European Network on Geographic Information Enrichment and Reuse

Objectives

The main goal of the project is to build a network for promotion of cross border dialogue and exchange of best practices on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI’s) throughout Europe. The objectives of eSDI-Net+ are:

• Bring together SDI key players and target users in Thematic Network established as platform for communication and exchange between stakeholders involved in creation and use of SDI’s
• Promotion of high-level decisions and bottom-up technical discussion, and information exchange
• Help GI stakeholders realise full potential of digital GI for content providers and users and increase awareness concerning importance of GI enrichment and SDI’s for GI reuse
• Allow integrated view of experts and foster creation of integrated guidelines, standards, and implementation of best practices
• Establish communication mechanisms between European and local levels to maximize benefits of INSPIRE, GMES and GALILEO
• Develop solutions for multicultural and multilingual access, exploitation, use, and reuse of digital GI content in Europe
• Stimulate aggregation of existing national data sets of core GI into cross-border data sets

Activities

eSDI-Net+ will improve the GI reuse, by promoting across Europe relevant best practices related to SDI implementation and use, through the following three main phases:

• Establishment of network management structure 
• Identification and analysis of common problems, standard solutions, existing quality in GI good practices related to the enrichment and reusability of GI available in Europe (national and regional level).

• Identification and assessment of best practices, success showcase
• Dissemination activities, transfer of knowledge, consensus, awareness

• Evaluation of the achieved results (quantity and quality) and their usage, e.g. amount and impact of organised workshops, and
• Evaluation of the network itself as institution, e.g. on the number of new members, publicity etc.

Results

Following are the project results according to the realisation phases:
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• Established network administration structure and bodies. 
• Best practices will be identified, analysed and documented.

• The selection of the good practices and the organisation of the Best Practice Award and.

• The assessment of intermediate and final project results and of networks efficiency and progress.
• The assessment results will be documented and distributed among the partners and to the European Commission. The dissemination and awareness

All activities will be accompanied by dissemination and awareness activities (PI,II), with the documentation in progress reports and in several working versions of the Dissemination & awareness plan (PII). The responsibles will present the results also to the user community and the public (PIII).
As a result, the proposed project will contribute to achieving interoperability between national digital collections and services (e.g. through common standards) and facilitating access and use of the material in a multilingual context. Content providers will be able to increase the use and reuse of their material; content users will be able to find and use digital geographical data, irrespective of location and language.

For further information please visit www.esdinetplus.eu