Topic outline

  • Welcome to the course


    NOTE: starting from academic year 2022-2023, this course will no longer be arranged. The course KIG-C1030 can be studied instead


    The course learning sessions will be held in Zoom, and the general discussion and primary means of contacting the course staff will be in Teams. Links can be found below (visible only to students registered to the course).

    All course materials will be provided in English. In learning sessions Finnish is used if everyone present prefer it over English.

    • The goal of the course is to teach you about the importance of spatial data and allow you familiarize yourselves with existing spatial data sets and data providers. How spatial data is managed and what kinds of technologies are used for it is also an important part of the course.


      Please remember to register to the course using the new Sisu system.
      Lectures will be held on-line in Zoom. Recordings of lectures will be posted in panopto.
      To pass the course, you need to write a learning diary, do a group work project, and gain sufficient amount of points from weekly exercises.

      Date

      Time

      Lecture topic

      Exercise deadline

      Wed 15.9

      10-12

      Introduction

       

      Thu 16.9

      14-16

      Spatial data modeling and management

       

      Wed 22.9

      10-12

      Data sets in Finland 1

      Round 1

      Thu 23.9

      14-16

      The INSPIRE directive and data

       

      Wed 29.9

      10-12

      Spatial metadata

      Round 2

      Thu 30.9

      14-16

      Spatial data model technologies

       

      Wed 6.10

      10-12

      Group work mid-period check

      Round 3, diary submission

      Thu 7.10

      14-16

      Learning diary peer assessment

       

      Wed 13.10

      10-12

      Technical standards for spatial data

      Round 4

      Thu 14.10

      14-16

      Spatial data business (by Juha Saarentaus)

       

      Wed 20.10

      10-12

      Data sets in Finland 2

      Round 5 (postponed to Wed, 27.10)

      Thu 21.10

      14-16

      Infrastructures and cloud services

       


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  • Learning session materials

  • Exercise materials and submissions

  • Learning diary instructions

    One part of the course is writing a learning diary, which describes your work on the course, and especially how you learn as you work on the course materials. The focus of the learning diary should be in your own learning, and self-reflection. Please remember to work on the learning diary starting from the very first week of the course.

    The learning diary can contain the following:

    1. Description of each learning task (learning sessions, exercises, self-study) you've done on the course. Remember to emphasize what you learned and how working on the material affected your own thinking. This sort of reflection is much more important than just describing what happened. A description does not give any information about what you learned, what you thought about, and how this has allowed you to reflect on your own knowledge.
    2. Any particularly important ideas, conclusions, eureka moments, and such you have during the course
    3. Time-keeping - a rough estimate of how much time you have used for the various learning tasks
    4. Feedback on the course - what you think worked well, what you think worked badly, what you think was especially important or irrelevant
    An appropriate length for a learning diary is between 5 and 15 pages, depending on how broadly you wish to describe your learning and work on the course.

    The learning diary is assessed using a rubric. You will use this rubric when peer reviewing other students' learning diaries, and it will also be the basis for the grading your diary.

    If you want, you can further structure your learning diary using things like the Gibbs’ reflective cycle. The following web resources might be useful:

    https://blogs.helsinki.fi/contpolphil/files/2013/10/learning_diary.pdf


  • Group work materials

    The Assignment

    The actual group work assignment can be found at the Exercise materials and submissions -page. The return box for group work also includes the main instructions.

    The Schedule

    Form groups by Wednesday, September 22nd
    Group work mid-period check on Wednesday, October 6th
    Group work submission deadline on Monday, October 25th