Global & Regional Initiatives on Information Management Eero Mikkola(IUFRO) Joris Siermann (CIFOR) Global Forest information Service (GFIS) Second Asia Consultation Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – August 2/4, 2004

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Overview 1.iMark 2.ReFOP/IKM 3.Forest Spatial Catalog (FSIC) 4.Open Access Initiatives

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Information Management Resource Kit Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations a partnership-based e-learning initiative

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Information Management Resource Kit IMARK modules use the latest instructional methods in e- learning to increase awareness, understanding and skills. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Information Management Resource Kit Instructional methods Storytelling and mini-cases…

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Information Management Resource Kit …simulations and… Instructional methods …“demonstration- practice” method

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Information Management Resource Kit Interactions: tests and exercises with personalized feedback

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Information Management Resource Kit Learners can create their own personal learning path based on their interests and needs.

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Information Management Resource Kit Illustrative case studies and self-study tutorials are provided for in-depth study. Each module includes public domain applications and tools for information management.

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Information Management Resource Kit On-line community : a "virtual" community on the Internet for contributors and learners

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 ASEAN Regional Forestry Clearing House Mechanism ReFOP/ASEAN Information & Knowledge Management (IKM)

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 ASEAN Clearing-House Mechanism ReFOP: ASEAN-German Regional Forest Programme for Southeast Asia ReFOP is currently developing a web-based information platform geared to support ASEAN Forestry Officials in information and knowledge exchange for regional forest policy coordination. Participating countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and the ASEAN Secretariat Geared to decision makers, Access is semi public & registered users

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Modules Document Database –Metadata standards: XML Dublin Core Compliant Discussion Forum News Center Calendar Web Links Search Engine

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Linkages to GFIS Through the use of GFIS standards it is hoped that the GFIS initiative is promoted and supported within the ASEAN Member Countries and awareness. ReFOP is developing its system with the Dublin Core as meta data standard ReFOP is using XML as the Mark Up language ReFOP is eager to adopt a controlled vocabulary for metadata elements developed by GFIS, when it is available.

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Forest Spatial Information Catalog

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Forest Spatial Information Catalog GIS Specialists Partner institutions Policy makers & Consultancies (Local) Government NGO’s Researchers Share forestry related information between a wide range of stakeholders:

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Create Metadata Work Flow Digital dataset Metadata Explorer Metadata Entry Application Metadata connector (ArcIMS) ArcSDE Metadata database Publishing Metadata Create/edit metadata Open dataset Connects to ArcSDE Connects to database

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Select Data

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 View Metadata

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Create Metadata Work Flow Digital dataset Metadata Explorer Metadata Entry Application Metadata connector (ArcIMS) ArcSDE Metadata database Publishing Metadata Create/edit metadata Open dataset Connects to ArcSDE Connects to database

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Create & Edit Metadata All digital files are supported: Spatial files: Vector (shp) Raster (tif, bmp, jpg) Non spatial files: PDF MS Office (doc, xsl, ppt) Images

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Create & Edit Metadata Compatible to multiple thesaurus GEMET CABI

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Create & Edit Metadata Compliant to: FGDC ISO Dublin Core

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Find Metadata Workflow Connects to FSIC and performance a query FSIC translates query into ArcXML Connects to ArcIMS Connects to ArcSDE Connects to the database Database returns found records ArcSDE passes it on to connector Connector returns ArcXML User FSIC graphic user interface FSIC Application logic Metadata Connector (ArcIMS) ArcSDE Metadata Database FSIC transforms XML into formatted html tables Result is presented back to the user

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Find Metadata 1. Search 2. Browse 3. Find

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Web Mapping Web Mapping Client OpenGIS Flash Beta version

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 OAI The Open Archives Initiative

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 OAI: Open Archives Initiative “The Open Archives Initiative has been set up to create a forum to discuss and solve matters of interoperability between electronic preprint solutions, as a way to promote their global acceptance. “ “The OAI develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.”

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 OAI in context technology law economy sociology establish a technological basis that allows other issues to be addressed

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 OAI - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Data Provider (Repository) Service Provider (Harvester) Protocol requests XML metadata “OAI-PMH” Simple protocol. Free implementations available. Designed to allow harvesting of any XML metadata (schema described)

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 OAI for discovery R3 R4 R2 R1 User Information islands ?

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 OAI for discovery R3 R4 R2 R1 User Metadata harvested by service Search service Service layer

GFIS Asia Consultation, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 August 2004 Building the network Services have to be able to locate repositories –Outside knowledge –Through OAI registry –Through data Still issues of selection and local collection building Network may contain intermediate aggregators and proxies