1. The European Forum for Geostatistics
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

2. 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?

3.
Organisation 3

4. New members 2010 - 2011 www.efgs.info
European Statistical System (ESS) and users
EFGS members
GEOSTAT / EFGS Steering Committee

5.
EFGS website
A place for cooperation and information

6.
EFGS website
A place for networking

7. Report on the 2010 meeting in Tallinn
Report on the 2010 meeting in Tallinn
Thank you to
Statistics Estonia and
Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu

8. Outlook to the 2011 meeting in Lisboa
Outlook to the 2011 meeting in Lisboa

9. Thank you for your attention
Thank you for your attention