One Scotland: One Geography

Dr Cameron Easton

Head of Spatial Information Policy

INSPIRE 2011

Scotland’s SDI: Data Publishing

Some Case Studies

Just to remind you ….!

So, everything’s OK?

Everything now just falls into place??

Weelll …… not exactly!

And doing it properly takes time, effort ….. And the right people!

And we need to make sure that our data delivery is right

We need to make sure that our data standards are right

Example #1 – Collaborative procurement

•In April 2011 the Scottish Government and the James Hutton Institute signed a license agreement to enable free access to extensive national soils data collected by the former MLURI over the past 70 years

•The SG is establishing a website and database later in 2011 which will hold all relevant soils data collected in Scotland - the license agreement with JHI will play a major role in this task

•This Scottish soils website & database along with the Scottish air quality website & database will be linked into a future SEWEB which SEPA are leading.

Access to Scottish Soils Data & Information

This will make a wide range of spatially explicit data and information on the Scottish environment freely and readily available

via the web thus meeting many of the aims of the INSPIRE Directive

Example # 2 Data delivery - Addresses

INSPIRE June 2011

History of One Scotland Gazetteer

Programme began in 2003 with MGF funding of c£10M (further £7M)

(DNA Scotland / National Gazetteer for Scotland / One Scotland Gazetteer)

One Scotland Gazetteer first created in 2007

Live Applications include ePlanning & Energy Performance Certificates

Involved all 32 councils building local Corporate Address Gazetteers

Common standards and product

BS7666

Scottish conventions

Supporting Customer First \ Citizen Account \ National Entitlement Card

INSPIRE June 2011

Different stakeholder views of a property

Property to be valued,

classified and attributed

[Assessors]

Property to deliver

services to and/or control

development and collect

Council Tax. [LA]

Property to deliver mail

to [RM]

Property to be surveyed and

attributed [OS]

Legal Title to be registered [RoS]

Home address of 1 pupil

[LA Education]

“The user’s view is determined by their

application and thereon this affects the

kind of data they need/collect�”

Status of buildings

and occupants

[GROS]

Fire to be put out

[Strathclyde Fire & Rescue]

000126002759 [Anyone

or everyone??]

Home of four patients [NHS]

Home of one employee [NHS]

The One Scotland Gazetteer provides a referencing framework to

link these datasets to give a complete picture

INSPIRE June 2011

The INSPIRE European

Union Directive

Formalises the requirement to create a

spatial data infrastructure SDI for

Scotland

Then some new requirements came along...

INSPIRE June 2011

....... at a Time of Shrinking Public Sector Budgets

The Inevitability of

Major Budget Cuts

for the

Public Sector

We can use the mechanisms we have, to:

• Streamline

• Rationalise

• Deliver efficiencies

• Create shared services

INSPIRE June 2011

What is the plan?

INSPIRE June 2011

Because if we don’t have a plan what might we get !!

INSPIRE June 2011

“Managing the overall process was challenging –

increasingly so once the funding was given out!!”

Issue 1: Getting everyone to do the same thing!

INSPIRE June 2011

Contrast and compare organisational structures

Exhibit A: Terrorist Group

Cell-based structure

Links only to level above

Little knowledge of others

Information on need to know

STRENGTH

Exhibit B: Public Sector Org.

Cell-based structure

Links only to level above

Little knowledge of others

Information on need to know

WEAKNESS

INSPIRE June 2011

Issue 2: Licensing and IPR Claims

“The reason that we never mentioned it was that the

elephant took out a super-injunction forbidding us to

even acknowledge that it was in the room, let alone talk

about it.”

INSPIRE June 2011

Issue 3: Creation difficult - easier than Maintenance

“The importance of an effective maintenance regime

cannot be over-estimated.”

Example # 3 Information delivery - environment

Scotland’s Environment Web:

‘The public face of INSPIRE in

Scotland’

Scotland’s Environment Web:

‘The gateway to everything

you want to know about

Scotland’s environment’

Process of website development

• Wireframes developed

through workshops

• Functionality defined

• Some basic layout defined

• Graphic designed & branded

as Natural Scotland

2010 - 2011 2011 - 2012 2012 - 2013 2013 - 2014Post-Life+

2014 onwards �

Extend partnership to local authorities,

other agencies, academia, NGOs

Implement Regional SEIS and extend web

presentation capability

Implement public engagement actions &

develop public monitoring actions

Post-Life+

partnership to

continue

development

and

dissemination

Figure 1: Interaction between SEWeb work and the Life+ proposal

Launch simple State of Environment web based

upon available agency data

Priority lists of data

requirements;

Project website launched; 1st

Public Survey; Digital

newsletters commence;

Metadata repository; extend

data availability on extended

SEWeb

Priority list of

environmental

problems; E-

networking Groups;

Launch website

applications for public

involvement in

monitoring

2nd Public survey;

Guidance package;

videos; Public

campaigns;

Dissemination

conferences,

Scotland, Brussels;

After-Life

Communication Plan

Post-Life+

dissemination work

continues

Key deliverables

Identify data needs and gaps, undertake data

analysis, and make available

Develop prioritisation process and assess

effectiveness of measures

2010-11: Build agency

partnership: explore

data availability

2011: Launch simple

State of Environment web

based upon available

agency data

Existing SEWeb project 2010 - 2011 LIFE+ project 2011 - 2014

This is the big challenge for 2011 onwards

To keep delivering new additions That contribute to the infrastructureAnd don’t reinvent wheels and waste scarce resources

Which means ….. the future is in our hands