The adoption and implementation of standards are two key phases in the standardization process, which starts with the definition of standardization requirements and the development of standards. The adoption and implementation of standards follows after the development phase. The distinction made between the adoption and implementation of standards is important: adoption entails the decision to apply standards, while the implementation relates to the integration of standards in software, in data development and in other processes. GI-Standards are one of the key components of each SDI, consist of both semantic and technical standards, and include standards related to the different architectural components of an SDI, i.e. standards related to spatial data sets and data products, web services, metadata and catalogues, encodings, etc.
In progress (GI-N2K)