From SDI to GSDI from local to global

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From SDI to GSDIfrom local to global

• Jarmo Ratia
• Director General, National Land Survey of Finland
• www.nls.fi
• President Elect
• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI)
  Association
• www.gsdi.org

The Role of Hydrographic Services with Regard to
Geospatial Data and Planning Infrastructure IHO
Seminar, Rostock, Germany, 8-9 November 2005
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Information Society and further on

• POST INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
• INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
• SERVICE SOCIETY
• INFORMATION SOCIETY
• NETWORK SOCIETY ?
• KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY ??

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Development to Information Society

• FIRST TRANSISTOR 1960
• FIRST COMPUTER 1980 100 000S OF USERS
• FIRST GRAPHICAL USERFACE 1995 1 000 000S OF
  USERS
• GLOBAL NETWORK 2005 100 MILLIONS OF
  USERS
• DIGITAL SERVICES 2020 BILLIONS OF USERS

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80 of A L L I N F O R M A T I O Nhave
location
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Information Society andSDI and GSDI

• NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (NSDI)
• GLOBAL SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE (GSDI)
• BOTH ARE STEPS TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
• THROUGH INFORMATION AND NETWORK SOCIETY

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THE WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
(WSIS)

• TUNIS
• November 16-17, 2005

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SDIs

• Portugal 1990
• USA 1994 Clintons executive order
• Korea 1995
• Netherlands 1995
• Canada 1996
• Finland 1996
• Hungary 1997
• Colombia 1999
• Ghana 2000
• India 2001
• By 2000 over 50 countries all over the world
• (Ian Masser)

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NSDI Strategy in Finland - Approved by the
Government

• Aspects of the strategy
• 1. Systematic co-operation
• 2. Preparation and implementation of common
  recommendations
• 3. Harmonization and improved maintainance of
  core geographic datasets
• 4. Maintainance of metadata and metadata
  services
• 5. Geographic information services
• 6. Principles of use and distribution
• 7. User applications
• 8. Research and education
• 9. Communication

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International development

• 1. GI2000 1995, European Union
• 2. GSDI 1, Bonn, Germany, September 1996
• 3. EuroGeographics 2002
• 4. GSDI Association 2004
• 5. INSPIRE, 2004, European Union

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Global Spatial Data Infrastructure conferences

• GSDI 1 Bonn, Germany, September 1996
• GSDI 2 Chapel Hill, USA, 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, Egypt (with FIG), April 2005
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• GSDI 9 Santiago, Chile, November 3-11, 2006

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GSDI Vision

• 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

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GSDI Goals

• 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

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GSDI members and partners

• Membership
• 26 Charter members
• Commercial, Government, NGOs, etc
• 26 Individual members
• 8 successful meetings
• 250-400 participants
• 52 countries
• Multiple training experiences
• Collaboration with multiple partners

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Grant Programs

• GSDI Small Grants Program
• The grants are limited to US 2500 each 
• Activities may focus on technical or
  institutional initiatives, as long as there are
  concrete/tangible outputs and that several
  institutions collaborate
• 2004 12 grants awarded
• ESRI Global Map GSDI Grant Program
• One copy of the ArcGIS system
• Maintenance (technical support and upgrades)
• Intergraph International Grant Program
• Open Interoperabililty Grants for Global Map
  Project
• 1 full license each of GeoMedia Professional and
  GeoMedia WebMap
• Twelve (12) months of software maintenance

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GSDI works through regional Committees

• Permanent Committees for
• Europe (EuroGeographics, EUROGI)
• Asia the Pacific (PCGIAP)
• Americas (PCIDEA)
• Africa (CODI and partners)

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GSDI Board Members (1/4)
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GSDI Board Members (2/4)
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GSDI Board Members (3/4)
Regional Representatives
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GSDI Board Members (4/4)
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GSDI Standing Committees

• Technical Working Group
• Legal and Economic Working Group
• Communications Committee
• Membership Committee
• Sponsored Projects Committee
• Conference Planning Committee

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GSDI Committees

• Technical Working Group
• observation and review of technical issues
  affecting the development of local to global
  spatial data infrastructures
• develops and reports on technical topics
  essential to the creation of compatible spatial
  data infrastructures, explores technical
  standards issues, and disseminates technical
  reports, examples, case studies, and similar
  learning materials
• The SDI Cookbook
• Version 2.0 in January 2004
• http//www.gsdi.org/gsdicookbookindex.asp

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Cookbook Objectives

• Define a reference environment for building
  compatible spatial data infrastructures for use
  by all communities
• Promote best practices, technologies, and
  guidance for their implementation in a changing
  Internet environment with low-cost reference
  implementations, wherever possible
• Create an online resource and information web for
  dissemination

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Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures The SDI
Cookbook       Version 2.0 2004       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
http//www.gsdi.org/gsdicookbookindex.asp
Editor Douglas D. Nebert, Technical Working
Group Chair, GSDI
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• Legal and Economic Working Group
• explores the legal and economic frameworks within
  which spatial data infrastructures are developed
  within individual nations and multi-nation
  regions
• encourages dialogue in regard to varying public
  policy and legal approaches and explores models,
  approaches, and experiences that may enhance
  cooperation among nations in sharing spatial data
  and spatial technologies.

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Newsletters

• Newsletters are prepared by an editor and issued
  on a quasi-regular basis
• SDI-Africa Newsletter
• SDI-Latin America Caribbean Newsletter
• SDI-Asia Pacific Newsletter
• FGDC Newsletter
• EUROGI Newsletter
• GSDI Newsletter
• Current Editor GSDI Board
• Its purpose is to report activities of interest
  to the SDI community around the globe

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Global Spatial Data Information ConferenceGSDI-9

• Santiago, Chile
• November 3-11, 2006
• Conference Theme
• Spatial Information Tool for Reducing Poverty
• http//www.igm.cl/gsdi9/

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Additional Information

• www.gsdi.org Global Spatial Data
  Infrastructure
• www.eurogeographics.org EuroGeographics
• www.eurogi.org European Umbrella Organisation for
  Geographic Information
• www.pcgiap.org Permanent Committee for
  Geographic Information for Asia and the
  Pacific
• www.cpidea.org Permanent Committee for the
  Americas
• http//geoinfo.uneca.org Permanent Committee
  for Africa
• http//www.opengeospatial.org Open Geospatial
  Consortium
• www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee