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Global Spatial Data Infrastructures: at the crossroads moving forward

Global Spatial Data Infrastructures: at the crossroads moving forward. Digital Earth Brno, Czech Republic 21–25 September 2003 Ian Masser and Alan Stevens Harlan Onsrud and Keith Thackrey GSDI Association. Global Spatial Data Infrastructures: at the crossroads moving forward.

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Global Spatial Data Infrastructures: at the crossroads moving forward

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  1. Global Spatial Data Infrastructures: at the crossroads moving forward Digital EarthBrno, Czech Republic21–25 September 2003 Ian Masser and Alan Stevens Harlan Onsrud and Keith Thackrey GSDI Association

  2. Global Spatial Data Infrastructures: at the crossroads moving forward Digital EarthBrno, Czech Republic21–25 September 2003 Alan R. Stevens, PhD US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Secretariat US Geological Survey www.gsdi.org +703-648-5119

  3. Create a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) ……… 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

  4. Presentation • Considers the evolution of Global Spatial Data Infrastructure to become an Association • Some key features of its Strategic Plan that is under consideration at the present time • Achievements • Where to from here …………..??

  5. Global Spatial Data Infrastructure • GSDI conferences • GSDI 1 Bonn Germany Sept 1995 • GSDI 2 Chapel Hill NC October 1997 • GSDI 3 Canberra Australia November 1998 • GSDI 4 Capetown South Africa March 2000 • GSDI 5 Cartagena Colombia May 2001 • GSDI 6 Budapest Hungary September 2002 • GSDI 7 Bangalore India February 2004 • GSDI 8 Cairo (with FIG) April 2005

  6. Evolution • Steering Committee formed at GSDI 3 in 1998 together a number of Working Groups • Technical Working Group produced first edition of SDI Cookbook for GSDI 4 in 2000 • FGDC took over secretarial role after GSDI 4 • Proposal to create a GSDI Association agreed at GSDI 5 in 2001 • Consultation process began in May 2001

  7. Creating the GSDI Association • Incorporated in Virginia in June 2002 • Board of Directors operating since September 2002 • Past, present and incoming Presidents, chairs of technical and Legal and Economic Working Groups and secretariat • Bylaws agreed by Steering Committee/ Council in January 2003 • Fully operational by GSDI 7 in 2004

  8. GSDI SecretariatProgress 2003 Permanent Committees for: • Asia & the Pacific (PCGIAP) • Americas (PCIDEA) • Europe (EUROGI) • Africa (CODI and partners) KISM, UNECA, CODI, EIS Africa

  9. Draft strategic plan • Currently in preparation by the Board of Directors and the Secretariat for approval by the Steering Committee/Council • Next to build the implementation plan • Enlisting contributions from newly formed membership

  10. GSDI Strategic Plan………. • Vision • Mission • Goals • Objectives

  11. GSDI – An idea at the cuspVision………. Foster SDI development locally to globally • Access data at a variety of scales and from multiple sources • Common standards an interoperable systems and techniques • Heavy reliance on partners world-wide

  12. GSDI – An idea at the cuspGoals………. • Promote and develop awareness and exchanges • Facilitate data access/discovery via clearinghouse, portal web services • Stimulate & conduct capacity building • Conduct and sponsor SDI development research • Engage partners to help

  13. Continue to develop awareness and exchanges • Provide forums for SDI professionals, scientists, and applications people on a regular basis to share and exchange ideas • Collaborate with other global organisations in developing SDI awareness and interaction by contributing technical papers, building mutual technical sessions, providing workshops on SDI topics, conducting training, etc within their technical forums • Provide for direct interaction with policy makers around the world to develop SDI awareness and encourage SDI development

  14. Goal 1 continued • Maintain and update the GSDI Cookbook and other relevant publications related to SDI development • Maintain a current web presence through the GSDI web page with appropriate linkages to related organisations promoting the same principles • Publish a GSDI Newsletter • Build an awareness within other disciplines as to the application of geospatial decision support tools for their mission needs.

  15. Facilitate data access/discovery through clearinghouse web services • Create simple and effective Web services • Develop metadata that accurately defines the data, how to access the data, and the integrity of the data • Support the development of national and organisational business cases through development and maintenance of return on investment models • Metadata/data model development

  16. Encourage capacity building • Conduct SDI awareness training for both ministers responsible for SDI activities and those responsible for other disciplines that make use of spatial data • Conduct training for those that may be coordinating SDI activities within any country • Facilitate the sharing of information and case examples of best practice • Provide on-site support as requested for hands-on work to accomplish the above activities • Conduct follow-up with those trained in order to determine progress • Establish a knowledge infrastructure

  17. Promote and conduct SDI development research • Stimulate the academic community to conduct research relating to SDI development • Maintain an online SDI library of reference material • Implement a small grant program in support of SDI research • Facilitate networking of SDI researchers around the world

  18. Establish an active fund raising program to support these activities • Enlist professionals and decision makers to build a fund raising (grant seeking) program • Identify and partner with global donor organisations to seek out and obtain funds to conduct capacity building throughout the world • Keep abreast of the current/changing state of funding mechanisms for regional and global public good • Prepare requisitioning instruments and follow up with donors

  19. GSDI achievements/advances (1) • Multidisciplinary forum for exchange of SDI ideas and experiences at the global level • through its conferences and publications • through activities of working groups • Strong links with other bodies • global level - Digital Earth, Global Map, etc • regional level - EUROGI, Eurogeographics. etc

  20. GSDI achievements/advances (2) • Institutional creation at the regional level • EUROGI, PCIDEA, PCIDEA, • Establishment of CODI in Africa – May 2003 • Critical involvement of the leaders of the commercial community

  21. GSDI achievements/advances (3) • Growing importance of capacity building • GSDI 5 launch of ESRI Global Map/GSDI grant programme • GSDI 6 launch of Intergraph Open Inter-operability grant programme • Multiple training seminars/workshops • GSDI small grant program 2003

  22. GSDI achievements/advances (4) Communication/outreach • Cookbook (www.gsdi.org) • Update • Case examples • Newsletter • Current newsletter • Africa newsletter • Evolve the Africa model to the Americas and Asia and the Pacific

  23. Where to from here?Unanswered (evolving) questions…… • Expand/refine the core values and purposes for GSDI • Build the implementation plan • Iterate it with the strategic plan • How do we develop the trust for inter-institutional coordination? • How to institutionalize coordination? • How to implement solutions across boundaries and institutions

  24. Where to from here?Unanswered (evolving) questions…… • How doe we leverage our resources? • Working with RAVI, ISCGM, for capacity building • Also with Intergraph and ESRI in their grant programs • Others????? • Donors???

  25. Where to from here?Unanswered (evolving) questions…… • Are there any critical policy considerations that we overlooked? • Are there any that we should be looking at for the future? • Critical technical issues that we should invest in? • What research issues are good to investigate?

  26. Where to from here?Unanswered (evolving) questions…… • ETC, ETC ……………….? ……….……….join us and help

  27. So what did he say…………??? • The evolution of Global Spatial Data Infrastructure as a concept, a methodology/practice, and as an association • Some key features of its Strategic Plan that we are considering • Achievements • Where to from here …………..??

  28. Additional Information • www.gsdi.org Global Spatial Data Infrastructure • www.pcgiap.org Permanent Comm. for Geog. Info. for Asia and the Pacific • www.erogi.org European Umbrella Org. for Geog. Info. • www.cpidea.org.co Perm. Comm. For the Americas • www.codigeo.org Africa – newly formed

  29. Additional Information • Global Spatial Data Infrastructure • www.gsdiassociation.org • For business activities • Soon to merge with the current site (gdsi.org) • Heavily linked at this time • www.opengis.org Open GIS Consortium

  30. Global Spatial Data Infrastructures: at the crossroads moving forward Digital EarthBrno, Czech Republic21–25 September 2003 Alan R. Stevens, PhD US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Secretariat US Geological Survey www.gsdi.org +703-648-5119

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