Successful SDIs: Does the Marine Geo-sector provide a much-needed beacon?

Successful SDIs: Does the Marine Geo-sector provide a much-needed beacon?

Welle Donker, F.M.

OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment

OTB Onderzoek

2010-10-01

With Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) in the process of being implemented in most EU Member States, the aim is to develop a European spatial data infrastructure. INSPIRE is to facilitate the exchange of geographic or spatial information in order to ensure integrated environmental policy-making (EC, 2007). Local spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) are slowly emerging, with the intention of linking these into national and even transnational SDIs. As local SDIs are being developed, many challenges have to be overcome, such as availability, accessibility, and standardisation. In addition, there are many non-technical issues to be addressed as well, such as intransparent and restrictive licences, complex pricing structures and organizational issues. In the literature ample attention is being paid to these issues –for example, legal issues in (Janssen 2009); financial issues in (Krek 2009; Welle Donker 2009) and cultural and organizational issues in (Koerten and Veenswijk 2009). These non-technical issues seem to increase with the number of organizations involved.

spatial data infrastructure
case study
marine geo-sector
non-technical issues

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Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association

GSDI 12 World Conference, 19-22 October 2010, Singapore

Institutional Repository

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