Geospatial Analysis for Coastal and Marine Management

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OBISSEAMAP mapping marine megavertebrates
http//seamap.env.duke.edu
Zope/Plone/Python for Research Ben Best
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Outline

• Project Context
• Initiative for CMS
• Site Tour
• Technical Plone
• Transition from PHP
• Database Connectivity
• Portlet Creation
• Future

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OBIS-SEAMAP Online Archive

• Search
• Query taxonomic, spatial and temporal data

• Explore
• Browse datasets and species profiles

• Map
• Interactively map biological and environmental
  data

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Software Architecture

• Map Framework
• Chameleon
• IMF

PHP
Web User

• Mapper
• MapServer
• ArcIMS

• Web Content
• Plone
• www.cmsmatrix.com

Python

• GeoDatabase
• PostGIS
• ArcSDE

• Database
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle / SQLServer

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Industrial Services
Data Factoryfor Providers
Data Minefor Users
Upload
Search
Map
Browse
GeoDatabase
EditMetadata
ViewDetail,Map
ManageDatasets
Download
Data Pipelinesfor Servers
Z39.50
XML
OPeNDAP
WMS
FGDC
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CoML / OBIS Context

• Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate
  Populations
• marine mammals, seabirds, sea turtles

web
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Trophic Networks
Hierarchical Information networks.
Portals
Nodes
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Spatial Networks
Digital Atlas of Marine Mammals
Regional OBIS Nodes
Fornwall, M. Oceanography Vol. 13 No. 3/2000
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Context GBIF

• GBIF Portal Toolkit
• Overview
• Download

Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Ocean Biogeographic Information System
OBISSEAMAP
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Web Transition

• Original (PHP)
• http//obis.env.duke.edu

New (Zope/Plone)http//seamap.env.duke.edu
(CMS for GBIF and Duke)
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Transitioning from PHP

• External Method ie geturl
• PHParser ie dataset_detail
• DTML ie index
• ZPT ie datasets search

geturl.pyimport urllib,sys,os def
geturl(url) fpurllib.urlopen(url)
contentfp.read() fp.close()
return content
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Database Connectivity

• Database Connection
• Z SQL Query
• DTML / ZPT Code

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Portlet Creation

• portlet_datahighlights

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Python in ArcGIS 9
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Plone Products Downstream

• PloneMap

• R Zope

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Home
Datasets

• Tabs
• Datasets
• Species
• Mapping
• Bibliography
• Navigation
• Highlights
• Login
• Search
• News
• Events

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Datasets
Catalogue view
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Datasets gt Detail

• Summary
• records, map
• temporal and
• spatial extents
• Links toMapping,Species, Metadata
• Citation, Abstract, Purpose, Contacts

Search
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Data Provider Interface
Data Provider Login View
Profile
Datasets
Usage Statistics