About
You are wondering was this is all about? A blog for a master thesis? Kind of highbrow, eh?
Imagine that: you stay in late after work to spend some hours working on your project, you doubt you and your writings everyday, you’re skipping the fun stuff with your friends “No, no beer for me. Have to work tomorrow.”, you get shattered by those seemingly benign comments on your chapter who turn out as badass, souleating workload monsters, you can’t read anything but scientific papers which where written by people without a life, too.
And all you get are some credits and a tiny piece of shelve in the institutional library.
So, the main point doing is the preservation of more than just a few pages which someone – on sheer coincidence – will probably find in the library. Maybe it will inspire someone to do the same, to tell his/her story, to hold up the flag of scientific transparency; OR it will be just a nice scrapbook for myself to show my future children or to reminisce about.
Furthermore this blog should fuel and channel my daily research and will hopefully prove a valuable tool creating some interaction.
But what are you actually writing about?
As the title suggests I am writing about spatial open data. The driving force behind this is the urge of my scientist alter ego to understand all the relations and interactions between these open datasets and the the organzisations which are using them. Of course, there is no way understanding every detail of these rich interactions which take place online, offline, intra-organizational, inter-organizational, in companies, in NGOs and so on.
Therefore I will concentrate on the intra-organizational aspects with a strong focus on capacities. My main question is:
How can organizations create value from the new ressource “open geodata” and what capacities and processes are inevitable to succed?
That’s it in short. Of course, there are countless impinging factors which I may not even see at the end of my thesis and listing all those aspects will most certainly make this page as long as pope Benedikt’s speeches. So, instead of writing one way, I kindly invite you to contact me and create a conversation.
Cheers,
Thomas