@article{O’Flaherty:207066,
      recid = {207066},
      author = {O’Flaherty, J.},
      title = {Community Co-design of a Geospatial Linked Open Data  Platform for Environmental Management},
      journal = {AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics},
      address = {2015-06-30},
      number = {665-2016-45058},
      series = {VII},
      pages = {13},
      month = {Jun},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {SDI4Apps is an EU project that is building a cloud-based  Geospatial Linked Open Data platform for data integration,  to bridge from the top-down managed world of Geospatial  Information to the bottom-up user-driven mobile world of  Linked Open Data voluntary initiatives and micro SMEs  developing applications using the information. To ensure  its success, SDI4Apps has ensured the active participation  of user communities in its co-design and validation through  the implementation of 6 varied pilots involved in  environmental management across Europe. Successful  implementation of the SDI4Apps user communities’  participation and their social validation is described in  this paper. The social validation methodology has included  development of specific criteria for measuring the  platform‘s success, methods for multi-stakeholder social  participation, analysis for internal and external  communities and a clear set of indicators, which are now  being measured during the validation process based on  structured pilot scenarios. This robust stakeholders’  involvement methodology, which is central to SDI4Apps, is  not only generating sustainable economic returns through  the interface between the users, SMEs, policy makers and  scientific communities, but guarantees a solid contribution  to the knowledge-driven economy and environmental  management across Europe.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207066},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.207066},
}