Geospatial Data Access Committee
Chair: vacant
- Members:
- Trudy Bodak,
- Ann Smith,
- Andrew Nicholson (ex-officio)
Terms of Reference:
- This ACMLA Committee is mandated to seek out, on behalf of Canadian post secondary academic institutions, opportunities for access to significant, national-level Canadian and global geospatial data resources. For significant data resources that are not free the committee attempts to organize a partnering approach and negotiates for consortial license agreements that offer acceptable conditions of use at reasonable cost. The committee is also mandated to explore opportunities for access to significant GIS-related software of broad and continuing interest to Canadian post secondary academic institutions.
Reporting Structure:
- A Standing Committee reporting to the Board of Directors through the President.
- Established by resolution of the Association at the AGM, May 14, 2008, item 6.4.
Membership:
- Open to ACMLA full members in good standing.
- ACMLA President (or delegate) is an ex officio member.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify and investigate geospatial data access opportunities with Canadian and global data providers from various sectors: government, commercial, associational, and others.
- Initiate negotiations, whenever necessary, for ad hoc consortial access by Canadian post secondary academic institutions to significant geospatial data resources and GIS-related software.
- Share in the maintenance of ACMLA's web-based inventory of significant Canadian geospatial datasets by contributing information about datasets to which the committee has managed to provide access.
- In consultation with the ACMLA Board of Directors, assist in the search to find members who are willing and qualified to represent ACMLA on national-level geospatial data access working groups and advisory bodies such as, for example, the Depository Service Program Library Advisory Committee.