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11. Outlook
There are a number of aspects that have to be addressed in future work. These are
mostly not only on the technology but on collaborational, organisational, and funding
level with integrated information and computing systems. For geosciences and natural
sciences algorithms and concepts for processing, visualisation, and extended use of data
and information are available. The grand challenge with the wisdom will be to succeed in
overcoming the fate of decision makers on scientific funding, that gathering a critical mass of
acceptance in the society is vital.
12. Conclusion
This chapter has shown some prominent aspects of the complexity of the next generation of
system architectures that arises from integrating the necessary components and computing
resources, used in geosciences and geoinformatics. With technology advances new tools arise
for geosciences research and Information Systems and Computing Systems will become more
widely available. Due to the complexity and vast efforts necessary to implement and operate
these systems and resources there is a strong need to enable economic and efficient use and
operation. Hardware and software system components cannot be neglected anymore and
viewed isolated. System architecture issues to software, legal, and collaborational aspects are
in the focus and must be handled for operation, development, and strategies level. Various
application scenarios from geosciences and natural sciences profit from the new means
and concepts and will help to push the development not only of Geoscientific Information
Systems and Computing Systems but of Information Systems and Computing Systems for the
geosciences.
13. Acknowledgements
I am grateful to all national and international academic and industry partners in the GEXI
cooperations for the innovative constructive work and case study support as well as to the
colleagues at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, at the Institut für Rechtsinformatik (IRI),
the North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
(WWU) Münster, at the Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung (ZIV) Münster, in the German
Grid Initiative D-Grid and the participants of the postgraduate European Legal Informatics
Study Programme (EULISP) and of the WGGEOSP work group as well as the colleagues at
the last years GEOWS, GEOProcessing, CYBERLAWS, ICDS, and INFOCOMP international
conferences for prolific discussion of scientific, legal, and technical aspects as well as to the
staff at ZIV and the partner institutes and associated HPC companies for supporting this
work by managing and providing HEC resources over the years. I am especially grateful
to Hans-Günther Müller, SGI, for fruitful discussion and providing support with hardware
photos.
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