Evaluation of the Dutch subsurface geoportal: What lies beneath?

Lance, K.T.; Georgiadou, Yola; Bregt, A.K.

doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.002

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“…What results is a 'clumsy' approach with donors combining elements of different policy paths. This clumsiness was found in other studies looking at geospatial coordination and external, funding bodies (Lance et al 2009(Lance et al , 2011. Donors may use foreign consultants to maintain better control over outcomes, because new aid architecture puts heavy emphasis on 'managing for results.'…”

Section: Conclusion and Further Researchmentioning

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Opening the black box of donor influence on Digital Earth in Africa

Lance

Georgiadou

Bregt

2012

International Journal of Digital Earth

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Africa's participation in Digital Earth is uneven. There is a tendency to ascribe this state to prevailing governance and cultural challenges in Africa. However, foreign actors such as donors have an apparent role in shaping geospatial policies and outcomes. Thus far, the complex linkages between external aid and improved social and environmental monitoring and decision-making have been handled as a kind of 'black box'. To better understand the situation, we open the box and focus on the interaction between donors and policy-makers. We use a heuristic from political science, as well as empirical evidence, to describe the policyinfluencing tools that donors employ based on four basic resources donors possess: organization, authority, treasure, and nodality. We show an evolution of tool usage as donors shift from 'old aid' to 'new aid' modalities. The new tools include: technical assistance for geospatial curriculum development, inscription of standards and data access requirements in contracts and grants, cross-agency project design, best-practice analysis, portfolio management, and the use of language to promote participation and accountability. Though these tools reflect donor intent to partner in the realization of Digital Earth, the tools stem from a persisting asymmetric power dynamic between donors and policy-makers.

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Section: Conclusion and Further Researchmentioning

confidence: 85%

Opening the black box of donor influence on Digital Earth in Africa

Lance

Georgiadou

Bregt

2012

International Journal of Digital Earth

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“…Some advantages of their implementations are: enhancing public participation in the decision making process [54], gathering and sharing of collected data from various studies [55], exploring telecouplings among users [56], monitoring and forecasting in continuous mode [57], as well as monitoring in the real time with the location on a map [58]. As the application of Energies 2018, 11, 2105 9 of 12 geoportals became popular in the beginning of the 21st century [59][60][61], a growing number of local authorities have access to the 3D spatial data. Therefore, the implementation of SOLIS into the GIS web-based platform may increase the applicability of the proposed tool in the future.…”

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SOLIS—A Novel Decision Support Tool for the Assessment of Solar Radiation in ArcGIS

Kazak

Świąder

2018

Energies

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Abstract:The global Sustainable Development Goals influence the implementation of energy development strategies worldwide. However, in order to support local stakeholders in sustainable energy development strategies and climate change adaptation plans and the implementation of policies, there is a need to equip local decision makers with tools enabling the assessment of sustainable energy investments. In order to do so, the aim of this study is to create a novel tool for the assessment of solar radiation (SOLIS) in ArcGIS. The SOLIS tool builds on the existing ArcGIS algorithm by including input data conversion and post-processing of the results. This should expand the group of potential users of solar radiation analyses. The self-filtering tool excludes surfaces that are not suitable for solar energy investments due to geometrical reasons. The reduction of the size of the output data is positive for technical reasons (speed of the calculation and occupied storage place) and for cognitive reasons (reduction of the number of objects necessary to analyse by the user). The SOLIS tool limits the requirement for users to insert three-dimensional (3D) models of roofs (with any geometry) and select solar radiation calculation periods. The highlight of this research is to develop the decision support tool for the assessment of solar radiation, which would reduce the requirements for potential users, in order to promote indicator-based assessments among non-Geographical Information Systems (GIS) specialists.

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“…Many of these geoportals are effectively front ends to spatial data infrastructures permitting various degrees of access to data at local, regional and national levels or in the case of the European Union's INSPIRE geoportal (http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/) at the pan‐national level (see Masser (2011) for a recent overview). In addition, some geoportals have been developed with narrower thematic remits in mind; for example for the management of subsurface data in the Netherlands (Lance et al. 2011) or to access data on risk to natural hazards at the global scale (Giuliani and Peduzzi 2011).…”

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The WISERD Geoportal: A Tool for the Discovery, Analysis and Visualization of Socio‐economic (Meta‐) Data for Wales

Fry

Berry

Higgs

et al. 2012

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The Wales Institute of Socio‐Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) is an interdisciplinary, cross‐institutional academic research group based in Wales, UK. One of the key objectives of WISERD is to develop a spatial framework that enhances a researcher's ability to discover socio‐economic research data relating to Wales with the aim of encouraging collaborative research and re‐use of existing data. This article describes the development of an online geoportal designed to meet this objective. Using free and open‐source software (FOSS) components and services, a range of software tools has been developed to capture standards‐compliant metadata for a variety of data sources. The geoportal is unique in that, in our review of over 120 geoportals worldwide, we have not previously encountered a geoportal dedicated to supporting quantitative and qualitative social science academic and policy research. A particularly innovative aspect of the geoportal has involved the building of a rich meta‐database of government surveys, geo‐referenced semantically‐tagged qualitative data (generated from primary research), ‘grey’ data (e.g. from transcripts, journal publications, books, PhD theses) and Government administrative data. This article describes the challenges faced during the development of the WISERD Geoportal which can be accessed via http://www.wiserd.ac.uk/geoportal/.

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Evaluation of the Dutch subsurface geoportal: What lies beneath?

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Opening the black box of donor influence on Digital Earth in Africa

Opening the black box of donor influence on Digital Earth in Africa

SOLIS—A Novel Decision Support Tool for the Assessment of Solar Radiation in ArcGIS

The WISERD Geoportal: A Tool for the Discovery, Analysis and Visualization of Socio‐economic (Meta‐) Data for Wales

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