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development
alliance ... defined in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary.
A development alliance created data standards which
are published
at the website of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).
A definition of location
data standards has a link for accessing the spreadsheets. The
Development Alliance website states that it's a ... source
of community information for companies seeking business/facility locations.
The following quote is from www.developmentalliance.com ... (the
website) has several data sets that make it the most efficient and cost-effective
way to promote a community on the Internet. It even has a criteria based search
engine that allows users to compare communities using 20 different criteria.
Data
Standards Guidelines: What They're About, and What They're NOT About,
an article by Shari Barnett published in Site Selection Magazine,
November 2001. Site Selection is published by Development
Alliance partner Conway
Data.
Getting
Started: Putting Together the Site Selection Data Standards by
Shari Garmise, Ph.D. is a resource paper published at DevelopmentAlliance.com.
It mentions that American
Community Network the standards to use almost immediately after
their development.
Focus
List Data Defined published at DevelopmentAlliance.com states
that community
profiles carried on the website ... are
submitted and maintained by cities and towns across the US using
the IEDC site selection
data standards.
The Network provides
a list of many of the same location
data elements found in the 25 spreadsheets
available
for download from the website of the International
Economic Development Council. It's list, however, is organized
from the standpoint of the resource
and service providers engaged in the mission
of The
Network as location
data suppliers. For more information about the
.network collection take a look at the definition
of economic
development data in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary.
If you are interested in the subject collection or standards spreadsheets,
we recommended that
you refer to both resources.
The members of the economic
development community should take note that
they have the opportunity
to be included in the Global Registry of Contacts for free. They
also have the opportunity to request, for free, that links be established
to where they have their
community
profiles published online. To take advantage of the latter free
offer,
CLICK HERE
The
original focus of (the Development Alliance) ... was
to identify those elements or data points typically used in the location
identification
process
and, to the extent possible, to agree on a common format for requesting
the information. (The volunteer committee was) ... asked
to identify where and/or how to ascertain this information. In essence, (the committee was) ... asked
to
develop
guidelines
for
the economic development community to use in gathering information about
their communities (source
of quote).
It should be pointed out that the guidelines, as site
selection standards, mentioned in the above
quote facilitate the presentation
of information in location packages and community profiles as
well at economic
development
websites
for comparative
analysis.
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