Big data: een zoektocht naar instituties

Big data is a well-known phenomenon, even a buzzword nowadays. It refers to an abundance of data and new possibilities to process and use them. Big data is subject of many publications. Some pay attention to the many possibilities of big data, others warn us for their consequences. This special issue goes beyond the hype. It contains accessible...

Big data en de toezichthouder: een gesprek met Gaël Kermarrec

Big data belooft veel voor surveillance. Toezicht houden is per definitie informatie-intensief. Het is dan ook niet verwonderlijk dat toezichthouders projecten opstarten om de nieuwe mogelijkheden van big data te exploreren. We spraken Gaël Kermarrec. Hij leidt sinds 2010 een big data project bij de Sociale Inspectie van de Federale...

Big data en officiële statistieken: een gesprek met Marc Debusschere

EuroSDR: The pan european network for mapping agencies and academia

EuroSDR (http://www.eurosdr.net/) is a non-profit organisation that provides a pan-European network that brings together mapping / cadastre agencies and academia for the purpose of applied research, and securing timely, research-based knowledge that allows the agencies to play their role as content providers and government competence centres...

The STIG: A new SDI assessment method

To stimulate the Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) development effectively and efficiently, it is key to assess the progress and benefits of the SDI. Currently, several SDI assessment methods exist. However, these are still in an infant stage and none of these appear to meet the requirements of practitioners. As a result, SDI decision makers...

Roadmap kernregistraties: Van open naar trusted data

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in opdracht van Rijkswaterstaat.

Multiview SDI Assessment of Kosovo (2007-2010): Developing a solid base to support SDI strategy development

This paper presents the multi?view assessment of SDI status in the Republic of Kosovo performed in 2007 and in 2010. The main objective of this research was to assess the SDI of Kosovo and to define the driving forces needed to support SDI strategy development. The research assesses the status of SDI implementation of Kosovo using SDI readiness...

Atlas of INSPIRE: Evaluating SDI Development through an Inventory of INSPIRE Experiences of European National Mapping Agencies

The paper describes how practice of INSPIRE implementation are affecting Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) development. It contains the results of a EuroSDR (European Spatial Data Research) project ‘Atlas of INSPIRE implementation methods’. Aim of the project was to make an inventory of experiences when implementing INSPIRE, in order to share...

Spatially enabled government in Europe as an basic ingredient for spatially enabled societies

Assessing geoportals from a user perspective

Future directions for SDI-assessment

Geoportals in selected European states: a non-technical comparative analysis

De staat van de geoinformatie-infrastructuur is in Nederland zo slecht nog niet

Worldwide (status, development and) impact assessment of geoportals

At this moment, numerous (catalogue) geoportals have been established and it is expected that many more geoportals will be implemented in the future. To the best of our knowledge, not many status, development and impact assessment studies have been performed with regard to all these initiatives (certainly not on a worldwide scale). It is very...