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Research Papers

Changing stakeholder influences in managing authoritative information – the case of the Centraal ReferentieAdressenBestand (CRAB) in Flanders

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Pages 401-423 | Published online: 30 Aug 2019
 

ABSTRACT

Municipalities are typically responsible for maintaining address data. Building and maintaining regional or national datasets from local sources requires careful coordination among stakeholders. The Centraal ReferentieadressenBestand (CRAB) is a digital authoritative address dataset, also referred to as a register, for the Flemish Region in Belgium. We present an analysis of the influence of CRAB stakeholders before and after the merger between the agencies responsible for geospatial information and e-government, respectively. Tensions between stakeholders who create and maintain address data locally and those with an interest in the data for a larger area are discussed, and how these changed after the merger.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank representatives of the Nationaal Geografisch Instituut, the Vereniging van Vlaamse Steden en Gemeenten (VVSG), and Informatie Vlaanderen for their contributions through semi-structured interviews and discussions. Serena Coetzee would like to thank the University of Pretoria for granting a sabbatical during which the interviews took place.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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