Today, more than ever, it is important to look beyond our national boundaries. The world as we know it is changing. Economies worldwide are undergoing a process of profound and continuing structural change, and the global village is becoming a reality driven by information and communication technologies. With this background, many countries throughout the world believe they can benefit both eco...

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is a concept that aids in discovering, sharing, and using geospatial data. Nevertheless, given the breadth of this concept, several ways of developing SDI have emerged. The International Cartographic Association (ICA) has proposed a formal model to describe SDIs irrespective of technologies and implementations by using three of the five viewpoints of the RMODP ...

This paper presents the Multi-view assessment of SDI status in the Republic of Kosovo performed in 2007 and in 2010. The main objective of this research was to assess the SDI of Kosovo and to define the driving forces needed to support SDI strategy development. The research assesses the status of SDI implementation of Kosovo using SDI readiness Index (Delgado et al., 2005); INSPIRE State of Pla...

The paper describes how practice of INSPIRE implementation are affecting Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) development. It contains the results of a EuroSDR (European Spatial Data Research) project ‘Atlas of INSPIRE implementation methods’. Aim of the project was to make an inventory of experiences when implementing INSPIRE, in order to share exemplary practices and solutions among national map...

Planetary science is the study of planets, moons, irregular bodies such as asteroids and the processes that create and modify them. Like terrestrial sciences, planetary science research is heavily dependent on collecting, processing and archiving large quantities of spatial data to support a range of activities. To address the complexity of storing, discovering, accessing, and utilizing spatial...