SORA

Spatial (IOER) and social science (GESIS, SOEP) research data infrastructures are to be established or expanded to achieve higher interoperability in consideration of international standards and framework requirements. Innovative analysis tools (cognitive apps) should enable combined investigations of research data from both infrastructures.

The hypothesis is that interdisciplinary research will be supported by establishing the interoperability of research infrastructures, as only this will enable the joint analysis of research data from different domains.

This project examined concretely using the pilot research questions on the topic of environmental justice through the following research questions:

• Which current research questions in the field of environmental justice are significant, or which further questions arise at the interface between social and spatial sciences?
• What infrastructures need to be built to address these questions, and how do existing infrastructures need to be expanded and networked in considering the state of art in information science and technology?
• Can newly developed concepts and models be transferred to other scenarios or domains?

The development of the research data infrastructure "Small-scale information on settlement and open space structure" includes the implementation of search, download and processing services and the addition of indicators for the description of current and past residential environment situations (focus on land use) to the data stocks. Furthermore, the answering of free user questions (without recourse to precalculated raster data) directly on original digital landscape models (ATKIS Basis-DLM) will be enabled. The developed data and services will be integrated into a parallel developed Cognitive App.