期刊名称：GI_FORUM - Journal for Geographic Information Science
电子版ISSN：2308-1708
出版年度：2013
页码：272-281
DOI：10.1553/giscience2013s272
出版社：ÖAW Verlag, Wien
摘要：GIS has been successful beyond measure around the world. Following Donald Norman,successful technologies disappear; they become infrastructure. Now almost 50 years afterits inception and successful disappearance to become an integral foundation for life in theinformation age, it's time to think of issues in the Post-GIS era. This presentation specificallyconsiders how the growing ubiquity of computing infrastructures around the world openpotentials for a new era of discovery in global science and geographic informationtechnologies. Because of the shifts in access and abilities to use digital information, the potentialof geographic information is bursting the limits of GIS, which originated at the endof industrial era and still reflects those origins. Research challenges abound. Post-GISscience and technologies hold key importance in facilitating connections between thephysical and virtual worlds, melding them into productive arrangements and raising importantquestions about changing social and cultural arrangements. Regarding science,networked digital infrastructures hold the potential to alter research in fundamental ways.Known as the Fourth Paradigm of science, data intensive science goes hand-in-hand withintensely collaborative large group research that considers location in fascinating newways. Recent scientific activities show how changes in the geographical organization of ourwork and conduct of science have already begun to take place. The presentation closes withconsiderations of central issues for this new age and recent activities that highlight theimportance of educating future professionals and scientists for the post-GIS era.
