Scalable data collection infrastructure for digital government applications

Highlights are presented of a project on the development of a scalable data collection infrastructure of digital government applications. The approach takes advantage of both the distributed nature of the data and the distributed ways of interacting with it. The approach is three-parted having theoretical, systems, and application components. On the theoretical and systems levels, work has continued on the development of the BISTRO system. On the applications level, work has continued on the investigation of the use of peer-to-peer networks in a number of domains in which the proper handling of spatial data is important.