The United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information (UN EG-ISGI) convened its second meeting on Sunday, 24 May at the Lisbon Congress Center, Portugal, prior to the INSPIRE-Geospatial World Forum 15, held from 25-29 May 2015, at the same venue.
The meeting was convened in accordance with Statistical Commission decision 44/101 and UN-GGIM decision 3/107, which welcomed the proposal to establish an Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information to bring together experts from both statistical and geospatial information communities to work for the development a global geospatial-statistical framework and address issues related to the integration of statistical and geospatial information.
The Lisbon meeting aimed to (i) continue the global consultation and communication on the development of a global statistical-geospatial framework, initiated by the UN Statistical Commission and UN-GGIM; (ii) review the progress of work programme items of the Expert Group; (iii) discuss ways of collaboration with the European Forum for Geography and Statistics; (iv) focus on metadata interoperability - the case for connecting geographic and statistical information standards; and (v) discuss the way forward for the work of the Expert Group.
Additional Documents
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Terms of Reference Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geosptial Information
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Work Programme Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geosptial Information
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Work Programme Status Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geosptial Information
Session 2 – What a global framework would look like – focus session
Session 3 – Progress on the UN EG-ISGI work program items
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Global geographical classifications and geocoding practices- Graeme Brown, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australia
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Bibliography of Geographic Classification and Boundaries- Tim Trainor, U.S. Census Bureau
United States of America
Session 4 – Progress on the UN EG-ISGI work program items
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Proposal for a common statistical-geospatial terminology database Ekkehard Petri, Eurostat/European Union
Session 5 – Collaboration with the European Forum for Geography and Statistics
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Activities of the European Forum for Geography and Statistics Janusz Dygaszewicz and Ekkehard Petri, EFGS
Session 6 – Metadata interoperability - focus session
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Interoperability of statistical and geospatial data and metadata standards Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geosptial Information
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Connecting Geographical and Statistical Information Standards Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geosptial Information
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Metadata interoperability based on DCAT Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geosptial Information