UDMS 2000 : 22nd URBAN and REGIONAL DATA MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM September 11-15, 2000 Congress Centre Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands http://www.geo.tudelft.nl/GISt/UDMS2000/UDMS2000.htm or http://www.udms.net FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS UDMS, the Urban Data Management Society, organises international symposia at various locations in Europe in order to promote the development of information systems in local government. An important aim of UDMS has been to provide a forum for people to discuss new approaches, to consider new technologies and to share practical experiences in the field of urban data management. Traditionally the focus has been on urban applications. However, regional and rural issues have always been well represented at UDMS. During the 21st Urban Data Management Symposium, held in Venice in 1999, it became clear that UDMS should broaden its scope. To an increasing degree urban development has its effect on regional and rural zones and vice versa. Especially in the densely populated parts of Europe cities, industry and infrastructure need more and more space. The impact of this expansion on rural areas should be studied and visualised using new spatial information technologies. Therefore UDMS has decided to focus also on regional and rural aspects at the beginning of a new century. >From an economic point of view land becomes more and more scarce and therefore more >and more valuable. From the countries in Central Europe we learn how important it is to solve the land market problems in order to establish a free market economy. Since 1996 UDMS has also paid attention to developments in Central Europe. As membership of the European Union is now the main aim of these countries, it becomes even more important to discuss these issues. For more details: http://www.geo.tudelft.nl/GISt/UDMS2000/UDMS2000.htm The general theme will be Urban and Rural Data Management Common Problems - Common Solutions? Topics: * Organisation of the technical services of local and regional authorities * Cadastre and Land Administration * Shared use of geographic information * Metadata services clearing house * Environmental information * Public Service Delivery: the role of local and regional authorities and private companies * Integrating GIS into an urban and rural information system * New technologies for urban and rural planning and management * Urban risks and disaster management * New technologies for infrastructure * Co-operative urban information systems * Tele-geoprocessing and the use of telecommunications for urban and rural management and monitoring * Using Internet, Intranet and Extranet technologies * One line permitting * Intranets and Extranets for Local Authorities. * Environment Monitoring * GIS for public participation and information to citizens Board of UDMS: * Massimo Rumor (President) Padua, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Robert Laurini (Vice-President) Lyon, France [EMAIL PROTECTED] * J�rgen Rasmussen (Treasurer) Odense, Denmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Ken Jones (Program Coordinator) Oslo, Norway [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Theo Bogaerts (Member) Delft, The Netherlands [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Representatives: * Antonio Arnaud, Portugal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Jerzy Gazdzicki, Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Josef Hojdar, Czech Republic [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Matti Holopainen, Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Michael J. Kevany, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Dave King, United Kingdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Erich Wilmersdorf, Austria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 * Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2000 * Camera ready paper due: June 15, 2000 * UDMS 2000 dates: September 11-15, 2000 * Seminar Land Markets and Land Consolidation in Central Europe (September 11-12, 2000) * 22nd Urban and Regional Data Management Symposium (September 13-15, 2000) Submission: People interested to submit a paper for the seminar and/or the symposium, must proceed as follows. For plenary the full text and for parallel sessions an abstract of 1500-2000 words together with a short Curriculum Vitae and the full address should be sent in. You are also kindly requested to indicate the topic of your choice. Papers and abstracts should be delivered preferably in English. However it is also allowed to send in papers and abstracts in French or German. Please note that the presentations should be given in the English language. Sending in an abstract will be considered as pre-registration for the Seminar and/or the Symposium. Those documents must be sent preferably by e-mail as an attached file in Word97-format to the DMS executive secretary Mrs Elfriede M. Fendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] by March 1, 2000 mentioning: * presentation Seminar Land Markets and Land Consolidation in Central Europe or * presentation UDMS 2000 In case e-mail is not possible please deliver your text on diskette to: Mrs Elfriede M. Fendel Department of Geodesy Delft University of Technology Thijsseweg 11 NL - 2629 JA Delft The Netherlands e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information concerning the conference fee will be available during January 2000 on the UDMS web site http://www.udms.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
