1. Geospatial Commons Workgroup Chair: Mark Kotz, Metropolitan Council Presentation to State Wide Geospatial Advisory Council June 30, 2010

2. Test implementation of the “Minnesota Geospatial Commons” What is it? Who is involved? Why do this? When – timeline?

3. A single place we all go to find and share geospatial resources

4. Technical Leadership Workgroup MetroGIS Policy Board Coordinating Committee Web Services Trust Issues Broker/Portal Implementation Define Requirements Implement Identify Issues Identify Solutions MnGeo & Advisory Councils MnGeo Standards Geospatial Commons Workgroup

5. Strong MetroGIS support at top and grass roots DNR, MnGeo, Mn/DOT very interested Previous work by Standards Committee Opportunity to collaboratively develop one web place Technical Leadership Workgroup Web Services Trust Issues Broker/Portal Implementation MnGeo Standards Geospatial Commons Workgroup

6. No single web location to find or share geo data in MN Geo apps and web services even less accessible Opportunities to share more directly/effectively behind the scenes

7. “Portal” = where you find. Belongs to some one else. “Commons” = where you share. Belongs to all.

8. Search Structured interface Spatial (e.g. bounding box) Metadata Google accessible Catalog (viewable page) Registry (back end database)

9. Metadata viewer Map viewer Download data or connect to web services User Reviews (quality, reliability, etc.) Web service monitoring

10. Publish Metadata Data for download Services for consumption News/discussion Shared development space Best practices

11. Catalog maintenance Harvesting Security & User management Registry of web service users Governance

12. Test implementation with ESRI GeoPortal Extension MnGeo is hosting Roughly 300 person hours Sign off on resource commitment by 4 agencies (project sponsors) Demo at GIS/LIS Conference in Oct.?

13. Driven by producers Solid business needs Strong executive commitment Highly talented workgroup

14. Chris Cialek, MnGeo Jessica Deegan, Met. Council Jim Dickerson, MnGeo Jessica Fendos, DEED Josh Gumm, Scott County John Harrison, Mn/DOT Mark Kotz, Met. Council (Chair) Susanne Maeder, MnGeo Chris Pouliot, DNR Nancy Rader, MnGeo Hal Watson, DNR Paul Weinberger, Mn/DOT