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Geolicences implementation has drawn attention to verification of the user’s identity.
During this first licence implementation, the system requires the name, surname, e-mail
and phone number of the end user. Whilst a working e-mail address is the sufficient
condition to obtain a licenced product the information concerning name and telephone
number cannot be easily verified. In the following research phase, we will study and
define new ways to make a positive identification of users such as initial registration,
fiscal code number or login with password.
4.3 Guidelines on the use of geographic information
The final step of this research is the formulation of the ‘Guidelines on the use of geographic
information’. To apply the Geolicence model to public administration in Piedmont,
the management of geographic information use rights needs general regulatory
instruments concerning sharing and dissemination of geographic information.
Guidelines define general aspects on sharing Piedmont’s geographical knowledge system
and implementing public and private activities reusing geographic information.
Guidelines regulate public and private access to Piedmont’s geographic information,
specifying general policies and harmonised geolicences.
Guidelines establish some common policies:
� all territorial information will be available to public and private bodies, in order to
avoid information dispersion, duplication and non-authorised use;
� access to geographic information will be under impartial and non-discriminatory
conditions;
� to allow free access to Piedmont’s geographic services: users can access without
paying fees;
� to adopt several information access profiles: users can access to geographic information
and services, using different level profiles;
� to disseminate information always using geolicences specifying use rights;
� geolicences establish use rights in terms of display, download, permitted reuse, distribution
to third parties and publication.
The definition of strategic, organisational, technical and operating guidelines is a priority
objective. Piedmont’s geographic knowledge will be shared using the regional Spatial
Data Infrastructure, connected with the regional Geographical Information System,
a unitary system shared among local public administrations and citizens that use common
information, policies, procedures and infrastructures.
5. CONCLUSIONS
The two year project expects to define a new way of sharing geographic information:
away from an ‘all rights reserved’ approach towards a ‘some rights reserved’ approach.
The realisation of a business model licensing for geographic information, based on a
set of rights associated with specific geographic resources, is a specific aim of Piedmont
Region, above all with the definition of the regional Geographical Information System.
The results coming from this project are the preparation of Guidelines, as a management
instrument to define general aspects on sharing the regional geographical
knowledge system, and the implementation of click geolicences; an electronically implemented
agreement which defines terms and conditions for information owner and
end user.
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