Resources on SDI Assessment

Spatial Data Infrastructures: General Information

• Wikipedia
• SDI Cookbook
  Extensive requirements description for the creation of SDI. Definitions, Metadata, Standards, Implementation, Geospatial Data Catalogue, Geospatial Data Access and Delivery, Related Services, Case Studies, Terminology.

Spatial Data Infrastructures: Assessment

• Contribution to the extended impact assessment of INSPIRE
  Assessment of INSPIRE, social and economical consequences (2003).
• Extended Impact Assessment of INSPIRE based on revised scope
  changes that should be applied to the first study on INSPIRE assessment. (2004)
• Assessing the impacts of Spatial Data Infrastructures. Report of International Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures, Cost-Benefit / Return on Investment, Ispra, Italy.
  This report analyses what exists in SDI social-economical assessment and what should be done in the future.
• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of The National Map, USGS.
  The National Map is a consistent framework for geographic knowledge. It provides public access to high-quality, geospatial data and information from multiple partners to help support decision making by resource managers and the public.
• PWC (2006), Socio-Economic Benefit Analysis of GMES
  GMES socio-economic assessment: Strategic and Political Benefits, Benefits to EU external policies, Benefits in Preservation and Management of Natural Resources, and Benefits to Sustainable Growth.
• RISE Cost-Benefit Analysis
  The key objective of the RISE project is to develop methodologies and guidelines for the development of harmonised data product specifications. RISE provides with this document a process outlining the benefits of each of the steps of the RISE methodology on a qualitative level and identifies the areas which need to be considered in detail for a quantitative case by case study.
• INSPIRE State of Play Study & Cost/Benefit issues
  Reveals some serious issues around CBAs in SDI's, problems in quantification and qualification of benefits. Lithuanian case study.
• Cost-Benefit Studies - Roger Longhorn
  General recommendations for SDI assessments.
• Cost-Benefit Indicators to Assess SDI Impact - Roger Longhorn
  What should be made/thought before assessing SDI's: metrics, methodologies, relevant issues.
• Designing Performance Indicators for Spatial Data Infrastructure Assessment - Garfield Giff
  Framework for developing Performance Indicators for SDI Assessment.