a mobile framework for geographical indication web ...

A MOBILE FRAMEWORK FOR GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION WEB SERVICES Shefalika Ghosh Samaddar1 and Rabindra K. Barik2 1

Visiting Faculty, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India Assistant Professor, School of Computer Application, KIIT University Bhubaneswar, India 1 [email protected], [email protected] 2

the Indian Parliament 30th December, 1999), Trade Marks (Act passed in the Indian Parliament on 23rd December, 1999), Geographical Indications (Act passed in the Indian Parliament on 23rd December, 1999), Industrial Design (Act passed in the Indian Parliament on the year 1999), Plant Variety Protection and Farmer’s Right (Act passed in the Indian Parliament on August, 2001) Layout of Integrated Circuit Design (Act passed in the Indian Parliament, 2000) [1].The accelerated growth rate of the human intellect of any country warrants a rapid development of information infrastructural facility protecting their intellectual property. Basically determination of potential Geographical Indication (GI) is a necessity for timely protection of intellectual property of geographical characteristics [2]. For organised information infrastructure of GI, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) needs to be used in which each stakeholder can access, use and exchange spatial and non spatial data for social, economic and environmental activities. Integration of GIS, remote sensing and GPS technology will provide an ideal infrastructure for GI protection. GI data contains both spatial and non-spatial data. The spatial data gets manipulated by GIS technology where as non-spatial data gets its treatment through a database server. There may be requirement to map spatial data to non-spatial data depending upon the functionality which can be achieved with ease in the proposed infrastructure using GIS [3]. GIS technology improves the capabilities to the user to collect, manage, analyse and retrieve large volumes of spatially referenced data and associated attributes collected from a variety of sources [4]. With the addition of mobile communication technology, GIS has wider applications in decision making, storage of various kinds of data, bringing data and maps to a common scale for user need, superimposing, querying and analysing the large amount of data, and designing and presenting final maps and reports to administrator and planner [5]. GIS technology deals with the large amount of spatial data and nonspatial data for deriving useful information in maps as well as tabular forms for better understanding of development of information infrastructure required for offering web services in GI [6].

Abstract: The accelerated growth rate of the human intellect warrants a rapid development of information infrastructural facility protecting their intellectual property. Basically determination of potential Geographical Indication (GI) is a necessity for timely protection of intellectual property of geographical characteristics. The process for registration filling and determination of GI remains manual in most of the nations. Apart from determination of potential candidature of GI and registration of GI, various types of analysis of existing GIs is one of the key issues to be tackled for timely protection of GI. Enhanced growth of communication and information technology, integration of heterogeneous repository of data from the different data sources can be achieved. At the present scenario, the dynamic updating of data, data analysis, data visualisation and data uploading are lacking in most of the information system in GIS environment. For real time integrated Geographical Indications Information monitoring, it is essential to integrate information system with geospatial database. Visualisation of integrated Geographical Indications (GI) information is possible on the desktop environment with the help of GIS technology. But it is not sufficient for updating the data in dynamic environment. It can possible to perform dynamic tasks like update, analysis and visualise of GI information through the mobile devices with the modern high end mobile communication infrastructure. It will make suitable to take the decision at anytime from anywhere in the world. However, the data repositories can be timely updated with the help of common mobile devices from any location. In the present work, a framework has been proposed for the mobile based SDI Model for the better management of Geographical Indications Information Infrastructure with the use of mobile devices by the integration of geospatial database. Keywords: Geographical Indication, Intellectual Property Rights, SDI, Open Source GIS, SOA, Mobile GIS. INTRODUCTION Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) refers to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognised having legal validity. There are seven types of IPR like Patents (Act passed in the Indian Parliament 10th March, 1999), Copyright (Act passed in

GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS MANAGEMENT: INDIAN SCENARIO Geographical indications is defined in relation to goods

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