Lessons Learned Piloting Land Records Applications with End-Users

The LRMI (Land Records Management Infrastructure) Project has incorporated a high degree of end-user participation across three levels of government and the private sector. Since 1994, a methodology which draws heavily on end-user involvement in prototyping and piloting has been developed to produce results under aggressive schedule constraints. Using a finite time-frame effectively to coordinate feedback from the end-users in a way that enhances the development cycle presents a variety of challenges to any third party developer interested in achieving a successful implementation. Critical issues include scheduling suitable resources, producing acceptable deliverables, solving "show-stopper" problems and supporting the technical environment. This paper discusses these challenges and how they are being resolved in a way that is mutually beneficial to all parties.

Partnerships: The Key to Building an Integrated Land Records Management Infrastructure (LRMI).

Building and maintaining an integrated land information system requires cooperation between agencies at various levels of government and presents significant opportunity to partner with the private sector in the establishment of the technical infrastructure. This presentation discusses the opportunities for partnership in land records and the key to successful partnerships learned from the development of the LRMI. The province of Nova Scotia, in partnership with municipal government and a private firm, NovaLIS Technologies, Inc., is improving the business functions of Land Registration, Property Mapping, Property Assessment and Land Use Planning through the development of a land records management infrastructure (LRMI). This information infrastructure combines ArcInfo, relational databases, document imaging, and work flow management to support re-engineered business processes.

Assessment Analysis using GIS with an Integrated Land Records Management Infrastructure (LRMI)

Integrating GIS with Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) functions provides a powerful tool for assessment analysis. We will share our experience in developing an assessment analysis decision support system along side an OASIS mainframe assessment system. The assessment database provides a starting point for an integrated land records management infrastructure (LRMI) incorporating property ownership, property mapping and integration with local government zoning and permitting. We will discuss the potential of the LRMI to enable a process of continuous re-assessment.