Markus Jobst
Senior Researcher
Vienna University of Technology
Austria

Biography
Since 2009 Markus Jobst manages the technical coordination during the implementation of the EC directive INSPIRE (2007/2/EC) at the Austrian Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying (BEV). He acts as expert for Service Oriented Architectures within the national INSPIRE coordination structure as well as the European coordination and maintenance group MIG INSPIRE. Within the International Cartographic Association Markus Jobst acts as Vice-Chair of the ICA Commission and is contact person for Map Production and Geobusiness (http://mapproduction.icaci.org). Actual research activities of Markus Jobst in the areas of Service-Oriented Architectures and efficient geovisualisation can be transmitted as lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology and the Hasso Plattner Institute of the University of Potsdam.

Abstract
Governing SDI Maintenance for Map Production

Co-Author: Georg Gartner, Head of Research Group, Vienna University of Technology

Map production underlies massive paradigm developments which concern distribution, accessibility and availability of relevant geoinformation. Especially SDI and the concept of Service-Oriented Map Production cause changes in the way maps are produced and how producers and consumers deal with geoinformation today. The paradigm of distributed data sources and sharing geoinformation becomes not only embedded in map applications, but also in the production work-flows of map creation. In terms of pragmatic usage of these data sources or services specific requirements for the IT infrastructure components, especially the services, occur: quality of services. The quality of services describe their availability, capacity and performance. If these parameters and some others, like bandwidth, are not fulfilled or successful a user may be frustrated and the pragmatic dimension is not established. Involvement with the user will not occur. Additionally map production cycles and procedures are under the risk of complete failure if data sources cannot be accessed or main definitions for an access change. It becomes obvious that infrastructure changes effect not only one single component within the geospatial infrastructure but may effect several components or even the end user. In a map production environment this situation of distributed sources calls for a contract model like a stewardship program. Furthermore the complexity of the production environment grows, which requires appropriate evaluation methodologies for change management, objective scorecards for production environment architecture modification and the identification of component- and user dependencies. This contribution focuses on objective governance criteria for SDI maintenance with the main application field of map production. An ongoing map production calls for specific adaptation steps, a comprehensive evaluation of the core components and their dependencies as well as the influence of changes on the work-flows and products. We highlight the importance of objective scorecards for change management and the establishment of a pragmatic dimension for map usage as well as map production. Examples of traditional work-flows and open data requirements will show the effect on evaluation scorecards and their field of application.