OVERVIEW HIS-SERVER MODEL
For the kick-off meeting, we reviewed the following items:
Databases
What the purpose of databases are ?
What relational databases are
Database design and querying
Caleb illustrated how databases are used on the back end of GIS applications such as HydroDesktop in querying datasets and visualizing spatial and temporal trends.
We also dealt with a broad overview of the HIS and their Server model, how it was related to the various applications that are used to retrieve and analyze data .
Every team member was assigned to read and try and understand the Observational Data Model (ODM, Schema for our local server) , its tables ,their fields and how some of the fields were related to each other.
Caleb was to install the SQL Server and upload the schema and prepare to discuss with the team.