Podcast: ESRI UC Morning Plenary - Our Take

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
August 05, 2008

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Our editors review the morning plenary at the 2008 ESRI User Conference. The main focus included enhancements in ArcGIS 9.3, 3D, imagery and announcements from Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of Interior, who stole the show.

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DOI GIO - not USGS GIO (#1) by Ann, DOI Bureau
Date: August 11, 2008 23:28 PM

Dirk Kempthorne announced a GIO for DOI at the ESRI UC Plenary. Not USGS GIO as stated in the podcast by Adena. This is a big deal for DOI since USGS is a Bureau within DOI and established a GIO position in 1998. That eventually became a combined GIO/CIO position - unfortunately loosing the focus on what a GIO initially envisioned as. The limited success and problems with this have been experienced since.

Please provide credit for this effort to Dirk Kempthorne and the DOI staff working on educating management to this need.

Thank-you.

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