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DeliciousA GIO for DOI: Implications and Questions
Last week Secretary Kempthorne announced plans to appoint a Geographic Information Officer, or GIO, for the Department of the Interior. After having a week to ponder the announcement, our editors raise some practical and political questions about the position and who may fill it.
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- Karen Siderelis is Named USGS Geographic Information Officer (press release)
- GIO Leads Geospatial Enterprise(Military Geospatial Technology article on Army's GIO
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- National Geospatial Advisory Committee Endorses IFTN, Looks for Input (All Points Blog)
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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data
Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.
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