FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 SCOPE
2 CONSIDERED STANDARDISATION INITIATIVES
3 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
4 ABBREVIATED TERMS
5 SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AS AN IMPLEMENTATION-NEUTRAL
FRAMEWORK
5.1 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
5.2 STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY
5.3 GENERIC ARCHITECTURE MODEL
5.4 DATA-CENTRIC VS SERVICE-CENTRIC
5.5 SDI AS A DYNAMIC FRAMEWORK
6 DATA-CENTRIC VIEW ON SDI
6.1 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
6.2 DEVELOPMENT
6.3 DATA MANAGEMENT
7 SERVICE-CENTRIC VIEW ON SDI
7.1 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
7.2 REGISTRIES AS THE SDI GLUE
7.3 PUBLISH, FIND AND USE RESOURCES
7.4 INTEROPERABILITY
7.5 SERVICE TAXONOMY
7.6 SERVICE ARCHITECTURE
7.7 SERVICE CATALOGUE
7.8 SERVICE CHAINING
8 REFERENCE MODEL FOR A SDI
8.1 INTRODUCTION
8.2 VIEWPOINTS AND LEVELS OF ABSTRACTIONS
8.3 FRAMEWORK STANDARDS
8.4 SPATIAL DATA
8.5 METADATA AND CATALOGUE SERVICES
8.6 PORTRAYAL SERVICES
8.7 GEOSPATIAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS
9 MULTI-LINGUAL AND CULTURAL ADAPTABILITY
9.1 INTRODUCTION
9.2 MULTILINGUAL RESOURCE DISCOVERY
9.3 MULTILINGUAL EVALUATION OF RESOURCES
9.4 MULTILINGUAL ACCESS AND PROCESSING OF RESOURCES
9.5 CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ADAPTABILITY IN THE COMMON
UNDERSTANDING OF STANDARDS
10 GEO-PORTALS
11 IMPLEMENTATION STEERING MECHANISMS
11.1 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
11.2 MONITORING
11.3 CONFORMANCE AND CONFORMANCE TESTING
12 REQUIREMENTS NOT CURRENTLY COVERED SUFFICIENTLY BY GI
STANDARDS
ANNEX A DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCED ISO STANDARDS, EN ISO STANDARDS,
ISO PROJECTS AND OGC SPECIFICATIONS
ANNEX B CROSS-REFERENCE OF CEN/TC 287 AND ISO/TC 211 STANDARDS
AND REPORTS TO SDITOPICS
ANNEX C OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM
BIBLIOGRAPHY