National, International, and Global Activities in Geospatial Science

Interfacing archaeology and the world of citizen sensors: exploring the impact of neogeography and volunteered geographic information on an authenticated archaeology

“…Metadata capture the common characteristics of the 'who', 'what', 'why', 'when' and 'how' of a dataset and provide a catalog of data resources and the basis for spatial data search procedures necessary to support a 'distributed discovery mechanism for national digital geospatial data' (http:// www.fgdc.gov/metadata). National and global SDI are now embedded in the spatial infrastructure of many nations and reflect the emergent worldwide sharing of geographic data and services by international corporations, NGOs and supra-governmental organizations (Moeller and Reichardt 2010;Rhind 1997;Tulloch 2008). Even though human nature intervenes to thwart, frustrate and delay these coordinating activities, SDI provide interoperable frameworks that enable spatial data to be collected once and from where it can be shared and distributed seamlessly and transparently to other users across countries and applications (ibid.…”