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Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure. Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia Keith R. Thackrey GSDI Secretariat kthackre@gsdi.org. Topics. What is GSDI? Status and Activities Capacity Building. What is GSDI?. History. Started in the mid 1990s Small group of visionaries

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Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

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  1. Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia Keith R. Thackrey GSDI Secretariat kthackre@gsdi.org

  2. Topics • What is GSDI? • Status and Activities • Capacity Building

  3. What is GSDI?

  4. History • Started in the mid 1990s • Small group of visionaries • The same benefits that are realized internally translate across international boundaries

  5. GSDI Purpose To encourage the collection, processing, archiving, integrating, and sharing of geospatial data and information using common standards and interoperable systems and techniques ….. and accessible via the web

  6. GSDI Conferences • 1st International meeting held in Bonn Germany in 1995 • A small group of invited attendees only • 6th International GSDI meeting Budapest in September 2002 • Jointly with International Steering Committee for Global Map (ISCGM) • Over 250 attendees • Representing over 50 countries

  7. Officers • GSDI Board • Ian Masser, President • Mukund Rao, President-Elect • Santiago Borrero, Past President • Alan Stevens, Acting Executive Director • Doug Nebert, Chmn – Technical WG • Harlan Onsrud, Chmn – Legal & Economic WG • Secretariat (U.S. FGDC) • Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC Staff Director • Alan Stevens • Keith Thackrey • Oh-Sung Kwon

  8. Status and Activities

  9. The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure …. what’s next? • Global capacity building • Closer collaboration with other global organizations • Cookbook – a living document • Formalize the GSDI as an organization • Formation of Permanent Committee for Africa • Operate under UN/ECA/CODI • Approved at CODI meeting in May 2003 • GSDI-7 Conference – Bangalore, India • 2-6 February 2004 • Pre-conference Tutorial – 30,31 January 2004

  10. Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures: The SDI Cookbook Version 1.0 6 July 2000 Release for Review at the Fourth Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference, Cape Town, South Africa Disclaimer: This draft represents a work-in-progress that has been compiled from numerous contributions and available online documents contributing organisations. Full acknowledgement of contributions and citations will be provided in the initial public draft. Document Available At: www.gsdi.org

  11. Global Spatial Data InfrastructureFocus Areas • SDI Implementation Guide – internationally developed document to help grow globally compatible SDI’s • Geodata Development • Geodata Cataloging • Visualization, and Access • Metadata, Standards • Supporting Case Studies • Outreach and Capacity Building • Other Services

  12. Capacity Building

  13. Basic Training • Build a common basis for discussion and development • Concepts • Definitions • Tools

  14. Regional Training • Begin work on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) • National SDI (NSDI) information sharing • Things that worked and didn’t • Facilitator brings examples • Participants share examples • Maintain in training data base, and GSDI cookbook

  15. Sustainability • Establish task force of local, regional, and global partners to monitor growth • Establish national and regional coordinators • Track progress against pre-defined criteria (goals of regional training) • Build remediation plans to address shortfalls

  16. Beyond GIS • NSDI is only valuable as a tool to the non-GIS communities • Identify and contact user disciplines • Workshops for other disciplines • Components of NSDI (GIS basics) • How to use NSDI (discipline specific) • Successful examples (discipline and region specific)

  17. Current Projects • Global Map/GSDI Grant • Intergraph Grant • MACGA • URISA GeoCorps • Similar projects in Africa and Asia/Pacific

  18. Additional Information • www.gsdi.org Global Spatial Data Infrastructure • www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee • www.opengis.org Open GIS Consortium • www.eurogi.org European Umbrella Org. for Geog. Info. • www.cpidea.org.co Permanent Comm. For the Americas • www.pcgiap.org PCGIAP

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