Authors:
            
                    Cristina Oana
                    
                        
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Cristian Vasile
                    
                        
                    
                     and
                
                    Lucian Zavate
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    Esri Romania SRL, Romania
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Interoperability, Geoportal, SDI, Metadata, Standards, Discovery, Search, Web services, NSDI, Harvesting, INSPIRE, Data sharing, Romania.
        
        
            
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                        Biomedical Engineering
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                        Cloud Computing
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                        Collaboration and e-Services
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                        Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
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                        Data Engineering
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                        e-Business
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                        Enterprise Information Systems
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                        Health Information Systems
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                        Integration/Interoperability
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                        Internet Portals
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                        Interoperability
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                        Knowledge-Based Systems
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                        Mobile Software and Services
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                        Ontologies and the Semantic Web
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                        Services Science
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                        Simulation and Modeling
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                        Software Agents and Internet Computing
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                        Software and Architectures
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                        Software Engineering
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                        Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
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                        Telecommunications
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                        Web Services
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                        Wireless Information Networks and Systems
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                This paper provides an overview of the first version of the Romanian NSDI GeoPortal.  Geospatial data availability, interoperability and integration remain is still a problem of the current spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). The Romanian INIS GeoPortal, an ANCPI’s special IT project, has aimed to address those challenges today. This online GeoPortal application enables easy, open, seamless, and on demand discovery, access, retrieval, visualization and analysis of distributed geospatial data, information, applications and web services from any member of the NSDI INIS Council. Challenges must still be resolved, but a mature next release of the Romanian INIS GeoPortal will produce tremendous benefits for the Romanian society and our National Spatial Data Infrastructure implementation.