1. Managing Metadata for Geographic Information Supervisor: Dr. S. Geertman Professor: Prof. Dr. Ir A. Bregt Paul Brous

3. Introduction : “information describing spatial data sets and spatial data services and making it possible to discover, inventory and use them.” Metadata is : The European Commission (2007) EN ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata1 ISO/TS 19139:2007 defines Geographic MetaData XML (gmd) encoding, an XML Schema Metadata?

4. 80% of the spatial datasets had no metadata, 18% of the spatial datasets had CEN metadata 2% of the spatial datasets had (some) CEN metadata 135 man years are required to produce metadata for the current spatial data sets (807.000 files x 0,25 uur/1500 uur. Rijkswaterstaat South Holland Van der Wal en Schram (2008)

5. Introduction Central Research Question: What are the reasons why Dutch organisations fail to document their spatial data with appropriate metadata?

6. Introduction The four dimensions of a GIS (adapted from Traub, 1998)

7. Introduction Data quality Adapted from Strong et al. (1997)

8. Introduction

9. Methodology Methodology

11. Results Results

12. Results Humanware Sub-categories of issues relating to Humanware

13. Results Dataware Sub-categories of metadata production issues relating to Dataware

14. Results Technoware Sub-categories of metadata production issues relating to Technoware

15. Results Orgware Sub-categories of the metadata production issues relating to Orgware

16. Results Metadata production issues in organisations Relationship map to show the effects of each GIS dimension on the dimensions of metadata quality

17. Conclusions and recommendations Conclusions and Recommendations

18. Conclusions and recommendations A mindmap to demonstrate the relationships between the metadata production issues and the organisation

20. Thank you!