There is merit for open data and open government advocates, program developers and policy makers to examine the work done in geomatics, particularly since ideas of data sharing, standards, interoperability, catalogs, metadata, data dissemination, and trans-institutional & multi-sectoral and disciplinary collaboration starts in that sector and are challenges in the open data discourse. There is much to be learned from this large and well developed data producing, user and dissemination sector. It is also grounded in organizational theory, geography and the sciences.
The Centre for Spatial Law and Policy
http://www.spatiallaw.com/ is a rich repository of knowledge on many data issues and is an excellent resource upon which to build policies and practices in other sectors and disciplines using data
There is also a blog -
http://spatiallaw.blogspot.com/Via - http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/legal-socioecon
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