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MODERNIZATION OF A LAND REGISTRATION SYSTEM:
A CASE STUDY IN ROMANIA
Jill S. Urban-Karr * t J. Kenneth Klitz^, Paul Dan Ursu b
* Stewart Geo Technologies Inc., 5730 Northwest Pkwy, Suite 500;
San Antonio, Texas 78249; USA — Jkarr@stewart.com ; Kklitz@stewart.com
? Government of Romania, Project Manager/IT Manager,
National Office of Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography; 202A Splaiul Independetei;
Bucharest, Romania
KEY WORDS: Cadastre, Land Registration, Romania, Ministry of Justice, Landbook, Database
ABSTRACT:
In the years 1989 — 1991, many of the countries of Eastern Europe experienced a significant change in their respective governments.
This resulted in numerous social and political changes, the most important perhaps being the return of the individual's right of land
ownership. In order to modernize the existing land records system, centralize the numerous data sources, and automate the land
registration process, the National Office of Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography (NOCGC) in concert with the Ministry of Justice
(MoJ) for the country of Romania, have developed a unified approach to the modernization of the land records system. With the
legal mandates as a guide, these two agencies have created a distinctive solution that not only processes land records information in
an accurate and timely manner, but also provides a significantly improved resource for public information and customer service
requirements. The details of this development effort accompanied by the resultant solution will be discussed, including any
significant impediments and/or successes that were encountered.
1. INTRODUCTION
The goal of the Romanian General Cadastre and Land
Registration project is to create an integrated general cadastre
and land book registration system, based on modern information
technology that is designed to be scalable and adaptable to the
current and future requirements of the NOCGC and the MoJ.
The key objectives of the system are to:
1. Establish an efficient system for securing real
property rights.
2. Provide reliable information for private investments in
agriculture, housing and industry.
3. Support the construction of an equitable land tax
system for urban and rural areas.
4. Support the privatization process for Romanian
industry and land properties.
Support for efficient production units’ establishment in
agriculture.
5.
The land registry portion of the project is being implemented by
the Romanian Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The Cadastre portion
is being implemented by the National Office of Cadastre,
Geodesy, and Cartography (NOCGC). The project is developed
for the successful application to both the urban and rural areas
of Romania. There are 42 Judets (counties) in Romania, and the
first phase of the project is for the system to be implemented in
7 of these Judets (in and around Bucharest). Two of these 7
Judets are designated as the pilot area and will be the first phase
of the implementation rell-out. The remaining 5 Judets will be
completed following the approval of the pilot areas.
2. PROJECT PERSPECTIVE
2.1 The Award of the Contract
After a two year preparation, bidding, and review process, this
World Bank funded contract was awarded to IBM World Trade
and its partner Stewart/Landata. IBM is the provider of the
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hardware system, standard software, network design, and
overall system integration. Stewart/Landata is the provider of
the solution design and application devopment. ESRI software,
provided by ESRI Romania, was the designated geospatial
platform for the GIS solution, and the lastest ArcGIS family of
products (ArcSDE, ArcGIS, ArcIMS, MapObjects) will be used
in the Cadastre portion of the application. ArcSDE will be used
for spatial data management and ArcIMS will provide Internet
capabilities. The LANDSCAN® product from Stewart/Landata
is the core software being provided for the land registry
information system (LRIS).
2.2 Project Overview
The management of a project of this magnitude is critical to the
successful completion of the effort. Project milestones were
established so as to insure that the product development
proceeded smoothly, and the client was fully involved from the
onset of the effort. Key components were approved and signed-
off by the client so as to insure continued positive progression,
and the elimination of scope creep. The key phases of the
project development included:
1. High Level Analysis of the business processes
2. Detailed Analysis of the business processes
Functional Analysis and Design of the refined business
processes
3. Solution Design development, including object
modeling, data flow diagraming, database design, concept
screens and work flow migration
4. Application and Documentation Development
5. Application Review and Testing
6. Pilot project and training
7. Final roll-out
This project is an 18-month effort, and through the utilization of
the aforementioned project development approach, the
application solution is delivered on schedule.