随着信息时代的到来和迅猛发展,可用性的概念已经突破传统的工业领域,渗透到软件产品等信息产业的诸多方面,空间数据的可用性研究也应得到相应的关注。文章在追溯可用性来源及发展的基础上,结合信息科技领域的定义给出了空间数据可用性的概念,提出了空间数据可用性的研究框架、阐述了构成要素及相互关系并通过应用实例加以解释。最后探讨了空间数据可用性研究中需要考虑的问题。
Usability has broken through industry field and covered several aspects of information technology with the appearance and tremendous development of information technology, and accordingly spatial data usability is emphasized and studied. Tracing the origin and development of usability, the paper presents the definition of spatial data usability based on the software usability concept. The framework of spatial data usability, the usability elements and their relations are introduced, and the relevant applications are provided to give a better understanding of the above content . Finally the problems in the study of spatial data usability are also discussed.