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FUTURE PARTNERSHIPS AND THE EVOLUTION OF NSDI ACTIVITIES 39 3 Future Partnerships and the Evolution of NSDI Activities The NSDI, and the partnership programs that have been an integral part of it, clearly need to move beyond the stage of evangelizing the concept of the NSDI, promoting its goals, and demonstrating its possibilities. Looking forward, both the NSDI and its partnership programs need to move rapidly on to new and enhanced efforts aimed at fulfilling the key objectives of the NSDI; specifically, to: 1. Populate the Framework database in a truly sustainable production mode rather than as isolated experimental or prototype project; 2. Develop and disseminate the procedures and technologies needed for effectively and efficiently building, maintaining, integrating, distributing, and using the data; 3. Continue the process of establishing clearinghouses and promulgating the necessary standards to support the NSDI. This chapter explores the further evolution of partnerships in fostering the adoption of the NSDI. The success of future partnerships should be assessed by determining, in a rigorous fashion, how these efforts (and therefore the NSDI itself) have reduced redundancy in geospatial data collection and maintenance; reduced overall costs in performing these tasks; improved access to geospatial data; and improved the accuracy of the data used. The attainment of these