1. Integrating Controlled Content with Weave Visualizations David Percy Geospatial Data Manager PSU Institute for Metropolitan Studies NNIP 2011 Spring- Detroit I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. - Blaise Pascal

2. Greater Portland Vancouver Indicators Regional Equity Atlas Ecodistricts Assessment Tools Other, including Teaching and Research PSU Data Commons

3. Geometries: Census Tract Zip code Neighborhood, Etc… Each with a unique geometry id Attribute data: Geom_ID Attribute_1 Attribute_2 Attribute_N Examples: poverty, education, etc Data Architecture

4. Controlled Content Ability to have a pre-defined set of fields that are filled in for a TYPE of content page. In this case I defined an Indicators Type of page with a specific set of fields that come from our Indictor Sheets, which are also used for outreach.

10. The magic incantation

11. Taxonomies Hierarchical lists of terms related in some way Used as “Tags” to categorize content Common examples: Linnaean biological systems, Dewey Decimal, etc Cf. Ontologies

12. Eight Categories No surprises here: –Access and Mobility –Arts and Culture –Civic Engagement –Economic Opportunity –Education –Healthy Natural Environment –Healthy People –Housing and Communities –Safe People

13. Cross-cutting relationships Hexagonal tesselations Indicators can fit in multiple categories

14. Modular Weave visualizations Each indicator visualization is created in Weave without “decoration”, no text description This allows the visualization to be used in multiple pages or applications Explanation of data is left to the containing page.

15. Web Services In order to share data with participating agencies, we use Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services. WMS and WFS are the winners That’s a whole ‘nuther talk! Thanks!