MAP Project, Multimedia Access Prototype (MAP) Project

摘要

The Multimedia Access Project (MAP) project created a user-friendly, multimedia-based prototype that increased accessibility to the government's geographic information databases. The project was a test bed evaluation of distributed and collaborative access to open source government information. The results of the initial test bed evaluation were to assess and validate likely standards for use in DoD, government, public and commercial services. The objectives for this project are: (1) Provide information technology support to government agencies for crisis planning applications; (2) Provide the AIM Institute with the local infrastructure required to participate in the National Information Infrastructure (NII); (3) Deploy new technologies for presenting selected geographic data in a multimedia presentation format; (4) Distribute the geographic information over a broadband network to a substantial population; (5) Assess and validate likely standards for use in DoD, government, public, and commercial information service systems; (6) Prepare for further commercial development and generalization of such systems and services; (7) Collect evaluation data; (8) Evaluate the test; and (9) Provide public access to all evaluation data.