JISC

This project will build a stakeholder engagement tool visualising historic, current and future energy efficiency estimates at the level of individual buildings. Researchers exploring and investigating policy options on possible future states of the built environment need a simple mechanism to visually analyse and compare outcomes of different scenarios of urban energy reduction policy. This project will produce modelled estimates of building energy use for the period 2000-2050 for a sample geographic area in Cardiff, South Wales and provide a web based application that allows researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders the facility to explore varying spatio-temporal patterns of energy efficiency outcomes. We will also explore a novel usage of the Memento framework by enabling 'time-travel' both backwards ('web-time') and forwards ('content-time'). Further the work will provide insights into aspects of temporal modelling of the Ordnance Survey large scale geographic database, MasterMap. The latter will i form how adaptations to the JISC Digimap service might be best optimised to provide access to historic versions of this and similar resources. A range of outputs are envisaged - from a demonstrator web client aimed at the stakeholder research group needs , an experimental Memento geo-Timegate allowing issues related to 'content-time' to be unearthed and a schema and delivery mechanism for future delivery of temporal snapshots of large-scale mapping databases.

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