The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was envisioned as a
way of enhancing the accessibility, communication, and use of
geospatial data to support a wide variety of decisions at all
levels of society. The goals of the NSDI are to reduce redundancy
in geospatial data creation and maintenance, reduce the costs of
geospatial data creation and maintenance, improve access to
geospatial data, and improve the accuracy of geospatial data used
by the broader community. At the core of the NSDI is the concept of
partnerships, or collaborations, between different agencies,
corporations, institutions, and levels of government. In a previous
report, the Mapping Science Committee (MSC) defined a partnership
as ...a joint activity of federal and state agencies, involving one
or more agencies as joint principals focusing on geographic
information. The concept of partnerships was built on the
foundation of shared responsibilities, shared costs, shared
benefits, and shared control. Partnerships are designed to share
the costs of creation and maintenance of geospatial data, seeking
to avoid unnecessary duplication, and to make it possible for data
collected by one agency at a high level of spatial detail to be
used by another agency in more generalized form. Over the past
seven years, a series of funding programs administered by the
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has stimulated the
creation of such partnerships, and thereby promoted the objectives
of the NSDI, by raising awareness of the need for a coordinated
national approach to geospatial data creation, maintenance, and
use. They include the NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program, the
Framework Demonstration Projects Program, the Community
Demonstration Projects, and the Community-Federal Information
Partnerships proposal. This report assesses the success of the FGDC
partnership programs that have been established between the federal
government and state and local government, industry, and academic
communities in promoting the objectives of the National Spatial
Data Infrastructure.
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