NatSigDC Links

New Zealand e-Government initiatives

• e-Govt Interoperability project
• e-Govt Shared workspace project
• e-Governmenmt portal based on NZ Government Locator Service (NZGLS), comprising NZGLS metadata std, and NZGLS thesauri - FONZ, SONZ
• OCGI - Officials Committee on Geospatial Information
• OCGI Geospatial Metadata Project
• OCGI COLABII - Coordinate Location-and-Area-Based-Information Interoperability

New Zealand on-line collaborative initiatives

• TFBIS & NABIS - Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System, National Aquatic Biodiversity Information System
• RSR GIS - Ross Sea Region GIS
• NGI-NZ - "Collaborating at Speed", Next Generation Internet in NZ

International on-line collaborative initiatives

There are many to choose from but these have particular relevance to what is happening in New Zealand at the moment.

• CANRI - Community Access to Natural Resource Information, NSW, Australia
• WALIS - WA Land Information System, WA, Australia
• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• UK eScience - infrastructure to enable global collaborative computing, based on GRID computing
• UK CCLRC eScience Centre - UK GRID infrastructure research agency
• W3C Semantic Web - interoperability through web pages with computer interpretable meaning, Scientific American
• EU CORES - Forum for sharing metadata vocabularies, ie semantics
• HARMONISE - Semantic web use in the Tourism sector