KRAKOWSKIE SPOTKANIA Z INSPIRE

On 17-19 May 2007 the Town Office of Cracow organised a third symposium from the ”Cracow Meetings with INSPIRE” cycle, whose leading topic was ”Cultural heritage as an element of geo-space”. The conference atttracted about 200 representatives of a widely understood protection of the cultural heritage and geo-information. This large and greatly varied group proved conducive for the development of contacts and the establishment of interdsiciplinary and interministerial coopoeration, which remains the essence of INSPIRE. An excellent example of this approach is the progressing collabiration between the National Heritage Board of Poland (KOBiDZ) and the Land Surveyor Office of the Voivodeship of Mazovia, expressed in a paper prepared by the GIS team working at KOBiDZ and dealing with the implementation of contenporary geo-infirmation solutions connected with the inventories and protection of non-movable historical monuments. The conference was also attended by representatives of the Cracow Regional Centre for the Study and Documentation of Historical Monuments, who read a paper on the theoretical premises of monitoring sites of particular importance for Polish cultural heritrage.