Call for papers
The
INSPIRE Conference will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the GSDI Conference and the Dutch Conference
on SDI Results and Challenges.
This
conference provides an excellent opportunity
to present Europe’s INSPIRE Directive
and the Dutch GI innovations over the past
five years, to the global community.
We invite you to come and build bridges with and among your peers to support mutually
beneficial spatial data infrastructures for all.
The conference will be organised through a series of plenary sessions addressing
common policy issues, and parallel sessions focusing in particular on applications
and implementations of SDIs, research issues and new and evolving technologies and applications.
- Design and development of depositories, portals, and registries for geographic data, metadata and services.
- Innovative methods for addressing technical, legal, economic or institutional challenges in implementing spatial data infrastructure concepts, components and systems.
- Experiences with current spatial data infrastructures at local, regional, national and multi-national levels and their evaluation.
- Emerging participatory, inclusive or collaborative approaches in developing content and building infrastructure (e.g. participatory GIS, geoweb tools, data commons, open source software, volunteered geographic information, global efforts).
- Challenges and approaches to standardization of data and interoperability of systems.
- Barriers to sharing data and methods for achieving success in sharing.
- Alternative methods and models for planning, financing and implementing spatial data infrastructure or related initiatives.
- Policies supporting creation and responsible management of spatial data infrastructure resources.
- Progress achieved by developing nations through information infrastructure development efforts.
- Facilitation of international support for the development of spatial data infrastructure.
- Analysis of practical cases to determine whether infrastructure initiatives are actually achieving goals such as (a) increasing efficiency and effectiveness in the management of information, (b) helping to advance health, education, social welfare, security, and safety, (c) better managing resources such as oceans, forests, roads, rivers, property, and housing and (d) similar social goals.
- Education and capacity building efforts.
- Basic and applied research in advancing spatial data infrastructure theory and concepts.
Please submit your abstract via the GSDI site: http://gsdi.org/gsdi11/papers.html
