Information is a valuable tool to contribute to a world of improved land governance Challenges in access to information Extreme fragmentation of information Enormous wealth of information Reliability issues Too much to humanly digest Land Portal website brings information from various sources together Are you sharing your information?

1. Open Data
for
Land Governance
April 5th 2017

2.  Challenges in access to information
 Extreme fragmentation of information
 Enormous wealth of information
 Reliability issues
 Too much to humanly digest
 Land Portal website brings information from
various sources together
 Are you sharing your information?
Land Portal Foundation
Information is a valuable tool to contribute to a world of improved land governance

3. Improving Access to Information
Challenge: Way Land Portal addresses:
Fragmentation of information online  Portal (‘gateway’) function
Enormous wealth of information  Open Data Standards
 Enriching metadata
 Making it machine-readable

4.  Raising awareness of how Open Data
increases access and impact
of information
 Building capacities for organizations
to apply Open Data standards
 Linking databases together because
everything is interoperable
Moving towards an information ecosystem

5. Benefits of sharing information
 Increases efficiency
 Better decision making
 Increases impact of information
 Opens the way for collaboration
 Generating new ideas and innovations
 Preserves existing information
 Increases visibility of an organization
 Creates trust in objectivity of organization

6. Barriers to share information
 No particular incentive to share information
 Low awareness of the benefits of sharing information
 Lack of time and/or resources
 Restrictive culture of organization
 Fear of information taken out of context
 Fear of not receiving just recognition
 Information is politically sensitive

7. Steps to share information

8. Publish information
 Uploading your information online
 Consider the format (XML, RDF)

9. Consider licensing
 Copyright and Licenses
 Determine the level of
usability with the type of
license

10. Structure information
 Create information about
your resource: “metadata”
 Make sure users & machines know
what the information is about

12. Title Shelter Report 2016
Description “Land tenure is one of the great challenges Habitat for Humanity faces
in helping families access decent housing. Countless families around
the world lack rights to the land on which they live. Just imagine the
stress of knowing that any day you might be forced to move because
someone else claims ownership of the place you call home (…)”
Download link http://www.habitat.org/multimedia/shelter-report-2016/
Date of publication October 2015
Resource type Reports & Research
Publisher Habitat for Humanity International
Language English
Geographical
coverage
Bolivia, Laos, Macedonia (…)
Topical coverage continuum in land rights, gender equity in access to land,
housing rights, land policies, land rights, land tenure, land
tenure systems, security of tenure (land), sustainable
development, urbanization
License Copyright. All Rights Reserved

13. Use of standards
 Geographical names
 Three-letter country codes (ISO standard)
 Bolivia: BOL, Laos: LAO, Macedonia: MKD.
 Topical keywords
 Standard vocabularies: LandVoc.

14. LandVoc
the Linked Land Governance Thesaurus
 Standard for topical keywords related to land governance
 Enriching vocabulary with help of Southern partners
 Translations
 Adding synonyms to reflect local usage of terms
 Makes information more easy to find for a user
 Makes topical keywords machine-readable

15. Moving forward
 1. Have you published information and in a non-proprietary
format?
 2. Have you specified your license?
 3. Have you applied (some sort of) structure to your
information?
 4. Are you making use of standards to classify your
information?
 5. Will you be part of the information ecosystem?

16. Thank you!
lisette.meij@landportal.info