The Digital Service File (DSA) – The Rag Integration and Information Platform for Spatial Data

Thomas Koslowski,Katharina Telenga

doi:10.46873/2300-3960.1247

Abstract

The Digital Service File (DSA) – The Rag Integration and Information Platform for Spatial Data

Highlights

Users can employ DSA 2.0 to access the RAG drawings archive containing more than 100,000 mine drawings and plans as well as the RAG aerial photograph archive, which has more than 100,000 aerial records
While the first phase of the DSA development project was mainly concerned with the extensive search features and their interaction with the map functions, including the linking-in of data containers from diverse specialist departments, the stage in the development process focused, firstly, on extending the functional scope of the DSA and adapting it more closely to the individual needs of the user, and, secondly, on integrating into the DSA, or newly implementing for the system, process-supporting applications already used in other web services
In the DSA this personalisation feature is represented by the "myDSA" function that allows the user to store in profiles, and within the application, all the settings he/she has activated in the DSA, such as the choice of search options, the selected map contents or the layout of the dialogue windows

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Introduction

RAG has been using geo-information technology for resolving geospatial questions for more than 20 years as an integral part of many of its business activities This practice was initially put in place for active mining operations involving statutory planning and approval procedures. Over the coming decades – and this means well beyond the date when the German coal industry ceases production in 2018 – geospatial data are still likely to be in great demand for solving all kinds of issues related to mining subsidence, mine surveying, real estate and mine water. This data covers a range of subject areas and is held at various organisational levels (Fig. 1), in different EDP systems and in a number of different analogue archives (Fig. 2). Legal and operational requirements mean that many of the data files have to be kept available for many years to come

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