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Mr Jobo Samba, GIS Expert. Sharing will save everyone time and resources - DATA. Freetown GIS Conference 2013. Supported by…. INTRODUCTION. Cost of collecting data Benefits of sharing data How to share data Issue involved in sharing of data. COST OF COLLECTING DATA.
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Mr Jobo Samba, GIS Expert Sharing will save everyone time and resources - DATA Freetown GIS Conference 2013 Supported by…
INTRODUCTION • Cost of collecting data • Benefits of sharing data • How to share data • Issue involved in sharing of data
COST OF COLLECTING DATA • Data is the ingredient for social, economic and environmental development planning Topographic Data-SL Settlement Data – SL British Sierra Leone Ordinance Statistics Survey Department 1960s 2004
COST OF COLLECTING TOPO. DATA • Topographic Data Acquisition • By Aerial Survey - High Winged Aircraft - Human Resource ( Pilot, data processing team) - Financial Resources - Not less than six months for nation wide survey
COST OF COLLECTING SETTLEMNT DATA • Settlement Data Acquisition • By Field Campaign - Human Resource (78 Field Officers) • Equipment ( GPSs, Vehicles etc.) • Financial Resources - 25 Months to cover the entire country
BENEFITS OF DATA SHARING • Key Data Sharing Benefits: - Harmonization of national development planning among MDAs • Saves Time • Saves Resources
DATA SHARING METHODS • shared network file server (for example, within a research group, school or department) intranets or content management systems • online collaboration tools or groupware (for example, Google Docs and Spreadsheets) • proprietary enterprise software (for example, Microsoft Sharepoint) • social networking sites for researchers (such as myExperiment)
KEY CHALLENGES IN DATA SHARING • Common data management principles • Sharing Protocol, IPR, ownership….., • Data standards • Data types – What is needed • Data quality – Fitness for Use
KEY CHALLENGES IN DATA SHARING • Data Volume – How much is enough • Metadata, vocabularies • Who Pays • Benefits/incentives for sharing • Data Security – Open access vssensitive data • Data download & Use tracking The increasingly popular decision at the municipal and regional levels is to provide GIS data as afree public good and service