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SDI-EDU for regional and urban planning
SDI-EDU for regional and urban planning
Planning and mainly spatial planning is about the spatial dimension of development. It is concerned not only with architecture work, but also with where people live and work, the location of social and economic activity, and the way in which resources we possess in limited supply are exploited to achieve socio-economic objectives. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is the base collection of technologies, data, human resources, policies, institutional arrangements, and partnerships that enable the availability, exchange of and access to geographically-related information using common practices, protocols, and specifications. SDI consists of a framework that enables users with different mandates and disciplines to operate in a cooperative and cohesive manner to acquire access, retrieve, analyze and disseminate geospatial data and information in an easy and secure way. The concept of SDIs reside in “working smarter, not harder” by re-using data, technical capabilities, skills, intellectual effort and capital, through sharing the costs of people, technology and infrastructure. SDIs rely on the development of policies, technologies, data, common standards, standard practices, protocols and specifications. The SDI main concept is to move spatial data into Web environment and to use Web services for building network of distributed Geoportals. Using new methods of digital cartography enables to go beyond linguistic frontiers. The European INSPIRE Directive adopted in March 2006 defines the standards for future European SDI. With implementation of INSPIRE initiative, there will be strong need for capacity building and transfer of experience among architects, spatial planners, European Regions and municipalities. The SDI-EDU project aimed to transfer former experience from EU research projects dealing with education in SDI spatial planning as Humboldt and Naturnet Redime towards planners in European Regions and municipalities. The project used innovative educational methods of Naturnet Redime project combining methods of distance vocational training, e-learning and knowledge sharing that allow transfer the experience and that teach how to deal with SDI for spatial planning for real users. Project also transfered newest research results from Humboldt and transfered it into research courses. In the team, there were members of European research projects (Humboldt (HSRS), Naturnet Redime (IMCS)), who transfered existing experience towards real users in Europe.