The Initiative

Stakeholders

The Discovery Portal supports a broad range of stakeholders:

• consumers: people who wish to discover, evaluate and access geospatial resources through the web;
• suppliers: organizations who wish to make themselves and their services and geospatial data available for discovery through the web;
• developers: people who wish to include geospatial tools into their own web pages; and
• peers: other geospatial data infrastructures which export directory information to the Discovery Portal's Directory, import directory information from the Discovery Portal or which commit on-line searches through the Discovery Portal's Directory.

In addition, the Discovery Portal supports stakeholders with key interests in the development of the geospatial data infrastructure (such as managers, planners and geospatial community members).