The Go-Geo! Spatial Data Portal: A Data Discovery and Research Tool for UK Academia

The Go-Geo! Spatial Data Portal: A Data Discovery and Research Tool for UK Academia Tony Mathys Geospatial Metadata Co-ordinator EDINA National Data Centre University of Edinburgh

Geospatial

Metadata (food labels) Content? Expire date? Quality?

Metadata (recipe) What are the ingredients? What are the brewing steps? Who sells the ingredients or W here can you buy them? Photographic Images copyright: Jupiter Images 2006

EDINA (JISC) National Data Centre

Joint Information Systems Committee
providing world-class leadership in the innovative
use of Information Communications Technology (ICT)
to support education and research
JISC manages and funds 195 projects within
29 programmes
JISC supports 49 services to provide expertise, advice,
guidance and resources to address the needs of all
users in HE and FE.

Background
three decades of GIS and spatial data capture technology
an eclectic range of academic
disciplines using GIS as a
research and teaching tool
considerable cost and time invested for all this spatial data

promote greater awareness of spatial data within tertiary education
existence is not publicised
need to help make more (effective) use of these data
promote greater awareness of spatial data within the wider GI community in the UK
facilitate understanding of the problem space: provide access to geographically related resources
a geographically-oriented access point to the JISC IE
*Geo-portal the solution to support spatial data management and sharing.
The vision thing

How Go-Geo! started
Perl
Z39.50 protocol
GEO Profile for searching
and retrieving records (ISite)
Academic profile based on the
UK NGDF metadata guidelines
Project started 2001
JISC funded
Collaboration between
EDINA Data Centre and
UK Data Archive
Go-Geo! portal launched
in early 2003

Other Content Providers NGDF/GIgateway Network Geo-data Gateway Go-Geo! Portal User Content and metadata across UK network Local Go-Geo! database

The long journey to service
A new profile compliant with
ISO 19115 and UK GEMINI
Online metadata editor tool
Go-Geo! redesign
international metadata
Service started in late 2008

Go-Geo! resources for UK academia

UK AGMAP 2 created to support the eclectic needs of the UK H&FE academic communities. Comprises elements from ISO 19115, UK GEMINI 2 and INSPIRE. UML and schema Supports descriptive level documentation of datasets, dataset series or geo service. Mapped to Dublin Core, DDI, FGDC, INSPIRE and UK GEMINI 2. UK Academic Geospatial Metadata Application Profile, Version 2 (UK AGMAP 2) UK AGMAP 2

UK AGMAP 2 for dataset and dataset series 32 mandatory 91 elements

UK AGMAP 2 for Geo-services 40 elements 25 mandatory

UK AGMAP 2 guidelines

Metadata Creation Photographic Images copyright: Jupiter Images 2006

Mind reading aliens? Solutions? Spatial data extraction device?

Geodoc Metadata Editor tool

Geodoc functionality and design
Java-built online tool
authentication required
text fields and drop-down lists for data entry
validates records (red fields)
access to metadata guidelines
and Geodoc reference guide.

Direct links to relevant guidance information

My Go-Geo! automation

Capturing Spatial Extents

Metadata Storage & Multiple Export Options

Publication on Global or Private Node

Go-Geo! Portal http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/

Web resource channels *2,820 resources *Updated daily

Bookmarked resources (My Go-Geo!)

Resources for geospatial metadata

Advanced search

Go-Geo! simple search

Results

International portals and metadata

Geospatial Metadata Workshops
July 2007
Aberdeen University
Marine/ECO-IMAGINE
Geospatial
Technologies Course
2008
Sheffield University
Southampton University
June 2010
Plymouth University
2003
Durham University
City University
2004
University of Essex
York University
Strathclyde University
Bradford University Oxford Brookes University
Coventry University
Edinburgh University
Oxford University
Kingston University
Sheffield University
2006
Aberdeen University
Leeds University
Cambridge University
Oxford University
Stirling University
Glasgow University
Heriot-Watt University
Strathclyde University
Kingston University
GISRUK Conference (Nottingham)
Edinburgh University
Autumn 2010
Aberdeen University
Cardiff University
Glasgow University
St. Andrews University
Stirling University
Civil Engineering Biological Sciences Planning Environmental Sciences Architecture Information Technology Retailing Climate Sociology Library Science Landscape Planning Archaeology Mathematics Health Ecology Geosciences

Overview and issues
Spatial data audits (2006) at four academic institutions
yielded 600 datasets - 100s of orphan datasets!
Cambridge, Edinburgh, Kingston, Leeds and Sheffield
created and published more than 200 metadata records
on Go-Geo! portal (global and private).
almost 500 metadata records published on Go-Geo!
(public, private, international).
changing a mindset ( academia )
Go-Geo! portal still using ISite
(GeoNetwork, summer 2010)
access to spatial data
IPR and residual licensed data rights
for derived data

ShareGeo
A repository for academic
deposit and extraction of
spatial data.
Resides under Digimap
Collections Service.
Addresses IPR and licensed
data issues.
Holds almost 100 national
and international spatial
datasets.
Open access version of
ShareGeo to be completed
in July 2010.

Ordnance Survey and Open Data

Go-Geo! University A Go-Geo! University B Go-Geo! University C Go-Geo! SDI for UK academia Other resources and portals Spatial Data Repository Spatial data Metadata Search Spatial data user Metadata UK AGMAP 2 Guidelines Geodoc tadata tool Customised Go-Geo! Portal Nodes Training Geography Archaeology Geological Sciences Biological Sciences Go-Geo! Go-Go! UK AGMAP 2 Guidelines Geodoc metadata tool Customised Go-Geo! Portal Nodes Training Geography Archaeology Geological Sciences Biological Sciences Go-Geo! Go-Go! UK AGMAP 2 Guidelines Geodoc metadata tool Customised Go-Geo! Portal Nodes Training Geography Archaeology Geological Sciences Biological Sciences Go-Geo! Go-Go! UK AGMAP 2 Guidelines Geodoc metadata tool Customised Go-Geo! Portal Nodes Training Geography Archaeology Geological Sciences Biological Sciences Go-Geo! Go-Go! University D

Other activities

UK Location Programme
INSPIRE Regulations 2009 No 3157 came into force on 31 December 2009 and applies to England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Scotland’s Parliament has enacted a complementary regulation which came into force on the same date.
Participation with
UKLP Metadata Working Group (Current chair)
UK GEMINI 2 Working Group
Location Information Interoperability Board (JISC and
HE Representative)

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