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Strategies for National Spatial Data Infrastructure
국가공간정보기반 구축을 위한 전략계획 수립연구 Hyung-Min Yeom, Tae-Su Kang, Moon-Sub Chung Dong-Han Kim, Chang-Young Choi, and Si-Young Park
August 2003․246 pages․Korean
The Korean government is taking a leadership role in developing public and private national GIS programs for the country. Korea initiated「The First National GIS Master Plan」in 1995. Based on this plan, several GIS projects and research works have been initiated such as digital topographic and thematic mapping, GIS technology development, GIS standardization and human resource development, GIS application system, and others. 「The Second NGIS Master Plan」, a five-year master plan that started in 2001, is actively taking shape. The second five-year plan focuses on eight areas, such as the establishment of a distribution system for spatial data and the use of GIS applications, among others.
The purpose of this study is two folds: preparing strategic plan for NSDI (National Spatial Data Infrastructure) and suggesting the future direction for NGIS. First, the study aims at clarifying what NSDI is and how to build it. The Second NGIS Master Plan declares the construction of NSDI as a fundamental goal. However, the scope and contents of NSDI are not clarified. In this reason, the way of the NSDI construction is also not clear. Second, it tries to propose a new direction for NGIS. The Second NGIS Master Plan deals with too much area. Some of them play critical roles of the government, but some do not. Those areas not playing a primary government role cause a kind of a policy failure of the government. They should be clearly identified, and the NGIS should focus on NSDI.
The study consists of seven chapters.
Chapter 1 introduces background, purpose, scope, and method of the study. As mentioned above, the study aims at preparing strategies for NSDI. We present goals of
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Chapter 2 deals with a vision of the information society and roles of GIS in the future. Transition to the information society is inevitable trends. Competitiveness of a society or a nation heavily depends on the capacity of the information producing and processing. GIS is a technology that handles spatial information. Thus, GIS will be an important technology in the future society.
Chapter 3 examines outcomes, status, and problems of NGIS. With the recognition of the importance of GIS, the Korean government has propelled NGIS to foster the GIS fields in Korea. Generally to say, it is successful. The project has greatly contributed to promoting GIS in Korea. However, in particular, there exist some problems as well.
Common infrastructure for GIS, so called NSDI, is still not enough.
Chapter 4 conducts benchmarking foreign NSDI policies and practices. Foreign countries, like the United States, Canada, and Australia, have propelled NSDI for several years. All of them are best practices in the fields of the NSDI policy. We investigate them and draw lessons from their experiences.
Chapter 5 establishes a model for NSDI of Korea. The Korean NGIS master plan states needs for NSDI. However, it does not really suggest what it is and how to make it. We analyzed what has been done with NGIS and what should be done for the future. Then, we draw elements and structures of NSDI.
Chapter 6 proposes a strategic plan for NSDI. Based on the Korean NSDI model, we proposed strategies and measures to build NSDI. The model consists of five NSDI sectors, and strategies for each sector are explained in this chapter.
Chapter 7 recommends the ways of implementing NSDI under the current NGIS project. The Second NGIS Master Plan targets for the year 2005 while it is impossible to drastically change the plan. Thus, we explained how to construct NSDI in the given institutional frameworks.
