Spatial data infrastructures in context : north and south /: north and south. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Zorica Nedović-Budić, Joep Crompvoets, Yola Georgiadou.
• Other Names: Nedović-Budić, Zorica; Crompvoets, Joep; Georgiadou, Yola
• Contents: Institutions and Organizations; When Is Providing Spatial Information a Public Task? A Search for Criteria, Katleen Janssen, Joep Crompvoets, and Jos Dumortier; Institutionalization Does Not Occur by Decree: Institutional Obstacles in Implementing a Land Administration System in a Developing Country, Leiser Silva; Integrating Spatial Information and Business Processes: The Role of Organizational Structures, Ezra Dessers, Geert Van Hootegem, Joep Crompvoets, and Paul H. J. Hendriks; GIS Database Development and Exchange: Interaction Mechanisms and Motivations, Zorica Nedovic´-Budic´, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Lisa Warnecke; ; Data and Technology; SDI Reality in Uganda: Coordinating between Redundancy and Efficiency, Walter T. de Vries and Kate T. Lance; Social Network Analysis of the SDI in Flanders, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Joep Crompvoets, Geert Bouckaert, and Danny Vandenbroucke Thinking in Circles: How National Geo-Information Infrastructures Cannot Escape from the Temptation of Technology, Henk Koerten and Marcel Veenswijk; ; People and Practices; Enlisting SDI for Urban Planning in India: Local Practices in the Case of Slum Declaration, Christine Richter, Gianluca Miscione, Rahul De’, and Karin Pfeffer; Considerations from the Development of a Local Spatial Data Infrastructure, Clodoveu A. Davis, Jr. and Frederico Fonseca; An Exploration of SDI and Volunteered Geographic Information in Africa, Yola Georgiadou, Nama Raj Budhathoki, and Zorica Nedovic´-Budic´; ; Sense-Making and Summing Up; SDI in North and South—A Full Circle Yet? Gianluca Miscione and Danny Vandenbroucke; Conclusion: Implications for Future Research and Practice—Toward Scientific Pragmatism; Afterword; Index
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 254 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 910.285; Geographic information systems -- Government policy; Geographic information systems -- International cooperation; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Geography -- Government policy; Geospatial data; Government information; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439828021; 1439828024; 9781439828038; 1439828032
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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