1st Edition
Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context North and South
Institutions and Organizations
When Is Providing Spatial Information a Public Task? A Search for Criteria, Katleen Janssen, Joep Crompvoets, and Jos Dumortier
Institutionalization Does Not Occur by Decree: Institutional Obstacles in Implementing a Land Administration System in a Developing Country, Leiser Silva
Integrating Spatial Information and Business Processes: The Role of Organizational Structures, Ezra Dessers, Geert Van Hootegem, Joep Crompvoets, and Paul H. J. Hendriks
GIS Database Development and Exchange: Interaction Mechanisms and Motivations, Zorica Nedovic´-Budic´, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Lisa Warnecke
Data and Technology
SDI Reality in Uganda: Coordinating between Redundancy and Efficiency, Walter T. de Vries and Kate T. Lance
Social Network Analysis of the SDI in Flanders, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Joep Crompvoets, Geert Bouckaert, and Danny Vandenbroucke
Thinking in Circles: How National Geo-Information Infrastructures Cannot Escape from the Temptation of Technology, Henk Koerten and Marcel Veenswijk
People and Practices
Enlisting SDI for Urban Planning in India: Local Practices in the Case of Slum Declaration, Christine Richter, Gianluca Miscione, Rahul De’, and Karin Pfeffer
Considerations from the Development of a Local Spatial Data Infrastructure, Clodoveu A. Davis, Jr. and Frederico Fonseca
An Exploration of SDI and Volunteered Geographic Information in Africa, Yola Georgiadou, Nama Raj Budhathoki, and Zorica Nedovic´-Budic´
Sense-Making and Summing Up
SDI in North and South—A Full Circle Yet? Gianluca Miscione and Danny Vandenbroucke
Conclusion: Implications for Future Research and Practice—Toward Scientific Pragmatism
Afterword
Index
Biography
Joep Crompvoets is an associate professor at the Public Management Institute of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and lecturer at the Centre for Geo-Information of Wageningen University in The Netherlands. He holds two MSs and a Ph.D. from Wageningen University.
This interesting book collects essays by established academics and early career scientists ... [Chapter 5] is one of my favourite chapters in the book and I found the theoretical framework really helpful to explain behaviours present all over the world. ... Chapter 8 ... is definitively another highlight.... [T]his fascinating chapter sheds light onto the real-world practice of information making ... The editors make a strong case for devoting more energy to understand the local, and the multiple rationalities in a socio-technical framework rather than using the architectural blueprint approach to develop an SDI. ... A good book, worth buying.
—Max Craglia, in International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Dec 2011
