Transcript Aarhus Convention Task Force on Electronic Information Tools Sofia, Bulgaria 23-24 June 2003 Chris Jarvis Information Policy Manager.

Aarhus Convention Task Force on
Electronic Information Tools
Sofia, Bulgaria
23-24 June 2003
Chris Jarvis
Information Policy Manager
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Introduction
1. EA Experience
2. EA/UNEP Project
3. Information Delivery Framework
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Environment Agency
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Non Departmental Public Body responsible to
Department of the Environment
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Wide range of duties and powers relating to
environmental management
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11,000 staff across England and Wales
8 Regional Offices, 26 Area Offices
~100 staff respond to >350,000 requests
We place a high priority on the provision of
information in achieving environmental goals
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1. EA Experience
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What’s in Your Backyard?
Information Services
Public Participation
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EA Experience
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What’s in Your Backyard?
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What’s in your backyard?
EA Experience
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What’s in Your Backyard?
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EA Experience
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What’s in Your Backyard?
Information Services
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Information Services: property search
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Providing Environmental Information of direct
importance to a decision-making situation
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Highly tailored service
Developed to meet a specific need
User led development
Environmental benefit
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Information Services: property search
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Customer Contact
Log +
request
track
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Acknow
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Distribute
for answers
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Send
out and log
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Area/ Regional Finance
cheque
Compile
response
reconcili
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exceptions
Re-allocation
of resources
Receipt
Confirmation
of payment
it costs us a lot of time and money
to provide different information
at the wrong time
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Information Services: property search
Electronic transaction
Solicitor
Web Service
Prints Report
Nationally maintained data layers
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But not quite that easy...
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EA Experience
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Information Services
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EA Experience
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Information Services
Public Participation
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Public Participation:
Public Registers
Application Advert
Consultation
Responses
Licence
Monitoring
Action ...
Public Register
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Public Participation:
Does it Work?
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Are people aware?
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Is the information
presented meaningfully?
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Is location in offices
convenient?
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Do we reach a wide
cross-section of society?
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Could we do better?!
Are paper files
convenient?
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Engaging Citizens
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Make information relevant to everyday lives
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Provide access without effort, where and
when required
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Use novel techniques to reach all of society
Link Information Systems to Participation
Systems
(Please tell us how to do it!)
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Our Way Forward:
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Electronic access to actual documents
Real time ‘flagging’ of live decisions
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Public Participation:
Public Registers
Application Advert
Consultation
Responses
Licence
Monitoring
Action ...
Public Register
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Our Way Forward:
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Electronic access to actual documents
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Assess impacts on our own organisation
Real time ‘flagging’ of live decisions
Research into social aspects of engagement
Partnerships with local community groups
Electronic ‘open forums’
Record interests and provide relevant
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Financial
Investment
DEFRA
EC
Business
Info.
Financial
Services
Insurance,
Consultancies
and other spin
offs
Land
Development
+ SIC
Specific
Data
Guidance
DUNS No.
Property
Search
Commercial
+ SIC Specific
Guidance
Residential
+ Environmental
Messages
Documents
Individuals
Communities
eRegisters
VARs
e.g. libraries - what’s
happening in your area
Education
WIYBY V2
FoI
Scheme
What’s happening/have your
say, local data to analyse,
etc.
Local Government
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Registers, planning etc.
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2. EA/UNEP Project: Backgound
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EA/UNEP collaboration since 2000
Building upon experience
Senior Support
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Project: Current Status
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‘Seedcorn’ funding
Bid to UK FCO funding
Seeking Partners
… and advice, comments, information ...
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Project Proposal
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Capacity Building
Develop pilots/proof of concepts
Deliver a framework
– common requirements
– engender consistency
– identification of funding streams
– identification of user needs
… linked to EU ‘INSPIRE’ initiative
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INSPIRE
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
Environments do not respect political
boundaries
The INSPIRE objective:
The preparation of a framework legislative act
aimed at making available relevant, harmonised
and quality geographic information for the
purpose of the formulation, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of Community
environmental policy-making
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INSPIRE
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
Complementary
Copyright
WFD
Databases
Habitats
Data Protection
INSPIRE
Enabled Access
Ratification of Aarhus
Noise
INSPIRE
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
INSPIRE Principles (1)
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Data should be collected once and maintained at a
level where this can be done most efficiently
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It should be possible to combine spatial information
from different sources across Europe in a seamless
way, and to share it amongst many users and
applications
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It should be possible for information collected at one
level to be shared with other levels
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INSPIRE
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
INSPIRE Principles (2)
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Geographic information needed for good
governance at all levels should be readily available
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It should be simple to discover which geographic
information is available and under what conditions it
can be acquired and used
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Geographic data should be easy to understand and
interpret, i.e. user-friendly
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3. EA/UNEP Project Framework
From Inspiration to practice ...
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Reference Data and Metadata
Architecture & Standards
Environmental Thematic Data
Implementation Structures & Funding
Impact Analysis
Data Policy & Legal Issues
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Architecture and Standards
Interoperability
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What is interoperability?
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Interoperability:
– ‘capability to communicate, execute
programs, or transfer data among
various functional units in a manner
that requires the user to have little
knowledge of the unique
characteristics of those units’ [ISO
2382-1]
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What is interoperability?
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In other words:
– ‘the ability of systems to talk to one
another in an agreed manner’
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Adoption of standards is the keystone
to interoperability (SOAP, WMS, WFS,
SQL, HTML, XML)
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Interoperable GIS?
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Interoperable GIS
– Spatial components and standards
that allow the communication
described above.
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A standardised manner of discovering,
querying, retrieving, and disseminating
digital geographic information
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But what does this mean?
Local Government
Work
Standards
Local Maps
(ESRI SDE)
Environmental
Services
Mobile
Standards
Hazards
(Intergraph)
Network
Home
Standards
School
Routes and
Timetables
(MapInfo)
Transport Services
Standards
Registers
(ORACLE)
Central Government
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Why do we want interoperable GIS?
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Greater access to decision support
information
– Opening-up isolated data islands
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Better customer/citizen service
– Real-time access and delivery of a
wider range of data sources and
services
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Why do we want interoperable GIS?
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More efficient system implementations
– No re-invention of the wheel
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Reduced reliance on proprietary/vendor
specific platforms, data sources, and
components
– Ability to swap-out components in
best-of-breed architectures
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Drivers - Simple Accessibility
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Interoperability can be the glue that binds
multiple, complex resources into more
simple views
Planning Portal
Interoperability
Government
Departments
Service
Agencies
GI Gateway
INSPIRE
SOAP - XML - GML - WFS - WMS - HTTP - ISO
Schools
N.G.O’s
Commercial
Services
Interoperability
Data Providers
Local
Authorities
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Data - Standards
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Data interfaces that conform to defined
model standards allow diverse systems
to...
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Finally ...
… Semantic Interoperability
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Data ?
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Raw Data
Basic Data
Primary Data
Operating Data
Core Data
Non-core Data
Key Data
Essential Data
Fundamental Data
• Reference Data
• Framework Data
• Core Reference
Data
• Thematic Data
• Core Thematic
Data
• Product Data
• Statistical Data
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Oh, yes . . . well
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Spatio-temporal Data
Value-added Data
Public Data
Personal Data
Private Data
Commercial Data
Tradable Data
Business Data
Cadastral Data
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Metadata
Spatial Data
Geospatial Data
Topographic Data
Geodetic Data
Map Data
Raster Data
Vector Data
Territorial Data
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. . . it all depends.
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Geodata
Quality Data
Processed Data
Geoinformatic Data
Census Data
Large scale Data
Small scale Data
Environmental Data
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Event Data
Archive Data
Re-usable Data
Geomatic Data
Heritage Data
Sectoral Data
Public Sector Data
Library Data
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I know you believe you
understand what you think
I said, but I am not sure
you realise that what you
heard is not what I meant.
Alan Greenspan
Chair of the US Federal Reserve
… who happily admits that since he became a central
banker, he has learnt to mumble with great
incoherence
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