Geospatial Data Discovery & Access: Implementing Open Geoportal at the University of Arizona Presented by Ben Hickson and Chris Kollen AGIC Symposium, September 24, 2015

Goals 1. Develop a spatial data discovery portal for the University of Arizona that includes multiple search functionality, ability to preview, download and share data with others  Bring together disparate UA spatial data repositories in one resource  Provide a portal for faculty, staff, and students to share their spatial data  Improve seamless access to campus spatial data

Goals (cont.) 2. Provide support for:  Libraries’ GIS and geospatial data services  University’s GIS programs (such as the Masters in GIST) and other classes with spatial data needs  Center for Geographic Innovation in Science and Technology 1. Develop a spatial data discovery portal for the University of Arizona that includes multiple search functionality, ability to preview, download and share data with others  Bring together disparate UA spatial data repositories in one resource  Provide a portal for faculty, staff, and students to share their spatial data  Improve seamless access to campus spatial data

Planning In 2014, the Libraries investigated developing a geoportal:  Inventoried data in the Libraries and in other campus spatial repositories  Interviewed academic libraries who have developed geoportals for their campus  Interviewed campus stakeholders  Investigated various solutions and made recommendations on what to implement In the recommendations, took into consideration amount of staffing needed to implement, update, and enhance and the support available

Most of the institutions we interviewed had implemented Open Geoportal in some capacity, it is a good fit for Libraries and meets the functionality that faculty, staff, and students need. Open Geoportal Initiative (  “ The Open Geoportal is a collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application to rapidly discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data from multiple repositories.” Open Geoportal

Advantages  Robust search capabilities (by location, keyword, originator, data-type, date, topic, repository)  Preview and style geospatial data  Access to metadata  Download geospatial data in multiple formats  Ability to download multiple datasets at a time and share a cart of data  Direct WCS, WMS, and WFS services  Access to repositories from other contributing institutions

Open Geoportal Community  OpenGeoPortal.org  Development Group  Metadata Working Group  Multi-Institutional Collaboration

OGP at Other Universities

Active OGP Instances (7) Tufts Harvard Columbia UW-Madison U Minnesota UC Berkeley U Arizona

Additional Contributing Institutions  Stanford  MIT  Princeton  Massachusetts GIS  NYS GIS Clearinghouse  US Geological Survey  Pennsylvania Geospatial Data Clearinghouse  Connecticut Dept. of Energy & Environmental Protection

Active OGP Instances (7) Additional Data Contributors (8) Stanford USGS PASDA Princeton NYS GIS CT. DEEP MIT Mass. GIS

OGP Metadata Working Group  Supports the initiatives of the Open Geoportal community  Provides recommendations for the strategic integration and implementation of metadata standards with the Open Geoportal  Sets metadata policies and standards for the Open Geoportal  Creates detailed documentation to ensure metadata creation is consistent across metadata creators and metadata- contributing institutions  Provides recommendations for the development of metadata authoring and ingest tools  Recommends strategies for the effective harvesting and sharing of metadata  Coordinates the metadata creation efforts of institutions and individuals contributing to the Open Geoportal  Performs outreach to the broader metadata community and advocates on behalf of the geospatial metadata community - OGP-MWG Governance -Model (10/2014)

Active OGP Instances (7) Additional Data Contributors (8)Other MWG Members (23) UC Santa Barbara CSU Fresno U. Michigan Cornell Emory Lafayette UT Knoxville Purdue Baruch

DEMO

Open Geoportal Software Stack  100% Open Source  Javascript  Openlayers (v. 2.12), jQuery with Datatables  Geoserver (2.7)  Apache Solr (4.10)

Software: Geoserver and Solr  Geoserver  Java based  Provides data distribution services for the Spatial Data Explorer  Open Geospatial Consortium service standards (WMS, WFS, WCS)  Can read from files or databases (PostgreSQL)  Solr  Standalone java based enterprise search platform  Holds dataset metadata and provides search functionality for Spatial Data Explorer

Structure Apache Tomcat Storage Vector Data PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS: Raster Data Flat Files (TIF) GeoServer Apache Solr Spatial Data Explorer (OGP)

University of Arizona Solr Spatial Data Explorer (Tufts) Solr(MIT) Solr(Princeton) Solr(Harvard) Solr (Stanford) Solr (Columbia) Solr (Berkeley) Solr Harvesting Metadata NYS GIS Clearinghouse Mass GIS PASDA (Minnesota) Solr USGS Connecticut DEEP Wisconsin- Madison

Data Storage (Columbia) GeoServer (Harvard) GeoServer (Tufts) GeoServer (MIT) GeoServer (Berkeley) GeoServer (Harvard) GeoServer (Stanford) GeoServer (Princeton ) GeoServer (Columbia ) GeoServer University of Arizona GeoServer Spatial Data Explorer Storage Vector DataRaster Data Solr

Issues in Implementation  Metadata must be complete for ingesting  Tools on the way!  Limited documentation for OGP  Hardware Costs  Large tiled raster datasets  Manipulation

Spatial data survey and plans Surveyed faculty, researchers, and graduate students last spring to gauge interest in contributing spatial data to the UA Spatial Data Explorer  Ninety-five faculty, appointed personnel, and graduate students responded and thirty-two indicated being interested in sharing their data or had recommendations of data to include  Disciplines including ecology, public health, climate change, natural resources, planning, archaeology, landscape architecture, history, sociology, water resources, remote sensing, cultural geography  We will be getting in touch with them to talk in more detail about their data and determining if it fits our criteria and if any prep work needs to be done

Questions or comments? UA Spatial Data Explorer –  Ben Hickson  Chris Kollen  Geoportal Manager -- Thank you for coming!