Ismet Shala's research while affiliated with University of Prishtina and other places

... A first step for Timor-Leste, as a recently independent country with relatively low national income, would be to establish a national SDI to constrain expenses in spatial data generation. Existing SDI may have lessons to impart in terms of implementation and experience, both from developed countries (for example, the Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure -ASDI; ANZLIC Committee on Surveying and Mapping, 2016;Clarke, Hedberg, & Watkins, 2003), and from recently independent countries (for example, the Kosovo National Spatial Data Infrastructure -KNSDI; Meha, Rexha, Shala, & Dragusha, 2011;Nushi, van Loenen, Besemer, & Crompvoets, 2012). Although there was a significant level of spatial data to support development in Kosovo, as a new country engaged in developing infrastructure, the development of KNSDI, steered by an SDI committee, was nonetheless found necessary to facilitate data sharing between institutions and prevent work duplication in terms of spatial data collection, through initiatives such as LIS, data standards and addressing systems (Meha et al., 2012;Nushi et al., 2012), and Timor-Leste can look to this for guidance as the country develops its land information infrastructure. ...