Qualitätssicherung von Geodaten in einer Forschungsumgebung / Quality Assurance of Geodata in a Research Environment

Geodata are generated in a wide variety of research disciplines. A research environment was implemented in the form of a spatial data infrastructure; it provides tools for archaeologists and historians to collect, store and analyse data within a framework of harbour research. Standardized routines for data collection and quality control were established, the locations of all harbours investigated in the various projects of an extensive research programme can be visualized as data points. A multitude of relevant context information is provided from the fields of geology, hydrology and meteorology, by integrating into the system as web map services on topics such as the course of coastlines and waters, water depths and wave heights. In that way, the importance of using spatial information as a basis for in depth analyses and identification of future research topics for the humanities is demonstrated.