Digital Cadastres Facilitating Land Information Management

8. Future Work 
This study proposes a conceptual framework for developing land information systems as well as 
some technical and software requirements. It brings into light information access through desktop 
and internet portals. This may, in the long run, reduce transaction time hence making land 
transactions faster and improving the efficiency of the cadastre. There is, however, a need to 
conceptualize the proposed framework in figure 2. In particular, the relations and different modules 
required for the application and their respective architecture within the system needs to be explored. 
Modelling the architecture of the digital cadastre can be done using unified modeling language 
(UML) while at the same time based LADM (ISO/TC-211, 2012) which is a standard framework 
for developing land administration systems. The result should be a common architecture that is 
interoperable and extendable and which can be used by different cadastral offices without major 
changes. There are some organisational and social reforms that ensure a smoother and more 
successful implementation that need to be detailed such as staff development, organisational culture 
and resistance to change. Successful implementation can benefit from an understanding of prior 
GIS, SDI and e-government implementation projects such as those by Nedovic-Budic and Pinto 
(1999), Sheppard (1995) and by Reeve and Petch (1999). There is still a need to understand and 
detail the custodianship, sharing mechanisms (Chaminama, 2009), licensing and copyright issues 
with respect of information in the digital cadastre, bearing in mind that the cadastre contains public 
information. Also, the cadastre is a component of the land administration system which is a public 
good infrastructure (Bennett et al., 2013). A nationwide digital cadastre provides the base data for 
the development of a national spatial data infrastructure 

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