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Locate15 Conference - Brisbane, Australia
Denise McKenzie gave a presentation on open standards for sustainable development at Locate15 in Brisbane, Australia. She discussed how open standards can help create a "World Wide Web of environmental data" by enabling data discovery, access, and sharing. Key open standards mentioned include OGC standards like GML, CityGML, and Sensor Web Enablement, as well as other emerging standards. Open standards are needed to support environmental monitoring, accounting, and tracking progress on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
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- 2. OGC ® Who am I?Whoam I? Executive Director Communications & Outreach Open Geospatial Consortium Australian Citizen UK Resident Global traveler @spatialred
- 3. OGC ® WhitepaperWhitepaper Copyright © 2015Open Geospatial Consortium
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- 5. OGC ® The technosphere: humanimpacts, good & badThe technosphere: human impacts, good & bad Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium We have entered the Anthropocene Epoch!
- 6. OGC ® Sustainability? It dependson us.Sustainability? It depends on us. To understand, adapt to and mitigate human-caused changes in the biosphere that supports us, we need Information technology (IT), and lots of data! Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 7. OGC ® Exponential growth indata, but…Exponential growth in data, but… However, data has little value if it can’t be easily discovered, assessed, accessed, aggregated, combined, passed from system to system, etc. We get lots of data from an explosion of sensors, satellites, citizens, models, etc. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 8. OGC ® Open standards createa World Wide Web of Environmental dataOpen standards create a World Wide Web of Environmental data Discover, assess, access, aggregate, combine, pass from system to system, etc. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 9. OGC ® Data is worthmore as a shared resource:Data is worth more as a shared resource: Open Data + Open Standards enable: •Reusability •Virtual experiments •Data-driven intelligence •Big Data spatial analytics •Harnessing the power of the crowd Adapted from Reinventing Discovery – The New Era of Networked Science by Michael Nielson Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 10. OGC ® Standards are neededto…Standards are needed to… for science, education, business, policy and management . environmental observations & measurements… communicate, publish, discover, assess, access, aggregate, and process… to develop: information, knowledge, and good decisions Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 11. OGC ® Unobstructed flow of environmentaldata Data stovepipes Consensus standards are essential!Consensus standards are essential! Sciences Professions Industry Government Consensus within and among: Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 12. OGC ® OGC’s Role inEnvironmental StandardsOGC’s Role in Environmental Standards • Environmental features and phenomena exist in space & time. • OGC helps communities and other SDOs develop standards for communicating about things in space & time. • Not “maps”, but space & time in IT space! Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 13. OGC ® Environment = natural+ built environmentsEnvironment = natural + built environments For natural environment: Geography Markup Language (GML) = encoding standard for all types of geospatial data (including geosciences) For built environment: CityGML (a GML application schema) = encoding standard for 3D urban models. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 14. OGC ® GML, CityGML andSWE – Foundational standardsGML, CityGML and SWE – Foundational standards GML and CityGML and Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards (SensorML, Observations & Measurements, Sensor Planning Service etc.) (and soon SensorThings) provide the web service foundation for … and other environmental standards yet to be developed. WaterML GeoSciML WXXM netCDF PipeLineML Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 15. OGC ® Is PipeLineML anenvironmental standard?Is PipeLineML an environmental standard? Yes! •Environment = natural + built environments •Knowledge of Earth systems is not enough! •Sustainable development means managing resources, infrastructure and behavior, guided by good science. PipeLineML Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 16. OGC ® Environmental AccountingEnvironmental Accounting •Sustainable development will impact commerce, corporate “good will” accounts, government oversight, taxes, and perhaps monetary systems. • All of these will require environmental measurements & trustable, transparent, and digitally useful communication of environmental measurements. “Triple bottom line” accounting Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 17. OGC ® Measurements that matterto value chains! •Greenhouse gases & offsets •Pollution •Wastes •Physical Infrastructure and “emergy*” •Resources •Hazards •Health What needs to be communicated?What needs to be communicated? (* embedded energy)RF spectrum Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 18. OGC ® Status of EnvironmentalIT StandardsStatus of Environmental IT Standards OGC geospatial Web Service, CityGML and Sensor Web Enablement Standards Other Web Standards… OGC WaterML 2.0 (adopted by OGC) OGC GeoSciML (introduced into OGC) OGC PipelineML (beginning) CarbonML (idea stage, prototype) Sediment ML (idea stage) SoilML (under development by JRC & partners) Air ? WXXM - Weather Information Exchange Model (WMO. Builds on OGC GML) Radiofreq. Spectrum ? Noise ? Species ? Neighborhoods? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? STANDARDS FOUNDATION Uncertainty & Imprecision Still-needed foundation standards: Provenance Rights management Unstructured data Points of Interest (PoI) More … Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 19. OGC ® The standards ecosystemis dynamic!The standards ecosystem is dynamic! • JSON, REST, Linked Data and the Semantic Web provide alternatives to and new ways of using Web services. New IT trends will evolve. • Also, disciplines’ and domains’ focus, data models and workflows evolve. • This dynamism requires ongoing standards work! Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 20. OGC ® United Nations –SD Post 2016 GoalsUnited Nations – SD Post 2016 Goals Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all Goal 8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Goal 9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Goal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries Goal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Goal 12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts* Goal 14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Goal 15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Goal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels Goal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Sustainable Development Goals * Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change
- 21. OGC ® It’s in ourhandsIt’s in our hands Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium
- 22. ® Please keep intouch!Please keep in touch! www.opengeospatial.orgwww.opengeospatial.org © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium© 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Denise McKenzie dmckenzie@opengeospatial.org @spatialred @opengeospatial@opengeospatial Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) http://www.youtube.com/user/ogcvideohttp://www.youtube.com/user/ogcvideo
Editor's Notes
- #2 Sustainabile Development – UN focus on how the world will continue to develop Urban Resilience UN SD goals later this year. COBWEB at GGIM and VGI and citizen science
- #5 Epoch or Era of the world – in the same way that we classify the Jurassic period. Commissioned in 2012 by the Planet Under Pressure for a conference in London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvgG-pxlobk Data from OGC members such as NASA, NOAA, NGA
- #6 There’s solid scientific consensus on global warming. I (we) thought the 1972 Limits to Growth findings had been discredited, but this Australian Research shows that we still face serious challenges from population and resource depletion.
- #7 Change behavior BASEDO ON FACTS!
- #9 So we can discover, assess, verify, access, aggregate, combine, reuse, and pass data from model to model…
- #10 When apps implement standards, “citizen science” creates better data and better metadata. Enhancing citizen scientists’ real value enhances their love of science.
- #13 Deveolop a model in IT space of the environment Spatial awareness at all levels, esp IOT hyperlocal geography and spatial awareness
- #17 All depend on environmental evidence: National income accounting, financial accounting, & internal business managerial accounting: B corporations Cap and trade schemes City rating systems (STAR, C40, ISO 37120, etc.) Environmental impact statements Environmental regulation Environmental taxes Human Development Index Human Security Index Triple bottom line accounting Trustable measurements & trustable, transparent, and digitally useful communication of measurements of Greenhouse gases Hazards & risk Health Physical Infrastructure Pollution Resources Wastes etc.
- #19 A domain that develops a domain-specific data encoding standard based on OGC standards and on the domain's semantic standards gives domain participants much fuller access to developments in the mainstream digital technology world: Web searches, chained computer models, full use of cloud infrastructures, Big Data, data analytics, data fusion, management tools for open data, heterogeneous sensor webs and much more . Need some discussion of the modeling and “management” of uncertainty and inherent inprecission at some point. Dotted border indicates standard is not adopted yet. (Not sure about JRC’s SoilML.)
- #20 Technology does not stay still – advancements and developments will always mean that we need to continue working together to define our.
- #22 Whereas sustainable development depends on the communication of environmental data, and Whereas such communication depends on open standards, We call upon funding agencies to support research in Developing information requirements for environmental value chains and workflows, addressing users’ needs to publish, discover, assess, access, aggregate, analyze and display environmental data and information. Analyzing the open data encodings and interfaces necessary for accomplishing these use cases in open distributed computing environments. Providing estimates of the societal and industry stakeholder value that would be realized through development of such encodings and interfaces. Also, implementing and testing candidate standards. The OGC calls upon academic, industry, foundation and government leaders to Appeal to funding agencies to support standards work that supports sustainable development. Consider the value that would accrue to their stakeholders if they were to help develop one or more of the standards and best practices suggested by the studies proposed here. Work with the appropriate standards development organizations to begin developing those standards.