GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group

SDI-courses around the world

The GSDI Association would like to keep track of the extent and the ways in which SDI concepts and components are being integrated into university degree programs (geography, planning, civil engineering, environmental, etc.).It is useful to see how these courses are structured, which SDI elements they include, and whether they are part of the basic curriculum or are special short courses.  The links below are a few instances of university-level SDI courses or short-courses.             

If you can suggest other courses, please do (please provide link to syllabus or course description).  [The courses needn't cover all aspects -- i.e., suggestions are welcome for courses - or classes - that introduce just a component, e.g., metadata].  Contact: lancekt at aya.yale.edu 

Australia

Developing Spatial Data Infrastructure (postgraduate course), Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne

International Short Course Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures "From concept to reality? Centre for SDIs and Land Administration, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia 

Canada

University of New Brunswick covers SDI-related topics in at least three GIS courses in the Geomatics Engineering program. 

Germany

Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster

Chile

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), Departamento de Ingenieria Informatica y Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Concepcion

Italy

Spatial Data Infrastructures and the Spatial GRID (2005 Vespucci summer course) 

The Netherlands

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Msc program Geomatics 

ITC, Enschede: Master of Science (MSc) and Master degree courses in Geo-information Management and modules such as Creating World Wide Web sites for spatial data dissemination Enterprise GIS, Spatial Databases and Process Design, and Visualization and dissemination of geospatial data

Wageningen University, Centre for Geo-Information, Spatial Data Infrastructures,

Delft University of Technology, ITC, Utrecht University and Wageningen University, MSc program GIMA (Geographical Information Management and Applications), module 3: Management in Organisations is fully dedicated to SDI.

South Africa                                      

GIS for Environmental Science, Unit 2: Environmental Information Infrastructure, University of Pretoria -Geography, Geoinformatics & Meteorology

Spain

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Department of Topographic Engineering and Cartography, Polytechnical University of Madrid

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain