[GSDI Legal Socioecon] Best Practice for National SDIs

[Roger Longhorn]

*Best Practice for National SDIs*

A best practice workshop on National Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) 
is being held in Paris on 1 March. The workshop, hosted by the French 
Standards body AFNOR, is being organised by the European Committee for 
Standards for Geographic Information (CEN/TC 287). It will bring 
together representatives from international standards-making bodies and 
practitioners involved in implementing SDIs at the national level.

Speakers include Olaf Ostensen, chair of the International Standards 
Committee for GI, ISO/TC 211, Mark Reichardt, President of the 
OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC), and John Herring of Oracle.

CEN/TC 287 aims to build on existing standards to provide a set of 
standards for application within Europe, within the context of the EU 
INSPIRE Directive and the need for national SDIs.

The workshop, which is free of charge, will be of interest to people 
involved in establishing SDIs.  Places are limited, and need to be 
booked at www.gistandards.eu <http://www.gistandards.eu/>, where full 
details of the event can be found.