Information is a valuable tool to contribute to a world of improved land governance
Challenges in access to information
Extreme fragmentation of information
Enormous wealth of information
Reliability issues
Too much to humanly digest
Land Portal website brings information from various sources together
Are you sharing your information?
2. Challenges in access to information
Extreme fragmentation of information
Enormous wealth of information
Reliability issues
Too much to humanly digest
Land Portal website brings information from
various sources together
Are you sharing your information?
Land Portal Foundation
Information is a valuable tool to contribute to a world of improved land governance
3. Improving Access to Information
Challenge: Way Land Portal addresses:
Fragmentation of information online Portal (‘gateway’) function
Enormous wealth of information Open Data Standards
Enriching metadata
Making it machine-readable
4. Raising awareness of how Open Data
increases access and impact
of information
Building capacities for organizations
to apply Open Data standards
Linking databases together because
everything is interoperable
Moving towards an information ecosystem
5. Benefits of sharing information
Increases efficiency
Better decision making
Increases impact of information
Opens the way for collaboration
Generating new ideas and innovations
Preserves existing information
Increases visibility of an organization
Creates trust in objectivity of organization
6. Barriers to share information
No particular incentive to share information
Low awareness of the benefits of sharing information
Lack of time and/or resources
Restrictive culture of organization
Fear of information taken out of context
Fear of not receiving just recognition
Information is politically sensitive
10. Structure information
Create information about
your resource: “metadata”
Make sure users & machines know
what the information is about
11.
12. Title Shelter Report 2016
Description “Land tenure is one of the great challenges Habitat for Humanity faces
in helping families access decent housing. Countless families around
the world lack rights to the land on which they live. Just imagine the
stress of knowing that any day you might be forced to move because
someone else claims ownership of the place you call home (…)”
Download link http://www.habitat.org/multimedia/shelter-report-2016/
Date of publication October 2015
Resource type Reports & Research
Publisher Habitat for Humanity International
Language English
Geographical
coverage
Bolivia, Laos, Macedonia (…)
Topical coverage continuum in land rights, gender equity in access to land,
housing rights, land policies, land rights, land tenure, land
tenure systems, security of tenure (land), sustainable
development, urbanization
License Copyright. All Rights Reserved
13. Use of standards
Geographical names
Three-letter country codes (ISO standard)
Bolivia: BOL, Laos: LAO, Macedonia: MKD.
Topical keywords
Standard vocabularies: LandVoc.
14. LandVoc
the Linked Land Governance Thesaurus
Standard for topical keywords related to land governance
Enriching vocabulary with help of Southern partners
Translations
Adding synonyms to reflect local usage of terms
Makes information more easy to find for a user
Makes topical keywords machine-readable
15. Moving forward
1. Have you published information and in a non-proprietary
format?
2. Have you specified your license?
3. Have you applied (some sort of) structure to your
information?
4. Are you making use of standards to classify your
information?
5. Will you be part of the information ecosystem?
1. : do not re-inventing the wheel;
2. Sharing best practices
3. Keeping information online even if platforms/organizations dissolve over time.
4. Visibility -> recognition
Common hesitations for organizations to sharing their knowledge and ‘going open’.
Misuse knowledge or take unjust credit for it. Not being able to grasp or even track what is happening to your information.
End: First barriers are a state of mind and more or less excuses not to go open. With the three other fundamental barriers, we’ll show you how to overcome that in the way you go open.
Think about and specify the copyright restrictions you have on the materials.
With particular licenses, you can indicate how you want your users to use your information.