Duurzame businessmodellen voor open data

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in opdracht van Het Kadaster en TNO. Voor publieke organisaties hoeft het beschikbaar stellen van open data geen negatief effect te hebben op de betaalde dienstverlening en producten. In een aantal gevallen zijn inkomsten uit betaalde diensten juist omhoog gegaan. De oorzaken van het uitblijven van een negatief effect zijn...

Public sector information access policies in Europe

In the digital age geo-information has become embedded in our daily lives, such as navigation systems, community platforms, real estate information and weather forecasts. Everybody uses geo-information for their day-to-day decision making. Therefore, access to geo-information is of vital importance to the economic and social development of the...

Towards a framework of standard licences for geo-information?!

In the development and diffusion of major technologies, it is well known that standards provide an essential input, establishing compatibility or interoperability between components in the system (DTI, 2005). In addition, standards facilitate coordination and reduce complexity (Brunsson et al., 2000). Only after a standard has been adopted, the...

Successful SDIs: Does the Marine Geo-sector provide a much-needed beacon?

With Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) in the process of being implemented in most EU Member States, the aim is to develop a European spatial data infrastructure. INSPIRE is to facilitate the exchange of...

Re-use of public sector hydrographic information: Is the maritime sector a guiding beacon or a slow turning ship?

In the last decade, there has been ample research to determine the potential economic value of public sector information (PSI), both on national level as well as on European level. Most of this research has focused on the re-use of PSI in the land-based geo-sector but little is known about re-using PSI in the maritime sector. Especially...

Access to geo information in Europe: Is the marine sector showing the way?

In the digital age, geo-information or spatial data has become embedded in our daily lives. Although the term geo-information does not ring familiar, applications such as navigation systems, real estate information and weather forecasts are used by all for day-to-day decision-making. Most geo-information is created, collected, developed and...