NGAC Interagency Data Sharing and Collaboration

Spotlight Session: Overview

Robert F. Austin, PhD, GISPWashington, DCMarch 18, 2011

Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Data Sharing & Collaboration During Disaster Recovery

http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/japan-earthquake-tsunami-2011-map/index.html http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/Japan/ creating maps for use by recovery teams sent from Fairfax

Purpose of Today’s Session

 Identify best practices and lessons learned from interagency data sharing and collaboration partnerships Discuss success factors that may apply to the implementation of the Geospatial Platform

Description

One of the challenges of the geospatial community is to encourage data sharing and collaboration among multiple agencies and organizationsThe session presenters will – Provide an overview of three current interagency

data sharing efforts– Share perspectives on best practices and lessons

learned– Participate in a discussion with NGAC members

Session Presentations

Multi-Agency Collaboration Environment (MACE)– https://sharepoint.macefusion.com/Pages/About.aspx

The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Working Group– http://www.hifldwg.org/

Digital Coast– http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast

Session Outline

Context & Introductions – Bob AustinSession 1 – MACE – Bob PiccerilloSession 2 – HIFLD – Todd SpanglerSession 3 – Digital Coast – Joshua MurphyDiscussion/Q & A – AllSummary: Best Practices, Lessons Learned & Next Steps