St. Augustine, Trinidad: 7th January 2008

The GSDI Association conference GSDI10 with the theme Small Island Perspectives on Global Challenges: The Role of Spatial Data in Supporting a Sustainable Future will be held in Trinidad, on the 25-29 February 2008. The published abstracts show that a number of the presentations from Europe will be considering the re-use of public sector information and its relationship with the INSPIRE Directive. The published abstracts that reference PSI include:

• TS 7.1 - The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: The Double Role of the Public Sector in making Spatial Data Available; Katleen Janssen, Jos Dumortier ( Belgium)

• TS 21.2 - Towards an International Address Standard; Serena Coetzee, Antony Cooper (South Africa), Michael Nicholson ( United Kingdom), Martha Wells (USA), Morten Lind ( Denmark)

• TS 12.2 - SDI Supported Land Administration and Management – The Single Agency Model of Hungary; Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp ( Hungary)

• TS 41.3 - Geoportals in Selected European States: A Comparative Analysis; Garfield Giff, Bastiaan van Loenen, Joep Crompvoets ( Netherlands)

• TS 2.2 – What do we need laws for? The Use of Regulatory Tools in Establishing an SDI; Laila Aslesen ( Norway)

• TS 36.3 - Marine Overlays on Topography: Land-Sea Data Harmonization Issues; Roger Longhorn, Keiran Millard ( United Kingdom)