SDI Cookbooks

The latest Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference (GSDI11) ended yesterday in Rotterdam. This biennial event could be a good marker for time elapsed in the building of a Spatial Data Infrastructure(s). Has there been sufficient progress? Can people in various parts of the world say that there's an infrastructure serving them or some of their needs as yet? Here are a couple of resources for those still trying to get an SDI up and running:

• GSDI Cookbook version 2
  
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Cookbooks - WMA and WFS
  
• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) GIS Cookbook - Methods in ArcView and ArcGIS from the Univ. of Calif. (SB)
  
• Philippines Housing & Land Use Regulatory Board GIS Cookbook - Written from a User perspective