Water and Environmental Hub - U of L
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Alex Joseph's WEHUB University of Lethbridge presentation on September 2, 2010
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Water and Environmental Hub - U of L
- 1. Water and Environmental Hub since 26.04.2010 Alex Joseph Executive Director University of Lethbridge September 2, 2010
- 3. STORE 32000 YRS MOVE 5000 YRS AMASS 20 YRS DISTRIBUTE 1994 PRODUCE 2008
- 4. 32000 YRS 5000 YRS 20 YRS 1994 2008 2010
- 5. If there’s all this data out there... Why do I and my students spend 50-75% of time trying to find it? |
- 6. The Problem Until Now • Data is exploding • Data sets are large • Data has been hard to move around • Data is precious • Ironically data is our first and last thought...
- 7. "Access to and sharing of water and land use information and knowledge remains one of the most significant challenges to the development of responsible management policies and plans" - University of Lethbridge President and Vice- chancellor Dr. Bill Cade
- 8. Google Apps AB Env IP3/WC2N UNGEMS
- 9. Vision To become the open source, web platform that connects water and environmental data with the tools and people needed to advance water research, integrated management, innovation, and economic diversification.
- 10. We will try to do to water data and information What Google has done to text, images, video... volume – accessibility – mashups - customization
- 11. if <this> data explosion web 2.0 + open data high speed networks cloud computing </this> IS TRUE for WATER then {benefit} = > data open and accessible online < time and $ spent in acquisition > eresearch, innovation, economic diversification
- 12. Apps WEHUB Mediators Data IP3/WC2N UNGEMS GIN ...
- 13. Approach • Distributed: data stays with owners • Scalable: exists in the cloud • Seamless: acts as one virtual database • Multi-access: multiple portals, tools • Standards-based: use nat’l & int’l standards e.g. Groundwater ML (GWML) WaterML GeoSciML
- 14. Integrated Management Industry Energy Agriculture Integrated Apps Policy General Government Public Citizen Science Civic Innovation Users Economic Environment WPACs eResearch NGOs Academia Economic Environment Flood/Drought Repository
- 15. Who
- 16. INITIAL FUNDING Scanning • Q2 2010 Development • Q3 2010 Public Launch • Q3 2011 Feedback & • Q3 2011 Refinement
- 17. Alex Joseph Executive Director - Water and Environmental Hub Cybera Inc. Direct: (403) 826-3915 Email: alex.joseph@cybera.ca http://www.cybera.ca/project/water-and-environmental-hub
Editor's Notes
- Today we are both empowered by laptops connected to wireless high speed networks and swamped by information that that provides.For many this is a problem including organizations that collect data.However, if we could easily sort through this mess we have an opportunity.
- More recently, the web has transformed from being less oneway and static, to a two-way sharing network where we are all not just consumers but now can easily be producers.The world's store of digital content is now the equivalent of one full top-of-the-range iPod for every two people on the planet, following the explosion of social networking sites, internet-enabled mobile phones and government surveillance. - guardian.co.uk, Monday 18 May 2009
- And this has allowed us as a species to produce more data and information since Obama took his presendency than all previous history combined.