Articles on Spatial Data Infrastructures

A. J. Wortley of the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office passed along the following through the Weary Mappers listsev (February 19, 2008):

• Abbas Rajabifard, Ian P. Williamson, Peter Holl, Glenn Johnstone – From Local to Global SDI Initiatives: a pyramid of building blocs
• David Maguire – Where Next for SDI?
• Exploring Spatial Data Infrastructures Workshop, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 19-20 January 2006
• Ir. Bastiaan van Loenen – How to Assess the Status of SDI?
• Ian Masser – The Future of SDIs
• Ian Masser – Multilevel Implementation of SDIs
• Ian Masser – Spatial Data Infrastructures: A SWOTS Analysis
• Garfield Giff and David Coleman – Funding Models for SDI Implementation: from Local to Global

Also,

• Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures: The SDI Cookbook (2nd Ed, 2004)
• SDI Africa Cookbook

For a very interesting critical analysis of the the SDI movement, visit the following posting by Paul Ramsey on his “Clever Elephant Blog”:

• Paul Ramsey – Why SDIs Fail