CEN TC 287 Geographic Information Workshop

26 March 2008, 2:13pm

CEN TC 287 Geographic Information

European Commitee for Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation
Europäisches Komitee für Normung

Geo - Standards in Practice
CEN/TC 287 Interoperability Workshop

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

09.00 – 17.00

08:00 Registration

Organizer

CEN/TC 287 Geographic Information European Commitee for Standardization Comité Européen de Normalisation Europäisches Komitee für Normung www.centc287.org

Hosted by:

DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN German Institute for Standardization) Burggrafenstrasse 6
10787 Berlin

Conference room 909, 9th floor

The DIN offices are situated in the city centre – visit www.din.de for directions.

Participation free of charge

Pre-registration is required at: astrid.balada@din.de

Background

Standardization provides quality criteria for tech¬nical products and a basis for development and economic success. CEN – Comité Européen de Normalisation – is the official European stand¬ards body and contributes to this aim in close cooperation with ISO and national standards bodies such as DIN, this year‘s host of the Ple¬nary of CEN/TC 287 – Geographic Information – and the joint Working Groups. After develop¬ing its first standards, CEN/TC 287 established the Geo-Standards in Practice – CEN/TC 287 Interoperability Workshop which is organized by the Advisory Group on Outreach of CEN/TC 287 in cooperation with DIN, the hosting national body. The Workshop is a forum where interest¬ed geoprofessionals can learn about the highly sophisticated standards published by CEN, the background of the standards, and how you can benefit from them in practice.

Research by DIN and the German Federal Min¬istry of Economics and Technology, in coopera¬tion with the Austrian and Swiss standardization bodies, established that the economic benefits of standardization alone amount to more than 15 billion US dollars annually (www.din.de).

Target Group

The Workshop addresses all geoprofessionals and interested professionals from the fields of economics and government who are involved in research or the development or application of geoinformation and geomatic products at a tech¬nical or decision-making level. Participants from universities are also very welcome. The aim is to involve developers, providers and users in the standardization process at the earliest possible stage.

Aims of the Workshop

The use of geoinformation standards will be presented by a number of experienced profes¬sionals, with the focus on the great variety of applications. In addition, information on inter¬national standardization projects and on the successes and limitations of standardization will be available. Participants will also have an opportunity to report on their own experience with standards and put forward their ideas for improvement and for future standardization projects.

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