[GSDI Technical] Some suggestions for SDI cookbook revision

[mdelavar at ut.ac.ir]

Dear SDI technical group members

I wish to inform you regarding the following points in revision of SDI
cookbook as it seems that there is a need to include the following
subjects in the new edition and I wish to cooperate in such a revision:

1-    SDI cost-benefit studies
2-    SDI relationship and role in environmental impact assessment/statement
(EIA/EIS) and sustainable development
3-    SDI relationships with the related disciplines such as land management
(LM), land administration system (LAS), land information system (LIS), and
geospatial information system (GIS),
4-    2D/3D SDI
5- Temporal SDI
6- Spatial data infrastructure (SDI)and public participation
7- Quality control/quality assurance/TQM in SDI
8- The relationship of SDI and ICT (SDI computing environment)
9- Recent progresses in surveying and mapping disciplines and their
impacts on SDI
10- Visualization of SDI fundamental data
11- Web-based SDI
12- Standards in SDI
13- Interoperability and SDI
14- A review of success and failure stories of SDI projects
15- Legal issues of SDI
16- Mobile GIS/LIS and its impacts on SDI
17- The role of SDI in disaster management
18- The social/political/economical impacts of SDI
19- Cadastre 2014 and SDI
20- Benchmarking of SDI
21- Taxation issues and SDI
22- Analytical aspects of SDI
23- Risk analysis and management in SDI
24- Ontological modeling of SDI
25- Conceptual framework development for SDI
26- Networking SDI
27- Computing environment in SDI
28- Developing a formalization for SDI
29- Public awareness in SDI
30- Globalization and SDI
31- Uncertainty propagation in SDI fundamental data and metadata
32- Location-based services (LBS) and SDI
33- Developing practical methodologies to establish SDI in
developing countries
34- The role of donor organizations (such as World
Bank/UNDP/UNEP/FAO/AusAID/etc.) in financing and technical management  of SDI
35- Geoportals and SDI
36- International cooperation in developing SDI
37- Developing a uniform terminology for SDI
38- The research needs in SDI
39- The future development in SDI
40- Developing a vision/road map for digital global development for the
design and implementation of SDI
42- and LAS
44- Comparative study of existing web sites/news
groups/conferences/journals/books/technical reports on SDI
45- The organizational structure of SDI
46- Artificial intelligence and SDI
47- Spatiotemporal data mining and SDI
48- SDI relationship with land use planning
49- The impact of SDI on good governance
50- The scale issue in SDI
51- Developing a comprehensive model for SDI development
52- The role of SDI in Disaster management
53- SDI applications, justifications and vision
54- SDI harmonization issues
55- SDI and poverty reduction
56- SDI and national/regional dispute reductions
57- SDI and health management
58- SDI and tourism industry enhancement
59- SDI education programs
60- etc.


With best wishes
M.R. Delavar
Dr. M.R. Delavar (Assist. Prof.),
Director of GIS/LIS Division,
And Head, Dept. of Surveying and Geomatic Eng., Eng. Faculty, University
of Tehran,
Tehran, Iran