2009 SAG Award Winners
University of Luxembourg
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Project Goal
The aim of the GR-Atlas project is the creation of a digital thematic atlas for the Greater Region consisting of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Wallonia region, the Lorraine region, and the German Länder Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate.The atlas is designed as a WebGIS with a strongly developed historic component. As a multidisciplinary project, the atlas will gather thematic maps analyzing and visualising data coming from the social, human and natural sciences. All the maps and the important features will be linked to scientific descriptions. The atlas will give access to the underlying datasets, e.g. statistics. A project-specific challenge is the cross-boarder and interdisciplinary approach.
The project is financed by the Luxembourgish national research fund FNR. Scientific partners are the universities of Brussels, Liège, Metz, Trier, Saarbrücken and Aachen, the research institutes CEPS and CRPGL, the Nature museum of Luxembourg and the foundation Forum Europa.
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Business Problem Solved
The major challenge is the creation of a database containing multiple thematic maps of the trans-border Greater Region.
Another issue was the implementation of a Graphical User Interface which allows an easy and intuitive navigation as well as the possibility to freely combine the different thematic layers.
Technology Implemented
For the spatial data, ESRI ArcGIS Server Enterprise and Microsoft SQL Server are used. The scientific commentaries and additional information about the maps are organized with the content management system Joomla!
Development Team Biography
Michel Pauly, project leader. Michel Pauly is professor for medieval history at the University of Luxembourg
Malte Helfer, coordinator. Malte Helfer is private lecturer in Geography.
Gilles Caspar, technical implementation. Gilles Caspar has a MSc in Geographical Information Science from the University of Edinburgh.
