Up-to-dateness in land administration : setting the record straight
Jing Ying, Rohan Bennett en Jaap Zevenbergen
A contemporary problem in the realm of cadastres, land registration, and land administration centers upon up-to-dateness. Conventional theories argue that in order to be effective, land information systems must be up-to-date. However, what is exactly meant by up-to-datee is often left ill-defined. The authors argue that this impedes the design of land administration system establishment and maintenance, as well as communication in land administration. This paper aims to organize and analyze various understandings on up-to-dateness in land administration. To achieve this aim, literature synthesis is undertaken. Literatures are selected through prescribed channels: text books, journal articles, conference proceedings and publications of authorative organizations. The searching terms involve up-to-datee, updatingg, upgradingg, renewall, dynamismm, changess, maintenancee and evolvementt. Implementing this synthesis, the philosophy of embedding LMP into EIM is underpinned. In the end, the synthesis model is established to present the whole picture of up-to-dateness in land administration. It is found that up-to-dateness occurs in any component of land administration (based on LMP) with certain epochs of time (based EIM): longer term changes to sustainable development and country context (102-103 years); long term changes to land policies (10-102 years); medium term changes to land administration systems (1-10 years); and far more regular changes to land information (continuous). This paper is the first attempt to synthesize and clarify the various explanations of up-to-dateness in land administration systematically. The findings prompt the initiation of viewing up-to-dateness in land administration from the temporal perspective.
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