The Road to a Standard Land Administration Domain Model, and

The Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) is a Draft International Standard (ISO DIS 19152) and in January 2011 was distributed by the ISO central secretariat for a five month voting and commenting time interval. If everything goes as planned, ISO 19152 will be an International Standard (IS) by 2012. In this paper the road towards this standard is briefly described. An overview of the DIS and the changes during the last year of the LADM standardization process is given; most of the changes are textual and organizational improvements. With the official status of the LADM as an International Standard approaching, the question arises: what’s next? The answer is of course, implementation and use in practice. Already several country profiles have been created and other model usage is being conducted; e.g. the Land Parcel Identification Systems of the European Union and the Social Tenure Domain Model. It was noted in earlier publications that Land Administration is key in the information infrastructure and strongly related to other registrations. Within LADM these registrations are explicitly indicated as external classes, such as persons (parties), addresses, valuation, taxation, land use, coverage, physical utility networks, etc. Within the European Union, som