The Knowledge Centre Open Data of Delft University of Technology focuses on one of the most promising policies promoting the accessibility of data: open data policies. The research focuses on the governance of open data, its societal and economic impact, and the legal restrictions on or conditions for implementing and utilizing open data policies.
The research of the Knowledge Centre Open Data is part of the Urban Data Science section of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of Delft University of Technology. The Knowledge Centre contributes to the MSc Programme in Geomatics and the MSc Programme in Geographical Information Management and Applications (GIMA).
About the KCODMaster student Renato Markus, enrolled in the GIMA master program, wrote a thesis on the governance of open data in medium and big municipalities. His work was featured on the news of Geo Info Magazine (in Dutch).
The “Preface to the Proceedings of the 26th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science”, authored by Peter van Oosterom, Hendrik Ploeger, Ali Mansourian, Simon Scheider, Rob Lemmens, and Bastiaan van Loenen, is now published in GIScience Series, 4(1), Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 1-2, 2023. The 26th AGILE Conference was held at TU Delft back in JuneRead More…
The open access article “Towards a Citizen- and Citizenry-Centric Digitalization of the Urban Environment: Urban Digital Twinning as Commoning“, co-authored by Stefano Calzati and Bastiaan van Loenen is out in the journal Digital Society
The article “Shaping a Data Commoning Polity: Prospects and Challenges of a European Digital Sovereignty“, authored by Stefano Calzati is out, as part of the Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Electronic Participation.
The open access article “Beyond Federated Data: A Data Commoning Proposition for the EU’s Citizen-centric Digital Strategy“, co-authored by Stefano Calzati and Bastiaan van Loenen is out in the journal AI & Society (section Open Forum)
The 2023 Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) was held at TU Delft from the 13th to the 16th of June. It hosted a diverse cohort of practitioners, scholars and PhD students around the theme of “Spatial Data for Design”.
Stefano Calzati attended (online) the 2023 Data Justice Conference: Exploring Social Justice in the Age of Datafication” organised by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University. He presented the paper “Conceptualising the Data Republic: Fair Data Ecosystems as a Way to Balance Individual and Collective Data Rights”
The article A Fourth Way to the Digital Transformation: The Data Republic as a Fair Data Ecosystem, co-authored by Stefano Calzati and Bastiaan van Loenen, has been published in the journal Data & Policy
The article The Social Imaginaries on Governance through Data: Q-Methodological Analysis of Data Professionals’ Views in the Field of Mobility, co-authored by Stefano Calzati together with Anu Masso and Maris Männiste, has been published in the journal Futures.
The article From Big Data Epistemology to AI Politics, authored by Stefano Calzati, has been published in Journal of Information Communication & Ethics in Society
Frederika Welle Donker, together with Andrea Miletić and Ana Kuveždić Divjak from the University of Zagreb, authored the article “Assessment of the Croatian Open Data Portal Using User-Oriented Metrics”, which appeared, open access, in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(5), 185.
Stefano Calzati and Bastiaan van Loenen co-authored the article “An ethics assessment list for geoinformation ecosystems: revisiting the integrated geospatial information framework of the United Nations”, which appeared open access on the International Journal of Digital Earth.
Stefano Calzati’s “Huawei knowledge transfer in Africa: Corporate communication and users’ responses on social networks” was published on the journal Global Media & Communication.
New article out! Ashraf Shaharudin, together with Bastiaan van Loenen and Marijn Janssen, authored the article “Towards a Common Definition of Open Data Intermediaries”, which was published open access on the journal Digital Government: Research and Practice. The article is available here.
New article out! Ashraf Shaharudin, together with Bastiaan van Loenen and Marijn Janssen, authored the article “Identifying Business Models of Open Data Intermediaries: A Review”. The article is available here.
On the 10th of February, the Department of Urbanism held its first Research Exchange Meeting dedicated to “inclusive urbanism”. The event was coordinated by Stefano Calzati, together with Thomas Verbeek and Marcin Dubrowski, and it hosted presentations of early-launched and ongoing research projects, one for each of the six sections animating the department. For theRead More…
The Book of Abstracts of the 2022 International Conference on Open Data, held between November 28th and December 2nd at the University of Zagreb, is out! Among others, the book contains interventions by various members of KCOP, as well as geomatics students of TU Delft.
On December 8th, Stefano Calzati will take part as an invitee to the workshop “Privilegisation in Digital Data Infrastructures” organized by the Urban Digital Infrastructure Collective of the DesignLab at University of Twente
The Call for Paper for the AGILE 2023 Conference is out! In 2023 the annual conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) will be held in Delft, between 13th and 16th of June. This year’s topic is “spatial data for design” and explores the fertile and varied connections between geoinformation andRead More…
On November 18th, Prof. Bastiaan van Loenen delivered a keynote lecture at the Danish National GIS conference. The keynote, titled “Towards Geographical Information Ecosystems”, attracted more than 800 people, among academic scholars, GIS practitioners, actors in the public and private sector, civil servants, non-institutional actors, and it was the occasion to disseminate ODECO project andRead More…
On November 9th Ashraf Bin Ahmad Shaharudin successfully passed his go-no-go discussing the preliminary outline of his PhD: “Business Models of Open Data Intermediaries towards a Sustainable Open Data Ecosystem”. Congrats!!!
From November 28th to December 2nd, Prof van Loenen, Dr Welle Donker, Dr Calzati, and PhD researcher Bin Ahmad Shaharudin will attend the TODO International Conference on Open Data in Zagreb.
On October 31st Warakan Supinajaroen successfully defended his PhD thesis: “Optimising the Use of National CORS Data in the Context of Thailand: Policy Outlooks from an Data Ecosystem Perspective”. Congrats!!!
On October 28th, Stefano Calzati took part as an invited speaker to the workshop of “The New Open“, the flagship project of the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at TU Delft. Together with international architects, designers, and scholars, Calzati discussed the possibility of transiting “From Open Data to Data Commons: Enacting a Data EcosystemRead More…
Congratulations to Dr.ir. Frederika Welle-Donker, part of the Knowledge Centre for Open Data, for her new appointment as member of the Open & Online Education workgroup within the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at TU Delft! Looking forward to her exploration of new teaching paths, practices and methodologies to keep us all abreast inRead More…
New article: “On the (Non)Institutional Disclosure of Urban Commons: Evidence, Practices and Challenges From the Netherlands and Belgium” Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (section: Social Inclusion in Cities), 2022, by Stefano Calzati, Francisco Santos, Giulia Casarola
New article: “Flipped Classroom Real-World Activities for Learning Open Computing Concepts” International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 17(7): 293-312, authored by I. Bosnić, I. Čavrak, B. van Loenen (2022).
New article: “Identifying and Overcoming the Barriers Towards Open Data of Public Undertakings” Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS) 20(2): 96-111, authored by Frida Boone, B. van Loenen (2022)
New article: “Open National CORS data ecosystems: A cross-jurisdictional comparison” Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS) 20(2): 78-95, authored by W. Supinajaroen, B. van Loenen, W.K. Korthals Altes (2022)
New article: “Towards digital innovation: Stakeholder interactions in agricultural data ecosystems in Croatia” in Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS) 20(2): 190-209, authored by L. Hrustek, M. Tomičić Furjan, Filip Varga, A. Džidić, B. van Loenen, D. Šalamon (2022).
New article: “4D Musrenbang: Designing User Experience (UX) to Support Public Participation in Spatial Planning for Indonesia” In Proceedings of the 7th International FIG Workshop on 3D Cadastres (95-112), by N.A. Nur An Nisa Milyana, B. van Loenen, W.K. Korthals Altes, H.D. Ploeger (2021).
New article: “Showcase of Active Learning and Teaching Practices in Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Education”, in AGILE GIScience Ser., 3, 18, authored by Welle Donker, F., van Loenen, B., Keßler, C., Küppers, N., Panek, M., Mansourian, A., Zhou, P., Vancauwenberghe, G., Tomić, H., and Kević, K.
New Article: “(Non)negotiable spaces of algorithmic governance: Perceptions on the Ubenwa health app as a ‘relocated’ solution”, New Media and Society 24(4) (by Anu Masso, Martha Chukwu, and Stefano Calzati)
New article: “Federated data as a commons: a third way to subject-centric and collective-centric approaches to data epistemology and politics”, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (by Stefano Calzati)
New Article: “Towards value-creating and sustainable open data ecosystems: A comparative case study and a research agenda”, JeDEM-eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 13(2), 1-27 (leading author Bastiaan van Loenen)
Stefano Calzati will be presenting online the paper ” ‘Critical Turn’ in Geomatics and Geospatial Information Systems: An Epistemologically Sound Foundation for Sustainable Development Goals” in the Data Power Conference held in person conjointly in Ontario, Bremen, and Sheffield, as well as online, from the 22nd to the 24th of June.
Members of the Knowledge Centre will be actively involved in the SPIDER Summer School organised in Zabreg, from the 22nd to the 25th of August
On Tuesday June 22, at 3pm CET, KCOD’s Agung Indrajit will defend his dissertation 4D Open Spatial Information Infrastructure; Participatory Urban Plan Monitoring in Indonesian Cities. The defense will be online. We will keep you posted on the exact online location.
The TU Delft project ‘Towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem’ (ODECO) has been granted as one of the 147 projects funding by the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie action Innovative Training Networks. Coordinator of ODECO is KCOD’s Bastiaan van Loenen. Learn more about ODECO through this link.: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2021/bk/project-odeco-data-is-key-to-the-success-of-information-economies
When: Wednesday October 21, 2-5pm CET Where: https://meet.jit.si/SPOW Programme Time Title Presenter Affiliation 14:00 Welcome Dr. Frederika Welle Donker Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 14:05 Introduction to the Safeguarding Personal data protection in an Open data World (SPOW) project Dr. Bastiaan van Loenen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 14:10 Open data and proportionality: the caseRead More…
Dr. Lorenzo Dalla Corte dissertation entitled Safeguarding data protection in an open data world; On the idea of balancing open dataand data protection in the development of the smart city environment is now available online.
We opened a new 2 year post doc position on Urbidata: ethics for the (open) data city. Further information is available through this link
On 18 May, Lorenzo presented and defended his dissertation entitled “Safeguarding Data Protection in an Open Data World”. And did it very successfully. Congratulations Lorenzo!
On Monday May 18th at 1:30pm Lorenzo Dalla Corte will defend his thesis “Safeguarding Data Protection in an Open Data World – on the idea of balancing data protection and open data in the development of the ’smart city’ environment”. The link for the live stream is: https://tiu.nu/livephddefense The main research question the idea that dataRead More…
The Knowledge Centre Open Data received an Erasmusplus grant for the SPIDER: open SPatial data Infrastructure eDucation nEtwoRk project. In the 3-year project, the Knowledge Centre will collaborate with Bochum University of Applied Sciences, KU Leuven, Lund University and the University of Zagreb. Its overarching objective is to promote and strengthen active learning and teachingRead More…
On October 9th the KCOD as part of the SPIDER project presented the concept of Open SDI and its legal and ethical challenges to students of Wageningen University as part of the seminar Seminar Geodata, Citizens and Ethics. The presentation ‘Open SDI: Restoring the balance‘ addressed issues arising from the increasing amount of open governmentRead More…
The KNAW published on 20 June 2019 the report “Hergebruik van publieke data; Meer wetenschap en beter overheidsbeleid”. The summary of the report reads: “Data uit overheidsadministraties leveren een schat aan kennis op voor wetenschap en overheidsbeleid, maar ze worden daarvoor nog niet ten volle benut. Het gaat om data uit administraties van het Rijk,Read More…
KCOD’s Ploeger and Van Loenen see an important role for the notary public in authorising data and algorithms. On June 25, at the Royal Notaries Association in Utrecht Ploeger and Van Loenen presented their paper “De slimme, open stad: de menselijke maat in de datagedreven stad van 2050”. The paper introduces the concepts of dataRead More…
KCOD’s Bastiaan van Loenen presented the concept of open spatial data infrastructures at the Institute fur Geo-Information (IFGI), University of Muenster, Germany. In his presentation he addressed the most pressing societal challenges and the role open SDIs may play in addressing these challenges. The audience highlighted that the German SDI is in a very earlyRead More…
On Monday 17 June, The Open Data Knowledge Centre organised together with Lund University, University of Zagreb and Bochum University of Applied Science, a workshop ‘Towards an Open SDI’ in Limassol, Cyprus as part of the AGILE Conference. During this Workshop the recently adopted Open Data Public Sector Information Directive was explained and the impactRead More…
The article Scoping Personal Data: Towards a Nuanced Interpretation of the Material Scope of EU Data Protecton Law by KCOD’s Lorenzo Dalla Corte is published in the European Journal of Law and Technology. The concept of personal data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person – is a cornerstone of theRead More…
KCOD organises on Monday June 17 the half day workshop Towards Open Spatial Data Infrastructures at the AGILE conference 2019. In this workshop, the concept of Open SDI is introduced to describe characterize the development and implementation of more open spatial data infrastructures. During the workshop the ‘Map of Open SDI in Europe’ will beRead More…
Glenn Vancauwenberghe and Bastiaan van Loenen authored the article Governing Open Spatial Data Infrastructures: The Case of the United Kingdom. In order to facilitate and coordinate the sharing of spatial data, governments worldwide have been developing Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) for many years. Recently, technological, institutional and societal developments have caused these SDIs to shiftRead More…
On the 16th of May, Lorenzo spoke at the panel “European Data Economy and Regulation of Data” about regulatory convergences and recent developments in the EU Data Economy at TILTing Perspectives 2019. The other panellists were Dr. Martin Husovec and Dr. Inge Graef, assistant professors as Tilburg University, Prof. Teresa Scassa from the University ofRead More…
On the 14th of May 2019, Lorenzo presented at the first International Workshop on the Legal Notions of Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law in a Rapidly Changing World, held by the Brussels Privacy Hub and by the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) department at VUB. The reception of his latest paper (“ARead More…
On the 8th of November Lorenzo Dalla Corte gave a presentation titled “Scoping Personal Data – Towards a Nuanced Interpretation of the Material Scope of EU Data Protection Law” at Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) during a colloquium on data protection. His presentation was about the purported expansive effect of the notion of personal data, andRead More…
Today, the book ‘Open Data Exposed’ by KCOD Bastiaan van Loenen and Glenn Vancauwenberghe together with Joep Crompvoets (KU Leuven) was published online. The main objectives of this book are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open data viewed from different perspectives and to provide appealing examples of how openRead More…
On October 3rd, KCOD’s Agung Indrajit obtained the best paper award at the GeoDelft conference, a conference consisting of the ISPRS TC IV ‘Spatial Information sciences’ Symposium, the 13th International 3D GeoInfo Conference, the 6th International FIG Workshop on 3D Cadastres, and the 3rd International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities. The winning paperRead More…
A packed programme with workshops and parallel sessions held simultaneously, which made it at times hard to choose. The INSPIRE Conference is slowly moving to reflect new developments, such as new OGC standards, e.g. WFS 3.0 and for sensor data APIs the SensorThings standard, and a strong focus on Smart Cities. It was interesting toRead More…
The article “Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset – whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the Netherlands?”by Serena Coetzee, Martijn Odijk, Bastiaan van Loenen, Janette Storm & Jantien Stoter presents a stakeholder analysis of the Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen (BAG), a collection of base informationRead More…
On September 13, KCOD’s Bastiaan van Loenen presented the book ‘Open Data Exposed’ to the Open data working group of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The main objectives of this book, edited by the KCOD and KU Leuven, are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open dataRead More…
On Wednesday June 13, Agung Indrajit and Frederika Welle Donker presented their research at the AGILE conference in Lund Sweden. Agung’s paper was entitled ‘Prospect of open SDI in Developing Countries: Case Study Indonesia’. In his presentation he provided an overview of the open spatial data infrastructure in Indonesia acknowledging the importance of open dataRead More…
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…
The Beyond Data Event was held on 29 March 2018 for the 9th time in Eindhoven. As part of the event, so-called round table sessions, were organised, in which participants could join an open discussion in a small group on a specific topic. Dr. Frederika Welle Donker of the Knowledge Centre Open Data was invitedRead More…
On March 2 2018, the Knowledge Centre Open Data will present the status of open geographic data at the Open data day in Croatia. For more information see: https://odd.codeforcroatia.org/
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…
On Saturday January 27th, knowledge center’s Lorenzo Dalla Corte co-chaired the Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe (PLSC-Europe) as part of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference. In the workshop work in progress papers were discussed. In the context of the General Data Protection Regulation and the draft e-privacy regulation, From data-driven profiling toRead More…
On Friday 15 December 2017, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) organised another ‘Data.overheid.nl’ User Meeting. Aim of these User Meetings is to allow users and providers of open data in the Netherlands to exchange ideas and experiences. More than one hundred participants attended the meeting in December. During this meeting,Read 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…
To switch to an open data policy may pose a challenge to the business model of National Mapping & Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs), especially if they are required to generate sufficient revenue to cover a substantial part of their operating costs. This research, carried out for EuroSDR, aims to assess the effects of open data policiesRead 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…
GeoBuzz is the annual conference and exhibition organised by GeoBusiness Netherlands (umbrella organisation of geosector companies) and GIN – Geo-Information Netherlands. This year, GeoBuzz was held on 21st and 22nd of November in Den Bosch. On 22 November, Frederika Welle Donker of the Open Data Knowledge Centre led a session on effective governance of openRead More…
In this GSDI Association’s webinar on Geospatial Open Data on November 16, attended by almost a hundred participants, Knowledge center’s Bastiaan van Loenen provided a web presentation on the basics of open data, its scope, benefits and a snapshot of open data research challenges. See Bastiaan’s presentation. See here for the Seminar report.
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…
Several KCOD researchers presented their work during the INSPIRE Conference 2017 in Kehl (Germany) and Strasbourg (France). The conference aimed to contribute to the implementation of the European INSPIRE Directive by 2020 and demonstrate the potential of the European Spatial Data Infrastructure resulting from INSPIRE for the environment and the EU Digital society. On Wednesday, MScRead More…
On September 4 2017, the Knowledge Centre Open Data organised the well attended workshop ‘Towards a Map of Open SDI/INSPIRE’ at the INSPIRE 2017 Conference in Kehl (Germany) and Strasbourg (France). In this workshop, several experts presented their view and experiences on Open SDI and a first prototype of the ‘Map of Open SDI in Europe’ wasRead More…
The ‘Map of Open SDI in Europe’, a project of the Knowledge Centre Open Data of Delft University of Technology, is developed to provide SDI decision makers, practitioners and researchers with a more comprehensive understanding of the openness of spatial data infrastructures in Europe. The Map covers three key dimensions of Open SDIs: readiness, implementationRead More…
The Knowledge Centre organizes a 3-hour workshop on ‘The Map of Open SDI/INSPIRE” at the INSPIRE 2017 Conference in Kehl (Germany) and Strasbourg (France). In this workshop, which will be held on Monday 4 September 2017, a first prototype of the ‘Map of Open SDI in Europe’ will be presented, showing the results of a firstRead More…
The EuroSDR workshop on Sustainable Open Data Business Models for NMCAs will be organized in Delft (the Netherlands) on 18 and 19 September 2017. The workshop will bring together the NMCAs to present and share their experiences of open data and discuss the research results with representatives of academia. Issues that will discussed will be: What wereRead More…
Heleen Vollers and Jorn Berends of the European Data Portal project visited the Knowledge Center Open Data on July 3rd. Together with a group of Geomatics students we discussed the need for data portals, the experiences of the students with data portals and reviewed the European Data Portal. Bastiaan van Loenen presented research performed byRead More…
On June 30 PhD candidates of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Delft University of Technology exchanged their PhD research concepts and ideas with each other in Leuven. Joep Crompvoets welcomed the Delft guest and introduced KU Leuven and the Public Governance Institute and Bastiaan van Loenen introduced the Knowledge Center Open Data. The PhD candidatesRead More…
On June 29, Lorenzo Dalla Corte presented the paper entitled ‘Personal Data Protection as a Nonfunctional Requirement in the Smart City’s Development’ at the 13th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics in Barcelona. “Smart city” is a buzzword, highly hyped up and evading a unitary characterisation. Its blurriness is highlighted by the broad arrayRead More…
KCOD researcher Hendrik Ploeger is co-author of an article in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information on the registration of multi-level property rights in 3D in the Netherlands. The article reports on the first 3D cadastral registration in The Netherlands, accomplished in March 2016. The solution was sought within the current cadastral, organisational, and technical frameworks to obtain aRead More…
The 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2018 will be hosted by Delft University of Technology, from 30 May till 1 June 2018. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, political participation, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. EachRead More…
The KCOD contributed to the 17th European Conference on Digital Government ECDG 2017 from 12-13 June 2017. Bastiaan van Loenen presented the paper entitled “Log File Analytics for Gaining Insight into Actual Use of Open Data” based on the research of Wouter Labots. Following open data policies worldwide, an increasing number of public organisations has now published openRead More…
Several KCOD researchers contributed to the 5th bi-annual TILTing Perspectives conference organised by the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) from 17-19 May 2017. Lorenzo Dalla Corte was chair of the session ‘Data Science, Civil Rights and Activism’. Bastiaan van Loenen was co-author of a paper on ‘Data sharing mechanisms and privacy challenges in Data Collaboratives:Read More…
The pre-conference workshop ‘Open Data for Open Cities: Re-use and discovery level‘ was held at the 20th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Wageningen, 9th May 2017. Key topics of the workshop were the impact of open data in cities and spatial point analysis processes. During the workshop, Bastiaan van Loenen gave a presentation on theRead More…
KCOD researcher and PhD candidate Agung Indrajit presented his short paper on ‘Multi-Domain Master Spatial Data Management for Open SII in Indonesian Smart Cities’ at the AGILE 2017 Conference. AGILE 2017, the annual international conference on Geographic Information Science organized the Association of European Geo-Information Laboraties (AGILE), was held from 9 -12 May in Wageningen,Read More…
Recently, the section Geo-information and Land Policy (Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft) and the University of Leiden joined hands in research into the state of digitalisation of land registers and public records in EU countries. The Centre for Safety and Security of the Strategic Alliance Leiden-Delft-Erasmus, a three university cooperation, has been awarded a grant for thisRead More…
The Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels in January 2016, led by Damian Clifford (KU Leuven), hosted a well-attended panel session ‘Data protection and open data in the smart city environment’ place. PhD Lorenzo dalla Corte (Knowledge Open Data), expert in this field, was the initiator of this panel. Also three other panelistsRead More…
The Ministry of Interior of Taiwan and the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) together organized the 15th GSDI World Conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference lasted for five days, from 29 November to 2nd December in 2016. The main theme of the conference was Spatial Enablement in Smart Homeland, including three main topics of Smart DisasterRead More…
On 6 December 2016, Frederika Welle Donker successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘From access to re-use: a user’s perspective on public sector information availability’. With more public sector geographic information becoming available as open data and with rapid technological developments, a trickle of web services and apps based on public sector information can be witnessed. However, the predictedRead More…