CLOSING REPORT NCGIA RESEARCH INITIATIVE 9 Institutions Sharing Geographic Information

This report describes the results of NCGIA Research Initiative 9 on Institutions Sharing Geographic Information. It begins with a discussion of objectives and the process of developing a research agenda. The initiative was active during the period June 1992 through the summer of 1994, although the final wrap-up meeting was not held until July 1995. Since that time, offshoot research activities have continued and include activities within the research agenda of Initiative 16 on Law, Information Policy and Spatial Databases. Some of the technical aspects of sharing geographic information are also being addressed in a newly proposed research initiative on Interoperating GIS. This report describes each of the major areas of the Initiative 9 research agenda and the research activities of the Center during and subsequent to the time period of the initiative. The report ends with an assessment of the initiative against five criteria.