The term Spatial Data Infrastructure was coined in 1993 by the U.S. National Research Council to denote a framework of technologies, policies, and institutional arrangements that together facilitate the creation, exchange, and use of geospatial data and related information resources across an information-sharing community.
SOURCE: ESRI 2010 – GIS Best Practices: Spatial Data Infrastructure. http://www.gdmc.nl/
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