Irelands Emerging SDI

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Irelands Emerging SDI

• Eamonn Doyle
• Principal Consultant
• ESRI Ireland

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Overview

• Context Background
• Current Status
• Republic of Ireland
• Northern Ireland
• Demand for Interoperability
• Standards Uptake
• Portal Architectures
• Portal Evolution
• Lessons Learned

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Context Background

• Small Island
• Two Jurisdictions
• Devolved Government
• Spatial
• Functional
• Increasing Regulation

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Current Status (ROI)

• Top Down
• 2002 Govt. Recognition of need for SDI
• 2002 SDI Working Group Established
• 2004 Consultation Process
• 2005 Technical Architecture
• 2006/7 Policy Proposals

• Bottom Up
• Increasing Frustration
• Peer to Peer data exchange
• Web Services
• Portal Prototype by OSi
• Irish Spatial Data Exchange Portal

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Current Status (NI)

• 2002 GI Strategy for Northern Ireland
• 2003-04 Mosaic Established
• 2004-05 Mosaic Pilot Projects
• Mosaic/OSNI GeoHub Project

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Interoperability Demand

• Business Needs
• eGovernment Workflows
• Reduce Overheads
• Online Self Service
• EU Directives
• IACS (Cross Compliance)
• WFD (Collect Locally, Report Nationally)
• Noise Directive (Multi Agency)
• Nitrates Directive (Multi Agency)
• Leverage Investment in Core National Datasets
• Collect once Use Many Times

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Need to Share?

• www.heritagedata.ie
• August 2003 Statistics
• Circa. 4000 Hits
• Total FTP download 1 Gbyte
• Registered Users 190
• Duplication, Replication, Effort, Cost

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Standards Opportunity

• Web Services (WMS WFS)
• Publish Once
• Consume Many Times
• Heterogeneous vendor environments Synchronise
  with data source
• Online self service

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Standards Uptake
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Discovering Services

• The Portal Concept
• Describe, Publish
• Discover, Access, Consume
• Spatial Resources
• Offline Data
• Downloadable Data
• Live Data Maps

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Centralised SDI
DATA
DATA SERVICES
Consumer
Warehouse
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Distributed SDI
DATA SERVICES

• Tune in, turn on
• Consumer Led

Consumer
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www.geoportal.ie
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www.isde.ie
Branded Web Sites
Web Service
Producer A
CS-W
OpenSource
ArcIMS
ArcIMS
GeoMedia
WMS WFS
WMS WFS
WMS WFS
WMS WFS
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www.isde.ie
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Portal Structure
XML
CS-W Request
CS-W RSPONSES
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www.mosaic-ni.gov.uk

• Centralised SDI
• Pilot Projects
• Land Property
• Utilities
• Culture Heritage
• Environment Agriculture
• Health Social Improvement
• Public Safety Emergency
• Key Datasets
• Statistics
• Transport
• Deficiencies
• Offline Data Upload
• No Metadata Services
• No dynamic Portrayal
• Proprietary Image Services

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MOSAIC/GeoHub
ACCESS CONTROL
ACCESS CONTROL
APPLICATION SERVER
IMAGE
FEATURE
GEOCODE
QUALITY
CATALOGUE
WMS
WFS
CS-W
MetaData
dSLD
DATA
Feature Data
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Lessons

• Distributed SDI/Portal
• Suitable where there is no clear national host
  organisation
• Requires high degree of technical maturity
  amongst stakeholders
• Can be built incrementally

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Lessons

• Centralised SDI/Portal
• Suitable where there is a clear national host
  organisation
• Requires commitment by stakeholders to deposit
  data
• Requires large capital expenditure

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Thank You!

• Questions?