1. NGAC Interagency Data Sharing and Collaboration Spotlight Session: Overview Robert F. Austin, PhD, GISP Washington, DC March 18, 2011

2. Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

3. Data Sharing & Collaboration During Disaster Recovery http://www.esri.com/services/disaster- response/japan-earthquake-tsunami-2011- map/index.html http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/Japan/ http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/Japan/ creating maps for use by recovery teams sent from Fairfax

4. Purpose of Today’s Session Identify best practices and lessons learned from interagency data sharing and collaboration partnerships Discuss success factors that may apply to the implementation of the Geospatial Platform

5. Description One of the challenges of the geospatial community is to encourage data sharing and collaboration among multiple agencies and organizations The session presenters will –Provide an overview of three current interagency data sharing efforts –Share perspectives on best practices and lessons learned –Participate in a discussion with NGAC members

6. Session Presentations Multi-Agency Collaboration Environment (MACE) –https://sharepoint.macefusion.com/Pages/About.aspxhttps://sharepoint.macefusion.com/Pages/About.aspx The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation- Level Data (HIFLD) Working Group –http://www.hifldwg.org/http://www.hifldwg.org/ Digital Coast –http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoasthttp://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast

7. Session Outline Context & Introductions – Bob Austin Session 1 – MACE – Bob Piccerillo Session 2 – HIFLD – Todd Spangler Session 3 – Digital Coast – Joshua Murphy Discussion/Q & A – All Summary: Best Practices, Lessons Learned & Next Steps