1. Open data For improved land governance
Land Portal Foundation

2. Land portal foundation
The Land Portal is a free online resource that gives access to data and information related to land governance
Land Portal website brings information from various sources together and publishes according to Open Data principles

3. Land portal foundation
Addressing fragmentation of information
Local and global sources presented on same level
Dealing with controversy
Different data types and sources
Allowing user to compare and challenge information themselves
Addressing enormous wealth of information
Open data principles
Need help of machines to digest all information
Land Portal website brings information from various sources together and publishes according to Open Data principles

4. OPEN DATA & LAND GOVERNANCE
Focus on Open Data because we believe increasing access to information, ultimately leads to better land governance practices.
Creating just and equitable land policies is very difficult
Evidence-based policy is key phrase
Show that you are basing decisions on verifiable data. Allow others to check what you did.

5. Open data in the Policy cycle
ISSUE
AWARENESS
MONITORING
DEBATE
DESIGN

6. Sounds great in theory, but…
How do I find this data?
How do I know whether it is reliable?
If information providers publish according to Open Data principles these issues are solved..

7. Share information that ensures access and re-use
1) Publish your information

8. Share information that ensures access and re-use
2) Consider licenses

9. Share information that ensures access and re-use
3) Structure your information
Create information about your information: “metadata”
Make sure users & machines know what your information is about and where it comes from (reliability!)

10. Share information that ensures access and re-use
4) Use standards to classify information
Geography
Resource types
Date of publication
Topical keywords

11. Topical keyword standard landvoc
Assigns machine-readable code to land-related concepts
A code can hold certain information:
Definitions (one or more)
Translations
Synonyms (and translations of synonyms)
Related terms (and more specific relationships)
Scope notes
And more.

12. Topical keyword standard: landvoc
Uploaded document in database tagged with ‘slums’
Connecting terms through code (back end of database):
User queries database with a term, e.g.:
informal settlements
kampungs
townships c_
SLUMS
favelas
ghettos

13. Topical keyword standard landvoc
Enriching this standard with help of partners
Adding translations
Adding synonyms to reflect local usage of terms
Refining concepts relating to particular domain
E.g. Habitat for Humanity enriched urban tenure terms.
Interested to join the LandVoc editorial community?

14. Be the change you want to see in the information landscape!
Moving forward
Have you published your information?
Have you specified the license for this information?
Have you applied (some sort of) structure to your information? Are users able to check for the provenance and quality of your information?
Are you making use of standards to classify your information?
Be the change you want to see in the information landscape!
Full potential of open data can only be reached if you publish information.

15. Land Portal Foundation lisette.mey@landportal.info
Thank you!
Land Portal Foundation