TITLE:
Developing a Conceptual Framework for GIS Audit in an Enterprise Setting
AUTHORS:
Fausta Mbura Njiru, David N. Siriba, Faith N. Karanja
KEYWORDS:
GIS Audit, GIS Audit Parameters, Enterprise GIS, Conceptual Framework
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.10 No.7,
July
11,
2022
ABSTRACT: GIS
plays an important role in an organization by ensuring efficiency,
effectiveness and better spatial data management. It is used by a wide range of
organizations that leverage location data for informed decision making. The
extent to which GIS is utilized in an organization should be audited to ensure monitoring
and evaluation. This provides information that allows the organization to
access and improve overall GIS performance. Existing applications like Slim
GIM, URISA GIS CMM and PSD GMI are used to assess GIS maturity capability in an
organization. While auditing is centered on a complete monitoring and
evaluation of entire GIS system establishment, maturity capability applications
are designed to assess organization’s ability to carry out specific GIS operations. These tools can however
be time consuming and need to be calibrated for meaningful result and
customized for different domains in order to meet user’s need. The focus of
this paper is to develop a conceptual model for GIS audit. Through review of
literature, four main categories of parameters that can be used for GIS audit
were identified namely: Data quality, Software utilization, GIS competencies and Procedures. The parameters generally relate to the basic GIS
components. For each of the category, a number
of minor parameters have been identified. The conceptual framework will be a good basis for developing a GIS audit checklist.