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Metadata Services

Ensuring GeoBC clients have ready access to read and create documentation about provincial geographic data is a critical business requirement. Without current metadata, (information about data) clients cannot:
easily discover data to use or visualize within our infrastructure,
understand or determine the appropriate use of data,
contact the data provider to ask questions or suggest improvements.

GeoBC Information Services Branch provides a web-based software application known as the Data Discovery Service which supports the management and discovery of ISO 19115 compliant geographic metadata. Metadata Services acts as the custodian of this application and provides training and support in its use.

This database of metadata is accessible through a wide range of access tools including GeoBCs iMapBC, Data Distribution and Web Content Services and within the BC Government directly through GIS software. The metadata database content is also indexed by web search engines and through its Z39.50 protocol service participates as a node in the GeoConnections supported Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and the US Federal Geographic Data Committee’s (FGDC) National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse network.

Information Services is also the steward of the Resource Information Standard Committee’s (RISC) Data Classification Hierarchy [PDF] developed as an intuitive subdivision of data and datasets to support navigation of the Land and Resource Data Warehouse (LRDW), Digital Data Archive, and other online services.





 

 

1-877-855-3222
(North America Toll Free) 

Outside North America, please call ++1-604-586-4400

FrontCounter BC is a one stop service for clients of provincial natural resource ministries and agencies.  Staff can help you with the licenses and permits you need to start or expand a business related to mining, forestry, agriculture, water, land, aquaculture and many others.

Virtual FrontCounter BC gives clients the ability to apply on-line for authorizations. You can update the application you are working on, attach maps and documents to your application, submit and pay for your application and track your online applications.

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GeoBC integrates, manages and delivers provincial geographic information to governments, businesses, and citizens

GeoBC’s products and services enable citizens, clients and partners to discover, view, download, analyze, integrate and create geographic data to support their business activities.The Gateway proivdes a window to data and information sources managed by various ministries and agencies in the natural resource sector.

GeoBC Gateway

The allocation and management of Crown land and coastal marine resources plays a key role in expanding and diversifying the economy, sustaining environmental values, and promoting the health and well-being of all British Columbians.

ILMB administers, allocates, adjudicates, documents and manages Crown land tenures for a number of land programs. As well, ILMB is responsible for promoting adventure tourism, coordinating permitting processes for clean energy projects, creating opportunities to develop and market some Crown land parcels, and developing and implementing land and coastal marine plans and agreements.

Click here for more information on Crown Land Management

In 2008, the BC Government committed to improving consultation and respectful engagement with First Nations.   Benefits of this work—to government, First Nations, proponents, and the public—include enhancing meaningful government-to-government relations with First Nations, creating a positive investment climate by providing certainty and predictability, and reducing the heavy consultation workload for all parties.

The First Nations Initiatives Division (FNID), a division of the Integrated Land Management Bureau, is leading a shift in business to the “Virtual integration” of aboriginal relations.  Virtual Integration is a government initiative to implement common, policies, procedures and tools across all the natural resource agencies.  FNID works with all Natural Resource Agencies to deliver Virtual Integration through two main business lines:

  1. Coordinating interagency consultation with First Nations, comprising i) an aligned policy framework, ii) regional economic development priority setting, including shared business planning and resource sharing, and iii) coordinating multi-authorization project consultation. 
  2. Negotiating strategic agreements with First Nations that will improve the Province’s investment climate, reduce the consultation volume for all parties, create enduring forums for government-to-government engagement and achieve the goals of the Transformative Change Accord.
    http://www.newrelationship.gov.bc.ca/agreements_and_leg/trans_change_accord.html