Successful implementation of a national land administration system depends on various factors, and one of the most critical of them is populating the system with relevant and complete data, through data digitization, migration, and integration.
Integrated land administration content comes with a complicated data structure and requirements to ensure the quality, completeness, sequence, and integrity of the data. Data capture/conversion/cleansing processes, along with data migration and maintenance, should be viewed as an integral part of the overall enterprise-wide business processes supporting ongoing formalized tenure operations. Based on the experience gained in several national-scale projects we validated the most efficient approach introduced into the very early stages of data digitization and acquisition.
The key concept of the approach is in the analysis of the different data sources from a perspective of the integrated services and enterprise system functions, in defining migration schemas of the digitized data directly into the future system unified database, and in customizing conversion processes accordingly as an integral part of that future enterprise system.
Having data consolidated and available through a workflow-driven system allows for the definition of specific data maintenance procedures to bring data into a standardized form, populate any missing fields, or correct any mismatches. Standardized data, in turn, are easy to share and exchange with third parties via secured web services or allow data sharing using APIs.
