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…
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/
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…
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…
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…