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Business Framework
The Queensland Spatial Information Office is currently reviewing the spatial information Business Environment in Queensland - see 'Licensing' under Key Projects on this website.
The Business Framework was developed by QSIC to assist organisations that have an interest in acquiring or supplying spatial information products.
The Business Framework includes:
Business Environment A statement of aspirations for the creation of a success-oriented, collaborative spatial business environment.
Business Principles
A high level statement of the nature of roles that organisations play in the supply chain.
Business ArrangementsA template for creating a document describing the business arrangements between partic ipating parties in a particular supply chain.
Licence AgreementsA suite of templates for licence agreements that may be used 'as-is' or adapted to suit particular requirements.
Other related information published by QSIC includes the Custodianship Standard. The Queensland Spatial Information Office also coordinates a web-based self-assessment facility for custodians.
Business Environment
QSIC aspires to achieving a collaborative business environment characterised by efficient supply chains that provide easy access to spatial data, value-added products and services.
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Business PriniciplesQSIC has developed a set of Business Principles for each role in the supply chain. Participants can be collectors, contributors, integrators, resellers and users of spatial information. They include Federal, State and Local governments, the private sector and the community. The community includes organisations, other groups and individuals with a particular interest that uses spatial information.
Business Arrangements
The business arrangements between participants in the supply chain are described in a Business Arrangements document. This document provides a guide to the negotiations between the parties and records their mutual agreement on key matters. The arrangements are then implemented through appropriate licence agreements.
Business LicencesThe Business Arrangements are implemented through licence agreements. The licences set out the principal rights of the licensees in the value adding and resale of spatial information.
The Queensland Spatial Information Office publishes a suite of standard licence templates to assist organisations in dealing with the key issues.
The licences are:
1. Business Licence
Three licences are contained in a single licence template. The template may be used by an organisation to appoint licensees in the roles of Reseller, Value adding Reseller, or Open Value adding Reseller.
A Reseller is any organisation or person that is licensed and supplied with data for the purposes of selling the data to end users under licence. A Reseller may not modify or add value to the data. Value Adding means any augmenting, repackaging or incorporating of the original data with new data. Reformatting or conversion of the data onto different media or the translation into a different format is not value adding.
A Value Adding Reseller (VAR) is any organisation or person that is supplied data or data products for the purposes of:
(a) further value-adding to the data or data products; or,
(b) incorporating the data or data products into a significantly different product; or,
(c) incorporating the data or data products with an application program including run-time, view only, software.
An Open Value Adding Reseller (Open VAR) means any organisation or person that is supplied data or data products for the purposes of acting as a Reseller, Value Adding Reseller and in addition is authorised to issue sub-licences for the data or data products to others to act as Resellers or Value Adding Resellers.
2. End User Licence
End User means any corporation, organisation or person who receives or accesses the data or data products for own use and not for resale. The End User Licence establishes appropriate arrangements for the ongoing supply and maintenance of spatial data and information products.
3. Online User Click-through Licence
Online User means any corporation, organisation or person who receives or accesses for payment or otherwise the data or data products for own use and not for resale and who gains access to the products through an online service.
4. Memorandum of Understanding
Where the parties to the agreement operate within a single corporate entity (e.g. Departments of the State Government) the nature of the agreement is a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU template may only be used for supply of data between such parties where the data is intended for internal use and not for resale. Should the receiving party require to resell the data then the Business Licence should be used in its existing form with the status of a memorandum of understanding. The Memorandum of understanding should NOT be used where the parties are independent corporate entities.