useoftheiso19100qualitystandardsatthenmcas.docVIP

Use of the ISO 19100 Quality standards at the NMCAs Results from a questionnaire Expert group on Quality Reference: History Version Author Date Comments Draft 1 Christina Wasstr?m 2004-06-11 First draft Draft 2 Christina Wasstr?m 2004-10-05 Added the result and the summary Draft 3 Christina Wasstr?m 2004-10-12 Miner adjustment in the appendix Draft 4 Antti Jakobsson 2004-12-15 Some modifications V 1.0 Christina Wasstr?m 2004-12-17 Resolve one comment. File name: Report_ISO.doc Keywords ISO 19113, ISO 19114, ISO 19115, NMCAs, Standards, Utilization, Data quality, Metadata, Evaluation Abstract Report of the use of quality related ISO 19100 standards at the NMCAs. Mostly NMCAs are utilizing parts of the standards. The Expert Group on Quality will develop a guideline how to start using these standards. Distribution: Public Approved by Antti Jakobsson Date : 2004-12-15 Executive Summary EuroGeographics vision is to achieve interoperability of European mapping and other GI data. To achieve interoperability of geographic information the use of standards is one important issue. In November 2003 the Expert Group on Quality decided that an inquiry about if the member countries were using the following standards was to be carried out; ISO 90113 Quality principles ISO 90114 Quality evaluation procedures ISO 90115 Metadata The purpose was to get a quick overview of the situation. Therefore the questionnaire was sent only to the members of the Expert Group on Quality and not to all EuroGeographics members. The result shows that just a few countries can say “yes, we are using the ISO standards”, but still, many countries are partly using the ISO 19100 standards. When the result was presented at the plenary meeting, the reasons for not implementing the standards were discussed. Some of the reasons given at that meeting were that several countries have problems to adopt the standard, because of the complexity of the standard and due to management; other