GSDI Association gsdi

GSDI Associationhttp://www.gsdi.org

Prepared for WGISS-19

March, 2005

Allan Doyle - [email protected]

WGISS-19 http://www.gsdi.org 2

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association

… a global forum to support exchange of ideas and encourage joint activities at the global level


Meetings

• GSDI 1 Bonn, Germany 4-6 Sept, 1996• GSDI 2 Chapel Hill, USA 20-21 Oct, 1997• GSDI 3 Canberra, Australia17-19 Nov, 1998• GSDI 4 Cape Town, South Africa13-15 Mr2000• GSDI 5 Cartagena, Colombia 21-24 May, 2001• GSDI 6 Budapest, Hungary 16-19 Sept, 2002• GSDI 7 Bangalore, India 30 Jan – 6 Feb, 2003• GSDI 8 Cairo, Egypt 16-21 April, 2005• GSDI 9 Santiago, Chile October 9-13, 2006


While primary work tends to be focused on addressing technical and policy issues, work is done within the context of important social goals.


Goals of the GSDI Association

support the establishment and expansion of local, national, and regional (multi-nation) spatial data infrastructures that are globally compatible,

provide an organization to foster international communication and collaborative efforts for advancing spatial data infrastructure innovations,


• support interdisciplinary research and education activities that advance spatial data infrastructure concepts, theories and methods;

enable better public policy and scientific decision-making through spatial data infrastructure advancements;

promote the ethical use of and access to geographic information;


• foster spatial data infrastructure developments in support of important worldwide needs such as:– improving local to national economic

competitiveness,– addressing local to global environmental

quality and change,– increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and

equity in all levels of government, and– advancing the health, safety and social

wellbeing of humankind in all nations.


Structure of GSDI Association

• Non-Profit Organization

• emphasis on inclusiveness and democratic processes


Membership

• Full, associate and individual memberships

• Agencies (national to local), companies (all sizes), academic institutions, non-profits, individuals

• Dues scaled upon approximate ability to pay


Board of Directors(18 - most elected)

• Officers - President, President-elect, Past President

• Sectors – Industry, Government, Academia, Non-Profit

• Regions – Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, N. America, S. America

• Permanent Regional Committees – Europe, Africa, Americas, etc.

• International & Global Organizations - International Geographic Org., GSDI Related Global Initiative, International Industry Org.

• Ex-Officio Members


Ongoing Activities

• Newslist ([email protected] - 1600 subscribers)• Monthly Regional Newsletters – Africa, Latin

America, Asia/Pacific (electronic)• Working Groups – Technical, Legal & Economic,

Standing Committees, etc. • Email Discussion Forums• Small Grants Program• Annual Meeting plus Training Workshops• Affiliated Projects: ESRI Global Map Grants,

Intergraph Open Interoperability Grant Program


GSDI Secretarial Support

• Europe - EUROGI• US - International Programs, FGDC• Asia - Indian Space Research

Organization (ISRO)


GSDI involvement in global groups

• GEO Participant– http://earthobservation.org

• WSIS Participant– http://www.itu.int/wsis/

• ISO TC211 Class A Liaison• Relationships with

– OGC– International Society for Digital Earth

http://earthobservation.org/

http://www.itu.int/wsis/


Current ProjectsGSDI Cookbook

• Developing SDIs (i.e., the GSDI Cookbook)

• how to implement SDI concepts within any nation adhering to interoperable standards

• ongoing international cooperative effort (Version 2, Jan 2004, several languages)


Current ProjectsUDDI Registry

• connecting islands of interoperability• creation of hundreds of catalogues of

data and services is inevitable but difficult to navigate

• registry of all services at a global level is needed (experimentation: GSDI Industry Advisory Group - Geographic Gateway)


Global Commons and Global Marketplace in Geographic Data

• redirect technological and legal approaches towards providing incentives for sharing locally collected data and enabling sharing

• new conceptual approach

• Seehttp://www.nap.edu/catalog/11079.htmlhttp://www.spatial.maine.edu/

geodatacommons


Members• Atlantic Institute• CIESIN - Columbia University• UN Committee on Development Information (CODI)-Geo• Delft University of Technology• Department of Science and Technology• ESRI• Eurogeographics• European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information

(EUROGI)• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)• GISPOL - National Land Information System Users Association• Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI)• Indian Space Research Organisation Headquarters• Institut Cartografic de Catalunya (Associate)• Intergraph Mapping and GeoSpatial Solutions• International Society on Digital Earth


Members

• ITC International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

• IGM (Military Geographic Institute of Chile)• Leica Geosystems• National Geographic Information Infrastructure Programme,

Survey Department, Nepal• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency• National Land Survey of Finland• National Resources Canada• NCGI, National Clearinghouse Geo-Information, India• Open Geospatial Consortium• Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH)• Spatialnetworks Pvt. ltd. (Associate)• State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China (SBSM)• University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

(UCGIS)


GSDI and WGISS - What can we do together?

1. Raise awareness through regular interactions• Presence at EOGEO workshops, GSDI meetings

2. GSDI Participation in WGISS Activities• EO Data Portal• Global Datasets• Data Utilization• IDN

3. Work on projects together• E.g. Global Registries

• WGISS IDN experience can help GSDI

4. Be part of a network, including GSDI, OGC, Digital Earth, WGISS, ISCGM, ISPRS• WGISS can become an ex-officio member of GSDI• GSDI can become a participant in WGISS


URLs• http://www.gsdi.org/

• Brochure http://www.gsdi.org/Association%20Information/brochure/2002GSDIbro.pdf

• Newslettershttp://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp

• 2004 Year-End report on GSDI activities http://www.gsdi.org/newslist/posts/newspostpage.asp?PK_ID=40

• GSDI-8http://www.fig.net/cairo

http://www.gsdi.org/

http://www.gsdi.org/

http://www.gsdi.org/Association%20Information/brochure/2002GSDIbro.pdf



http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp

http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp

http://www.gsdi.org/newslist/posts/newspostpage.asp?PK_ID=40

http://www.gsdi.org/newslist/posts/newspostpage.asp?PK_ID=40

http://www.fig.net/cairo



What is GSDI

• The GSDI definitionThe Global Spatial Data Infrastructure supports ready global access to geographic information.

This is achieved through the coordinated actions of nations and organisations that promote awareness and implementation of complementary policies, common standards and effective mechanisms for the development and availability of interoperable digital geographic data and technologies to support decision making at all scales for multiple purposes.


Four Main Components

• Overriding objective to maximise the use of national geographic information assets

• This requires some form of coordinated action on the part of government

• It must be user driven ‘to support decision making at all scales for multiple purposes’

• This involves a wide range of activities including technical and institutional matters and human resource development

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