Key stakeholder groups for digital innovation of agriculture in Croatia

The current readiness of the agricultural sector in Croatia to transform is limited. Creating and using an open data ecosystem in which data truly is the main force of the innovation process offers an opportunity to strengthen cooperation in this sector. The stakeholders of the agricultural data ecosystem in Croatia were not investigated until...

De slimme, open stad: de menselijke maat in de datagedreven stad van 2050

De stad produceert 24 uur per dag onvoorstelbare hoeveelheden data. Een stroom gegevens op gebieden als transport, energie, milieu en gezondheid die alleen maar toeneemt. Data die steeds vaker als open data publiekelijk gedeeld worden. Maar ook data die binnen het domein van grote databedrijven als Google, Amazon, Facebook en Uber blijven en...

Spatial data infrastructure convergence

Geo-informatie: wat is het en wat is de juridische context?

Zonder dat we het beseffen speelt geo-informatie een belangrijke rol in de samenleving. Vragen als waar ga ik heen, hoe kom ik daar, hoeveel tijd kost het me en wat zijn de alternatieven zijn vragen waar vrijwel iedereen iedere dag mee te maken heeft. De behoefte aan actuele en juiste geo-informatie is hierbij evident. Het correct gebruik van de...

National spatial data infrastructure in the Netherlands; legal & economic issues and developments

De juridische en praktische kaders bij het hergebruiken van digitale publieke geografische informatie

Digitalisering van overheidsinformatie biedt ongekende mogelijkheden om informatie snel en eenvoudig uit te wisselen en te integreren met andere informatie. Bestaande werkprocessen worden zo efficiënter en effectiever en het geeft een basis voor de ontwikkeling van nieuwe producten en toepassingen. Deze ontwikkelingen hebben misschien wel de...

Spatial data infrastructures; legal and economic issues

Towards true interoperable geographic data: developing a global standard for geo-data licences

Blueprint for the STIG1.0: setting the performance indicators

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have been developed over the last decades all over the world. SDI is the integration of several components to create a platform which enables a wide variety of stakeholders to access, share and use spatial data in an efficient and effective way. To stimulate the SDI development effectively and efficiently, it...

Governance of open spatial data infrastructures in Europe

Open Data Exposed

This book is about open data, i.e. data that does not have any barriers in the (re)use. Open data aims to optimize access, sharing and using data from a technical, legal, financial, and intellectual perspective. Data increasingly determines the way people live their lives today. Nowadays, we cannot imagine a life without real-time traffic...

The Development of Open Data in The Netherlands

Open data in The Netherlands dates back to the 1990s when the Ministry of Internal Affairs published the memorandum‘Towards accessibility of government<br/>information’. More than two decades later, open data in The Netherlands has matured with the assignment of a responsible Ministry for open data, an open data vision and an open data action...

Towards a User-Oriented Open Data Strategy

The chapter explains that the single typical user of open government data does not exist. Therefore, data suppliers should take a five-step approach in the design of the user oriented policy: (1) define its objective(s) of open data, (2) recognise and identify the user types needed to arrive at the objectives, (3) assess the appropriateness of...

2050: The Story of Urbidata

At the moment of writing, we are witnessing a data revolution. In this chapter we present our perspective on the direction of the developments in the coming 30 years. By offering both a dystopian and a utopian vision on the (open) data world in 2050, we open the debate on the direction the use of open data should take. This final chapter...

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

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....