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…