1. AuScope Spatial Data Infrastructure Supporting Earth Science Dr Robert Woodcock CSIRO

2. ? Federal Provincial Territorial Regional Municipal NGO Industrial decision makers bedrock surficial mineral geochemical geochronologic hyrdrogeological Geo-information geophysical knowledge base With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Natural Resources Canada “Business intelligence” as decision support

3. Hazard management… Where do I run? Ole Nielsen, Geoscience Australia Stephen Roberts, ANU

4. Managing a natural hazard involves many organisations… decision making Resource Assessment geohazards inundation hazard potential hazard uncertainty Earthquake location Earthquake magnitude Policy buildings bathymetry geophysics Seismic Community Info Environment Geo-information vulnerability, risk cost Human Facility Economy loss Environment Risk Assessment Tsunami risk map Integrated Assessment resource assessment modeling vulnerability, risk assessment modeling integrated assessment modeling Tsunami emergency response geohazards Town planning inundation Vulnerability, risk Slide adapted from Boyan Brodaric – Natural Resources Canada Water Resources Bureau of Meteorology – legislative mandate on water data 300 data providers Dozens of data products What format? 95% say Comma Separated Values – what about relationships? Is “T” Temperature, Time, Total, Turbidity? What about Units of measurement? Temperature, Kelvin, Centigrade, Fahrenheit? There is more to standardisation than file formats and legislation

5. It’s all quite traumatic! How do I make it work for me?

6. Rendered into a map layer AND queried by a user or…. … formatted into a report or …. … read and used by any enabled application Slides courtesy Stuart Girvan – Geoscience Australia The trouble is…Its about “their” workflow

7. Making it work for “you” Who are you? Consumer, Provider or both! Provider Consumer Standardise Information models Standardise the Query interface Do not change my internal operations dramatically Do not second guess the Consumers workflow

8. Standardise the Information Models Not a storage problem… User View (Data Products) Custodian’s View (Consistency, Efficiency) Systems View (bandwidth, query cost) Semantics and structure GML and GML application schemas Tool support UML, Hollow world and Fullmoon Geography Markup Language

9. Community Agreed Service Interfaces and Information Models AuScope service catalog Standard Vocabularies Vocabulary Service Service Registry Client Applications Gateway Services Facilities Discovery Portal Government Department Data Geological Survey Web Feature Service (WFS) Analysis Workflow Standardise the Services URN Resolver Service

10. URN Resolver Service Vocabulary Service Community Agreed Service Interfaces and Information Models AuScope service catalog Standard Vocabularies Service Registry Client Applications Gateway Services Facilities Discovery Portal Government Department Data Geological Survey Web Feature Service (WFS) Analysis Workflow The Spatial Information Services Stack Tools of the trade Geoserver with Application Schemas

11. Some lessons worth listening too… Open Geospatial Consortium Use OGC as a starting point And its information standards… And its service interfaces… It can be quite a stack of paper! OGC breaks problem into specific aspects Use it to identify necessary services for your application It pays to get assistance from specialists in the community use Roadmaps and Guides OGC is NOT enough domain specific vocabularies required Many gateway services do NOT support this

12. Things to watch out for Your data isn’t as consistent as you’d hoped Data management improvements change in business practice! Private information models exposed Simple Features with “labels and values” is not enough Meaning (semantics) is essential – Community models Technology doesn’t quite allow you to jump from what you have to what you need in 1 configurable step… Components can be improved

13. Reality Check!! SEE Grid National Roadshow “the explorers agreed that the SEEGrid project for interoperability of precompetitive geoscience data was essential when it comes to long term benefits to aid future exploration effort in Victoria.” Chris Fraser, Executive Director, MCA Victoria – August 2005 “The Australian Geoscience Council therefore recommends:… The development of new ways to store and access data and information (such as the SEEGrid) should be embraced…” Mike Smith, President, Australian Geoscience Council Submission to Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council

14. AuScope brings the community together using open spatial standards