most health-related issues such as public health outbreaks and epidemiological threats are better understood from a spatial-temporal perspective and, clearly demand related geospatial datasets and services so that decision makers may jointly make informed decisions and coordinate response plans. Although current health applications support a kind of geospatial features, these are still disconnected from the wide range of geospatial services and datasets that geospatial information infrastructures may bring into health. In this paper we are questioning the hypothesis whether geospatial information infrastructures, in terms of standards-based geospatial services, technologies, and data models as operational assets already in place, can be exploited by health applications for which the geospatial dimension is of great importance. This may be certainly addressed by defining better collaboration strategies to uncover and promote geospatial assets to the health community. We discuss the value of collaboration, as well as the opportunities that geographic information infrastructures offer to address geospatial challenges in health applications. textcopyright 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},

note = {IF: 2.786, Q1},

keywords = {Geospatial Information Infrastructures, Geospatial services, Health applications, Spatial data infrastructures (SDI)},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{GranellCanut2013,

title = {Enhancing integrated environmental modelling by designing resource-oriented interfaces},

author = { Carlos Granell-Canut and Laura Díaz-Sánchez and Sven Schade and Nicole Ostländer and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/92590},

doi = {10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.04.013},

issn = {1364-8152},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

journal = {Environmental Modelling & Software},

volume = {39},

pages = {229--246},

abstract = {Integrated environmental modelling is gaining momentum for addressing grand scientific challenges such as monitoring the environment for change detection and forecasting environmental conditions along with the consequences for society. Such challenges can only be addressed by a multi-disciplinary approach, in which socio-economic, geospatial, and environmental information becomes inter-connected. However, existing solutions cannot be seamlessly integrated and current interaction paradigms prevent mainstream usage of the existing technology. In particular, it is still difficult to access and join harmonized data and processing algorithms that are provided by different environmental information infrastructures. In this paper we take a novel approach for integrated environmental modelling based on the notion of inter-linked resources on the Web. We present design practices for creating resource-oriented interfaces, driven by an interaction protocol built on the combination of valid linkages to enhance resource integration, accompanied by associated recommendations for implementation. The suggested resource-oriented approach provides a solution to the problems identified above, but still requires intense prototyping and experimentation. We discuss the central open issues and present a roadmap for future research. textcopyright 2012 Elsevier Ltd.},

note = {IF: 4.538, Q1},

keywords = {Environmental information infrastructures, Environmental models, ESPANA-VIRTUAL, Integrated environmental modelling (IEM), Resource-oriented architectures, REST, RESTful interfaces, Spatial data infrastructures (SDI)},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}