Beyond SDI – Greg Scott (UN GGIM)
Towards an Integrated Geospatial Information Paradigm The first iterations of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) development emerged in the mid-1980s, designed to promote economic development through supporting the objectives of governments and supporting environmental sustainability. However, SDI’s took a substantial step forward in the early 1990s when the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) […]
Beyond SDI – Mariana Belgiu (ITC)
Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have gradually changed from a pool of authoritative data shared using standardized web services to a pool where the authoritative data co-exist with data collected by volunteers and different sensors. Many efforts were dedicated to data documentation, to improving the catalogues searching techniques by means of, for example, thesauri and to […]
Beyond SDI – Rob Atkinson (Web Mapping Pioneer)
SDIs deliver authoritative foundation spatial data, but in the same way that transport infrastructure supports transport networks (delivering value to transport users, the economy, and society), the next step is to use SDIs to create effective data networks to support better analyses, monitoring, evaluation, and decision-making. Standardisation of technical interfaces was an enabling driver, but […]
Beyond SDI – Michael Gould (Esri, Univ Jaume I)
When I started working seriously in the field of SDI, around 2001, and then got involved in the drafting of the INSPIRE Implementation Rules for Metadata, I stated publicly that the end result of INSPIRE was not going to be an operational, single SDI: an information system. We were not building a bridge or the […]
Beyond SDI – Domen Mongus (Univ Maribor)
SDIs, undoubtedly, hold immense potential to support analytics of complex socio-environmental processes and assist in addressing some of the most important questions of our times. In particular, the paradigm of environmental intelligence is becoming the next big thing in future applications. It builds on: advanced Earth Observation infrastructures for nearly real-time monitoring (e.g. Copernicus), increasingly […]
Beyond SDI – Roger Longhorn (SDI Consultant)
Beyond SDI – Is this our Priority Right Now? I would be happy if the people trying to implement SDI around the globe already, just got on with it before they are hit with anything ‘new’ to do! The keys are still (a) making information available for free or at reasonable cost and (b) publishing […]
Beyond SDI – Maria Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano)
More than that of SDI, I like the horizontal concept of the free and open geospatial web, where every actor (public, private, community, citizen, etc.) can contribute with their data and software and, in turn, reuse the available data and software. I am expecting the states to make this geospatial web existing and working under […]
Beyond SDI – Ian Masser
Current trends in spatial data infrastructures – not one but many SDIs It must be recognised that there are many different kinds of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) and that the number of applications is likely to increase during the next ten years. In other words, there are likely to be not one, but many SDIs […]
Beyond SDI – Guo Huadong (CAS-RADI)
Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) provide the technological and organizational structures for managing, sharing, and using spatial data. The next generation of SDIs should be further evolved to be more flexible and robust so as to embrace the ever-accelerating technological transformations to meet the demand of accompanying societal and organizational implications. These require advanced managing and […]
Beyond SDI – Arup Dasgupta (Geospatial World)
Spatial Data Infrastructure has progressed from a data centric concept through distributed computing, web enablement, cloud and other technologies to a point where it has reached a crossroad. Should it remain as a data-centric distributed system for use in governance or should it acknowledge the disruptive changes that are taking place in spatial information and […]