Evolutionary land tenure information system development : the talking titler methodology
Barry, Michael et al.
Conventional land registration systems often do not produce the desired results in uncertain land tenure situations such as peri-urban areas in developing world cities, post-conflict situations, land restitution cases and aboriginal lands. The Talking Titler system is a software system where flexibility in creating relationships between people and between people and their interests in land has been the primary design feature. It used a range of data types as evidence such as videos, photographs, documents, maps, digital graphics and sound recordings. It is most suited as a tool for prototyping and for evolutionary land tenure information system design and implementation. In its current form it is also a good training and information design support tool, although it can be used as a local level land records system. The methodology was originally conceived in urban informal settlement upgrade projects and land reform and land restitution projects in South Africa in the 19900s. In rcent years, the concepts have been tested through interviews with aboriginal peoples groups in Canada and field trials in Nigeria. This paper provides an overview of the conceptual design of the system, how the design was formulated, testing of the system, and current development. The current version uses a conventional relational database design. The research team has experimented with evolutionary database development using extensible markup language (XML) databases and self adapting software to reduce the human input into system changes.
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