Geographic information systems and the BBC's Domesday interactive videodisk
Stan Openshaw, Helen Mounsey · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems · 1987
The Domesday Project is an ambitious attempt by BBC Enterprises Ltd to present a contemporary snapshot of the United Kingdom in the 1980s on interactive video disk. Two disks are being produced: the first, the local or community disk, consists essentially of information collected by the British people. The second, the national disk, has (amongst other material) a selection of data from both government and quasi-government sources. In total, the disks will hold about 250 Mb vies of digital data. ;is well as some 50000 photographs and around 20 million words of text. The paper introduces the idea of interactive video and the local disk. It then concentrates on methods of access to, and cartographic display of, data on the national disk. We conclude that it is a significant geographical information system which will ultimately form one of the most widely-used data base systems for the foreseeable future.