Terms of Reference

1. In collaboration with other ICA Commissions, explore research on the impact and use in SDIs oi cartography, standards, spatial semantics, ontologies, volunteered geographic information (VGI), data quality and other technological developments that might become relevant in future, and identify the associated education needs.
2. In collaboration with other ICA Commissions, participate at the scientific level with other organizations active in SDI, standards and quality of geospatial data and services.
3. Develop reports, conference presentations and/or journal articles on our work and help to arrange workshops, conferences or other meetings on SDI and standards, and present tutorials at them.
4. Organize reporting sessions on the Commission’s activities at the 2021 and 2023 International Cartographic Conferences.
5. Organize and hold full Commission meetings in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and mini-meetings of the Commission at suitable meetings and conferences.
6. Continue to serve as the liaison for the ICA to ISO/TC211, Geographic Information/Geomatics, to the Open Geospatial Consortium, and establish liaisons with other SDI and standards organizations.

Chairs

Serena Coetzee Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology University of Pretoria Private Bag X20 Hatfield 0028, South Africa phone: +27 12 420 3823 e-mail: serena.coetzee@up.ac.za

Franz-Josef Behr Laboratory for Open Geospatial Software, Data and Standards Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences Schellingstraße 24 70174 Stuttgart, Germany phone: +49 711 8926 2606 fax: +49 711/8926-2556 e-mail: franz-josef.behr@hft-stuttgart.de

Former Chairs

Antony Cooper Built Environment Unit CSIR PO Box 395 Pretoria 0001 South Africa phone: +27 12 841 4121 fax: +27 12 841 3037 e-mail: acooper@csir.co.za

Harold Moellering Department of Geography The Ohio State University 1036 Derby Hall 154 North Oval Mall Columbus, Oh 43210-1361, USA e-mail: moellering.1@osu.edu

Executive Committee

Members