About SPACER

Historically, a student or researcher conducting fieldwork was only able to search for datasets relevant to their study sites after downloading data from their mobile devices into a computer back at their laboratories. SPACER aims to develop mobile software that improves the process by enabling repositories to be searched whilst the student or researcher is still out in the field. The project will develop a demonstrator prototype that enables mobile phones with built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to query repositories supporting standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) - a global group of over 380 private, public and academic organisations. The project addresses the need for efficient methodologies in fieldwork during learning, teaching and research. The project addresses the 'Mobile Technologies' priority area of the JISC Rapid Innovation Projects call of March 2009.

Links to SPACER documentation and source code:

Project Website:

http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/spacer

Project Blog:

http://spacerproject.wordpress.com

Open Source Code Repository:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/spacer/develop