NSDI Future Directions March 13, 2005 NSGIC MidYear

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NSDI Future Directions March 13, 2005NSGIC
Mid-Year

• Milo Robinson
• Project Manager
• FGDC Staff

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NSDI Future Directions Background

• The Federal Geographic Data Committee completed a
  Study in June 04 to identify actions over the
  next 2-3 years to implement the NSDI
• 3 Key Focus Areas were identified. Each has 3-5
  Strategic Objectives
• Partnerships with Purpose
• Making Framework Real
• Communicating the Message
• Action Teams have been set up to address Focus
  Areas and Strategic Objectives.

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Progress

• 12 Action teams established making progress
• First Quarterly Report Complete Jan 05
• Two Action plans finalized
• Fifty States Plan
• Communication Plan
• Reviewed Accepted by FGDC Coordination Group

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Today

• 50 States Plan-- Bill Burgess
• Standards Milo Robinson
• Publishing Metadata Lynda Wayne
• Governance Team Dennis Goreham

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Status Partnerships with Purpose
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Status Communicating The Message
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Status Making Framework Real
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Questions?

• Contact Information
• Milo Robinson
• 703-648-5162
• mrobinson_at_usgs.gov
• For additional information www.fgdc.gov/future
  directions (click on Action Teams)

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NSDI Future Directions Making Framework
RealFramework Standards

• Julie Binder Maitra
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
• NSGIC 2005 Midyear Conference
• March 14, 2005
• Annapolis, MD

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• Standardization of framework themes is critical
  to the achievement of interoperability among
  diverse geospatial data suppliers and users.
• The national acceptance and utilization of
  American National Standards (ANS) for framework
  data themes is the first step toward
  interoperability.
• Expansion of the current framework layers to
  encompass more themes of national, regional,
  local or topical importance is an FGDC priority.

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NSDI Future Directions- Making Framework
RealFive Action Teams

• Framework Standards Development
• Standards for Additional Themes of National
  Importance
• Publishing Metadata
• Implementing Standards Web Protocols
• Urban Areas

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Framework Data Standards
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Framework Data Standards

• Develop standards through procedures established
  by the American National Standards Institute
  (ANSI) and InterNational Committee for
  Information Technology Standards (INCITS).
• Bring together subject matter experts from all
  levels of government (Federal, State, and local),
  academia, and the private sector to develop data
  standards for Framework themes
• Use ISO 19100 series of geographic information
  standards developed by ISO Technical Committee
  211, ANSI standards, and FGDC standards to
  develop Framework data standards
• Apply ISO General Feature Model to define feature
  types
• Provide UML modeling support
• Provide documentation of feature types in data
  dictionary
• Map UML data models to XML/Geography Markup
  Language schema documents

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Framework Data Standards

• Initially developed through Geospatial One-Stop,
  but FGDC has assumed leadership for continued
  standards activities.
• Registered as INCITS Project 1574-D
• Public review period closed November 15, 2004
• Comments being evaluated by editing committees
• Approval by American National Standards Institute
  (ANSI) planned for CY 2005
• Implementation schemas to create, validate, and
  process geographic information will be publicly
  available.

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NSDI Future Directions - Making Framework Real
Framework Data Standards

• Notice of public review reached 40,000 to 100,000
  geospatial professionals through various
  publications and professional networks, including
  FGDC, Geospatial One-Stop, and INCITS L1
  membership and distribution lists.
• As of November 17
• Number of registrants 347
• Number of registrants who downloaded documents
  243 (nearly 70)
• Number of registrants who submitted comments 30
• Number of comments 4951

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Other data themes of National Importance, (OMB
Circular A-16)
Baseline (Maritime) Biological Resources Climate C
ultural and Demographic Statistics Cultural
Resources Earth Cover Buildings and
Facilities Federal Land Ownership Status Flood
Hazards Geographic Names Geologic Housing Internat
ional Boundaries
Law Enforcement Statistics Marine
Boundaries Offshore Minerals Outer Continental
Shelf Submerged Lands Public Health Public Land
Conveyance (patent) Records Shoreline Soils Transp
ortation (Marine) Vegetation Watershed
Boundaries Wetlands
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Standards for additional data themes of National
Importance

• URISA will submit a proposal to develop an
  Address Data Standard. This standards
  development effort will pick up on the work done
  by Census on an Address Data Standard.
• NOAA is developing a Shoreline Data Content
  Standard through the FGDC standards development
  process.