Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC); Application Notice Announcing the Opening Date for Transmittal of Applications Under Three FGDC National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership Funding Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 Under the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 15.809 National Spatial Data Infrastructure Competitive Cooperative Agreements Program

Zusammenfassung

The purpose of the FGDC National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership Funding Programs is to facilitate and foster partnerships and alliances within and among various public and private entities to assist in building the NSDI. The NSDI consists of policies, standards, agreements, and partnerships among a variety of sectors and disciplines that promotes more cost-effective production, ready availability, and greater use of high quality geospatial data. Three separate but related programs constitute the FGDC Partnership Funding Programs: the NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program, the NSDI Benefits Program, and the NSDI Framework Demonstration Projects Program. The Cooperative Agreements Program funds projects focused on promoting metadata collection and creating clearinghouses of geographic data linked to the Internet, developing NSDI standards, advancing the NSDI through education, and organizing and strengthening State-wide or regional programs for geographic data sharing. The Benefits Program funds projects that assess the qualitative or quantitative benefits of using a shared data resource to solve particular problems over a given geographic area. The Framework Demonstrat