On Tuesday the 12th of June the AGILE Pre-conference workshop ‘SDI Research and Strategies towards 2030’ took place in Lund (Sweden). The workshop consisted of a series of presentations of past, ongoing and future SDI research, followed by discussions on the development and implementation of a research agenda for future SDI research. The presentations wereRead More…
The deadline for submitting an abstract to the AGILE 2018 Pre-conference workshop ‘SDI Research and Strategies towards 2030’ has been extended to April 10. The ‘SDI Research and Strategies towards 2030’ workshop would like to offer SDI researchers an opportunity to share their research and contribute to formulating the SDI research agenda. Researchers interested in presenting their researchRead More…
An article on ‘Assessing the Openness of Spatial Data Infrastructures‘ has been published as part of the INSPIRE Section of IJSDIR. The article by Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Kotryna Valečkaitė, Bastiaan van Loenen and Frederika Welle Donker, introduces the Open Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Assessment Framework as a new approach for assessing the openness of SDIs. Open SDIsRead More…
The Knowledge Centre Open Data is one of the organizers of the AGILE 2018 Pre-conference workshop ‘SDI Research and Strategies towards 2030: Renewing the SDI Research Agenda’. Aim of this Workshop is to initiate the definition of a renewed Spatial Data Infrastructure Research Agenda for ‘SDI Research and Strategies towards 2030’, incorporating both technical andRead More…
A book chapter on the ‘Governance of open spatial data infrastructures in Europe‘ by Glenn Vancauwenberghe en Bastiaan van Loenen was published in the book ‘The Social Dynamics of Open Data’. The chapter provides an analysis of how several European member states have been dealing with the governance of their open spatial data infrastructures since theRead More…
Researchers of the Knowledge Centre have contributed to the book ‘GEOValue: The Socioeconomic Value of Geospatial Information’, edited by Jamie B. Kruse, Joep Crompvoets and Francoise Pearlman and published by CRC Press. The book explores the different steps in the geospatial information value chain from the viewpoint of domain experts spanning various disciplines. In their chapterRead More…
On Wednesday 27 September the PhD Afternoon OTB took place, during which 19 PhD researchers of OTB presented their work. Also two KCOD researchers, Lorenzo Dalla Corte and Agung Indrajit , participated in this event. Lorenzo presented his research on Balancing the Right to Data Protection with Open Data. The central research question of his PhDRead More…
On Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 September the EuroSDR workshop on Sustainable Open Data Business Models for NMCAs was organized at Delft University of Technology. Representatives from the national mapping mapping and cadastral agencies (NMCAs) but also from other public and private organizations participated in this two-day workshop on open data business models and the impact ofRead More…
Glenn Vancauwenberghe and Bastiaan van Loenen have co-authored a book chapter on the Emergence of Open Spatial Data Infrastructures in the book ‘User Centric E-Government: Challenges and Opportunities‘, edited by Saqib Saeed, T. Ramayah and Zaigham Mahmood. The book provides user studies and theories related to user-centered technology design processes for e-government projects. The bookRead More…
On Thursday 21 September, KCOD researcher Glenn Vancauwenberghe participated in the ‘Smart ideas, smart solutions’ seminar organised by FLAGIS, the Flemish Association for Geographic Information Systems. The seminar brought together practitioners from the public and the private sector and researchers to discuss about the key challenges in the domain of geospatial information in Flanders. GlennRead More…