Complementing the European earth observation and geographic information body of knowledge with a business‐oriented perspective

Barbara Hofer,Florian Albrecht,Jochen Albrecht,Rob Lemmens,Stefan Lang,Estefanía Aguilar‐Moreno,Eva‐Maria Missoni‐Steinbacher,Glenn Vancauwenberghe,Aida Monfort‐Muriach,Martyna Stelmaszczuk‐Górska,Sven Casteleyn

doi:10.1111/tgis.12628

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AbstractA body of knowledge (BoK) is an inventory of knowledge or concepts of a domain that serves as a reference vocabulary for various purposes, such as the development of curricula, the preparation of job descriptions, and the description of occupational profiles. To fulfill its purpose, a BoK needs to be up‐to‐date and ideally widely accepted by academia as well as the private and public sectors. This article presents the initiative taken in the Earth observation and geographic information (EO*GI) domain to provide a current, comprehensive education‐ and business‐oriented EO*GI BoK called EO4GEO BoK. In particular, an approach to strengthen the business‐oriented perspective in the EO4GEO BoK is presented. This approach is based on the analysis of professional tasks and the mapping of these tasks to concepts and skills contained in the BoK. A critical reflection of the proposed approach that is based on the experiences gained during a workshop complements this article.

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The Earth observation (EO) and geographic information (GI) domain, referred to as the Earth observation and geographic information (EO*GI) domain in this article, is a high-skill sector that is continuously affected by technological advances, with increasing amounts of data available and a strong need to foster user uptake to draw value from these data and take advantage of the huge investments being made
The approach presented in this article emphasizes the use of tasks from business processes for detailing and evaluating the content of the EO4GEO body of knowledge (BoK) from a business-oriented perspective
The process of specifying the vocabulary gets more challenging when including people from outside the EO*GI domain, as these people have difficulty following the specific terminology of the domain (Rickles et al, 2017)