Brave new open data world

There is a growing tendency to release all sorts of public data on the Internet. The greater availability of interoperable public data catalyses secondary use of such data, which leads to growth of information industries and better government transparency. Open data policies may, nevertheless, be in conflict with the individual’s right to...

Assessing Geographic Information Enhancement

Assessment of geographic information infrastructures (or spatial data infrastructures) is increasingly attracting the attention of researchers in the Geographic information (GI) domain. Especially the assessment of value added GI appears to be complex. By applying the concept of value chain analysis to GI, this paper provides a research...

Towards Voluntary Interoperable Open Access Licenses for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

Access to earth observation data has become critically important for the wellbeing of society. A major impediment to achieving widespread sharing of earth observation data is lack of an operational web-wide system that is transparent and consistent in allowing users to legally access and use the earth observations of others without seeking...

Markt en overheid: Hoe zit het nu eigenlijk?

Het afgelopen decennium is discussie ontstaan over in hoeverre de overheid haar geo-informatie mag of kan vermarkten. De commercialiseringdiscussie gaat om de vraag wanneer de overheid de markt mag betreden en aan welke spelregels zij zich dan moet houden. Een overheid verricht in principe een marktactiviteit als zij goederen of diensten, al dan...

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