1. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) Zoran Madon, P.Geo. Ontario Geological Survey Precambrian Geoscience Section www.ontario.ca/geology The New Geology Ontario Web Portal An "out-of-the-box" solution for discovering and delivering Ontario's geoscience data

2. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 2 Geology Ontario Web Portal Why? Minister’s Office directive resulting from client feedback Increasing use of digital products Increasing need for current information, available 24/7 How? Create a delivery website using an out-of-the-box solution that meets current needs Concentrate on delivering publications, assessment files, existing digital datasets

3. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 3 Benchmarking Study

4. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 4 Data quality Client Survey (e-consultation) Background information Data content/format Data usage Data discovery/access

5. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 5 BIA-TRA Business Impact Analysis Threat-Risk Analysis

6. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 6 Produced a geoscience web site for discovering and downloading data Converted all existing Assessment Files and Publications (Maps and Reports) to PDF format Converted all PDF image files to “PDF searchable” format (2,000,000 pages and 150,000 maps) Converted digital data releases to format ready for web- download Many geoscience themes available in the map view window Used an “out-of-the-box” solution to minimize custom coding Highlights

7. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 7 Why “out-of-the-box”? The CLAIMaps experience CLAIMaps ICLAIMaps II CLAIMaps III www.claimaps.mndm.gov.on.ca

8. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 8 Out-of-the-box Benefits Applications readily managed with limited available resources Large pool of skills available to select from Limited programming expertise required As new versions come on stream, solution systems can easily implement new functionality Pressure software vendors to enhance “out-of-the-box” functionality versus custom coding Develop common skill sets and solution methodologies across an organization

9. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 9 Out-of-the-box Software Oracle RDBMS ESRI ArcSDE ESRI ArcIMS ESRI Portal Toolkit ESRI ArcIMS Metadata Server ESRI Web Explorer JRAPublish! PDF Conversion Software dtSearch Engine for PDF indexing

10. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 10 Geology Ontario – data archive

11. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 11 Home Page Text Search Window Geology Ontario Map Search Window

12. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 12 Map Search Window – numerous thematic backgrounds available

13. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 13 Downloading files from Geology Ontario

14. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 14 PDF Searchable Scanned Publications File MS-Word Copy and paste between Adobe Reader and Word for all publications including original scanned documents.

15. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 15 Geology Ontario – Assessment File PDF Searchwww.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/searchAFRI

16. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 16 Geology Ontario – OGS Publications PDF Searchwww.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/searchPUB

17. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 17 Geology Ontario Data Mining Potential

18. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 18 Geology Ontario DDH RGP Drill Core Library Catalogue Geology Ontario AFRI Mining Lands MCI Geology Ontario PDF

19. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 19 Geology Ontario ArcIMS allows data integration from different sites WMS and WFS will be activated at the official launch of the Geology Ontario web portal Land Tenure – Manitoba/Ontario Geology – Manitoba/Ontario

20. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) 20 Multi-theme 3D perspective Geology Ontario Future web delivery? Google Earth

21. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) Acknowledgements Brian Berdusco, M.Sc. Project Lead Manager, Development and Maintenance Business Solutions Min. of Northern Development and Mines 705-564-7083 Brian.Berdusco@lrc.gov.on.ca

22. © Queen's Printer for Ontario (2006) Zoran Madon, P.Geo. Ontario Geological Survey Precambrian Geoscience Section www.ontario.ca/geology www.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/searchAFRI www.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/searchPUB Thank you