SEE Grid Information Services Roadmap

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SEE Grid Information Services Roadmap

• Dr Robert WoodcockDr Simon Cox
• Mr Andy Dent
• CSIRO Exploration Mining
• http//www.em.csiro.au

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Initial Map Interface HTML SVG
Initial Bounding Box
Known Layers
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Enabling one Layer
Click Show
Map Redrawn with Relevant Symbol
Info button renamed To match Layer Name
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Three Servers, One Map
GA Oracle Database
GSWA PostGIS Database

• No Changes to local schemas

PIRSA PostGIS Database

• Standard WFS Interface

• Combined Presentation

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Spatial Query All Analytes at Picked Location
Click a Map Feature
To see all Analytes on that sample

• HTML Tabular presentation via standard XSLT
  transformation of XML from the WFS

• Stylesheet written before the WFS servers to the
  XMML standard using static result files published
  as XMML schema examples

• The same stylesheet was used to debug the XML
  generated by the three different WFS, just by
  capturing the XML on a test web page

Standard technologies
Community interfaces
Enabling Productive, Distributed developments
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Non-GIS Use of the WFS
Alternative Presentation a non-GIS interface
querying the same WFS to generate combined
tabular reports.
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Tabular Reports by Source
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Tabular Reports by Source
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Tabular Reports by Analyte
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Implementation Summary

• Three independent organisations added WFS
  wrappers to their private geochemistry databases
• Geoserver open source WFS used for implementation
• Declarative configuration using XML files to
  define mappings from private database schema to
  community Geochemistry XML Schema
• NO alteration to private database required
• Two independent Client applications developed
• XSLT used to transform XML data to HTML Tables
  and SVG map overlays for presentation

Standard technologies
Community interfaces
Streamlining access to Australias geochemistry
data for Industry
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Demonstrator Leave behind

• Updates to Geoserver to support Community Schemas
  (XMML)
• Will be released as part of Geoserver 1.3
• SEE Grid WFS Geochemistry profile
• Currently being formalised but will be available
  on the SEE Grid website
• SEE Grid Roadmap and website
• Lessons learned both implementation and
  development management
• Issues with WFS standard feedback for WFS 1.1
• Query model

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Thankyou to the team

• CSIRO
• Simon Cox
• Andy Dent
• Joan Esterle
• Robert Woodcock
• Geoscience Australia
• Stuart Girvan
• Lesley Wyborn
• GSWA
• Stephen Bandy
• Brendon Ward

• PirSA
• Terry Hannant
• Greg Jenkins
• Mark Jolly
• Social Change Online
• Rob Atkinson
• Peter Barrs

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Thankyou to the Supporters