Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Looks like I am being asked to present at the EPA 2006 Spring GIS Workgroup Meeting in Annapolis, MD, March 28-31. I am hoping it will be a good opportunity to discuss a common vision for GIS across the EPA enterprise- toward Service-Oriented Architecture, and leveraging the other technology efforts ongoing, such as the ESRI GIS Portal Toolkit and metadata harvesting efforts, identifying and working through the gaps and overlaps in the various repositories and registries scattered throughout the enterprise, and working toward consistency, such as standardized keyword taxonomies, conformed dimensions, and commonalities in metadata to streamline the creation and registration of metadata in Geospatial repositories, UDDI registries, and other places were data, applications and services are housed.

I am very much looking forward to it.