[GSDI Legal Econ] official reference of SDI concept / ontologies

[David Coleman]

Walter, Kate et al:

I think Kate's right.  We were all working on similar initiatives and
feeding off each other's ideas.  For example, the attached Figure was
published in a paper by Doug Nebert and myself in "Cartography and GIS" in
1998, but was taken from an unpublished thesis by Ivan Ford back in 1990
when he was working on research towards marine information networks.  Ivan
based much of his work in turn on ideas contained in a great thesis on land
information networks prepared in 1984 by another fellow named Dave Palmer
(now at FAO in Rome).  We don't see Palmer cited in the literature because
Dave moved into the private sector for awhile after graduation and did not
pursue that line of academically thereafter.  That said,  I think he did a
superb job in pulling together ideas from early work being done in the USA
(esp. Wisconsin), Canada, Australia and Western Europe to compile  the
attendant technical and non-technical issues associated with what eventually
became known as spatial data infrastructure development.

Cheers,

... Dave Coleman 

On 1/21/07 3:13 AM, "Kate Lance" <klance_remote at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Walter,
> As far as I'm aware, the boxes came from efforts of Doug Nebert (and/or
> others) at FGDC in the 1990's as a means to describe SDI components and how
> they related to each other (check with Doug, ddnebert at fgdc.gov).  As
> originally conceived, the boxes were limited to maps, metadata, clearinghouse,
> standards, and partnerships (5 boxes).  Although boxes were used to convey the
> ideas, I wouldn't say that those promoting SDI thought that you could
> construct these boxes and thus have an SDI.  I think most fully understood
> that the institutional/organizational/partnership/social aspects were the most
> significant.    
>  
> In 2000, for work that Diego Pedreros and I were doing on SDI Honduras, and
> without the time/means to develop entirely new presentation materials, we
> extended some of Doug's slides and included additional boxes for
> communications network, legal framework, information policy.
>  
> In a similar vein, I know of others who used a presentation that Diego and I
> put together, because it was easier to use existing slides than create new
> ones that would have been more apt.
>  
> Does this mean we all had a "building block concept" of SDI development.... or
> were we too busy/rushed to put more thought into better presentations!  Not
> knowing why you may be interested in this slide, I wouldn't put more meaning
> into it than it actually represents.
>  
> You might want to check out recent FGDC presentations to see what ideas
> currently are being conveyed and how.  I don't think these boxes have been in
> FGDC presentation in quite some time.
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Walter de Vries <devries at itc.nl>
> To: legal-econ at lists.gsdi.org
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:14:48 PM
> Subject: [GSDI Legal Econ] official reference of SDI concept / ontologies
> 
> I was looking for the official reference to the SDI container / building block
> concept, in which SDI is diplayed as a combination of standards, base maps,
> partnerships, etc. Where/when was this concept introduced, or who should be
> referred to it how? I have seen it mentioned in various stages since the
> earlier GSDI conferences 1996/1997 and the earlier books/articles by Masser,
> Coleman, Moeller, FGDC, but wonder who should actually be credited for the
> complete picture or the seperate components of this (regardless of whether
> this picture provides a clear enough idea, or whether the building block
> concept is useful or not - that is obviously something to debate and/or
> compare).   
>  
> 
>  
> Walter de Vries
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