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... has stimulated the creation of such partnerships, and thereby promoted the objectives of the NSDT, by raising awareness of the need for a coordinated national approach to geospatial data creation, maintenance, and use. They include the NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program, the Framework Demonstration Projects Program, the Community Demonstration Projects, and the Community-Federal Information Partnerships proposal.
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... The committee strongly suggests that the FGDC direct its attention to the remaining three goals, in order to assure the future of the NSDI, with the understanding that successfully attaining these additional goals will require a much more fundamental level of cooperation among partners than the simple sharing of an agency's existing data. Specifically, future partnership programs sponsored by the federal government should be based on convincing evidence that adoption of the NSDI's concepts and design result in reductions in redundancy and cost, as well as increased accuracy.
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... The success of future partnership programs should be assessed by determining, in a rigorous fashion, how these NSDT partnerships 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. Because much of the FGDC's effort has been devoted to promotion of the NSDI, there has been little opportunity to develop programs that can monitor long-term effects.
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... We found that the programs funded through the FGDC provided only a minuscule proportion of the total resources available nationally to support geospatial data partnerships. It may be that the critical evidence required to demonstrate reductions in redundancy and costs, as well as improvements in accuracy, already exists for partnerships that have developed independently of the FGDC programs.
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