Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Editors |
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Contributors |
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Section 1 Institutions and Organizations |
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1 When Is Providing Spatial Information a Public Task? A Search for Criteria |
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1.2 Defining the Role of Government: Why Does It Matter? |
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1.3 The Importance of Defining the Public Task in the European Union |
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1.4 Defining the Public Task: Finding Criteria |
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1.4.1 Existing Obligations |
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1.4.2.2 Link with the Core Responsibility of the Public Body |
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1.5 No Definition of the Public Task---What Now? |
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1.5.2 Reduction of the Uncertainty of the Public Task |
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2 Institutionalization Does Not Occur by Decree: Institutional Obstacles in Implementing a Land Administration System in a Developing Country |
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2.2 Theoretical Background: SDIs and Critical Theory |
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2.2.1 Institutionalization of SDIs and Inter-organizational Cooperation |
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2.2.2 Critical Theory and the Study of IT |
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2.3.2 Interpretation of the Data |
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2.3.3 Context of the Study |
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2.4.1 Theme 1: "Things Here Are Different" |
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2.4.2 Theme 2: "We Want Intelligent Systems" |
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2.4.3 Theme 3: "Institutional Jealousy" |
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2.4.4 Theme 4: "We Are Used to Life without Law" |
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2.5 A Proposed Model for Approaching Institutionalization |
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2.5.5 Reflection on the Frailty of the Translation Process |
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3 Integrating Spatial Information and Business Processes: The Role of Organizational Structures |
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3.2 Organizational Structures and Business Process Performance |
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3.2.1 Organizational Structures and Functional Concentration |
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3.2.2 Business Processes: Environment and Performance |
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3.2.2.1 Organizational Structures and Business Process Performance |
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3.2.2.2 Environmental Changes |
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3.2.3 Spatial Information Flows |
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3.3 An Exploratory Case Study Approach |
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3.3.2 Exploring Spatial Information Use and Policy |
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3.3.3 Organizational Structures |
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3.3.3.1 The Case of Limburg |
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3.3.3.2 The Case of West-Vlaanderen |
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3.3.4 Lessons Learned for Research Design |
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4 GIS Database Development and Exchange: Interaction Mechanisms and Motivations |
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4.2 Motivations and Interaction Mechanisms---Concepts and Theory |
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4.2.1 Motivations for Data Sharing |
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4.2.2 Structural Characteristics of Interaction Mechanisms |
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4.2.3 A Conceptual Model of Data Sharing Motivations and Interaction Mechanisms |
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4.4 Characterizing the Interactions |
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4.4.1 Intraorganizational versus Interorganizational Motivations and Interaction Mechanisms |
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4.4.2 Relating Motivations and Structures |
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Appendix A Relating Motivations and Structures |
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Section 2 Data and Technology |
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5 SDI Reality in Uganda: Coordinating between Redundancy and Efficiency |
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5.2 Theoretical Framework |
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5.3 Methods of Data Collection |
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5.4.1 Presence of Spatial Data Redundancy or Efficiency Policies |
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5.4.2 Power Presence in Spatial Data Exchange Activities |
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5.4.3 Presence of Uncertainty in Spatial Data Exchange Activities |
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5.5 Analysis---Based on Axial Coding Categories |
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5.5.1 Redundancy and Efficiency |
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5.5.1.1 Causal Conditions |
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5.5.1.3 Action Strategies |
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5.5.2 Power and Uncertainty |
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5.5.2.1 Causal Conditions |
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5.5.2.3 Action Strategies |
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5.6 Interpretation---Linking Power and Uncertainty Factors to Redundancy and Efficiency |
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5.6.1 Power as a Cause for Redundancy or Efficiency |
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5.6.2 Uncertainty as a Cause for Redundancy or Efficiency |
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6 Social Network Analysis of the SDI in Flanders |
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6.1 Introduction: A Network Perspective on SDI |
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6.2 The Method: Social Network Analysis |
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6.3 Background of Flemish SDI |
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6.4 Social Network Data Collection |
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6.5 An Analysis of the Flemish SDI Network |
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6.5.1 Network Density and Centralization |
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7 Thinking in Circles: How National Geo-Information Infrastructures Cannot Escape from the Temptation of Technology |
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7.2 The Narrative Analysis Approach to Research |
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7.3 The Geo-Portals Case Description |
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7.3.1 Outset: Getting Geo-Portals Started |
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7.3.2 Middle Course: Dealing with Uncertainty |
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7.3.3 Outcome: Toward a Judgment Day |
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7.4.1 A Technology-Dominated Narrative Setting |
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7.4.2 A Self-Reliant Narrative Space |
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7.4.3 Emerging Storyboards |
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Section 3 People and Practices |
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8 Enlisting SDI for Urban Planning in India: Local Practices in the Case of Slum Declaration |
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8.2 SDI Research and Expectations |
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8.2.1 The Missing Context of SDI Development: Local Practices |
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8.2.2 SDI's Expected Role as Ordering Mechanism |
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8.4.1 Classificatory Listings |
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8.4.2 Nonclassificatory Listings |
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8.5 Implications of Findings for Local SDI Development |
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8.6 Research Limitations and Further Research |
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9 Considerations from the Development of a Local Spatial Data Infrastructure |
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9.2 Moving from Techne to Phronesis |
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9.3 Belo Horizonte: From Mapping to GIS to SDI |
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9.3.1 Initial Capacity Building (1989--1992) |
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9.3.2 Sustainability Phase (1992--1995) |
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9.3.3 Maturity Phase (1995--Today) |
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9.4 Analysis: The Link between Theory and Practice |
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9.4.1 Habermas' Emancipatory Knowledge in GIS-BH |
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9.4.2 An Application-Driven Project |
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9.5 Lessons Learned: Recommendations for Similar Projects |
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9.6 Conclusions and Future Work |
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10 An Exploration of SDI and Volunteered Geographic Information in Africa |
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Section 4 Sense-Making and Summing Up |
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11 SDI in North and South---A Full Circle Yet? |
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Conclusion: Implications for Future Research and Practice---Toward Scientific Pragmatism |
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Afterword |
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Index |
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