Print Email Facebook Twitter The narrative anchor as the decisive element of geoinformation infrastructures Title The narrative anchor as the decisive element of geoinformation infrastructures Author Koerten, H. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB onderzoek Date 2010-12-31 Abstract Efforts to build a geoinformation infrastructure using technological innovations have not always been succesful, at times they even can be problematic. In this paper three Spatial Data Infrastructure- (SDI-initiatives are being compared, trying to explain succes and failure by giving an ethnography of everyday practice regarding creation, development and fate. Using the method of narrative analysis, these cases are analysed. It turns out that the way technology is linked to the goals of an SDI is an indication for success. This research reveals that where technology is directly linked up to an infrastructure it is eventually bound to fail. However, where technology and infrastructure share a narrative achor as a mediating non-tangible element, an SDI can be successful and sustainable. Subject SDIorganizationethnographynarrative approach To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:140c2573-c75e-4bf2-9019-cf17bd2301d9 Publisher HafenCity University Press Source Proceedings of the 2nd GeoValue workshop on the Value of Geoinformation, Hamburg, September 30 - October 2, 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 Koerten, H.; Delft University of Technology Files PDF 260354.pdf 255.34 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:140c2573-c75e-4bf2-9019-cf17bd2301d9/datastream/OBJ/view