The European Forum for Geostatistics www.efgs.info The European Forum for Geostatistics Presentation of EFGS Report on the 2010 meeting in Tallinn Outlook to the 2011 meeting in Lisboa Report from the UN CES seminar on spatial statistics Session 5: Dissemination The title of the conference: “Creating a knowledge base for successful cities and regions...” presupposes that users play main role in this topic, because any knowledge base should be built for them, to satisfy their needs, their requests, to answer their questions. Dissemination thus plays two roles in creation a knowledge base – as an input when collecting requests, questions, demands, and as a tool when providing product (i.e. knowledge base) to users. When speaking about dissemination of a knowledge base we should concentrate on these questions: Who are our users, what are their needs, how can we collect them? What is user’s role during process of creating of a knowledge base? How can we disseminate a knowledge base? How to communicate metadata? Papers to be presented at this session should describe the experiences and best practices in the above mentioned areas. Vilni Verner Holst Bloch Coordinator of ESSnet GEOSTAT project President of European Forum for Geostatistics vvh@ssb.no

Introduction to EFGS www.efgs.info Background in meeting in 1998 Voluntary cooperation between NSIs on geostatistics Since 2000 annual meetings 2010 start of ESSnet project GEOSTAT CES meeting in Paris 8th of June 2010 EFGS conference 2010 in Tallinn EFGS conference 2011 in Lisboa Formalisation of EFGS in 2012 A global forum for geostatistics? Who are our users? What are the user needs? How can we collect user needs? How to communicate metadata? What is user’s role during process of creating of a knowledge base? How can we disseminate a knowledge base?

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