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Custodianship Policy Review
In 2005, a project was started to review the spatial data custodianship policy as it was nearly ten years old. The review aimed to build upon the original policy and incorporate a new level of thinking by creating a working group to drive the review. The new policy information is below.
The principle of assigning a custodian to key data has been adopted by the Western Australian Government as the means of ensuring accountability for the care and maintenance of information within the public sector. Custodianship is seen by the WALIS Executive Policy Committee as being at the core of efficient and effective spatial information management.
The overriding philosophy in the activities associated with custodianship is that WALIS agencies manage the land information as trustees in a partnership to enable the integration of land information for the benefit of the WALIS community and the State of Western Australia.
Custodianship assigns to an agency certain rights and responsibilities for the collection of specific spatial datasets, and the management of this on behalf of the Western Australian Government and its agencies. It ensures that the most appropriate agency assumes sole responsibility for the management of specific data, resolving the possibility of different agencies duplicating maintenance effort in respect of spatial data management, and it also ensures accessibility to the data.
All documents underpinning the WALIS Custodianship policy are available from the WALIS Custodianship Policy page.
If you have any further queries, please contact the WALIS office at walis@walis.wa.gov.au or on 9273-7046.