Workshop and Tutorial Descriptions

9:30-11:00 MONDAY 15 JUNE

Workshop 1.1 - Spatial Data Infrastructure Fundamentals
Workshop 1.2 - Legal Issues of Geo Information: Intellectual Property, Privacy and Liability
Workshop 1.3 - Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications I: Intro and Adresses
Workshop 1.4 - Standardization: The SDI Challenges
Workshop 1.5 - RGI PhD Meeting
Workshop 1.6 - Sensorweb Enablement: Strengthening the SDI
Workshop 1.7 - Traffic-Sign Detection and Recognition for Country-Covering Databases
Workshop 1.8 - INSPIRing Effective Use of Metadata

11:30-1:00 MONDAY 15 JUNE

Workshop 2.1 - Expanding SDI from File Transfer to Geospatial Services
Workshop 2.2 - Evaluating SDI Best Practices
Workshop 2.3 - Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications II: GIS4EU and Data Models
Workshop 2.4 - Download and Transformation Draft Implementing Rules Presentation for INSPIRE Initiatives
Workshop 2.5 - Network for Networks (NfN)
Workshop 2.6 - Using Open Source Tools for Spatial Data Infrastructures
Workshop 2.7 - (no offering)
Workshop 2.8 - Start Building Your 3D Digital City

2:00-3;30 MONDAY 15 JUNE

Workshop 3.1 - Use of SDI to Better Manage Large Cities
Workshop 3.2 - Interplay between Budgets, Accountability, and SDI Coordination
Workshop 3.3 - Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications III: Data Harmonization
Workshop 3.4 - Lessons Learned and Best Practices from GI-SDI Projects I
Workshop 3.5 - The Role of Information Models in SDI: The Case of Disaster Management
Workshop 3.6 - Success Factors for E-government
Workshop 3.7 - Is there quality in SDI's? How will technology help?
Workshop 3.8 - SDI Building Bridges

4:00-5:30 MONDAY 15 JUNE

Workshop 4.1 - Marine SDI and the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN)
Workshop 4.2 - Theory-based SDI Research and Empirical Cases from the North and South
Workshop 4.3 - Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications IV: Schema Translation
Workshop 4.4 - Lessons Learned and Best Practices from GI-SDI Projects II
Workshop 4.5 - SDI in National Government: Dutch Key GeoRegisters
Workshop 4.6 - Geo Data Infrastructure for the Environment and Society
Workshop 4.7 - Meeting User Expectations of Data Quality in SDIs
Workshop 4.8 - Capacity Building and SDIs: An Executive Seminar

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WORKSHOP 1.1

1. Title
Spatial Data Infrastructure Fundamentals

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Douglas D. Nebert, Clearinghouse Coordinator, FGDC Secretariat, USGS, Mail Stop 590, Reston, VA. 20192, Phone: +1 703 648 4151, Fax: +1 703 648-5755

3. Workshop Description and Goals
This 90-minute tutorial workshop will cover three of the eight sets of instructional materials found at http://www.fgdc.gov/training/training-materials. It will provide an overview of spatial data infrastructure concepts, spatial data infrastructure standards and geospatial web services. While the slides found at the referenced web site are focused currently on U.S implementations and experiences, numerous concepts in the tutorials are globally applicable and the slides will be adapted to respond to a global audience prior to presentation at GSDI 11. The three 30-minute sessions will be audio recorded for later posting of videos that will synchronize the slides with the accompanying audio. The resulting videos will be posted on the GSDI website, Google Video, YouTube and similar sites. Each module will consist primarily of a standard lecture with time for questions and comments at the end. No laptop is necessary

4. Workshop Topics
A. An Overview of Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts (30 minutes)
This session will identify the key components of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), explain government's role in infrastructure development, and discuss key National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) elements and the manner in which the elements support development of a NSDI

B. Introduction to SDI Standards (30 minutes)
This session will provide an overview of the organizations and activities that drive the development of National Spatial Data Infrastructure standards. It will explain the difference between a de jure standard and a de facto standard, discuss the benefits of implementing standards, identify key organizations that affect the development of NSDI standards, explain functional relationships among standards organizations, refer to the federal policies that affect geospatial standards development, describe the scope of a standards program of work, identify the communities to which standards should or might apply, describe how to participate in voluntary consensus standards bodies, and explain how to access standards and information about standards organizations

C. Introduction to Geospatial Web Services (30 minutes)
This session will provide an introduction and inventory of geospatial web services and their importance to interoperability in the geospatial domain. The instructor will explain the difference between a website, a web service, and a geospatial web service, differentiate between types of geospatial web services and how they are used and explain the purpose of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Several web service capabilities will be demonstrated.

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Douglas D. Nebert, Clearinghouse Coordinator, FGDC Secretariat, USGS (confirmed) and other instructors as appropriate

6. Intended Audience
Introductory session for anyone interested in the fundamental technical and organizational aspects of spatial data infrastructure development. No specific skills required.

7. Location
Penn Room (60 capacity)

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Workshop 1.2

1. Title
Legal Issues of Geo Information: A Short Introduction to Intellectual Property, Privacy and Liability

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Dr. Colette Cuijpers, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

3. Workshop Description and Goals
This three-session workshop will offer an introduction into three legal fields important in relation to geo information and the design of products and services based upon geo information. On the basis of real and fictional cases, it will be illustrated that it is important to take legal concerns into account from the start in designing new products and services based upon geo information. The complexity of the legal rules, the differences of legal rules in various states, as well as the lack of complete clarity regarding certain legal aspects of geo information will be discussed in the context of problems arising from this in view of the practical use of geo information.

4. Workshop Topics
- What is Intellectual Property (IP)?
- Relation of IP to geo information
- Legal framework EU and US
- Main IP questions and concerns regarding geo information

- What is privacy?
- What is data protection?
- Relation privacy and data protection to geo information - Legal framework EU and US
- Main privacy questions and concerns regarding geo information

- What is liability?
- Examples of liability regarding geo information - Legal framework EU and US
- Main liability questions and concerns regarding geo information

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Dr. Colette Cuijpers, assistant professor at TILT - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society
Dr. Maurice Schellekens, assistant professor at TILT - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society

6. Intended Audience
The presentation is intended for a wide variety of GIS practitioners who are involved in geospatial data use, development, management as well as policy making. The workshop is especially intended for those who have no legal knowledge and are interested in a first impression of the legal aspects of geo information.

7. Location
Van Oldenbarnevelt Room (60 capacity)

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WORKSHOP 1.3

1. Title
Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications I: Introduction and EURADIN Experience from the Testing of Address Data Specifications

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Vanda Lima, European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, TP 262, Via E.Fermi,2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy, Tel: +39 0332 78 5052, Fax: +39 0332 78 6325 and Ms. María Cabello, EURADIN Technical Coordinator, C/ Cabarceno 6, 41621 Sarriguren (SPAIN), Phone +34 948 289051, Fax +34 948 154102

3. Workshop Description and Goals
This workshop consists of two parts. The first part is introductory and will focus on the process and framework for the development of the INSPIRE Data Specifications. The audience will learn about the INSPIRE Directive, the requirements for the data specification work resulting from the Directive, and the process and roadmap for developing the data specifications. The introduction will also address the framework that has been put in place, like the generic conceptual model, the methodology for INSPIRE data specification development, and tools that support the specification development (UML repository, INSPIRE registries)

The second part of the workshop is based on the topic Addresses, which is an Annex I data theme of INSPIRE. It will share with the audience the experience gained in the project from the evaluation and practical testing of the INSPIRE Data Specifications on Addresses carried out by EURADIN partners. EURADIN (European Addresses Infrastructure) aims at constituting a Best Practice Network to promote the European Addresses harmonization by sharing the experience with other organizations how to reach a common and harmonized information, getting back comments and suggestions and trying to establish bridges to collaborate with other initiatives in addresses at global level.

4. Workshop Topics
- Introduction to INSPIRE and the data specifications development and testing process
- INSPIRE Generic Conceptual Model and Methodology
- UML repository and INSPIRE registries
- EURADIN testing perspective: General objectives and summary
- INSPIRE perspective: Thematic Working Group on Addresses, Data Specification
- Interaction with attendees structured around a pre defined model dependant on the number of participants

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Vanda Lima, JRC
Isabel Goñi, EURADIN testing perspective
Morten Lind, INSPIRE perspective

6. Intended Audience
The intended audience is stakeholders and experts in the INSPIRE data specification process, and in the Address topic, providers and users, from public organizations or private companies; in general professionals specifically interested in Addresses or involved in other issues of standardization and harmonization, as well as those interested in participating in the testing of Annex II and III of INSPIRE

7. Location
Diamond Room 1 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 1.4

1. Title
Standardization: The SDI Challenges

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Henry Tom, Co-Chair, ISO/TC 211 Advisory Group on Outreach, Phone: +1 301 631 1982, Fax: +1 301 631 1982

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The emergence of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) during the past decade has been paralleled by the evolution of standards produced by ISO/TC 211 and CEN/TC 287. While there has been some adoptions of these standards by SDIs, there has not been a systematic programme of adoption until the INSPIRE programme. Beyond the requirements of the INSPIRE programme, its associated legislation, and impact within the European Union, all SDIs internationally are watching very closely the exposure, experience, and degrees of success in the systematic implementation of such standards by the INSPIRE initiative.

This standards workshop will provide overviews from the Chairs, ISO/TC 211 and CEN/TC 287, Co-Chairs, Advisory Group on Outreach for ISO/TC 211 and CEN/TC 287, and the staff of the INSPIRE on the development, adoption, and implementation of ISO and CEN standards.

4. Workshop Topics
- ISO/TC 211 Standards for SDIs
- CEN/TC 287 Standards for SDIs
- CEN/TC 287 Outreach Activities for SDIs
- ISO/TC 211 Outreach Activities for SDIs
- Implementation of ISO and CEN Standards for INSPIRE

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Mr. Olaf Ostensen, Chair, ISO/TC 211 Geographic information / Geomatics
Dr. Arnold Bregt, Chair, CEN/TC 287 Geographic information
Dr. Hans Knoop, Co-Chair, CEN/TC 287 Advisory Group on Outreach
Mr. Henry Tom, Co-Chair, ISO/TC 211 Advisory Group on Outreach
Dr. Paul Smits, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

6. Intended Audience
general audience, managers and technical experts

7. Location
New York Room (capacity 36)

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WORKSHOP 1.5

1. Title
RGI PhD Meeting

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Prof. Dr. Ir. Arnold Bregt, Space for Geo-Information (RGI), PO Box 508, 3800 AM Amersfoort, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0)317 47 44 58

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The goal of the session is to exchange the research results of the RGI PhD's. The individual PhD's will present their research findings and the audience will reflect these findings. The ambition of the meeting is to build bridges between the different scientific disciplines in the RGI program, ranging from technical to social sciences.

4. Workshop Topics
- Spatial Data Infrastructure concepts
- Data modeling
- Geo-data in society

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Prof. Dr. Ir. Arnold Bregt, Scientific Director, Space for Geo-Information (RGI), Droevendaalsesteeg 3, NL-67008 PB Wageningen, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0)317 - 481 699

6. Intended Audience
Everyone who is interested in PhD research and results.

7. Location
Diamond Room 2 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 1.6

1. Title
Sensorweb Enablement: Strengthening the SDI

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Simon Jirka, 52 degrees North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH

3. Workshop Description and Goals
This workshop will provide an introduction to the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) framework of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This framework provides a set of standards for encoding sensor data and metadata as well as service interfaces for accessing sensor data, tasking sensors or alerting clients in case of certain events.

After introducing the SWE specifications, the 52 degrees North suite of SWE implementations will be used for demonstrating the current state of the art in SWE software. Further, an overview of practical SWE applications will be given. It will be shown how the SWE architecture can be applied to use cases ranging from water management, air and water pollution monitoring, early warning systems for tsunamis to fire fighting applications. The main part of the workshop will consist of a lecture style presentation that introduces the SWE framework. In addition it is planned to demonstrate a set of existing SWE applications that are available on the Internet. For this part it is recommended (although not necessary) to bring laptop computers so that participants are able to make hands-on experiences with the presented SWE applications

4. Workshop Topics
- Introduction to OGC's Sensor Web Enablement architecture
- Presentation of Sensor Web Enablement use case scenarios
- Demonstration of Sensor Web Enablement applications
- Sensors as a base for Dynamic Water Management

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Simon Jirka, Sensor Web Community Leader, 52 degrees North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH, Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24, 48155 Muenster, Germany, Phone: +49-251-7474-520
Arne Bröring, Research Associate, University Muenster, Institute for Geoinformatics, Weseler Strasse 253, 48151 Muenster, Germany, Phone: +49-251-83-39761
Christoph Stasch, Research Associate, University Muenster, Institute for Geoinformatics, Weseler Strasse 253, 48151 Muenster, Germany, Phone: +49-251-83-31965
Jan Jellema, TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, The Netherlands, Phone: +31-15-2696900
[affiliated presentations and papers]

6. Intended Audience
Everyone who is interested in solutions for integrating sensors and sensor data with spatial data infrastructures. This includes developers of SDI concepts, components and standards as well as practitioners who are using sensor data in thematic domains like water management or pollution monitoring. No special requirements are required. A basic knowledge of spatial data infrastructures is recommended

7. Location
Oscar Auditorium (capacity 80)

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WORKSHOP 1.7

1. Title
Traffic-Sign Detection & Recognition for Country-Covering Databases

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Caroline Monking-Van Hasselt, Marketing Communications Manager, CycloMedia Technology B.V., PO Box 86, 4180 BB Waardenburg, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0) 418 556100

3. Workshop Description and Goals
In this workshop, a new architecture for the automated detection and recognition of traffic signs is proposed. The architecture is designed to process large databases of tens of millions of high-resolution panoramic images, representing a country from a road perspective. The size of the databases requires a fast and reliable algorithm. The novel architecture consists of a three-stage algorithm in which the first stage is optimized for speed and the last stage is designed to enhance the overall reliability of the system. Sections of this session include:
a. Introduction Content Analyse, Prof.dr. Peter H.N. de With (CycloMedia)
b. Sports analysis of broadcast Video, Dr. Jungong Han (TU Eindhoven, SPS-VCA)
c. Automatic detection of traffic signs, Ir. Ernst Herbschleb (CycloMedia)

4. Workshop Topics
- Earlier work and problem statement
- Architecture
- Results
- Conclusions

5. Instructors/Speakers
Peter H.N. de With, Vice President Video Technology, Research & Development, CycloMedia Technology B.V., PO Box 86, 4180 BB Waardenburg, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0) 418 556100, Fax +31 (0) 418 556101

6. Intended Audience
People (interested in) using visual databases within their working processes.

7. Location
Goudriaan Room (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 1.8

1. Title
INSPIRing Effective Use of Metadata: Open Standards, ETL and Digital Cities

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Jim Farley, Senior Product Manager, Autodesk, 4436 W Putting Green Dr, Fayetteville, AR 72704
UNITED KINGDOM, jim.farley@autodesk.comjim.farley@autodesk.com

3. Workshop Description and Goals
This workshop will focus on working with INSPIRE metadata in the context of specific workflows using a multi-vendor solution. This session will be lecture-based with demo's of these workflows and the resulting solution. Presentations will be made available in digital form after the session. Students will not need to bring a laptop or any computing device.

4. Workshop Topics
The focus for this session is to demonstrate the effective application of ETL for open standards-based, INSPIRE driven metadata in the context of specific workflows.

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WORKSHOP 2.1

1. Title
Expanding SDI from File Transfer to Geospatial Services

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Sam A. Bacharach, Executive Director Outreach, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., USA, +1 703-352-3938, +1 7-3-352-7361 (F)

3. Workshop Description and Goals
As SDI's around the world mature and the GSDI becomes a reality it is necessary to set the field for a future move from the file transfer paradigm in current use to one that fully leverages not only the availability of digital geospatial data, but takes fullest advantage of those data by serving them in 'fit for purpose' sized units via what is commonly called a Service Oriented Architecture. Google and Microsoft are both spending millions of dollars a year on data, but will never have as much useful data as is held in NSDIs around the world. Yet those two companies serve millions, perhaps billions more people a year than all of the SDIs. Attendees will understand the reasons why that is the case, why standards are needed to do that, what standards are available, and how moving to SOA will also enable them to leverage the individually collected data that is going to be the hallmark of GeoWeb 2 and beyond.

4. Workshop Topics
- A Vision of the Future
- The Role of Standards
- The Role of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
- The Role of a Service Oriented Architecture in the Vision
- How to jump start the process to their benefit

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Sam Bacharach, Executive Director Outreach, OGC
Raj Singh, PhD, Director Interoperability Program, OGC

6. Intended Audience
Managers and Policymakers, No specific skills required

7. Location
Penn Room (60 capacity)

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WORKSHOP 2.2

1. Title
Evaluating SDI Best Practices

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Roger Longhorn, Co-chair, GSDI Association Legal & Socioeconomic Working Group

3. Workshop Description and Goals
SDIs are being created around the globe in a number of ways - from top down to bottom up - via fully-specified strategies and legally binding implementation regulations (in the case of Europe and some national initiatives) to general visions and proposed 'best practice' principles - from detailed information infrastructure architecture definitions to generic based mainly on accepting 'international standards.' This workshop looks at some of the recommended 'best practices' from national, regional (trans-national) and global level initiatives for creating SDI, including allied programmes such as GEO/GEOSS and 'thematic' SDIs such as those created for the meteorological and oceanographic/marine communities. The workshop concludes with a look at recent work in developing SDI performance indicators and current thinking on ways to evaluate and assess the value or success of SDI initiatives. A sample "SDI Readiness Index" calculator is also presented for discussion.

4. Workshop Topics
o Terminology - the importance of understanding what you mean by SDI.
o Information requirements for assessing SDI preparedness at organisational and national level.
o Preparedness for intra- and inter-organisation collaboration:
- cross-agency remits
- related information infrastructure initiatives, e.g. e-Government
- legal situation, e.g. data access and sharing regulations
o SDI Best Practice Guidelines, examples:
- GSDI Association's proposed requirements for 'SDI Best Practice Implementations'
- EU INSPIRE Directive - Implementing Rules for Metadata and Data Specifications, Network Services, and Data and Service Access and Sharing
- GEO/GEOSS Best Practice developments
o Evaluation versus Preparedness for SDI implementations:
- assessing SDI maturity levels within organisations
- SDI monitoring and performance evaluation issues
- EU INSPIRE Directive - Implementing Rules for Monitoring and Reporting
- the GEO Performance Indicators
o The 'SDI Best Practice Checklist' (audience participation)

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Roger Longhorn, Co-chair, GSDI Association Legal & Socioeconomic Working Group

6. Intended Audience
All those involved in planning for and implementing SDI implementations at organisational and national levels.

7. Location
Van Oldenbarnevelt Room (60 capacity)

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WORKSHOP 2.3

1. Title
Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications II: GIS4EU and Operational Validation of the INSPIRE Common Data Models

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Stefania De Zorzi, www.corila.it

3. Workshop Description and Goals
GIS4EU is the European project which collects around the data harmonization issues nearly twenty European partners from several sectors, including public administration, GIS industry, and universities. The basic project's objective is to operationally validate the concepts for interoperability, as defined within a frame of INSPIRE Directive. To reach the goal, GIS4EU identifies a complete workflow and technical means required for harmonization and aggregation of data. The process takes Data Provider perspective, and it defines the subsequent harmonization steps starting from rough existing data. As such, it complements the INSPIRE viewpoint which is more focused to end user and his perception of European data. The project incorporates twenty European partners, and acts on over fifty datasets, which differ with respect to thematic scope, logical and physical organization, language, geographical extent, and resolution.

The correlation between INSPIRE and GIS4EU is bidirectional and follows reuse-validate-evaluate-improve pattern. First of all, GIS4EU project overlaps thematically with four themes of INSPIRE Directive i.e. Administrative units (AU, Annex I), Hydrography (HY, Annex I), Transport Networks (TN, Annex I), and Elevation (Annex II). Since the drafting process of common data specifications under INSPIRE umbrella officially started, and the relative preliminary results about common data models for Europe are available for Annex I, GIS4EU project will use the concurrent models within AU, HY, TN themes. Instead, the INSPIRE draft data specifications will be adapted into GIS4EU harmonization process and serve for common models of harmonized and aggregated data. On the other hand, the results from GIS4EU harmonization will provide very tangible feedback to INSPIRE on the applicability, usability, understandability, completeness, and consistency of models. In turn, considering the Elevation theme, GIS4EU is in advance to INSPIRE road plan, and might provide the operationally validated Elevation model to the input of INSPIRE data specification Annex II drafting phase.

The GIS4EU workshop aims to share with the broad international audience the preliminary results of INSPIRE-driven data harmonization for the involved themes.

4. Workshop Topics
GIS4EU: the data provider viewpoint to INSPIRE initiative (5 min).
Scope: A presentation of GIS4EU consortium, project scope, objectives, road plan, expected results, current status.

The Harmonisation process: the Common Data Model and the re-modelling process (12min)
Scope: explanation of common data model design process, explanation of harmonization process; the overview to architecture; technical means used for harmonization and aggregation.

Providing harmonized data: Administrative units theme (12 min).
Scope: characteristics of input datasets, analysis of INSPIRE data specification in the context of completeness, usability, eventual adjustments; harmonization issues reported, workarounds, the hrmonization results.

Providing harmonized data: Hydrography theme (12 min).
Scope: characteristics of input datasets, analysis of INSPIRE data specification in the context of completeness, usability, eventual adjustments; harmonization issues reported, workarounds, the harmonization results;

Providing harmonized data: Transport Network theme (12 min).
Scope: characteristics of input datasets, analysis of INSPIRE data specification in the context of completeness, usability, eventual adjustments; harmonization issues reported, workarounds, the harmonization results;

Providing harmonized data: Elevation theme (12 min).
Scope: Use cases analysis, as-is/gap analysis, data specification in the context of completeness, harmonization issues reported, workarounds, the harmonization results;

GIS4EU: harmonization know-how (15 min).
Scope: summary of harmonization results: applicability/level of reuse of INSPIRE model; evaluation of effort necessary to harmonize data; the issues and solutions as identified and tested in the project.

Discussion (10 min).

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Stefania De Zorzi/Carmelo Attardo, GIS4EU project coordinator, Anette Breu/Stefania De Zorzi, Ondrej Zahn/Gobe Hobona, Mauro Vasone/Dolors Barrot, Anna Lleopart/Jordi Escriu, Giovanni Rocca/Ivan Gyula, Alina Kmiecik/Marek Brylski

6. Intended Audience
The workshop is mainly oriented to the data providers, technicians, users but also to all the other stakeholders with skills on GI related to the addressed themes.

7. Location
Diamond Room 1 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 2.4

1. Title
Download and Transformation Draft Implementing Rules Presentation for INSPIRE Initiatives

2. Organizer/Contact Person
JJ Serrano

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The objective of the workshop is to provide technical details about the draft Download and Transformation services Implementing Rules. This workshop takes place after the review process where choices and decisions have been discussed, so the aim is now to explain and clarify these decisions. During the workshop, Network Services Drafting Team members will present the two services with time for discussion. The sessions about Transformation and Download services Implementing Rules will detail the selected standards for these services and the link between the two Implementing Rules.

4. Workshop Topics
- Transformation Service Implementing Rule and Coordinate Transformation Service Technical Guidance
- Download Service Implementing Rule and Technical Guidance
- Link between the 2 IR and TG

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
JJ Serrano (introduction), L. Lehto (transformation), O. Østensen (Download), L. Lehto and O. Østensen (link between the services)

6. Intended Audience
INSPIRE Stakeholders.

7. Location
Goudriaan Room (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 2.5

1. Title
Network for Networks (NfN)

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Prof. Dr. Ir. Arnold Bregt, Space for Geo-Information (RGI), PO Box 508, 3800 AM Amersfoort, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0)317 47 44 58

3. Workshop Description and Goals
There are various kinds of national networks on geomatics science and engineering. Examples are the GEOIDE network in Canada, RGI in the Netherlands and CRCSI in Australia. A Network for Networks (NfN) has been established for leveraging global partnerships in geomatics science and engineering. The goals of the NfN is the sharing of information, collaboration and the exchange of ideas for a long-term collaborative relationship. In the session the vision, partnerships, common activities are presented and discussed.

4. Workshop Topics
- Goals of NfN
- Common purpose
- Participation
- Collaboration

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Prof. Dr. Ir. Arnold Bregt, Scientific Director, Space for Geo-Information (RGI), Droevendaalsesteeg 3, NL-67008 PB Wageningen, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0)317 - 481 699

6. Intended Audience
Everyone who is interested in NfN

7. Location
Diamond Room 2 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 2.6

1. Title
Using Open Source Tools for Spatial Data Infrastructures

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Jeroen Ticheler, GeoCat bv, Grotenhuisweg 61, 7384CT Wilp, The Netherlands, +31 6 81286572

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The workshop will introduce some of the latest advances in open source tools for SDI development. Centering mostly on gvSIG, GeoServer and GeoNetwork opensource, the workshop will consist of a lecture and a hands-on introduction to installing, configuring, and using the tools for SDI, focusing on WMS, WFS, WCS and Catalog 2.0 OGC standards. The workshop will walk through building the basics of a functioning open source SDI. Different Open Source GeoSpatial packages for SDI will also be discussed. The first half will be more structured, with discussion of what constitutes an Open Source SDI, the advantages of a truly open SDI, and an introduction to the tools that can be used to build it today. The second half will be a hands on 'installfest', getting participants up and running with the tools, and a question and answer session about real issues building SDI's on open source software. The presenters are experienced open source community members with a wealth of knowledge. A laptop is strongly recommended. If possible bring geospatial data to use in the tools. All software demonstrated will be available on a CD for participants to take home.

4. Workshop Topics
- Definition of Open Source SDI
- Advantages of building an SDI built on open source software and open data
- Demonstration of gvSIG, GeoServer and GeoNetwork opensource.

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Jeroen Ticheler, GeoCat bv, Grotenhuisweg 61, 7384CT Wilp, The Netherlands, +31 6 81286572
Ms. Laura Díaz. University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
Dr. Salvador Bayarri. IVER. Spain

6. Intended Audience
Anyone interested in learning about open source for SDIs. The workshop will be introductory in general, and only the second half will be technical.

7. Location
Oscar Auditorium Room (capacity 80)

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WORKSHOP 2.7

1. Title
no offering

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WORKSHOP 2.8

1. Title
Start Building Your 3D Digital City

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Michaela Schneeberger, Technical Development Engineer, Autodesk, 4436 W Putting Green Dr, Fayetteville, AR 72704, UNITED KINGDOM, Michaela.schneeberger@autodesk.com

3. Workshop Description and Goals
Urban design at a city wide scale is a great design challenge. In order to balance sustainability with the need for economic growth as urbanization continues to increase, city governments, utilities, property developers, and the public are all looking for a better way to experience, understand and collaborate on urban design.

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WORKSHOP 3.1

1. Title
Use of SDI to Better Manage Large Cities

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Paul Kelly, Director Spatial Strategies Pty Ltd, 3/51 Middle St Kingsford NSW 2032, Australia
Phone: +61 4 3727 4449

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The workshop will assess key problems facing large cities around the world and how spatial data infrastructures can be used to address these problems to enable better city management. A recent study involving administrators in seven large cities has identified key issues including whole of city planning processes, traffic management, natural hazards and emergency management. Problems found involve unclear responsibilities and mandates, operational dysfunction, relationships with other levels of government, working with infrastructure providers and environmental management. Rapid population growth is a common problem, leading to city services lagging growth and in the developing world, informal settlements. Administrators have identified a number of initiatives needed to address these problems and these will be discussed at the workshop.

City administrators involved in the study candidly admit the importance of spatial data and analysis in helping them do their job. As users of spatial information, they personally believe that access to timely and accurate spatial data and tools is a key requirement in managing many city functions.

A starting point will be the current study being carried out by FIG Commission 3 and will include findings to date. Active input will be sought from workshop participants to build on this work. All participants will be sent an enhanced report after the workshop.

4. Workshop Topics
Key problems and solutions for managing large cities Current and potential use of SDI to improve city management. Further action, including focus for further research

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Paul Kelly, chair of FIG Commission 3 working group, Robin McLaren, Director Knowedge plc, author of UK Location Strategy, working group member. Other members of the working group from Germany, Turkey, Hungary, Greece and Norway

6. Intended Audience
SDI policy-makers and practitioners at all levels, especially from city and regional governments.

7. Location
Penn Room (60 capacity)

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WORKSHOP 3.2

1. Title
Interplay between Budgets, Accountability, and SDI Coordination

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Kate Lance, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

3. Workshop Description and Goals
Relying on a coordinating body (alone) to foster spatial data infrastructure development is a bit like leading the proverbial horse to water: you can get people to sit together around a table, but that does not mean they will cooperate. Meanwhile, recent research has shown that government agencies will cooperate when they think their budgets or autonomy are at stake (Lance et. al, 2008). This workshop gives public managers an opportunity to discuss how external (authoritative) bodies may invigorate cross-agency coordination. These external bodies are shaping new governing structures, influencing budgetary processes and accountabilities, and they use evaluation (scrutiny) to improve how government agencies plan and deliver 'joined up' services. Public managers from three countries (Canada, the United States, and The Netherlands) will provide a firsthand account (see Table 1), and then the floor will be opened for questions and discussion, moderated by the workshop organizer. Reference material will be provided (in advance) to those who register.

Topic	Canada	United States	Netherlands
Shaping governing structures	Federal Geomatics Strategy and Policy Framework (investment review)	Geospatial Line of Business (joint budget planning)	Management contract for Dutch National Geodata Repository (pooled funding)
Management information systems	Value Management Office	Federal Enterprise Architecture	Scorecard; issues database
Accountabilities	Sunset evaluation of Geo-Connections Phase I;  Results-based Mgt Accountability Framework	Circular A-11 Annual business case & performance measurement	Annual report; reporting to users

4. Workshop Topics
Each presenter will characterize the following in his/her country:
o Relationship between geospatial investment management, evaluation, and coordination;
o Challenges in evaluating SDI as a cross-agency program (as opposed to work done within a single ministry or agency);
o Linkages between SDI evaluation and public management information systems (e.g., human resources, financial/accounting, IT enterprise architecture).

During the discussion, additional topics will be explored such as whether/how SDI evaluation practices are changing and how SDI evaluation results are used (and if so, by whom).

5. Instructors/Speakers
Kate Lance, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Jeff Labonte, A/Director General, Mapping Services Branch, Natural Resources Canada
Rob Dollison, Project Manager, Geospatial One-Stop  and National Map Digital Services, US Geological Survey
Martin Peersmann, formerly with Dutch National Geodata Repository
Reference: Lance, K.T., Georgiadou, P.Y., and A.K. Bregt (2008, in press). Cross-agency coordination in the shadow of hierarchy : joining up government geospatial information systems. International Journal of Geographic Information Science.
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6. Intended Audience
The workshop is intended for those responsible for funding, implementing, and evaluating SDIs at the national level.

7. Location
Van Oldenbarnevelt Room (60 capacity)

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WORKSHOP 3.3

1. Title
Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications III: HUMBOLDT Data Harmonisation Tools in Action

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Astrid Fichtinger, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Fachgebiet Geoinformationssysteme, Arcisstrabe 21, 80333 Munich, Germany, Tel.: +49-89-289-22975, Fax: +49-89-289-22878

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The INSPIRE Directive has entered implementation phase and solutions for data harmonisation are needed. In this workshop, partners of the European project HUMBOLDT will share their experiences in designing and developing processes and an open source software framework including tools for different steps in the data harmonisation process. These will be demonstrated using examples of data harmonisation issues that were encountered in the different cross-border and multilingual HUMBOLDT application scenarios as well as during the testing of INSPIRE data specifications.
The workshop participants will learn about potential solutions to data harmonisation issues and will get a chance to see them in action. They will also get to know ways to participate in the further development of HUMBOLDT, e.g. by joining the HUMBOLDT Developer Community or the HUMBOLDT User Community.

4. Workshop Topics
Short introduction to the workshop and the HUMBOLDT project (10 min.)

Demonstration of HUMBOLDT Framework components for different steps in the transformation process chain (60 min.):
- data modelling (definition of source and target schemas)
- harmonisation issues and definition of schema mapping (description of mapping rules between source and target schema)
- execution of schema translation (e.g. using OGC Web Processing Services)

Discussion (20 min.)

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Thorsten Reitz, HUMBOLDT Executive Board Member, Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics; Dr. Emanuele Roccatagliata, Director, GISIG-Geographical Information Systems International Group; Dr. Sisi Zlatanova, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology; Marian de Vries, Researcher, Delft University of Technology

6. Intended Audience
GI-experts and developers concerned with harmonisation of spatial data

7. Location
Diamond Room 1 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 3.4

1. Title
Lessons Learned and Best Practices from GI-SDI Projects I: Examples of eContentplus Projects
Part 1: The eContentplus Program and the eSDI-Net+ Network

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Giorgio Saio, GISIG, Joao Geirinhas, EUROGI, and Joachim Rix, INI-GraphicsNet Stiftung, Rundeturmstr. 10, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany, Phone: +49/6151/155-591

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The common framework for the two workshops 3.4 and 4.4 is based on SDI INSPIRE related best practices addressed by five co-funded EC projects, one of them concerning a European wide case analysis (eSDI-Net+) and the four others concerning eContentplus thematic implementations (GIS4EU, EURADIN, NATURE-SDIplus, and OneGeology-Europe). The Workshops create the opportunity for all five projects to present their lessons learnt and their best practices identified, to show their overlapping interest and synergies.

Both workshops are intended to transfer knowledge about the methodologies applied for such projects, best practices, technical aspects and organisational constraints, as well as to provide the attendees with tools for enhancing SDI implementation approaches on other domains.

Both workshops will start with an introduction on the target and the perspectives of the eContentplus program of the European Commission, which sets the path for all projects. Within this program the eSDI-Net+ project as a thematic network follows the approach to bring together the stakeholders of the SDI community to strengthen the development and build up further awareness. eSDI-Net+ component focuses on the identification and analysis of best practices mostly from sub national level, bringing a European wide picture of the current situation and defining an evaluation framework for further implementation. The workshop attendees are welcome to share experiences and perspectives, discuss the results obtained and interact about the evaluation process, being expected to acquire the basic knowledge for further engagement through follow up initiatives.

4. Workshop Topics
The eContentplus program:
The project officer from the European Commission will present the program expectations and give the perspectives for future development on those issues addressed by the project.

eSDI.Net:, a network perspective:
The European Thematic Network on Geographical Information Enrichment and Reuse aims to create a platform for cross border communication and exchange between different stakeholders involved in the creation and use of SDIs. The project intents to establish a long term sustainable network to support the communication from the local initiatives to the global perspective of interoperability.

eSDI-Net+: methodology for analysing sub-national SDIs
The methodology and the process to identify best practices will be presented. The lessons learned and good practices will be presented to the audience with online examples.

eSDI-Net+: guided tours to some SDI good practices
Some good practices and the lessons learned will be presented to the audience by officials in charge of them, with online demonstrations. A discussant will act as users advocate

Discussion
The results presented will be discussed with the audience. The participants are asked to contribute their own expectations and experiences to the discussion.

eSDI-Net+: next step, SDI Best Practices Award 2009

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Krister Olson (European Commission) eContentplus
Joachim Rix (INI-GraphicsNet Stiftung, Germany) eSDI-Net+
François Salgé (EUROGI, AFIGéO and MEEDDAT, France) eSDI-Net+
Franco Vico (EUROGI and AM/FM, Italy) eSDI-Net+

6. Intended Audience
The target audience will be people related with INSPIRE implementation at national or regional level with the responsibility to assess their feasibility. In particular the workshop is addressed to data providers in the public and private sector, as well as to the service and technology providers.

7. Location
New York Room (capacity 36)

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WORKSHOP 3.5

1. Title
The Role of Information Models in SDI: The Case of Disaster Management

2. Organizer/Contact Person
IVENT/Competence Center GIS, Patrick Brooijmans, Consultant geographic information, Mme Curielaan 6, NL-2289 CA Rijswijk, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel.: +31 (0) 6 51313575

3. Workshop Description and Goals
Geo-information for disaster management is a hot issue in the Netherlands. Various initiatives and projects are running on this subject today. One major challenge is building a general spatial data infrastructure for disaster management for all involved parties. In 2008 a working GDI for disaster management is implemented on national level. Mainly static geo-information can be shared. This static geo-information resides in local, provincial and national government databases. But during an incident or disaster all the relevant actors participating in disaster management create their own incident specific geographic information. This information has to be communicated with the other columns participating in disaster management, too. To enhance the information exchange, communication has to be based on a common data model. The participating actors (fire brigade, police, municipality, ambulance, etc.) must understand the shared information. They need a common language. In the Netherlands the datamodel IMOOV has been developed to support the exchange of dynamic incident specific information. During the workshop participants can discuss the application of this data model and discuss the best architecture possible to enhance communication between participants. Questions that need to be answered are:
- Do we need a common data model for disaster management?
- To what extent and detail do we need to model dynamic incident specific information?
- How do we connect disaster processes to the IMOOV?
- How do we need to implement the model?
- Is an international oriented IMOOV needed?

4. Workshop Topics
- disaster management IT architecture
- Disaster management data model
- Exchange of incident specific information
- Process modeling
- UML / XML

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Patrick Brooijmans, Consultant geographic information, Mme Curielaan 6, NL-2289 CA Rijswijk, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel.: +31 (0) 6 51313575
Jene van der Heide, Procesmanager / Senior projectmanager, Geonovum / Kadaster, Barchman Wuytierslaan 10, NL-3818 LH Amersfoort, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0) 652481785
Jaap Smit; Safety Region Ijsselland, PO Box 1453, 8001 BL Zwolle,THE NETHERLANDS – Tel: +31 (0)38 428 19936
[affiliated presentations and papers]

6. Intended Audience
Anyone with interests in IT architecture, Disaster management, Data / process modeling, GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructures

7. Location
Diamond Room 2 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 3.6

1. Title
Success Factors for E-government

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Marcel de Rink, ESRI Netherlands Inc, Postbus 29020, 3001 GA Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0)6 20432653

3. Workshop Description and Goals
In this workshop 3 Dutch public organizations present the way they integrate the geographical dimension in their internal (spatial) information infrastructure, in their business & process architecture and in the way they realize e-government for their clients and customers. The 3 examples are complementary. The first example, presented by Johan Ruijten (Dataland, Inc.) regards the level of the local authorities with special interest tot the added value that can be created bij intermunicipal coöperation. In the second presentation Wilbert Kurvers from the provence of Limburg presents the SDI-assessment method he developed to answer the question whether or not the Dutch municipalities within the Province of Limburg are willing and are able to build, implement and maintain their own spatial data infrastructure.The third presentation (Jeroen Baltussen, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and Marcel de Rink, ESRI Netherlands, Inc.) deals with the development of a central spatial infrastructure and the way this is embedded in the enterprise / business architecture of the Dutch Ministry of agriculture.

The main goal of this workshop is to obtain a better view of the do's and don'ts on building SDI's within government organizations and the way they are related to the business architecture and the implementation of e-government ambitions.

4. Workshop Topics
- bridging the gap between geo-ICT and mainstream IT approaches
- working together to enrich e-government by full use of the location component and its powerful integration qualities

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Johan Ruijten, Dataland Inc., Postbus 246, 2803 PA Gouda, THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0)182 396 010
Wilbert Kurvers, Provincie Limburg, THE NETHERLANDS
Jeroen Baltussen, Ministry of Agriculture, Postbus 20021, 3511 EW Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0) 30 2756719
Marcel de Rink, ESRI Netherlands Inc, Postbus 29020, 3001 GA Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0)6 20432653
[affiliated presentations and papers]

6. Intended Audience
All those who are involved in building, implementing and maintaining SDI's as an instrument for improving the e-government services (decision makers, program managers, geo-experts, IT-experts).

7. Location
Oscar Auditorium Room (capacity 80)

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WORKSHOP 3.7

1. Title
Is there quality in SDIs? How will technology help?

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Patricia Sokacova, EuroGeographics, 6-8 Avenue Blaise Pascal, Champs-sur-Marne, F-77455 Marne-la-Vallee cedex 2, FRANCE, Tel.+33 687 541 395

3. Workshop Description and Goals
EuroGeographics will deliver two consecutive workshops on quality. This is the first workshop.

This workshop will describe the quality issues being considered and the proposed approach being taken in the European Spatial Data Infrastructure Network (ESDIN) project co-funded by the European Union. Delegates will have the opportunity to propose any shortcomings in the data quality approach in INSPIRE implementing rules and specifications. The goals for this first workshop are:
- to understand the costs of implementing quality and the benefits from introducing quality in SDI
- to help participants understand the contribution of the ISO 19100 series in data quality
- to review the approach taken in the ESDIN project.
- to describe how quality can be introduced to SDI and how to automate a quality evaluation process

4. Workshop Topics
- Cost and data quality in SDI implementations
- New ISO 19113 approach
- Approach in ESDIN project
- Semi-automatic quality evaluator concept

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Moderator:
Antti Jakobsson D.Sc. (Tech), Program Manager, EuroGeographics, 6-8 Avenue Blaise Pascal
Champs-sur-Marne, F-77455 Marne-la-Vallee cedex 2, FRANCE, Tel. +33 (0) 6 07 10 42 32, Fax +33 (0) 1 64 15 32 19
Speakers:
Prof. Anders Ostman, Professor, University of Gavle, 801 76 Gavle, SWEDEN, Tel. +46 266 48 513
Matt Beare, Business Systems Analyst, 1Spatial, Cavendish House, Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge CB4OWZ, UK, Tel. +44 122 342 04 14
Riikka Henriksson M.Sc., Researcher, Helsinki University of Technology, PO BOX 1200, Fin - 02019 TKK, FINLAND, +35 840 563 45 16

6. Intended Audience
- Experts and managers working to implement SDI's at national, regional, local or organizational level including national mapping and cadastral agencies.
- Spatial data providers for SDI's including commercial actors
- Users of spatial data from diverse disciplines such as Environment, Transport, Telecommunication, Public Administration, etc

7. Location
Goudriaan Room (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 3.8

1. Title
SDI Building Bridges

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Frank Holsmuller, ESRI-Europe, Postbox 29099, 3001 GB Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0)10-2177788

3. Workshop Description and Goals
This workshop will address various aspects of INSPIRE that aim to build bridges between users and producers, various levels of government involved in INSPIRE, various technology platforms, and more. The workshop will focus on the technologies and processes supporting the building of these bridges. The workshop will discuss various solution patterns that help LMO implement INSPIRE-compliant solutions. The workshop will use several case studies as illustrative of progress made so far.

4. Workshop Topics
- People to people
- Technology platforms
- Users and producers
- Different levels of government
- Data exchange
- On ramp/off ramp (internal workflows) without which you can't get on to or off the bridge
- What technology to use for building the bridge?

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Marten Hogeweg, Product manager GIS Portal Toolkit, ESRI Inc., 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373, USA, Tel. +1 (909) 793-2853 x1129
Guenther Pichler, Business Development Manager, EMEA ESRI-Europe, Ringstrasse 7, 85402, Kranzberg, GERMANY, Tel. +49 8166 677-0
Christian Elfers, Product Manager SDI.Suite con terra GmbH, Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24, 48155 Muenster, GERMANY, Tel. +49 (251) 7474-333

6. Intended Audience
CIO/CTO/GIO of LMO in EU Member States who need to understand the options for realizing INSPIRE compliant solutions that integrate with existing organizational IT infrastructures and workflows

7. Location
Leeuwen Room (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 4.1

1. Title
Marine SDI and the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN)

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Roger Longhorn, Director, Info-Dynamics Research Associates Ltd, Information Policy Advisor, EUCC - Marine and Coastal Union, Fazantenlaan 24, B-8450 Bredene, Belgium, Tel. +32 59 435396 Fax. +44 870 134-6492

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The workshop will look at the issues and components that distinguish marine/coastal spatial data infrastructures (SDI) from those of the more terrestrial- and topographically-aligned national SDIs. Issues include different standards developed by different standards bodies, different governance regimes, different users and stakeholders - many of whom also use non-marine geospatial data.

Few countries have specified or implemented coastal or marine SDIs or strategies, the exceptions being the USA, Canada, and the UK. Successes to date in these areas will be reviewed, along with an examination of continuing barriers to success there and elsewhere.

No true regional or global marine/coastal SDIs yet exist. For oceanographic data, data access, use and re-use policies have been agreed, along with certain data exchange technical standards, by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's (IOC) International Oceanographic Date and Information Exchange (IODE) project, dating back to 1969. New global hydrographic data standards are being developed by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), the S-100 standard, which will permit more uses of hydrographic data beyond the mainly nautical charting focus of the current (S-57) standard, especially for the marine and coastal science communities.

Coastal and marine atlases from different countries and regions - Ireland, Belgium, USA, Africa and the Caribbean - will be demonstrated, focusing on the role that marine/coastal SDI components play in facilitating the design, implementation and use of such web-based marine information resources. Technical implementation guidelines produced by the International Coastal Atlas Network will be available to workshop participants to take away.

4. Workshop Topics
o What is a marine SDI?
o Relationship of Marine/Coastal SDI to National SDI
o National and regional (trans-national) marine/coastal SDI initiatives - 2009 update
o Role of international standards in marine/coastal SDIs (IHO S-100, OGC, ISO):
- hydrographic standards (IHO S-100)
- sensor web standards (OGC/ISO)
- sensor and data models (ISO 19130)
- imagery, grid and coverage data (ISO 19129)
- metadata extensions for imagery and gridded data (ISO 19115-2)
o Marine/Coastal Atlases (demonstrations - as a prime example of expected benefits of implementing marine/coastal SDIs)
o International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN):
- global developments for implementing integrated coastal atlases
- technical guidelines for implementing coastal atlases

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Roger Longhorn, Information Policy Advisor, EUCC - The Coastal Union; lead presenter, also presents African, Caribbean and Irish marine atlases and ICAN technical guidelines.
John Pepper, Head GIS Strategy Unit, UK Hydrographic Office and/or Mike Osborne, SeaZone Solutions Ltd (UK)

6. Intended Audience
o Managers of coastal or marine research institutes and government agencies;
o Managers of marine-related commercial operations, i.e. port authorities, marine transport companies, coastal infrastructure maintenance firms, etc.;
o Coastal and marine science researchers who create or need access to marine information, especially when integrated with terrestrial data;
o Coastal managers and marine resource planners.

7. Location
Penn Room (60 capacity)

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WORKSHOP 4.2

1. Title
Theory-based SDI Research and Empirical Cases from the North and South

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Dr. Gianluca Miscione and Prof. Yola Georgiadou, International institute for geo-information science and earth observation (ITC), POB 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands, tel ++31 (0) 53 4874 392

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The workshop's goal is to develop the theory-based research capacity of the participants, so that they can better understand and explain why local/regional SDIs succeed (or fail) in various circumstances around the globe, and how they can be scaled up and institutionalised. The first 90 minute session will focus on the link between theory, conceptual frameworks and methods as it affects the scientific rigor and validity of research results; the methods would refer to qualitative, quantitative and mixed research approaches and tools. The second 90 minute session will focus on empirical cases of SDI implementation from "developed" (Belgium, North America and the Netherlands) and "developing" (Nepal, India) contexts, where these approaches and tools are being applied by PhD researchers studying in Belgium, in the Netherlands and in the USA.

4. Workshop Topics
Research methods and tools: Qualitative, quantiative, mixed. Theory-based SDI research in action: presentation of empirical cases by PhD students.

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Dr. Gianluca Miscione (ITC), Dr. Joep Crompvoets (KUL), Prof. Zorica Nedovic-Budic (UIUC ), Prof. Yola Georgiadou (ITC)

6. Intended Audience
PhD candidates interested in theory-based research and methodological approaches for understanding phenomena of SDI implementation and use.

7. Location
Van Oldenbarnevelt Room (60 capacity)

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WORKSHOP 4.3

1. Title
Tools and Experiences in Implementing INSPIRE Data Specifications IV: Practical Schema Translation for INSPIRE

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Eddie Curtis, CTO, Snowflake Software

3. Workshop Description and Goals
Based on the experiences of Snowflake Software during INSPIRE testing, this workshop will demonstrate and walk through the end-to-end process used during the Transformation Testing of HMLR Cadastral parcels into the INSPIRE Cadastral GML 3.2.1 schema and its deployment as a Web Feature Service. The workshop will focus on the practical experience gained and will explore the issues encountered and solutions applied. The workshop aims to provide attendees with practical options for translating existing data to INSPIRE schemas.

4. Workshop Topics
- An architecture for schema translation - presenting an architecture for on-the-fly schema translation within WFS with a discussion of its merits.
- An example translation - Demonstration of the translation of HMLR parcels to the INSPIRE Cadastral schema.
- Schema translation patterns - a set of data model mappings which can be used in combination to achieve schema translation.
- Performance and scalablity - a look at the performance and scalability issues involved in schema translation.

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Eddie Curtis, CTO, Snowflake Software

6. Intended Audience
All those tasked with publishing existing data sets into the INSPIRE framework or national SDIs.

7. Location
Diamond Room 1 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 4.4

1. Title
Lessons Learned and Best Practices from GI-SDI Projects II: Examples of eContentplus Projects
Part 2: GIS4EU, EURADIN, NATURE-SDIplus, OneGeology Europe

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Joao Geirinhas, EUROGI, Joachim Rix, INI-GraphicsNet Stiftung, and Giorgio Saio, GISIG, Via Piacenza 54, 16138 Genova, Italy, Phone: +39/010/835-5588, Fax: +39/010/835-7190

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The common framework for the second part of the Lessons learned and best practices from GI-SDI projects workshop (see Workshop 3.4) is based on SDI INSPIRE related best practices addressed by four EC funded projects concerning selected eContentplus thematic implementations (GIS4EU, EURADIN, NATURE-SDIplus, OneGeology Europe).

The workshop intends to transfer knowledge about the methodologies applied for such projects, best practices, technical aspects and organisational constraints, as well as to provide the attendees with tools for enhancing SDI implementation approaches on other domains, fostering as well exchange of experiences among different initiatives.

Based on this integrated approach the workshop addresses four specific thematic SDI approaches related to the Interoperability of Administrative Units, Hydrography, Transportation Network and Elevation datasets (GIS4EU), the establishment of a European Addresses Infrastructure (EURADIN), the cluster of data sets for Nature Conservation (NATURE-SDIplus) and geological data (OneGeology Europe), focusing on the most relevant technical, data, metadata and dataflow issues, and their establishment.

Although each of the projects relies on specific themes and holds development particularities, the workshop also explores the common deployment issues between them, through an as much as possible coherent and coordinated approach, aiming to highlight some SDI implementation commonalities.

The workshop relies mostly on lectures related to each of the covered topics. It is foreseen to distribute some materials related to the projects and concrete results obtained by then.

4. Workshop Topics
Introductory Comments from the eContentplus program officer
GIS4EU: Data Harmonisation processes, Interoperable SDIs, INSPIRE testing

GIS4EU - Provision of interoperable data sets to open GI to EU Communities - aims to provide base cartography datasets for Europe and to ensure its cross scale, cross language and cross border interoperability and accessibility, according to standards and INSPIRE Directive requirements.

EURADIN: Data, Metadata, Data flow and Business Model, INSPIRE testing

EURADIN - European Addresses Infrastructure - aims at constituting a Best Practice Network in order to promote the European Addresses harmonisation regarding the definition, registration and access to the European Addresses Data.
NATURE-SDIplus: User needs, Data analysis and specification, INSPIRE testing

NATURE-SDIplus -Best Practice Network for SDI in Nature Conservation - aims, through state of art methodologies and best practice examples, to improve harmonisation of national datasets and make them more accessible and exploitable.

OneGeology Europe: User needs, Metadata, Data harmonisation process, INSPIRE testing

OneGeology Europe - Best Practice Network for SDI in Geology - aims at improving accessibility of geological data and delivering a harmonised geological map of Europe at 1:1 Million scale, built from national maps served through interoperable services.

Interaction with attendees structured around a predefined model dependent on the number of participants

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Marcel Watelet (European Commission), eContentplus
Stefania De Zorzi (CORILA), Carmelo Attardo (Intergraph Italy), GIS4EU
María Cabello (Trabajos Catastrales, S.A), EURADIN
Giorgio Saio (GISIG), NATURE-SDIplus
François Robida (BRGM), OneGeology Europe

6. Intended Audience
The target audience will be people related with INSPIRE implementation at national or regional level with the responsibility to assess their feasibility. In particular the workshop is addressed to data providers in the public and private sector, as well as to the service and technology providers.

7. Location
New York Room (capacity 36)

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WORKSHOP 4.5

1. Title
SDI in National Government: Dutch Key GeoRegisters

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Yvette Ellenkamp, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), ipc 866
PO Box 20951, 2500 EZ Den Haag, The Netherlands, Phone: +31 (0) 70 339 4872

3. Workshop Description and Goals
The Dutch Government is taking great efforts in creating and improving the Spatial Data Infrastructure. On the one hand a system of key registers is created. Developing key registers aims to achieve what Napoleon's paper registration system did two centuries ago: create a clear system of unique data whereby "one-stop collection, multiple use" improves the availability and quality of the data. Important key registers which contain spatial data are amongst others the registers of buildings, addresses and the GBKN Large scale base map of the Netherlands. The key register of Buildings and Addresses is newly implemented; whereas the GBKN Large scale base map of the Netherlands exists already 25 years and is now also becoming a key register. Topics like the system of key registers, regulation by law, quality assurance, relations between different key registers, willingness of different organizations, agreeing to standards and the kind of management will be treated in the workshop. Also, the relation between the Dutch Key Register of Buildings and Addresses and comparable European registers will be elaborated upon. On the other hand there are important other projects which improve the National SDI. One of them is regulated by the Underground Cables and Pipelines Information Exchange Act. Reason for this Act was the reporting in several newspapers concerning growing chaos in the underground. To solve this problem the Act contains the obligation for excavators and cable companies to participate to the (electronic) information exchange process about underground cables and pipelines. In the workshop this Underground Cables and Pipelines Information Exchange Act will be explained further.

4. Workshop Topics
- Key Registers of Buildings and Addresses (amongst others) and the GBKN Large scale base map of the Netherlands.
- The Underground Cables and Pipelines Information Exchange Act

5. Tentative Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Yvette Ellenkamp, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM)
Bart Maessen, The Dutch Cadastre
Martin Peersman and Wendy Borst, GBKN Large scale base map of The Netherlands
Caroline Groot, The Dutch Cadastre
Floris de Bree, TNO Built Environment and Geosciences
[affiliated presentations and papers]

6. Intended Audience
All those who are involved in building, implementing and maintaining SDI's as an instrument for improving e-government services (decision makers, program managers, geo-experts, IT-experts).

7. Location
Diamond Room 2 (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 4.6

1. Title
Geo Data Infrastructure for the Environment and Society

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Hans Hooghart, Communications Advisor, TNO Building and Construction , Princetonlaan 6 , PO Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht , THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0) 30 256 44 77

3. Workshop Description and Goals
As a result of its studies of the subsurface of the Netherlands, TNO has millions of data about the subsurface. This geo-scientific data information is made available to companies, governments, educational institutions and private individuals. DINOLoket gives you instant access to subsurface data.

REGIS Zeeland gives a detailed insight in the geological built-up of the province. By means of the standardized lithostratigraphy of the Netherlands a digital geological model (DGM), covering the upper hundreds of meters was constructed based on thousands of wells. For hydrological purposes this model was refined with aquifers and aquitards transforming the geological model in a hydrogeological model: REGIS Zeeland. The latest development of the mapping efforts in the area has been the development of a detailed voxel-model (voxel=a cell of 100x100x0,5 m) of the upper 30-40 meters of the province, covering the Holocene deposits; about 23.000 wells have been used for this GeoTOP model.

Urban Strategy is an interactive, decision support system that contains TNO's expertise in the local environment, involving aspects such as air quality, noise, accessibility, safety, parks and gardens, and water. Urban Strategy thus offers a comprehensive view of the quality of the habitat for a variety of environmental interventions.
The data and applications described above can also be used for interactive spatial planning. In this workshop therefore, several theoretical and empirical experiences with geo-visualisation within Dutch land use planning will be illustrated and discussed.

4. Workshop Topics
- From facilitating to participatory GIS. The Dutch Planning Domain
- Google Earth based visualisation of Dutch land use scenario studies
- The Development and Usage of Geo-Services for Land Use Planning
- DINO: Data and Information of the Dutch Subsurface
- Regional Geohydrological Information System of the province Zeeland
- Urban Strategy: interactive spatial planning

5. Tentative Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Moderator:
Emile Elewaut, Manager Business Development, TNO Building and Construction, PO Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0) 30 256 46 08
Speakers:
Henk Monen, Geowetenschappelijk software engineer, TNO Building and Construction, PO Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht
THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0)30 2564962
Jan Stafleu, Geo-modellering en Karakterisatie, TNO Building and Construction, PO Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht
THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0)30-2564667
Karolina Orlinska, GIS Consultant, Grontmij, THE NETHERLANDS, PO Box 203, 3730 AE, De Bilt
Ron van Lammeren, Universitair Hoofddocent, Wageningen University, PO Box 9101, 6700 HB Wageningen, THE NETHERLANDS, +31 (0) 317 48 15 53
Ebrahim Hemmatnia, Consultant Product- en Process Innovation GEO Kadaster, THE NETHERLANDS
[affiliated presentations and papers]

6. Intended Audience
This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers, staff officers and managers from institutes, universities, ministry’s to meet and exchange the latest research topics, ideas, new research areas and applications  on data infrastructure for geology, urban planning and groundwater.

7. Location
Oscar Auditorium Room (capacity 80)

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WORKSHOP 4.7

1. Title
Just because they're interoperable .... Meeting Users' Expectations of Data Quality in SDIs

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Patricia Sokacova, EuroGeographics, 6-8 Avenue Blaise Pascal, Champs-sur-Marne, F-77455 Marne-la-Vallée cedex 2, FRANCE, Tel.+33 687 541 395

3. Workshop Description and Goals

The workshop will present examples of different approaches to aspects of data quality; including evaluation and certification in cadastres and in mapping from the perspective of both academic and standardization bodies.

The aim of the workshop is to engage the participants in a discussion forum about how the ESDI will work in practice. In order to instigate the debate from the community, EuroGeographics will present the challenge how user expectations of data quality in SDI's will be met. It is expected that issues of data quality approval, certification, accreditation and standards will be questioned and debated. As an opening gambit the discussion will question whether there is the need for thematic geodata to be 'certified' against the relevant reference data; is this necessary for a successful seamless European SDI?

Delegates will be expected to share their experiences and contribute to an active discussion leading to a document describing both users data requirements and suppliers state-of-the-art in quality management.

4. Workshop Topics
- Certification of Cadastral quality
- Production partnership management
- Spatial Data Infrastructure - Datasets Quality Approval
- Need for Quality auditing

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Moderator:
Carol Agius, EuroGeographics Expert Group on Quality Chair, Malta Environment & Planning Authority, PO Box 200,Valetta FRN 1230, MALTA, Tel. +356 (0) 2290 1320, Fax +356 (0) 2290 2295
Speakers:
Bengt Kjellson, EuroGeographics Cadastre & Land Registry Group Chair, Lantmateriet (National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registration Agency of Sweden), S-80182 Gavle, SWEDEN, Tel. +46 (26) 63 49 41
Carsten Roendorf, Corporate Data Manager, Ordnance Survey UK, Romsey Road Southampton SO16 4GU, UK, Tel. +44 23 80 305733
Suzie Larrivee, Research Professional, Department of Sciences, Geomatiques Faculty of Forestry and Geomatique, Université Laval, Louis-Jacques-Casault 1055, av. du Séminaire, Local 1349, Québec G1V 0A6, CANADA, Tel. (418) 656-2131 Poste 4372
Lubomir Michalik MBA, Head of NSDI Department, Geodetic and Cartographic Institute, Chlumeckeho 4, 827 45 Bratislava, SLOVAK REPUBLIC, +421 2 2081 6203
Hans Dufourmont, DG Enterprise, Kopernikus Bureau, European Commission, Oudergemlaan 45, B-1040 Brussel, BELGIUM, +32 2 29 90072

6. Intended Audience
Users of Spatial Data from diverse disciplines such as Environment, Transport, Telecommunication, Public Administration, Spatial Data Providers, National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies, Academic and Research institutions and anyone with interests in SDI, data quality, best practice networks, standardization

7. Location
Goudriaan Room (capacity 60)

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WORKSHOP 4.8

1. Title
Capacity Building and SDIs: an Executive Seminar

2. Organizer/Contact Person
Frank Holsmuller, ESRI-Europe, Postbox 29099, 3001 GB Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 (0)10-2177788

3. Workshop Description and Goals
During this seminar, senior management of organizations dealing with national or regional Spatial Data Infrastructures will be informed about and discuss the possibilities of capacity building for themselves, their employees and other people who are affected by the implementation of such technology. ESRI and ITC will be presenting a view on international capacity development, and on the services they can offer to educate people of many different public sector agencies as well as the private sector not only about the technology but also about the organizational changes that are necessary to successfully implement, run and use an SDI. NSDI India represents the receiving end as a large governmental agency heavily involved in the development of SDI.
It should become a very interactive session. Both ITC and ESRI have a long history of training students about technology and applied technology in the geo-IT field. They have done this all over the world and with this knowledge and experience can advise the many different players who can make an SDI successful.

4. Workshop Topics
• What is key in SDI capacity development for my organization?
• What are the trends in international education & capacity development?
• What roles do research and technology development play in a globalized world, and in international educational services?
• Is technology only the answer?
• How do I adjust my organization?
• What changes do I need to make in my daily workflow?
• What ROI can I expect in the long run?
• Where can I find the right courses to educate my people?
• What are the top ten items to know in order to implement an SDI?

5. Workshop Instructors/Speakers
Prof.dr.ir. Martien Molenaar, Rector, International Institute for Geo-information Science & Earth Observation (ITC), Hengelosestraat 99, 7500 AA Enschede, THE NETHERLANDS, Tel. +31 53 4874269
Dr. C.J. Terborgh, Federal/Global Affairs Team Leader, ESRI Inc., 8615 Westwood Center Drive, Vienna, Virginia 22182, USA, Tel. +1-703-506-9515
Dr R Siva Kumar, CEO NSDI & Head NRDMS, NRDMS, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110016, India, Tel. +91 11 26590308

6. Intended Audience
Higher management of organizations (both public and commercial) who are affected by the implementation of an SDI in their country, The attendees do not need any specific technical background but some basic knowledge about geospatial technology and its applications would be useful. The attendees are encouraged to share their experiences with the rest of the audience.

7. Location
Leeuwen Room (capacity 60)