Humanitarian Logistics: Getting Ahead in Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Please be informed of an article on the UNSDI project has been publishd on the humanitarian.info web page.
Here below a short extract of the article.
Standards for data management in the sector have been a headache since the beginning. Standards are essential for sharing data between agencies, whether at HQ or field level, but the politics involved in developing them have frankly defeated most previous attempts. Recent discussions in the IASC sub-group on information management have started the ball rolling in some of the clusters, but it’s still painfully slow given that we started talking about this eight years ago.
Where there has been progress is in the development of spatial data infrastructure for the UN system, a fairly comprehensive effort overseen by the UN Geographic Information Working Group. The UN Joint Logistics Center has just released the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport database schema (UNSDI-T v1.2). With the release of the database schema, we finally have a shared resource for field implementation of logistics databases - as well the starting point of a participatory process in which other users can also take responsibility for developing the standards to meet their needs.
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Type of document : Update
Publication date 2007-Oct-23
