1) The document discusses the challenges of integrating spatial and statistical information from multiple sources to support disaster management and social protection programs.
2) It proposes a Spatial Identifier Reference Framework (SIRF) to assign unique identifiers to locations that can be used to link related data across different databases and formats.
3) SIRF aims to improve information delivery for humanitarian efforts by providing a consistent way to reference locations and connect disparate yet related datasets.
Keynote talk given during the 9th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Security and Defence, AISD2019, Beirut, 26th-29th March,
2019
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Open data in disaster management
The UN General Assembly defined in February 2017 a disaster as “A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts. It is deeply intertwined with the broader concept of risks, defined by the European commission as a “combination of the probability of occurrence of a hazard generating harm in a given scenario and the severity of that harm.”
Managing these uncertainties requires a large spectrum of data coming from different sources, government being one of the most important. Open Government Data (OGD) is a philosophy and a set of policies that promotes transparency, accountability and value creation by making government data available to all. According to the OGD 8 principles, defined in 2007, Sebastopol, California, these data should be: complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine processable, non-discriminatory, non-proprietary, license-free.
One goal of Open Government Data is to rise the interest of third-parties stakeholders and their (open) innovation capabilities, Open Data is providing trusted information which is important in a troubled context, with a lot of rumors (see also the emergence of fake news). As governments are among the largest data creators and providers, OGD is a central issue for disaster management or risk mitigation, for example through the provision of costly and/or rare data, like data related to infrastructures, weather data or satellite imagery. By definition, OGD is contributing to remove the data silos created by the different information systems of different bodies of government, administration or external stakeholders, allowing a cross-boundary information sharing. It is also a tool to improve cooperation among stakeholders in case of emergency. All of this is of paramount importance regarding disaster management.
Through a set of use cases, this talk will highlight (1) how OGD has been or could be used during the whole of the disaster management cycle, from prevention and preparedness, emergency management, response, and recovery; (2) its current or potential benefits and possible improvements through its linkage with other sources of information, structured and unstructured, such social media and crowdsourcing ; and (3) its identified barriers regarding data availability and quality, organizational readiness, multi-stakeholders involvement, and cooperation.
Roger Longhorn, GSDI Secretary-General, Infoter 5 Conference, SES PresentationGSDI Association
Presentation by GSDI Secretary-General, Roger Longhorn, at the Infoter 5 Conference on 6 November in Balatonfured, Hungary, on the Spatially Enabled Society
World Data Forum Session on Capacity building for modernization of institutions, governance and business processes: Fostering strong institutions and high-quality data processes - presented at the UN World Data Forum 2017
Building Spatial Data Infrastructures for Spatial Planning in Africa: Lagos e...Samuel Dekolo
Lagos is the fastest growing Megacity in Sub-Saharan Africa, with its population estimated to double in the first quarter of this century; it is expected to be the third largest urban agglomerations in the world. This growth is not without challenges, as the city is grappling with myriads of urban management problems. City planners lack the most important ingredient of land use management, which is Information. In spite of huge investment on spatial data infrastructures at the national and state levels of government, most land use planners at both state and local government level agencies are ignorant of existing geospatial technology portals and unlock the full potentials of information and communication technologies. A statewide survey of the spatial data infrastructures of the city’s urban and land use management ministry and agencies proves its pathetic state, thereby creating information gap void between urban development and intelligent management. The result is has led to a sporadic growth of slums and unplanned settlements which now accounts for over 60% of the city. To avoid an impasse, it is necessary to review the level of geospatial technologies used at the local level and recommend formidable means of integration in the decision making process. This paper examines the level of geospatial technologies and Spatial Data Infrastructure use in spatial planning agencies and barriers to implementation in the 20 local governments of Lagos State and suggests the way forward.
How the National Land Use Policy Promotes Use of Publicly Accessible Land Inf...Neil Sorensen
Background on Land Governance Realities in Myanmar “Political Playground”- Legal framework is poorly harmonized and often antiquated;- Deed registration system has been poorly maintained, expensive land transactions, tenure claims often unclear (negative impact on investment);- Many land holders, particularly in remote rural areas, lack formal recognition of land tenure claims (customary tenure);- Land governance arrangements are complicated with overlapping authority;- Public access to accurate land information is difficult (negative impact on investment, negative impacts on tenure security, increases risk for all);- Limited opportunity for public participation in land resource decision making processes, including easy access to affordable dispute resolution mechanisms.
OneMap project works with government, civil society, ethnic groups and communities, to produce, enhance, and share high quality and accuracy data on land and other natural resources.
The open-access, online OneMap spatial data platform democratizes access to multi-sectoral data. It aims to function as an effective basis for transparent and accountable land governance and development planning by government and citizens.
By supporting government and civil society alike, OneMap provides space for multi-stakeholders based production and verification of key datasets, and thereby allows different perspectives on land to be equally represented.
Keynote talk given during the 9th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Security and Defence, AISD2019, Beirut, 26th-29th March,
2019
----
Open data in disaster management
The UN General Assembly defined in February 2017 a disaster as “A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts. It is deeply intertwined with the broader concept of risks, defined by the European commission as a “combination of the probability of occurrence of a hazard generating harm in a given scenario and the severity of that harm.”
Managing these uncertainties requires a large spectrum of data coming from different sources, government being one of the most important. Open Government Data (OGD) is a philosophy and a set of policies that promotes transparency, accountability and value creation by making government data available to all. According to the OGD 8 principles, defined in 2007, Sebastopol, California, these data should be: complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine processable, non-discriminatory, non-proprietary, license-free.
One goal of Open Government Data is to rise the interest of third-parties stakeholders and their (open) innovation capabilities, Open Data is providing trusted information which is important in a troubled context, with a lot of rumors (see also the emergence of fake news). As governments are among the largest data creators and providers, OGD is a central issue for disaster management or risk mitigation, for example through the provision of costly and/or rare data, like data related to infrastructures, weather data or satellite imagery. By definition, OGD is contributing to remove the data silos created by the different information systems of different bodies of government, administration or external stakeholders, allowing a cross-boundary information sharing. It is also a tool to improve cooperation among stakeholders in case of emergency. All of this is of paramount importance regarding disaster management.
Through a set of use cases, this talk will highlight (1) how OGD has been or could be used during the whole of the disaster management cycle, from prevention and preparedness, emergency management, response, and recovery; (2) its current or potential benefits and possible improvements through its linkage with other sources of information, structured and unstructured, such social media and crowdsourcing ; and (3) its identified barriers regarding data availability and quality, organizational readiness, multi-stakeholders involvement, and cooperation.
Roger Longhorn, GSDI Secretary-General, Infoter 5 Conference, SES PresentationGSDI Association
Presentation by GSDI Secretary-General, Roger Longhorn, at the Infoter 5 Conference on 6 November in Balatonfured, Hungary, on the Spatially Enabled Society
World Data Forum Session on Capacity building for modernization of institutions, governance and business processes: Fostering strong institutions and high-quality data processes - presented at the UN World Data Forum 2017
Building Spatial Data Infrastructures for Spatial Planning in Africa: Lagos e...Samuel Dekolo
Lagos is the fastest growing Megacity in Sub-Saharan Africa, with its population estimated to double in the first quarter of this century; it is expected to be the third largest urban agglomerations in the world. This growth is not without challenges, as the city is grappling with myriads of urban management problems. City planners lack the most important ingredient of land use management, which is Information. In spite of huge investment on spatial data infrastructures at the national and state levels of government, most land use planners at both state and local government level agencies are ignorant of existing geospatial technology portals and unlock the full potentials of information and communication technologies. A statewide survey of the spatial data infrastructures of the city’s urban and land use management ministry and agencies proves its pathetic state, thereby creating information gap void between urban development and intelligent management. The result is has led to a sporadic growth of slums and unplanned settlements which now accounts for over 60% of the city. To avoid an impasse, it is necessary to review the level of geospatial technologies used at the local level and recommend formidable means of integration in the decision making process. This paper examines the level of geospatial technologies and Spatial Data Infrastructure use in spatial planning agencies and barriers to implementation in the 20 local governments of Lagos State and suggests the way forward.
How the National Land Use Policy Promotes Use of Publicly Accessible Land Inf...Neil Sorensen
Background on Land Governance Realities in Myanmar “Political Playground”- Legal framework is poorly harmonized and often antiquated;- Deed registration system has been poorly maintained, expensive land transactions, tenure claims often unclear (negative impact on investment);- Many land holders, particularly in remote rural areas, lack formal recognition of land tenure claims (customary tenure);- Land governance arrangements are complicated with overlapping authority;- Public access to accurate land information is difficult (negative impact on investment, negative impacts on tenure security, increases risk for all);- Limited opportunity for public participation in land resource decision making processes, including easy access to affordable dispute resolution mechanisms.
OneMap project works with government, civil society, ethnic groups and communities, to produce, enhance, and share high quality and accuracy data on land and other natural resources.
The open-access, online OneMap spatial data platform democratizes access to multi-sectoral data. It aims to function as an effective basis for transparent and accountable land governance and development planning by government and citizens.
By supporting government and civil society alike, OneMap provides space for multi-stakeholders based production and verification of key datasets, and thereby allows different perspectives on land to be equally represented.
Presented to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
January 18, 2011
By Heather Leson
Participants in the discussion: ON government officials and members of CrisisCamp Toronto (Brian Chick and Melanie Gorka).
Thank you to Maurits Van Der Vlugt and Gregory Asmolov for providing input from their Crisismapping experiences.
How the Land Tenure Project’s Participatory Mapping Manual Provides Land Open...Neil Sorensen
USAID Land Tenure Project Objectives
Support broad based economic development
Improve livelihoods in rural communities
Encourage sustainable land use management
Assist resilient community development
Mapchats - Of the people, for the people using data tools for good government...PolicyMap
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3-D geospatial data for disaster management and developmentKeiko Ono
Japan is a high income country at an advanced stage of epidemiological transition. One of its remaining public health challenges is response to natural disasters. This presentation explores the potential of 3-D geospatial data in disaster response and management.
At Data Journalism UK 2016 Andy Dickinson provided an insight into the ways that data journalism is being used at a hyperlocal level. Here are his slides.
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019enotsluap
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019. Presentation on open data Policy, data available and innovative ways it is being reused. Also why the private sector could/should release data.
Research and development project proposal written in december 1994. The purpose was to offer a strategy and a commitment to an evolutionary approach in the development of a system to provide Regional Geospatial Information and service.
Presented to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
January 18, 2011
By Heather Leson
Participants in the discussion: ON government officials and members of CrisisCamp Toronto (Brian Chick and Melanie Gorka).
Thank you to Maurits Van Der Vlugt and Gregory Asmolov for providing input from their Crisismapping experiences.
How the Land Tenure Project’s Participatory Mapping Manual Provides Land Open...Neil Sorensen
USAID Land Tenure Project Objectives
Support broad based economic development
Improve livelihoods in rural communities
Encourage sustainable land use management
Assist resilient community development
Mapchats - Of the people, for the people using data tools for good government...PolicyMap
Bryce Maretzki was appointed in 2013 to be Director of Policy and Planning for the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, where he leads all of the agency’s long-range planning and directs a number of policy initiatives. He also supervises the implementation of the Office of Financial Education that was transferred to PHFA from the Department of Banking. Before working at PHFA, Bryce was with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development as Deputy Secretary for Administration and Director of Legislative Affairs after starting in 2004 as Directory of Policy. He created a complete revision of the “silos” attached to economic and community development, to create a coordinated, comprehensive approach to rebuild and revitalize Pennsylvania communities.
3-D geospatial data for disaster management and developmentKeiko Ono
Japan is a high income country at an advanced stage of epidemiological transition. One of its remaining public health challenges is response to natural disasters. This presentation explores the potential of 3-D geospatial data in disaster response and management.
At Data Journalism UK 2016 Andy Dickinson provided an insight into the ways that data journalism is being used at a hyperlocal level. Here are his slides.
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019enotsluap
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019. Presentation on open data Policy, data available and innovative ways it is being reused. Also why the private sector could/should release data.
Research and development project proposal written in december 1994. The purpose was to offer a strategy and a commitment to an evolutionary approach in the development of a system to provide Regional Geospatial Information and service.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Presentation at the Nordic Data Journalism Conference 2016 in Helsinki, Finland about the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and the need of a Data Revolution that includes using Open Data and Responsible Data practices. Notes can be found on http://bit.ly/noda16-pernillan
Objectives: 1. Gain an understanding of key trends in ICT innovation which are influencing/disrupting crisis informatics. 2. Be able to trace these trends through discussions later this semester, and understand their influence and potential. 3. Introduce visualization lab
Public safety interoperability: an international perspectiveComms Connect
The paper will discuss a wide range of public safety communications interoperability -related issues both with a view to the Canadian/US environment and their relevance to the Australia/New Zealand landscape.
These include:
- Public safety wireless broadband in North America;
- Public safety interoperability strategic planning at the local, regional, state, national and international levels;
- Trends in interoperability technology, including both voice- and data-related issues;
- Next Generation (NG) 911 and its future in Canada and beyond;
- Situational awareness, common/user-defined operating pictures, precision information environments, GIS systems, blue force tracking and location-based services;
- 3D in-door tracking and location for firefighters and public safety responders; and,
- Social media for emergency management (#SMEM).
Inspector (Ret.) Lance Valcour O.O.M, Chair, Law Enforcement Information Management Section International Association of Chiefs of Police
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
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Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
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Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
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1. Thinking outside the polygon: Spatial Information
for Social Protection and Disaster Management
Paul Box
ANZDMC 30 May 2013, Brisbane
DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICES FLAGSHIP
2. Overview
CSIRO all hazards approach
Information integration challenges
Spatial Identifier Reference Framework – SIRF
Thinking Outside the Polygon - Spatial information for Disaster Management | Paul Box | Page 2
4. Disaster management
Goal - improve the supply of timely and accurate
information enabling all actors involved in the
disaster management cycle to make better informed
decisions
Infrastructure
Data provision
Integration
Analysis
Delivery
Information products
Analytics
http://www.csiro.au/Disaster-Management-Report
Thinking Outside the Polygon - Spatial information for Disaster Management | Paul Box | Page 4
6. Understanding and communicating risk
Hazard
‘Prosumers’
- Community
- Government
- Response agencies
- Private sector
RISK
Exposure
Vulnerability
People, property, systems,
present in hazard zones and
subject to potential losses.
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Characteristics of a community,
system or asset that make it
susceptible effects of hazard
8. The challenges
• Large scale complex interwoven challenges
• Multiple organisations, scientific disciplines, perspectives
• Multiple data and information sources with different scales,
sources
• Rapid information integration
• Information granularity
• Spatially & temporally
variable phenomena
• ‘Glocalisation’
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9. The information tsunami
•
•
•
•
Big data
The internet of things
Traditional large-ish data
Lots of small data
75x
Over the next
decade, the number
of "files,“ or containers
for Information will grow by
(source: EMC)
Thinking Outside the Polygon - Spatial information for Disaster Management | Paul Box | Page 9
Philip Russom, Big Data Analytics, TWDI 2011
11. Queensland floods & Christchurch earthquake
27 online map sites
Media
Government
NGO
6 alert/community report sites
Social media
7 twitter feeds
2 face book pages
All relate to place
•multi sources
•multiple channels
•cannot easily integrate
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12. Spatial Identifier Reference
Framework for Social Protection
in Indonesia
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13. Social Protection in Indonesia
Social Protection
- preventing, managing, and overcoming situations
adversely affecting people’s well being[1]
- policies & programs to reduce poverty / vulnerability
- reducing exposure, enhancing capacity to manage risks
1United Nations
Research Institute For Social Development
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14. One real world feature - multiple representations
Geospatial information
Min of Planning
002234
Spatial
Identifier
Reference
Framework
Statistical information
(Implicitly geospatial)
UNSTATS
Name
GRP’08 $
IND03
NTB
8,080
IND05
NTT
4,769
BPS-ID
GER ‘08
Tpop’10
003
Bureau of Stats 003
Name
Nusa Tenggara Barat
111.08
1,318,840
005
Nusa Tenggara Timur
112.09
335,805
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
Multiple - names, identifiers, geometries, versions
Thinking Outside the Polygon - Spatial information for Disaster Management | Paul Box | Page 14
West Nusa
Tenggara
15. What’s in a name?
Official Country name lists
• United Nations Statistics Division Country and Region
Codes for Statistical Use
• United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names
- List of Country Names
• Department for General Assembly and Conference
Management - Multilingual Terminology Database
(UNTERM)
• ISO - ISO 3166: Codes for country names
•UN FAO - Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL)
Name ambiguity
• One place - many names
• Sydney, City of Sydney
• Australia, Australie,
• Wollongong, ‘the gong’
Figure 1: Variation rates in spelling for country names
between the UN Statistical Division’s Country and Region
Codes for Statistical Use and UN datasets from data.un.org
• One name – many places
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16. SIRF – spatial identifiers to link information
Agency A
Statistics
Agency B
Treasury
API
API
Statistical
Information
Agency C
Welfare
API
http://id.sirf.net/siset/CGNA/NSW56500
Same as
http://linkedgeodata.org/triplify/node13766899
User
Linked
Data
Web
National Spatial
Data
Infrastructure
Spatial
Information
SIRF
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17. Thinking Outside the Polygon - Spatial information for Disaster Management | Paul Box | Page 17
18.
19. 9.63 million
Households receiving benefit
(Unit: ‘000s | Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)
people
Source: BPS population census, 2010
Gender distribution
100
80
(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)
Raskin
60
Bar annotation
Jamkesmas
96%
40
Bar annotation
73%
Bar annotation
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)
84%
31%
households with handphones
100
80
60
40
20
Source: BPS Susenas, 2011
2
Area title
1
Jan
Apr
Jul Jan
H’helds 3
4
2011
2012
2013
3.69%
People living below the poverty line
Source: BPS SUSENAS, 2012
People in poverty
(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)
Area title
Total
Area title
Urban
363,124
201,123
Area title
National
Province
20
Title
(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)
Rural
152,001
20. Where are we SIRFing?
Partnerships
Indonesia - InaSDI - GoI, BIG, Pulse Lab Jakarta
Australia - FSDF - Office for Spatial Policy, GA, CGNA
Uganda – Pulse Lab Kampala
Globally – UNSDI
System of systems alignment
• INSPIRE -EU
• GEOSS - Eye on Earth
• OSM
Standards
• W3C, ISO, OGC, Statistical -SDMX
Thinking Outside the Polygon - Spatial information for Disaster Management | Paul Box | Page 20
21. Understanding the need
• Delivering the right information
• Unambiguously reference a place using URI – multiple names
• Identity not Geometry – ‘the Freemium model’
• Linking not central storage
• In the right way
• Granularity - from dataset to feature - Improved - discovery, exploration,
understanding, use
• Linked data - ‘spatial bookmarks’ for the web
• Feature-level metadata
• Scalable data licencing framework
• Semantics - multiple languages,
definitions
• Multiple formats
Thinking Outside the Polygon - Spatial information for Disaster Management | Paul Box | Page 21
22. For disaster management
• Persistent information infrastructure to link
information about places
• crowd-sourced and formal government data
• Linking of spatial and statistical systems
• Uptodate, timely information – with metadata
• Open data – available for all stakeholders
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Thank you
CSIRO Land and Water
Paul Box
Project Leader - UNSDI SIRF for Social Protection
Interoperable System Research Team Leader
Phone: +61 0406256006
Email: paul.j.box@csiro.au
Web: www.csiro.au/gazetteer
John Holmes UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
Editor's Notes
Thinking outside the polygon – Challenge to spatial community about improving the way we meet needs of users Talk about an initiative to develop scalable information infrastrcutre infrastructure that improves delivery of right bits of spatial information as framework for linking and integration of info across multiple systemsAddress some of the technical interoperability challenges of information integration as well as critical social and legal barriers to sharonginformaitonOdd at first to be be in policy and governance stream but many of the challegnes of sharing info mar in the governance and social – community agreement about standards and sharing to achieve interoperability
SIRF drivers for projectHow infrastrcutre works and
Infra – not monolithic systems
All stages of the disaster cycle infomration is needed – much of it the same
To understand and communicate information about risk Risk - The potential disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets and services, whichcould occur to a particular community or a society over some specified future timeperiod.Need to collect and analyse information about:Hazard dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage.Exposure - People, property, systems, present in hazard zones and subject to potential losses.Vulnerability - characteristics of a community, system or asset that make it susceptible effects of hazard
We address large scale informationintegration challegesBureau of Met,Geophyscis community – mostly spatila
We are faced with increasingly complex large scale interwoven challenges and solutions require collaboration and information sharing at unprcedented scale. need to work across domains and organsationscientificdiscplines and analyse phenomena and assess alternative from a range of different perspectives. Data and information required come from formal gov sources formally governed statistics formal well agreed defined processes and increasingly emergent data soruces many of these being big data - unstrucutured sentiment analysis. Data is collected at different scales, for different purposes stored and presented using different formats and different semantics making reuse and integration a signficant challenge. Change happens fast and effective response needs to be timely, requiring accurate uptodate information presented in meaningful ways for decision makers and other actors.phemonena that affect us are not uniform – highly variable spatially and temporally – need to support coarse grained spatial and temporal monitoring, analysis & reporting need to be able to work seamless across scales -
Lack of information is not a longer a problem. Big data – size isnt everythingNumber of containter increasing and volume of dataNature of the inffromation its flow and varietyThere are very large data holding and there are very large number of small data soruces feeding numerous production processThe internet of thingsNew sources of informatioin through sensors - sensors in everyday objectsEnvironemtnal sensors – wide rider buoys, hydroloigical monitoring stations citizen sensors – with average handphone and its user offering great potential as a sensor and live information stream numerous information production Linekd data – emerging approaches to be able to link individual pieces of information across the web – signficant advance from page based to data based linking . However this presents a range of unqiue challenges assocaited with navigatiogn complex related graphs of information resources Need to rapidly access and integrate near real time information to enable rapid response. - Glocalisation - accurate uptodate locally relevant and producedinfrormation to be scaled globally Information Tsunami - There is an increasing need to work across scientific and other domain boundaries and to rapidly distil meaning from an increasingly overwhelming volume of information. With the emergent of crowd sourcing and outputs from BIG data analysis the challenge is enormous. However, for any one real world location there are multiple representations, identifiers and place names in useOne name many places - Place names are ambiguous one name may refer to multiple places Integration is inefficient When trying to integrate information from multiple sources using geography, an enormous amount of time and effort is wasted in trying to find, acces, extract transform, load and understand data before it can be integrated with other data and usedThe UNSDI Gazetteer framework project funded by CSIRO and AusAID is an attempt to improve the use of spatial identifiers (gazetteers) that are used to refer to places in information systems. The project focuses on Social Protection in Indonesia and is providing support to the UN Global Pulse – provides the spatial framework and improved approaches to delivery and integration of formal, government data - Part of a global UN information infrastructure activity and is supportign national SDI efforts in Indonesia and Australia
Integration is inefficient, time consuming & expensiveEverything somewhere how do we refer to places – spatial identifiers ‘everything happens somewhere’ – It is said that 80% of gov data has spatial dimension. Geography is a key mechanism for integrating, analysis and interpretation of information from different systems.Highly spatially variable phenomena- need to tie information to placesIdea dimesnion for integration of infromaiotn
How do we pull together different streams of content – data and infomraiton from point fo truth systems nad valued added systems
Require timely informMulti-sectoralTNP2K - Coordinate across 14 gov agencies Consolidated database of vulnerable HHLD 20 million hhldsCetnralized social assistance provision – fuel, rice education subsidiesGlobal Pulse informal crowd-sourced
Similar to situation with identity for individuals passport, Drivers licenceRecording and reconciling these for places so other info can be hooked on
The gazetteer framework provides the scalable geographic dimension to the Linked Data Web. It is DNS for ‘where’Users access- Register data source- Harvest from WFS- Model transformation – Solid Ground- Connect back to underklying data set to access geometry for underlying feature- Operational provenance – where it came from but link to underlying geometry
Harvesting SI from ESRI WFSDelvivering si back into the portal
Moving from supply to demand driven Common reference – unambiguously reference a place using URI so we know we are talking about the same placeReference individual places not the whole datasetLinked data Project aims at supporting the geo-semantic web by developing a means to index, integrate, link and deliver spatial identifiers across national and global systems of systems. Essentially DNS for where persistent URI for each spatial identifier delivered into linked data web allows others to reliably reference cite, link information to placesCloud computing – massively scalable storage, access and processing of global datasetsLocally relevant, global data sets – improving creation and curation by data custodians in standardized ways that can be integrated at scale from local to global - Crowd- sourcing - Leveraging the power of the crowd – feeding back crowd sourced information to formal data custodian (government)Open data in context of heterogeneous business models – gazetteer is freemium viewpoint – name id and point for each featureOpen data and the freemium access model - Aim is to open up closed data holdings using a a freemium model Gazetteer is freemium view – free and open basic information about the existence and identity of spatial objects Provide links back to underlying data source for each feature. This enables integration of information across a highly heterogeneous pricing and licencing landscape drives business back to data providers and advertises their underlying data Open standards (ISO, OGC W3C) - for information content and technology – standardisation of delivery enables development of reusable tools that operate on gazetteer information Evolutionary approach - users to continue using existing gazetteers (for now) and framework links them together. Importantly information referenced using different gazetteers can be integrated as framework maintains cross-walks between gazetteers. In longer term, these cross walks and information about which gazetteers are being used to reference which statistical data can be used to consolidate gazetteers Providers do not need to change underlying data structures / business systems. Web service on top of data to deliver gazetteer information in standard way (structure and format). The gazetteer information delivered is a lightweight view of underlying heterogeneous data) based on an agreed information model – structure and semantics Building an institutional infrastructure – We are developing an information infrastructure. This is as much a social as technical undertaking. Solutions requires: a deep understanding of institutional and governance realities of infromation communities at variety of scales.- leveraging existing governance mechanisms – UN working with UN SDI (40+ Un Agencies that create and use spatial information) led by the UNN Chief Information and Technology Office an Assistant Secretary General. In Indonesia – partnering with BIG the national mapping agency – BIG is leading national efforts to build an Indonesian SDI. IN Australia partnering with GA – national mapping agency, Office for Spatial Policy.
Linked data Project aims at supporting the geo-semantic web by developing a means to index, integrate, link and deliver spatial identifiers across national and global systems of systems. Essentially DNS for where persistent URI for each spatial identifier delivered into linked data web allows others to reliably reference cite, link information to placesCloud computing – massively scalable storage, access and processing of global datasetsLocally relevant, global data sets – improving creation and curation by data custodians in standardized ways that can be integrated at scale from local to global - Crowd- sourcing - Leveraging the power of the crowd – feeding back crowd sourced information to formal data custodian (government)Open data in context of heterogeneous business models – gazetteer is freemium viewpoint – name id and point for each featureOpen data and the freemium access model - Aim is to open up closed data holdings using a a freemium model Gazetteer is freemium view – free and open basic information about the existence and identity of spatial objects Provide links back to underlying data source for each feature. This enables integration of information across a highly heterogeneous pricing and licencing landscape drives business back to data providers and advertises their underlying data Open standards (ISO, OGC W3C) - for information content and technology – standardisation of delivery enables development of reusable tools that operate on gazetteer information Evolutionary approach - users to continue using existing gazetteers (for now) and framework links them together. Importantly information referenced using different gazetteers can be integrated as framework maintains cross-walks between gazetteers. In longer term, these cross walks and information about which gazetteers are being used to reference which statistical data can be used to consolidate gazetteers Providers do not need to change underlying data structures / business systems. Web service on top of data to deliver gazetteer information in standard way (structure and format). The gazetteer information delivered is a lightweight view of underlying heterogeneous data) based on an agreed information model – structure and semantics Building an institutional infrastructure – We are developing an information infrastructure. This is as much a social as technical undertaking. Solutions requires: a deep understanding of institutional and governance realities of infromation communities at variety of scales.- leveraging existing governance mechanisms – UN working with UN SDI (40+ Un Agencies that create and use spatial information) led by the UNN Chief Information and Technology Office an Assistant Secretary General. In Indonesia – partnering with BIG the national mapping agency – BIG is leading national efforts to build an Indonesian SDI. IN Australia partnering with GA – national mapping agency, Office for Spatial Policy.