Bevarande av spatial data inom Sveriges kommuner

Sammanfattning: Municipalities in Sweden handle and create data which includes GIS/CAD in the form of blueprint and geographic information systems, so-called spatial data. As data is received and established within a municipality, the Data Archiving Act enforces the archival of this information. GIS/CAD files are created in different computer programs and stored according to file format. The Data Archiving act requires data to be available throughout time, which in turn requires both an archivist and technical systems within the archive. Within the industry there are until now no clear guidelines and standards for spatial data. The lack of standardization and the use of proprietary formats is a key issue. The purpose of this research is to find out how municipalities in Sweden handle inbound and spatial data within the municipality. Furthermore, this research aims at finding out how spatial data is preserved in municipalities in Sweden and to reveal any reported problems with the management of spatial data. This research is a case study derived from a survey sent to Sweden's 290 municipalities. These entities are divided into two groups of KLM municipalities (municipal with a land surveyors office) and other townships. The study is limited to investigating only municipalities' work on handling GIS / CAD data. The survey was designed according to the question of open and closed questions, which gave the opportunity to present the results in statistical data, but also to return quotes and to present unique answers from individual municipalities. Thus, the data on which the study results are based are both quantitative and qualitative responses. To interpret the results of this study, the Life-cycle and Records Continuum Model will be employed. The result indicates that municipalities handle spatial data. The results show that there are municipalities that have a functioning strategy for a long term preservation of spatial data. But there are also municipalities experiencing problems in handling spatial data for a long term preservation.