An Examination of Geospatial Data Availability and Data Accessibility by State
Documents to the People 39(1): 27-31?(Spring 2011)
This article focuses on a relationship between geospatial data
availability and data accessibility, based on a hypothesis that state
and local governments would contribute to the Geodata.gov clearinghouse
(representing data availability) if states have open GIS record access
laws.
The analysis involved three steps: (1) collect data from Geodata.gov to
measure geospatial data availability by state; (2) collect laws and
opinions of attorneys general of all states to measure accessibility to
geospatial data; and (3) correlate the data to test the hypothesis that
state and local governments would contribute data to Geodata.gov
clearinghouse if state laws encouraged open access to the GIS records.
Result: "The results were not exactly what I was hoping to get. The hypothesis was rejected in all models but one."
http://connect.ala.org/files/28176/dttp_39n1_web_pdf_12269.pdf#page=29
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