1. Conception of a Geospatial Data Infrastructure in Northrhine- Westphalia, Germany (GDI) Institute for Geoinformatics (IfGI), University of Muenster Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, D-48149 Muenster Christoph Brox, Werner Kuhn, Yaser Bishr

2. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Topics 1.GDI project 2.Organizational approach 3.Concepts Reference model User model Business model Architecture model 4.Summary

3. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Goals Overall goal: Expansion of markets for geographically related information products and services user-driven market usable geographic information 1. GDI project

4. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Stakeholders 1.Interior Ministery of NRW 2.Geodata servers (local, regional, vertical) 3.Content providers (mainly raster data) 4.eCommerce platforms 5.Business mapping solutions 6.Visualisation tools 7.Data access components 8.Market study 9.Scientific research 10.Cooperation with GEOBASIS.NRW 2. Organizational approach

5. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Schedule 2000 20012002 conception Implementationspecification prototyping reference model 1.0 (We are here!)2.03.0 2. Organizational approach

6. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW IfGI tasks Identify relevant Standards (e.g., OGC, ISO) Transfer national and international success factors to GDI Cooperate with sub-projects Support consensus processes Work on specific research questions Goal: Contribution to the quality assurance of „Geospatial Infrastructure NRW“ 2. Organizational approach

7. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW What are the successful mechanisms of international infrastructures to be transferred to NRW? Success factors: institutional technical commercial 2. Organizational approach

8. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW IfGI tasks Identify relevant Standards (e.g., OGC, ISO) Transfer national and international success factors to GDI Cooperate with sub-projects Support consensus processes Work on specific research questions Goal: Contribution to the quality assurance of „Geospatial Infrastructure NRW“ 2. Organizational approach

9. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Reference model 3. Concepts

10. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW User model - What are the user requirements? 3. Concepts

11. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW User model - What solutions are offered by the concepts of services and information products? dataservicesinformation products 3. Concepts

12. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW User model - GDI Internal users of the value chain of geoinformation Enabling to fulfil customers` requirements Information products and services Stationary computers (mobile devices) Priorisation by market study German/English 3. Concepts

13. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Business model (1) GDI supports the NRW market for GI by an open infrastructure Maintenance organisations (neutral and independent/member-based) Information and communication platform (GDI portal) Data sets Provision of information products and services Access to information products and services, eCommerce 3. Concepts

14. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Business model (2) Business networks Legal aspects and pricing Marketing Support of new, innovative SMEs Education and training 3. Concepts

15. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Business model - Which kind of business networks will be successful in the NRW GI-market? UserInterfaceBusiness Network Internet/ innovative provider Software- Consultant Provider Infrastructure Software- Developer Data- producer, -broker Integrator 3. Concepts

16. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Results – business model (2) Business networks Legal aspects and pricing Marketing Support of new, innovative SMEs Education and training 3. Concepts

17. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Architecture model Interoperable, distributed computing environment ISO/TC 211 Service Architecture Model Services: search and discovery, access and retrieval, ordering and payment, geoprocessing, dissemination, portrayal and presentation Catalog component Metadata standard (ISO/InGeoForum) Portrayal and presentation component 3. Concepts

18. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Summary Comprehensive initiative of the state of NRW to expand the GI market User centered Distributed, interoperable computing environment Standards (e.g., OGC, ISO) Consensus processes 4. Summary

19. IfGI, University of Muenster - Geospatial Infrastructure NRW Thank you very much for your attention! http://gdi-nrw.uni-muenster.de broxc@ifgi.uni-muenster.de