Realizing Data Sharing: The Role of Spatial Data Infrastructures

Vancauwenberghe, Glenn; Dessers, Ezra; Crompvoets, Joep; Vandenbroucke, Danny

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“…This is consistent with a study undertaken by Lance et al (2009) which mentioned that the multiplicity of agencies and the complexities of government administrative arrangements creates problems coordinating geospatial activities in an effective manner. Likewise, Vancauwenberghe et al (2014) highlighted that such organisational issues make coordination of geospatial activities difficult and complex. In the same context, it is also noted that there are governmental efforts to support diffusing geospatial technologies with the aim of improving the performance of all sectors concerned with service delivery.…”

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Coordination of Geospatial Activities for Supporting Planning of Residential Infrastructure Delivery

Alqarni¹

2019

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The development of geospatial technologies has attracted the interest of sectors responsible for urban development projects due to their ability to manage and analyse spatial data that provides support for decision makers. In Saudi Arabia, geospatial activities have developed in the majority of agencies responsible for urban infrastructure provision and they have continued to adopt and further exploit the potential of these technologies. This has played a major role in disseminating geospatial technologies and contributed to the development of spatial data. However, the use of these technologies has not yet reached the desired level and is often fraught with challenges. This study focuses on the nature of the coordination of geospatial activities within agencies that have responsibilities for the planning and delivery of residential infrastructure in Riyadh City. It aims to explore the actual practices and highlight critical issues facing unification of efforts, with the aim of improving spatial data access, integration, and interoperability to support the relevant decision-making. The results show that the coordination of geospatial activities between the different agencies is still limited. They reveal the need for an organisational framework that supports the alignment of these activities among different agencies to minimise duplication of efforts. The study develops strategies for addressing the current situation and provides recommendations based on the results.

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Coordination of Geospatial Activities for Supporting Planning of Residential Infrastructure Delivery

Alqarni¹

2019

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“…The contribution of nongovernment actors to the development and implementation should go further than the traditional contribution, i.e. working as contractors for public administrations and providing services to these administrations [6]. Open spatial data infrastructures can only be realized by putting in place processes, methods and tools that stimulate and enable non-government actors to add their own data sets and other components to the infrastructure.…”

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“…In the Netherlands, the National Geo Register 5 is the central access point to spatial data in the Netherlands. Open geodata from the National Geo Register automatically are included in the Dutch Open Data Portal, 6 which was launched as part of the national 'Open Data Programme'. In Finland the national geoportal Paikkatietoikkuna, 7 which was created in 2010, still is the main access point to spatial data.…”

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“…Also the primary aim of INSPIRE was to create a European Union (EU) spatial data infrastructure for enabling the sharing of environmental geographic information among public sector organizations, within and between member states and especially between member states and the European Commission. In many European countries, data sharing with organizations and individuals outside the public sector for a long time remained limited, as the mechanisms and instruments to support and facilitate this type of sharing were missing [6]. This formed an important barrier to a more effective and efficient use of geographic data throughout society [7].…”

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Exploring the Emergence of Open Spatial Data Infrastructures: Analysis of Recent Developments and Trends in Europe

Vancauwenberghe

Loenen

2017

Integrated Series in Information Systems

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In the past 20 years, European public authorities have invested considerable resources in the development of spatial data infrastructures. With the European INSPIRE Directive as an important driver, national spatial data infrastructures were developed throughout Europe to facilitate and coordinate the exchange and sharing of geographic data. While the original focus of these spatial data infrastructure was mainly on data sharing among public authorities, it became more and more evident that these data could also be of great value to users outside the public sector. In recent years, several countries and public administrations started to make a shift towards the establishment of an 'open' spatial data infrastructure, in which also businesses, citizens and non-governmental actors were considered as key stakeholders of the infrastructure. This chapter provides an analysis of the measures and solutions implemented in four European countries (the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Finland) to make their spatial data infrastructures open to businesses, citizens and other stakeholders. The analysis shows that in these four countries the move towards more open spatial data infrastructures can mainly be seen in the increased availability of geographic data and spatially enabled services to citizens, businesses and other stakeholders.

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“…Fewer attention has been paid to the impact of coordination efforts on the process of sharing GD with different users (Vancauwenberghe et al, 2014). In general, studies of GD from a governance perspective are still rare (Chantillon et al, 2017b;Sjoukema et al, 2017), as well as studies of the impact of GD from both an integral and a multi-level governance perspective (Ran and Nedovic-Budic, 2016).…”

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Towards a governance assessment framework for geospatial data: A policy coherence evaluation of the geospatial data policy in Flanders

Flores

Chantillon

Crompvoets

2021

AGILE GIScience Ser.

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Abstract. Governance Assessment Frameworks allow the identification of implementation bottlenecks and they can propose answers to the identified challenges. However, no assessment framework has been developed to 1) understand how governance factors can affect the development and use of geospatial data (GD) and 2) to allow comparison across different governance contexts. Previous research proved that GD and governance are highly interrelated. Understanding the relevance of policy coherence, and aiming to address the aforementioned gap, we propose the Coherence Assessment Framework for Geospatial Data (CAFGD). CAFGD objective is to contribute to the GD governance literature from an implementation perspective. CAFGD is based on two existing frameworks: 1) the Framework to Support Institutional Arrangements in Geospatial Information Management (FSIAGIM) (Crompvoets and Ho, 2017, 2019) and 2) the Governance Assessment Tool (GAT) (Bressers et al., 2016a). CAFGD uses as governance dimensions the seven structural instruments of FSIAGIM, classified under the hierarchy, market and network governance approach and uses as evaluative quality coherence from GAT. In order to demonstrate the application of CAFGD, we have selected the region of Flanders in Belgium to analyze its GD policy coherence. Our results conclude that coherence is higher in the instruments related to hierarchy. Therefore, coherence is higher among the public sector actors when comparing with the private sector actors. The relation to this sector corresponds to the market and network instruments.

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Realizing Data Sharing: The Role of Spatial Data Infrastructures

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Coordination of Geospatial Activities for Supporting Planning of Residential Infrastructure Delivery

Coordination of Geospatial Activities for Supporting Planning of Residential Infrastructure Delivery

Exploring the Emergence of Open Spatial Data Infrastructures: Analysis of Recent Developments and Trends in Europe

Towards a governance assessment framework for geospatial data: A policy coherence evaluation of the geospatial data policy in Flanders

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