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WORKSHOPS: ANZLIC SPATIAL RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND ACCESS TOOLKIT

Three ANZLIC (Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) workshops related to geospatial metadata are being held in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland in early August. The aim is to train people who in turn can act as trainers in their own organisations with respect to geospatial metadata. Come along and learn about the recently released, free, standalone ANZMet Lite metadata tool, and how to use it plus metadata guidance resources in your organisation.

It's not necessarily spatial, but there is a lot of good and relevant work going on in the eGovernment space. To make it easier to find some of these, I've created a news aggregation feed that points at these eGovernment resources.

I have just uploaded the following guideline to gis.org.nz. It is also accessible in the wiki.

The purpose of this Guideline is to unlock the government Geospatial Divide that is holding back NZ Inc.

Geospatial data is a key component of the governments Digital Content Strategy, and Geospatial Strategy, key initiatives of the Digital Strategy with its vision of “New Zealand will be a world leader in using information and technology to realise its economic, social, environmental and cultural goals, to the benefit of all New Zealanders.”

This Guideline focuses on the key questions of;

• What information to deliver
• What web channels should be used to deliver that information
• What web presence should be used
• What information barriers should be used if any

The New Zealand Geospatial Office is pleased to announce that John Clegg from ProjectX has been awarded second prize for his Mashup - Crime 10K.

Check out Crime 10K at Geospatial Mash-up 2008 Participants .

In an effort to ease the sharing of GIS references and publications, we have added some web-based bibliography software to the website. We are currently testing this through the addition of references obtained during the production of the GIS and Emergency Management Guidelines.

The key reason to take this approach is to move to a data format that is appropriate for storing bibliographic reference information. BibTeX is a long-standing and suitable format that can be used to store this information. The web-based library will act as the central repository, but it is easy to export some or all of the references in BibTeX format to install in bibliographic software that can be used on your computer.

The State Services Commission has released a new webpage that provides an overview of Geospatial Information Standards. Comments are being solicited on this introduction to GIS standards.

OASIS Open Standards 2006 is the fourth annual Asia
Pacific event where both management and technical professionals from the business and government sector can gather to share expertise and promote open discussion on the latest technologies, applications and services supporting the global e-Business community.

Presented in conjunction with OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), Open Standards is an event focused on encouraging the use of standards-based technology to improve efficiency and interoperability between business partners.