Abstract:
It is observed that most initiatives in the field of spatial (geospatial) information, applications and technologies are tackled without a holistic view of the enterprise and its organizational framework within which these initiatives are to be implemented, resulting in many difficulties. The solution to this problem is to utilize the routines that are common in enterprise architecture management in order to bring in the necessary level of transparency, manageability, and synergy across the complex environment of a corporation because architecting an enterprise is about understanding how things work together and how to make changes of architecture feasible and this is a prerequisite for every successful business change. For better understanding of the spatial capability one needs to realize what the architecture of the capability is and how it can be documented in order to communicate the architecture description clearly and allow one to establish a baseline for further work. The first step towards clarifying this is to describe the fundamental structure of how the capability is delivered and executed in the organization and thus the objective of this paper is to define a meta-model for the spatial capability architecture. Resources and method of meta-model development are documented as well as notation used to express the meta-model. Further work should address area of spatial capability development and definition of common spatial capabilities for reference purpose. The defined meta-model is a part of the framework which is intended to support spatial capability development.
Page(s):
301-305
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Year: 2012