Friday 13th June 2014
09.30 Coffee (Room 2.01)
10.00 Welcome (Room 2.13)
Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
10.10 Session: Scottish Public Sector Applications
Chair: Selena Masnikosa (AECOM)
Step Change: Embedding GIS in the delivery of a digitally connected Scotland
Colin Morrison (Digital Scotland)
Asset information visualisation for Scottish Water, an open source and agile project
Tom Stork (Kemeling Consulting)
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Session: Web-based Working
Chair: Robin McLaren (Know Edge)
Moving 1000+ ArcGIS for Desktop Editor users to the Web
Morag Hawkins (Forestry Commission) and Murray Roden (ESRI)
The GeoWeb Challenge
Rob Dunfey (Shell)
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Session: Data and Beyond
Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh)
SpaceBook: The Final Frontier and Beyond?
William Mackaness (University of Edinburgh)
Information Technology and Environmental Data Management; from Observations
and Measurements to Decision Support Systems
Felipe Fernandez Perez, (IH Cantabria, Spain)
15.15 Tea
15.45 Session: Data Acquisition Research
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
New Opportunities for Synthetic Aperture Radar in Research and Business
Chris Haworth (Selex ES)
Gecoding Scottish Civil Registration Records from the C19th and C20th:
Challenges and Research Opportunities
Chris Dibben (University of Edinburgh)
16.45 Open Forum
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
17.30 Close
FRIDAY EVENING: From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower)
7.30pm Restaurant (Ti Amo, South Bridge)
c.10.30pm Brass Monkey (Drummond Street)
SATURDAY EVENT: From 3.00pm 'til v.late BBQ at Bruce's House (Tel: 667 0184 to make sure its on if weather poor)
26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre)
Bring fancy meat (if you want to) and drink. Sausages, salads, rolls and other basics provided.