From SDI to GSDI with special focus on Regional SDI in Europe (INSPIRE)

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From SDI to GSDI with special focus on Regional
SDI in Europe (INSPIRE) 

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

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Information Society and further on

• 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
• The amount of personal computers will soon exceed
  the population of the world.

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

• National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
• Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure (RSDI)
• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure(GSDI)
• Steps towards knowledge society through
• information and network society

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International development

• USA 1994, Executive order by Clinton
• GI2000 1995, European Union
• GSDI 1, Bonn, Germany, September 1996
• EuroGeographics 2002
• GSDI Association 2004
• INSPIRE, European Union
• proposal 2004, will be in force from
  spring/summer 2007

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SDI, RSDI and GSDI

• The emergence of Spatial Data Infrastructures
  (SDIs) is considered to be the major development
  in the GI-world the last ten years.
• Considerable amounts of money are invested in
  their development
• Intensive discussions are held on the development
  of a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI).
• The Europe INSPIRE-directive (INfrastructure for
  SPatial InfoRmation in Europe)

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Does your nation have an active or proposed
initiative for developing a national spatial data
infrastructure (or its equivalent)?
Yes    (GSDI questionnaire in 1998)    

•     Antarctica Australia Canada Columbia
  Finland France
• Germany Greece Hungary Indonesia India
  Japan Kiribati

• Macau Malaysia Netherlands Northern Ireland
  Pakistan (PROPOSED) Russian Federation
  (STARTING) South Africa Sweden United Kingdom
  United States

In 2003 120 countries considering SDI Projects
(Ian Masser)
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Dynamic spatial data infrastructure in an
ubiquitous information society

• Spatial data is created, processed and delivered
  in real-time
• More and more sensors and detectors are used
• Traditional SDI will broaden to more versatile
  snapshot systems which depict natural phenomenon
  and human activity in real-time
• Risk management
• - Tsunami warning system
• - Hurricane warning systems in the Caribbean
• - Earthquake warning systems in Japan
• - Flood control systems
• - Tracking of icebergs in Northern-Atlantic

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The National Geographic Information Strategy of
Finland
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The Finnish SDI strategy

• prepared by the Finnish Council for GI (accepted
  in August 2004)
• the INSPIRE process was followed closely during
  the preparation
• part of the Government Information Society
  Programme
• includes guidelines and working program (23
  actions) for
• co-operation structures and mechanisms
• standards and specifications
• harmonisation of the core data sets
• metadata and metadata services
• GI services
• use and access policy
• user applications
• research and education
• communication

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Framework of the strategy the general SDI
model (INSPIRE)
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General status of the implementation of SDI

• The Finnish Council for Geographic Information
  (Coordination body)
• Official national advisory board in GI affairs
• Current term until end of 2007
• 18 members key stakeholders (government,
  research, industry, ...)
• Main task implementation of the SDI strategy
• Part-time secretariat
• Supporting working groups
• metadata
• harmonisation
• data services
• research and education
• first implementation actions (preparatory steps)
• INSPIRE follow up
• political awareness raising

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Implementation actions

• standards and specifications
• - several national recommendations in
  process
• harmonisation of the core data sets
• - identification of the harmonisation needs
  ongoing
• metadata and metadata services
• - draft profile in consultation phase
• - new metadata service in development
• GI services
• - drafting of the interphase recommendation
  ongoing
• use and access policy
• - analysis of models ongoing
• user applications
• - general map viewing service exists
• - GI lending facility
• research and education
• - analysis of development needs ongoing
• communication
• - national independent magazine exists
• - annual GI related fair exists

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Challenges in the implementation of the national
strategy in Finland

• Political support long term funding
• Feasibility with the INSPIRE directive form
  timetable
• Delopment of national budget policy funding
  pricing ?
• Structure and role of the local level
  administration in future
• Co-operation between organisations new
  national legislation ?
• Resources for co-ordination on voluntary basis
  ?

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INSPIRE The INfrastructure for SPatial
InfoRmation in Europe

• Directive
• of the European Parliament and of the Council
• establishing
• a Infrastructure for Spatial Information
• in the European Community

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INSPIRE-directive

• Aims at making available relevant, harmonised and
  quality geographic information for the purpose of
  formulation, implementation, monitoring and
  evaluation of Community policy-making
• Principles
• Data should be collected once and maintained at
  the level where this can be done most effectively
  
• It should be possible to combine seamlessly
  spatial data from different sources and share it
  between many users and applications
• Spatial data should be collected at one level of
  government and shared between all levels
• Spatial data needed for good governance should be
  available on conditions that are not restricting
  its extensive use
• It should be easy to discover which spatial data
  is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose
  and to know which conditions apply for its use.

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INSPIRE - Some practical points - the National
Land Survey of Finland- the Finnish Maritime
Administration

• INSPIRE good achievement towards uniform
  quality, availability and joint use of geographic
  information
• Especially important is the joint use of GI
  between public bodies as well as the
  cooperation in the production of data
• Financing of the implementation of INSPIRE left
  to Member States to decide upon
• Expenses depend on the level of implementation
• Cost-benefit analyses important

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INSPIRE - Some practical points

• The Finnish Maritime Administration
• Wolrdwide standards how they will be taken into
  account in INSPIRE implementation?
• For example in ocean charting standard (S-57)
  there are already unique identifiers in use
• . a new standard because of INSPIRE???

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INSPIRE - Some practical points - the National
Land Survey of Finland (NLS)- the Finnish
Maritime Administration (FMA)

• National SDI Strategy in line with INSPIRE
• Development projects and plans in FMA and NLS in
  line with INSPIRE
• For NLS some new tasks may come up in
  implementation of INSPIRE
• National geoportal?
• National coordination?
• New information services needed because of
  INSPIRE?
• Update (or small enhancement) of SDI Strategy in
  Finland maybe needed because of INSPIRE?

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The National INSPIRE working group (Finland)

• Broad-based with 6 Ministries and 4 stakeholders
• February 1 December 31, 2007
• Tasks
• to assess the needed new legislation
• to assess the national functional and economical
  impact of INSPIRE
• to produce a proposal on the needed services, GI
  portal and the maintenance and financing of those
• to produce a proposal on activities required by
  INSPIRE to secure
• the easy access to data and
• to secure the opportunity to produce data of good
  quality
• to produce a proposal on national cooperation and
  coordination structures required by INSPIRE

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Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
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• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
  Vision
• Foster SDI development
• locally to globally

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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
• Many global
• 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 Standing Committees

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

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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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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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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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Additional Information

• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
  www.gsdi.org
• INSPIRE http//www.ec-gis.org/inspire/
• EuroGeographics www.eurogeographics.org
• European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic
  Information
• www.eurogi.org
• EuroGlobalMap 11 million
• EuroRegionalMap 1250 000
• EuroBoundaryMap
• http//www.eurogeographics.org/eng/04_products.asp
  
• Global Mapping http//www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswi
  ki/wiki.cgi