Applying GIS in practitioner settings

Pauline McGuirk, Phillip O'Neill, Bill Mitchell, Scott Baum, Phillip O'Neill, Pauline McGuirk

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[This paper focuses on the involvement of CURS in a project aimed at developing an integrated GIS to facilitate inter-agency data sharing and analysis so as to enhance the planning and provision of family services in the Hunter. The paper focuses on the process of developing the 'soft technologies of engagement' necessary to facilitate the co-operative data-sharing between key government human services agencies that must underpin an integrated GIS. These soft technologies are required to address the ethical, procedural and technical challenges of data sharing and, more intangibly, to manage the organisation and institutional barriers to inter-agency data sharing. The paper outlines a template of ethical protocols and procedures for data-sharing as a first step in developing longer term inter-agency engagements. Crucially though, the paper argues that the process of engagement is central to the development of an informed and critical community of practitioners within government agencies. We see this longer term engagement as having the potential to address some of the broader epistemological and ontological critiques of GIS and spatial indicators.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop, University of Newcastle, Australia, 15-17 June 2005
    PublisherRMIT Publishing
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Print)9781921166600
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    EventARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2007 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop
    Period1/01/07 → …

    Keywords

    • geographic information systems
    • family services
    • evaluation
    • Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.)

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