Information Interoperability Institute III

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Target Vision and Implementation Plan for CGDI

• Information Interoperability Institute ( III )
• Ottawa
• June 14, 2000

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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High-level visioning for CGDI
Vision is the art of seeing things
invisible. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
The only thing worth finding is that which has
not yet existed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(1881-1955)
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High-level visioning for CGDI

• The infrastructure paradox
• for those using it it must be transparent,
  simple to use, and offer products and services
  that meet their needs
• for those building and maintaining it it is a
  complex system of technology, people and
  processes, and it must continuously evolve
  according to user needs, w/o breaking.

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High-level visioning for CGDI
Evolution of a successful infrastructure
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High-level visioning for CGDI
A vision for CGDI a national geospatial
information infrastructure that is pervasive
throughout our country, ubiquitous to its users
and self-sustaining, in support of the betterment
of Canada's health, social, cultural, economic
and natural resource heritage and futures. To
be all of this - CGDI must be the best in the
world!
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High-level visioning for CGDI

• Building CGDI
• will require a large investment for
  several years
• must follow a stable and clear vision
• must be based on a sustainable architecture
  (standards-based, open)
• will spawn a new Canadian industry,
  competitive internationally.

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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The III team approach

• Develop a high-level generic vision that can
  withstand time
• Develop a vision that is holistic, enabling
  integration of CGDI with other infrastructures
• Develop a vision that goes beyond a technical
  system vision, to encompass organizations and
  policies
• Develop an architecture concept that is open,
  interoperable, and supports a network of
  geospatial services.

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The III team approach

• Understand the business drivers
• Review a variety of existing initiatives
• Validate common requirements
• Develop a Vision
• Define an architecture concept
• Provide a strategy for implementation
• Recommend tactical steps for deployment.

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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Needs, context and components
Forest Tenures
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Fisheries Stream class A
(biophysical habitat WETLAND)
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Needs, context and components
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Needs, context and components

• General challenges w/i the geospatial realm
• Diversity reigns in
• operating systems, platforms, interfaces, and
  applications
• functionality of applications, overlaps
• particular needs of organizational interfaces
• leading to
• increasing costs in building systems
• increasing difficulty to operate support
  applications
• increasing risk of failure
• contd

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Needs, context and components

• General Problems w/i the geospatial realm
  (contd)
• Diversity reigns ...
• leaving us facing important challenges
• establish common understanding among
  stakeholders
• define future user needs and matching
  requirements
• integrate a large diversity of components.

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Needs, context and components

• Initiatives impacting CGDI
• Natural Resources Information Interoperability
  Initiative
• DND Spatial Data Warehouse GEONet
• CEONet
• Canadian Hydrographic Service
• GEOIDE
• BC Ministry of Environment, Lands Parks, Land
  Data BC
• Information Interoperability Institute
• Land Info Ontario LIO
• Marine Geospatial Data Infrastructure
• contd

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Needs, context and components

• Initiatives impacting CGDI (contd)
• Geologic Survey of Canada Knowledge Initiative,
• GeoSpatial Warehouse and Data Model Initiative
• OGC initiatives (WMT-1, WMT-2, USL)
• CEOS
• Digital Earth
• DND / NIMA ACTD
• JSP (Joint Space Program)
• CASA (Common Architecture for Situational
  Awareness)
• etc.

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Needs, context and components
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Needs, context and components

• Stakeholder communities to be analyzed
• Transportation
• Marine community
• Defence
• Disaster management
• Forestry
• Agriculture
• Petroleum, mines and minerals
• Public health and emergency services
• Utilities and public works
• Telecommunications
• Public sector
• Financial and business sector
• Not-for-profits and NGOs
• Academic

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Needs, context and components

• Analysis of stakeholder communities
• Illustrating the diversity of requirements
• Investigating infrastructure type initiatives
• Key parameters to be considered
• target applications and clientele
• data holdings
• data discovery
• data access and intellectual property
• architecture
• standards followed
• degree of client satisfaction

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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Strategic framework and analysis
CGDI is about partnerships
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Strategic framework and analysis
The goal interoperability
Now!
Year 2
Year 5
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Strategic framework and analysis
The goal well beyond data
Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Data
The real world
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Strategic framework and analysis
Positioning of stakeholders in the strategic
framework

• Research initiatives GEOIDE
• Developers of components / specifications
• DND Spatial Warehouse OGC (USL, WMT)
• CEONet CEOS
• CHS I I I
• Early adopters
• BC Ministry of Environment NIMA
• GSC CASA
• Health Canada MGDI
• Users not properly represented yet !!!

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Strategic framework and analysis

• III , the Information Interoperability Institute
• OGDI open source maintenance and evolution
• Interoperability Canadian Consortium
• Interoperability Technology Demonstrator
• Interoperability specifications development and
  conformance testing
• Business consortium of Canadian enterprises

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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The Sound Architectural FrameworkThe Components
of the RM-ODP ( ISO/IEC 10746 Open Distributed
Processg - Reference Model)
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Why Use RM -ODP ?It is an effective framework
and it is accepted!

• The RM-ODP is endorsed and used by
• The US Digital Earth Initiative
• The Mercator Alliance
• The Open GIS Consortium
• The ISO TC211 Geomatic and Geographic Information
  Standards Committee
• The Object Management Group
• Many Canadian Government Agencies
• Many US Government Agencies
• Many private sector consulting firms

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The RM -ODP Viewpoints in a business context
ENTERPRISE VIEWPOINT
direction and constraint on
STRATEGIC VISION
BUSINESS
VIEWPOINT
PLANNING
VIEWPOINT
POLICY AND
governed by
FRAMEWORK
VIEWPOINT
DEVELOPMENT VIEWPOINT
specifies structure for
CONTENT
SYSTEMS
direction and constraint on
VIEWPOINT
ENGINEERING
VIEWPOINT
structured by
WORKFLOW
METHODS
OPERATIONS VIEWPOINT
VIEWPOINT
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
VIEWPOINT
VIEWPOINT
COMPUTATIONAL
VIEWPOINT
governed by
Based on ISO/IEC 10746 Open Distributed
Processing - Reference Model
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The III adapted RM-ODP

• The RM-ODP provides guidance in developing
  specifications for distributed information
  services based on viewpoints. These viewpoints
  are placed in the following framework and related
  to the stages of information system deployment.
• Enterprise view
• Business practices,
• Standards and policy,
• Strategic vision.
• Design View (Expanded RM-ODP Engineering
  Viewpoint)
• Engineering Viewpoint (formal reasoning and
  specification)
• Workflow (business processes and information
  movement)
• Content specifications (logical schema for local
  and distributed resources).
• Deployment and Operations View (includes the
  Computional and Technology viewpoints of RM -
  ODP)
• The Information viewpoint (Meta-content schema
  for distributed databases)
• The Computational viewpoint (core geospatial
  meta-model and methods)
• The Technology viewpoint (collaborative design
  framework and operational system architecture).

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Multi-stage vision for CGDI
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Geospatial services targeted for the short-term
(2yrs)

• Data server
• Catalog server
• Map server
• Portrayal server
• Registry server
• Viewer client
• Publisher client
• Editor client
• Discovery client

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Geospatial services targeted for the short-term
(2yrs)
Service interfaces
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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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Now Spatial Warehousing Services
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NowUSL Web Mapping Testbed
Viewer Client (Dynamic Portal)
Viewer Client (ArcView)
Services Registry
SVG Renderer
WMS 1.0 Picture Servers
WMS 1.0 Picture Servers
IONIC GML Portrayal Service
Style Sheet Catalog
MIT - Landsat, etc NASA - Digital Earth FGDC
- NRCS - DRG Social Change - Accuweather IONIC -
Enviromapper IONIC - Stream Guage SAIC - ArcIMS
(with lots of layers) CubeWerx - lots of layers
GML
Data Schemas (DTD)
CubeWerx GML Data Server
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Now Natural Resources Information Interoperabilit
y Initiative
A vision for CGDI ... pervasive in our
country, ubiquitous to its users,
self-sustaining.
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Nowthe Defence Geomatics Gateway
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Short-term (2 years) architecture for CGDI
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A common multi-tierarchitecture of existing
components
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Short-term (2 years) architecture for
CGDI(Controlled Iteration Process)
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Short-term (2 years) architecture for CGDI

• Advanced Concept Technology
• Demonstrator (ACTD) properties
• Networked and distributed,
• Centralized coordination,
• Indicates maturity of infrastructure,
• Marketing vehicle for standards-based,
• open technology,
• Conformance testing vehicle.

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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Implementation priorities
A collaborative environment to support a
collective effort
STAKEHOLDER TOPICS
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Issues Concerns

Issues Concerns

Information Needs

Operational requirements

Operational requirements

Information Needs

Command Communication

Functional requirements

Command Communication

Functional requirements

Performance requirements

Operational Concepts

Performance requirements

Operational Concepts

Interoperability requirements

System/application concepts

Interoperability requirements

System/application concepts

Lessons learned

Life-cycle support requirements

Life-cycle support requirements

Lessons learned

Emerging requirements

Emerging requirements

Incremental capabilities

Incremental capabilities

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Implementation priorities

• First steps in implementing the Vision
• Verify the roles of partners and components
• Priorize the goals
• Establish a time table and obtain required
  resources
• Use off-the-shelf tools as much as possible
• Use standards as a guide ISO, OGC and W3C (and
  see how they are evolving)
• Look beyond spatial to other, next-generation,
  technology (e.g. mobile solutions) forward
  synergy
• Establish close liaisons with organizations
  moving in the same direction and/or providing
  support in that same direction (LIO, CGKN, PGGQ,
  ISTA, DERM, NIMA etc)

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Implementation priorities

• Only two things are simple on Earth tell what
  happened in the past, and predict the future. To
  see clearly one day at a time is quite a
  different undertaking.
• Armand Salacrou (1899-1989)

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Implementation priorities

• CGDI sustainability parameters
• Architecture maintenance and update
• Organizational sustainability (2-5-10 yrs)
• Standards
• on-going conformance testing
• intercultural adaptability
• Policies for sustainability
• information access and diffusion
• information commercialization
• Financial sustainability (2-5-10 yrs)
• Business plan

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Contents

• High-level visioning for CGDI
• The III team approach
• Needs, context and components
• Strategic framework and analysis
• Multi-stage vision for CGDI
• Architectures from now to CGDI
• Implementation priorities
• Conclusions

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Conclusions

• The III team is well positioned to develop an
  integrated vision and architecture for CGDI, and
  to provide a key focus in the building of CGDI
• Embrace broad coverage beyond data, towards
  information, leading to user knowledge/wisdom
• Focus on infrastructure NOT systems
• Become stakeholder driven (not technology )
• Stakeholders must eventually manage and control
  the architecture
• Several domestic benefits much reduced costs,
  high efficiency, emergence of a new industry
• International positioning a model for export.

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Thank you for your attention !

• Information Interoperability Institute ( III )
• Ottawa
• June 14, 2000