Agenda: Digital Gazetteer Information Exchange Workshop

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Tuesday, October 12, 6:00 – 8:00

Reception at the National Geographic Society

Demonstrations scheduled:

• National Image and Mapping Agency (NIMA), GeoNet Names Server (Randall Flynn)
• Board on Geographic Names (BGN)/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Geographic Names Information System (Lou Yost)
• Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer Server (Linda Hill)
• Go2 Systems, Inc. (Lee Hancock)
• On-line name registration and integration with other geospatial databases in Victoria, Australia (Scott Jukes)
• Interagency LandView Planning Group (Census, EPA, NSC, NOAA, and USGS), LandView IV (Beta) and USA on DVD (LandView 2000) with US, Canadian, and Mexican Places and over 20 different US Government Databases (Electronic Atlas) (Jerry McFaul, USGS)

Wednesday, October 13, 8:00 – 9:00

Coffee & Rolls & Registration

Wednesday, October 13, 9:00 – 12:00

Welcomes/Introductions/Logistics/Perspectives

• Welcome, Logistics, Introductions (Linda Hill, UCSB)
• Digital Government Initiative (Larry Brandt, NSF)
• Welcome from the Smithsonian (Tom Lovejoy, Smithsonian)
• The Future of the Gazetteer (Mike Goodchild, UCSB)

Break of 15 min

• Foundations of Shareable Gazetteer Data (Linda Hill, UCSB)
• Emerging International Geographic Information Standards and Gazetteer Data (Robert Rugg, Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Open GIS Consortium and Gazetteer Data (Cliff Kottman, OGC)
• Digital Gazetteer for Content and Connections on a Digital Earth (Tim Foresman, UMBC - presented by Tom Taylor)

Lunch (1.5 hours)

Wednesday, October 13, 1:30 – 3:30

Session 1: Users of Gazetteer Data and Services : Using and Contributing Gazetteer Data

• Allen Carroll (Nat Geographic Soc): NGS Digital Atlas and Gazetteer Data
• Tom Moritz (Amer Mus of Nat Hist): Geo-Referencing the Natural and Cultural World, Past and Present: Toward Building a Distributed, Peer-Reviewed Gazetteer System
• Scott Morehouse (ESRI): A Conceptual Model for Placename Geography in GIS
• Lee Hancock (Go-2 Systems): Georeferencing for Navigational Systems

Break of 30 min

Wednesday, October 13, 4:00 – 6:00

Session 2:  Gazetteer Authority Files: Establishing Authorities and Sharing Data

• Roger Payne, Executive Secretary of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (USGS)
• Randall Flynn, Executive Secretary for Foreign Names of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (NIMA)

End of Wednesday

Thursday, October 14, 7:30 – 8:30

Thursday, October 14, 8:30-10:30

Session 3: Gazetteer Components of Information Services: Libraries, Clearinghouses, Information Infrastructures

• Doug Nebert (USGS): NSDI and gazetteer data
• Ray Larson (UC Berkeley): Digital libraries and digital gazetteers
• Nancy Blair (USGS): Traditional library applications of digital gazetteers
• Sharon Tahirkheli (GeoRef): Place names in earth science literature index

Break of 30 min

Thursday, October 14, 11:00 – 3:00

Breakout groups (with box lunch)

• Group 1: Moderator Stan Blum (assisted by David Lanter)
• Group 2: Moderator Fred Broome (assisted by Shuming Bao)
• Group 3: Moderator Patrick McGlamery (assisted by Robbie Rand)
• Group 4: Moderator Janet Gomon (assisted by Charles Falkenberg)

Break of 30 min

Thursday, October 14, 3:30 – 5:00

Summing Up & Strategy Session (Final session discussion notes)

• Reports from breakout group discussions (10 minutes each)
• Final strategy recommendations from the workshop for the next steps. This result will be the primary input into the final report to be written by the DGIE Steering Committee.