Sharing Integrated Spatial and Thematic Data: The CRISOLA Case for Malta and the European Project Plan4all Process

Sharing Integrated Spatial and Thematic Data: The CRISOLA Case for Malta and the European Project Plan4all Process

Sharing data across diverse thematic disciplines is only the next step in a series of hard-fought efforts to ensure barrier-free data availability. The Plan4all project is one such effort, focusing on the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial planning data as based on the INSPIRE protocols....

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Published in:Future internet Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 344 - 361
Main Authors: Formosa, Saviour, Magri, Vincent, Neuschmid, Julia, Schrenk, Manfred
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-12-2011
Subjects:
Crime
crime mapping
Criminal investigations
Criminology
CRISOLA
data interoperability
data sharing
Ecology
Information sharing
INSPIRE
Internet
Interoperability
Mapping
mapserver
Plan4all
Planning
Spatial data
Studies
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Summary:Sharing data across diverse thematic disciplines is only the next step in a series of hard-fought efforts to ensure barrier-free data availability. The Plan4all project is one such effort, focusing on the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial planning data as based on the INSPIRE protocols. The aims are to support holistic planning and the development of a European network of public and private actors as well as Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The Plan4all and INSPIRE standards enable planners to publish and share spatial planning data. The Malta case tackled the wider scenario for sharing of data, through the investigation of the availability, transformation and dissemination of data using geoportals. The study is brought to the fore with an analysis of the approaches taken to ensure that data in the physical and social domains are harmonised in an internationally-established process. Through an analysis of the criminological theme, the Plan4all process is integrated with the social and land use themes as identified in the CRISOLA model. The process serves as a basis for the need to view sharing as one part of the datacycle rather than an end in itself: without a solid protocol the foundations have been laid for the implementation of the datasets in the social and crime domains.
ISSN:1999-5903
1999-5903
DOI:10.3390/fi3040344