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

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

3. What is GSDI?

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

5. 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 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. 6 GSDI Conferences  1 st International meeting held in Bonn Germany in 1995 o A small group of invited attendees only  6 th International GSDI meeting Budapest in September 2002 o Jointly with International Steering Committee for Global Map (ISCGM) o Over 250 attendees o Representing over 50 countries  1 st International meeting held in Bonn Germany in 1995 o A small group of invited attendees only  6 th International GSDI meeting Budapest in September 2002 o Jointly with International Steering Committee for Global Map (ISCGM) o Over 250 attendees o Representing over 50 countries

7. 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. 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 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. 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. www.gsdi.org Document Available At:

11. 11 Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Focus 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. 13 Basic Training Build a common basis for discussion and development Concepts Definitions Tools

14. 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. 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. 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. 17 Current Projects Global Map/GSDI Grant Intergraph Grant MACGA URISA GeoCorps Similar projects in Africa and Asia/Pacific

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