Designing Future Land Administration Systems: A Practical Approach

Resumo

Today’s land administration systems include numerous functions and services for managing land information. However, due to historical developments of different authorities, these functions and services are usually operated in a heterogeneous environment. One of the possible means to address this situation is the implementation of standards. Standardization is an established approach for organizations to coordinate and organize their resources and processes to ensure product and service quality and to raise work efficiency. One of the most dominant standards in land administration domain is the LADM. Initially released in 2012 as a generic conceptual model, LADM is revised and in its second edition covers all functions of land administration. However, the sixth part of the second edition, which is expected to include implementation aspects, is currently yet to be developed. Most of the previous research papers have dealt with design and capabilities of LADM through development of country profiles. This has resulted in two approaches or methodologies for development and adoption of LADM. In this paper, the authors provide third proposal which is mainly focused on tasks to implement LADM into existing LAS. The proposed methodology consists of three phases which include steps which could lead to potential implementation of LADM. The proposed methodology is described in context of Croatian land administration system on a conceptual level. Furthermore, the paper discusses potential challenges in modeling different sets of land administration data and importance of optimizing use cases through standardized data organization.