Successful SDIs: Does the Marine Geo-sector provide a much-needed beacon?

With Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) in the process of being implemented in most EU Member States, the aim is to develop a European spatial data infrastructure. INSPIRE is to facilitate the exchange of...

Re-use of public sector hydrographic information: Is the maritime sector a guiding beacon or a slow turning ship?

In the last decade, there has been ample research to determine the potential economic value of public sector information (PSI), both on national level as well as on European level. Most of this research has focused on the re-use of PSI in the land-based geo-sector but little is known about re-using PSI in the maritime sector. Especially...