Re: [egov] Tactics on data alignment / standardization

["Carl Reed" <creed@opengis.org>]

Thomas -

You might be interest to learn that the UK Ordnance Survey now provides
their Land Line (vector) data as a GML (Geography Markup Language) encoding.
GML is an adopted OpenGIS Specification. GML is based on the
eXtensibleMarkup Language (XML), is an open and non-proprietary
specification used for the transport and storage of geographic information.

Kind regards

Carl Reed
Executive Director
OpenGIS Consortium

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Lee <ytlee@cecid.hku.hk>
To: <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:17 AM
Subject: [egov] Tactics on data alignment / standardization


> Dear John and other eGov experts,
>
> The Government team and my team are very impressed by UK Government's
> achievement on the production of the Data Standards Catalogue.  After
> the production of our XML Guide, our priority will be to gather
> different Government departments to concertedly align Government data
> elements and develop XML schemas for those elements. We forsee there
> will be considerable politics in arriving at commonly agreed data
> representations among different departments.
>
> Do any of you kindly share with us your tips, tactics, experiences, and
> reference materials on handling politics in  Government-wide data
> standardization? Have you created / referenced any standardization
> process for this purpose?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> P.S. Please see the following email messages from my Government partner.
>
> -----
> Dear Thomas
>
> Re the preceeding email, the UK's Government Data Standards Catalogue is
> a useful reference.
> (http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemasstandards/eservices.asp)
>
> We are looking for things beyond what's stated in volume 1.    We want
> tacit knowledge, including how to deal with politics.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marianne
>
> -----
> Dear Thomas
>
> While we are making preparation to pursue with the progressive alignment
> of common data elements across government  departments, can you share
> with us some tips or tactics on data alignment / data standardization,
> so that we can be more tactful in this exercise.
>
> Thank you in advance for your advice
>
> Regards,
>
> Marianne
>
>
>
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