Nationally Significant Databases and Collections Providers’ Group Emma Kelly Environmental Information Advisor Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Team

Overview 1.Ministry for the Environment  Monitoring and Reporting Team 2.E-Govt  What is it?  Interoperability (e-GIF) 3.Officials Committee on Geospatial Information  Government Geospatial Metadata  COLABII 4.Review of NATSIGDC

1.Monitoring and Reporting Team Reporting on NZ’s environment -State of the Environment -Sustainable Development -RMA Performance Partnerships to facilitate sharing of environmental information -Local Government and Regional Councils -CRI’s -Central Government

1.Monitoring and Reporting Team Protocols for monitoring -Based around environmental performance indicators -Information management, standards and compliance Classification Systems -National monitoring and reporting frameworks for indicators, conservation and resource management

Why interest in NatSigDC’s To monitor and report nationally we need to -discover what environmental information is out there -ensure it supports management decisions we need to ask of it -form partnerships to access and use environmental information -Be confident of the quality and consistency of the environment information collected

Why interest in NatSigDC’s Some of the 25 databases and collections identified as nationally significant underpin our needs as a user

2. E-Government Adapting government to the information age and the Internet E-Government Unit within SSC Set up to facilitate whole-of- government programmes that develop policies, standards and operational infrastructure

Key Components Mandatory  E-Govt strategy in business planning  NZGLS  E-GIF  Information Security  Authentication Discretionary  E-government portal  Web guidelines

E-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) “The ability of government organisations to share information and integrate information and business processes by agreeing to use common standards”

E-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) Networks (TCP, IP) File Transfer (FTP, HTTP 1.1) Mail (SMTP) Metadata (Discovery) (NZGLS) Data Modelling (UML) Database Exchange (XML 1.0) Web Design and Maintenance (NZ Government Web Guidelines 1.0)

E-GIF Compliance All new systems developed by Central Govt. must comply Where there is direct funding of information management and systems from Central Govt. including PGSF activities

3. OCGI Advisory group to LINZ Development of technical strategies, the setting of standards and work programmes to ensure nationally consistent geographical information Key projects Emergency Services and Government Administration (ESA) Government geospatial metadata COLABII

ESA Data quality improvement project for core datasets for emergency service activities Street addresses Road centerlines Placenames Currently the Cost Benefit Analysis is being worked through to improve the existing LINZ databases to the ESA standard

Geospatial Metadata Development of a geospatial metadata standard for all of government lead by LINZ Based on Environmental Metadata Framework Timetable for profile, guidelines and recommendations is 30 June 2003 Currently testing profile with agencies

COLABII Co-ordinated Land and Area based Information Interoperability NZ spatial data infrastructure Solving the geospatial area of e- government Development of a common frame of reference to enable the various geospatial initiatives to fit into a wider context

Network Services (Internet) Electronic Access Core Datasets Geodetic Base Property Cadastre Elevation/ Bathymetry Transport/ Addresses Places & Names Hydrog’phy & Coastline Administ’n Areas Imagery Users’ Datasets Shared dataset Private dataset Services Standards & Good Practice Guidelines Right to Use (Intellectual Property) Institutional Arrangements Common Datasets Standards Repository Visualisation (e.g. on-line mapping tool) Discovery Catalogue Collated datasets Metadata Repository This framework covers interoperability requirements to allow the easy sharing of geospatial information in electronic form by use of the Internet The building blocks of the framework fit together and interact

4. Review of NatSigDC Key Drivers (from i 3 Challenge) Improved performance of NZ businesses and creation of new industries Sustainable management of our environmental resources Insights and solutions to health and social issues

Thoughts… The list of 25 Are they linked to the key drivers? Do the criteria need to redefined? E-Govt It changes the way we view isolated databases and collections Interoperability is important This is a lot of activity and the Review cannot occur in isolation