Date: April 19, 2006 – 9:00am – 4:00pm
Location: Boardroom A, Main Floor
J. G. O'Donoghue Building
7000 - 113 Street
Edmonton, AB T6H 5T6
Objectives:
- To build awareness and understanding of the CGDI
- To present the business case for CGDI and outline the benefits of “buying
in”
- To demonstrate how the CGDI can be implemented and used by provincial
organizations to improve operations and decision making
Audience:
- IM/IT managers from various provincial ministries, municipal representatives
Agenda
- Introductions
- Canadian GeoSpatial Data Infrastructure
(CGDI) (Brian McLeod, GeoConnections)
- overview
- standards and architecture, relationship to IT architecture
- implementation status, key contributors, success stories
- next steps
- Business case for CGDI (Rebecca
Last, GeoConnections)
- why use CGDI
- return on investment
- Federal/provincial coordination/governance (Rebecca Last, GeoConnections,
Ian Gillespie, Env Canada,)
- Canada Council on Geomatics, Geobase
- Inter-Agency
Committee on Geomatics
- GeoConnections - fostering
the continued evolution of the CGDI (Trevor Rankin, GeoConnections)
- past program (1999 - 2005)
- where are we now (accomplishments to date)
- renewed program (2005 - 2010)
- National Land and Water Information
Service (Peter Schut, Bob Parkinson, NLWIS)
- CGDI application demos and best practices
- Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (John Little, Canadian Forest
Service)
- RésEau (Ian Gillespie, Env Canada)
- Atlas of Canada (Brian Mcleod, NRCan)
- NLWIS Applications
(Bob Parkinson, NLWIS)
- Additional CGDI compliant applications
- How to implement CGDI
within your organization (Peter Schut, Brian McLeod)
- policy issues, IT/GIS integration, lessons learned from GeoConnections
- resources (CGDI manual, OGC cookbooks, online training, documentation,
best practices, GeoConnections personnel, data policy guide)
- future GeoConnections opportunities
- Q&A session (All)
- questions answered by panel of workshop speakers