Specifications include, but are not limited to: develop a guide to help airports create geospatial data governance policies and procedures. The adoption of these policies and procedures will be driven by the unique characteristics of individual airports. The research will include tactics and strategies that can guide airports in developing and adopting these policies and procedures. A roadmap of the data life-cycle will be developed that allows for multiple points of engagements for airports at various levels of geospatial data maturity. This research should address the life-cycle of data including development, maintenance, appropriate access and use, security, and archival/disposal of legacy and new geospatial data. Although the ultimate beneficiary of this research and resulting products are airports, the research issue transcends airports and effects organizations in the public and private sector. Organizations from outside the aviation industry should be investigated as part of this research project. Include both positive examples of data governance as well as lessons learned from organizations that may struggle with this issue.
