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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE<br />

“SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES AND SPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT”<br />

SDI & SIM 2013<br />

13-16 November 2013, Skopje, FYROM<br />

http://conf2013.geo-see.org<br />

the process of spatial data sharing through the Internet, as a tool for faster,<br />

easier and simpler access to spatial data by all stakeholders, customers and<br />

clients; the implementation of International-Global and European criteria for<br />

organizing digital spatial data; the impact of spatial information on all application<br />

fields; cooperation between stakeholders, such as state institutions responsible<br />

for collecting, structuring, archiving, updating and analyzing spatial data,<br />

according to their legal mission and obligation.<br />

Conference themes include (but not limited to):<br />

Spatial Data Infrastructure<br />

1. Sub-national, national, regional, continental and global SDIs<br />

2. Scientific aspects of SDIs and their development<br />

3. Methodologies for SDI development, update and upgrade<br />

4. Technologies and standards<br />

5. Architectures of SDIs<br />

6. Data, data specifications, data organization and exchange mechanisms<br />

and protocols<br />

7. SDI metadata and spatial coordinate systems<br />

8. Building and organization of SDIs<br />

9. Integration, interoperability and compatibility of SDI’s developed by<br />

different platforms<br />

10.Legal aspects of SDI developing and utilization<br />

11.European INSPIRE development and implementation<br />

12.Pan-European geographic datasets<br />

13.Global mapping<br />

14.SDI as necessary tool of cartography<br />

15.Applications of SDI in various sectors such as government,<br />

telecommunications, utilities, cadastre, land management, environment<br />

and nature protection, disaster management, climate changes, Earth<br />

structure, physical and urban planning, tourism and others<br />

16.Education, training and awareness creation<br />

17.Developments of open source SDIs<br />

18.SDIs based on Crowedsourced Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)<br />

and applications<br />

Spatial Information Management<br />

1. E-government and SDIs: managing information spatially; theory,<br />

applications and best practice studies<br />

2. The significance of reliable SDIs as the necessary tool for managing the<br />

regional and local authorities' services settings, establishing the basis for<br />

their vitality and “openness to change”

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