Demonstrator Stuart Girvan – Geoscience Australia AUKEGGS Workshop on Grid Middleware and Geospatial Standards for Earth System Science Data 6th September 2005

The Minerals Exploration Action Agenda Background The Minerals Exploration Action Agenda Pre-competitive Geoscience Strategy (b) Governments in consultation with industry, to develop and implement nation-wide protocols, standards and systems that provide internet-based access to, and effective storage and archiving of geoscience datasets and industry-generated exploration data Implement web-based services for on-line access Develop and endorse plan for implementation of an Australian earth science grid Endorse and adopt standards for company exploration data submitted to Mines Departments Last point – it has been mooted that the standard we are currently using to deliver this data will become the same standard for submission of company data SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Demonstrator Project Participants SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Contributors Rob Atkinson, Peter Barrs – Social Change Online Joan Esterle (UQ), Simon Cox, Rob Woodcock, Andy Dent – CSIRO EM Greg Jenkins, Mark Jolly, Terry Hannant – PIRSA Brendon Ward, Stephen Bandy – DOIR (GSWA) Lesley Wyborn, Aaron Sedgmen, Tim Mackey – GA Stuart Girvan – GA, pmd*CRC SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Tiers of Interoperability Semantics (XMML) Scientists Spatial Data (OGC/GML/WFS) Data (XML) Business value Information Management Maturity Internet (HTTP) Computer networks (TCP/IP) Information Technology SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Web Map Composer DOIR GA PIRSA

Web Feature Services (OGC) Web Map Composer XML - GML\XMML GA PIRSA DOIR

WEB MAP COMPOSER DEMO GA REPORTS DEMO SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Spatial Data Accessed via OGC’s WFS specification and XMML Rendered into a map AND queried by a user or…. A user makes a request and gets back GML based data which can be …. … formatted into a report or …. … read and used by any enabled application SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Practical scenarios and benefits for companies WFS is queryable so that most recent data for any given area can be acquired without having to download entire data sets – useful over limited bandwidth capacity No need to check for most recent “releases” of data sets Burden on companies to manage survey data reduced, if not removed Re-use of any tools and techniques between jurisdictions – increases efficiency of both mining and exploration companies and software developed by SMEs SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Now – Different formats and standards Proprietary Software Versions of Software Client Data Structures SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

WFS – Same format and standards Client XML GML/XMML SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Benefits for providers All agencies get to retain their back end database structures SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

GA Reports Application CLIENT APPLICATIONS WebMap Composer GA Reports Application CLIENT APPLICATIONS Common Interface Binding – GML/XMML DOIR Web Feature Service (WFS) GA Web Feature Service (WFS) DATA ACCESS SERVICES Translation to standards here PIRSA Web Feature Service (WFS) Geoserver (Open Source) DOIR Geochemistry Feature Data Source PIRSA Geochemistry Feature Data Source GA Geochemistry Feature Data Source DATA SOURCES Little or no change required here PostGIS (Open Source) PostGIS (Open Source) Oracle

GA Reports Application Fracsys CLIENTS WebMap Composer ? ? Common Interface Binding – GML/XMML NRM WFS DOIR WFS GA WFS MRT WFS DATA SERVICES VICDPI WFS NSWDPI WFS PIRSA WFS NTGS WFS DATA SOURCES