The Role of the LADM in the transactional flow of Land Administration

Abstract

Current efforts for automation include the consideration of the entire value chain of industrial processes. To achieve this, Integrated Management Systems focus on the inclusion of the main processes: information management and operation management. In the Land Administration case, the standardization has prioritized largely on the LADM adoption to facilitate massive data acquisition processes, modeling, Cadastre - Registry integration, and its interoperability through exposition mechanisms. The LADM plays an important role for the standardization of the domain model, including the data core elements: BA_Unit, Spatial_Unit, Source, RRR relations, and Party; however, the focus on the current LADM version is information modeling An important challenge is the adoption of the LADM in the workflows where the end user (the citizen) intervenes, through the standardization of the operation. Beyond modeling the ultimate state of the information, and for simplification purposes, it is necessary to model the transitional steps between final states; i.e. the transaction. For this, it is necessary to consider the integration of the stakeholders that participate in the transactional chain, including intermediaries, that can be different depending on the legal framework of each country. The Land Administration modernization process in Colombia is currently being implemented through a joint vision of many government entities and stakeholders, focusing on the data integrity and processes simplification through the development of a management model where external all the stakeholders involved in the land will be integrated in a single flow, in a single file and a unique identification of the territorial objects modeled over the LADM standard, before recording changes in the Cadastral Registry The utility of modeling the “out-of-registry” transactional process has potentialities beyond the operation which takes place through legal channels, as is the case with formally registered properties. If this standardization is applied to non-formal processes, it is possible to make the complete reality of the territory coexist in a single model without entering conflicts of competence between the "facts" registered by Cadastre and the "rights" recognized by the Registry. Consequently, the integration of the LADM into the transactional flows brings significant value to initiatives that simplifies processes and procedures; especially when the objective is the decentralization of data update, data certification and data query information procedures.