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communal GIS for the City of Labin will be established, which
will gather data from the cadastre, the municipality planning
department, and various utility companies, and exchange and
distribute the data over Intra-net/Intemet.
Being aware the fact that one of the key factors will be the
degree of education of SDI subjects as well as whole Geo-
Information market and community the SGA already took steps
which were directed at establishing such forms of
communication and education. Thus, the SGA newsletter called
“Vizura” was launched in December 2006, with the basic
objective to offer information about the work of the SGA as
well as SDI establishment in particular. Subsequently, SGA
recognised importance of education very early, even at the time
of preparing the Law. Therefore, SDI workshops were launched
to transfer best practices. Two workshops with the Swedish and
Canadian colleagues were held in 2007, where a crosscut trough
the whole GI market was made and about 170 participants were
invited.
6. FURTHER ACTIVITIES ON SDI ESTABLISHMENT
The main goal for the next time will be full implementation of
institutional framework defined by the Law and going into
effect their tasks. SDI Committee and two working groups
should be established till end of 2008.
One of the next very important steps will be adopting of action
plan with clearly defined activities, timetable and deadlines.
Development of NSDI strongly depends of available funding;
therefore it is very important to strengthen political support.
Transposition of the Inspire in the national regulations should
be continued as well as Implementing Rules as soon as they are
accepted. To achieve full coordination with EU legislation and
activities National contact point for INSPIRE should be
appointed.
The SGA is obliged to establish a metadata service till 2010
trough a national geoportal. Since the Inspire Drafting Team for
MetaData has already given a Draft Implementing Rules for
Metadata, activities in this field in Croatia should go in
direction to monitor, evaluate and comment INSPIRE results
and to find the way how to implement them into Croatian SDI.
The same principles should be applied on other Inspire drafting
teams’ working fields.
SDI capacity building is one of the main tasks, what means that
the whole community should be ready for NSDI
implementation. For the year 2008 two workshops for sharing
best practices are planned. The next workshop is planned in
May 2008 where German example of SDI will be presented,
and after that Croatian GI community will have opportunity to
see Norwegian SDI model. NSDI publication consisting of two
NSDI studies (Remke et all, 2005 and Geolink Consulting,
2006) is prepared for publication in Croatian language. The aim
of the study is informing the whole professional community
directly involved in NSDI establishment, on national, regional,
local and business level, as well as all users on undertaken
activities and next activities.
7. CONCLUSION
The huge steps on SDI establishment in Croatia have been
already undertaken. Trough the new Law on State Survey and
Real Estate Cadastre that entered into force in February 2007
legal framework was established, what was only one significant
step in the process established by the SGA in the past. Full
implementation of the institutional framework will be achieved
till the end of 2008. NSDI activities and e-Croatia programme
have to be harmonised, common goals and activities have to be
strengthened for the profit of the whole community.
Coordination of SDI is the main factor for success; therefore the
role of SGA as coordination body in SDI establishment process
has been significant. According to the mentioned tasks SGA’s
activities will go in direction of SDI capacity building and
strengthening its bodies, continuation of transposition Inspire
into national regulations, establishment of metadata service
trough a national geoportal, networking other key players,
releasing NSDI tools in use as soon as possible and spreading
knowledge and information.
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