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The Go-Geo! Spatial Data Portal: A Data Discovery and Research Tool for UK Academia Tony Mathys EDINA National Data Centre University of Edinburgh
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The Go-Geo! Spatial Data Portal: A Data Discovery and Research Tool for UK Academia
Tony MathysEDINA National Data CentreUniversity of Edinburgh
Geospatial?
METADATA?
Greek and Latin origin
Photographic Images copyright: Jupiter Images 2006
Metadata? (food labels!)
Content?
Expire date?
Quality?
Metadata? (recipe!)
WhatWhat are the ingredients?
WhatWhat are thebrewing steps?
Photographic Images copyright: Jupiter Images 2006
WhoWho sells the ingredients or
Wherehere can youbuy them?
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! began
• Perl
• Z39.50 protocol
• GEO Profile for searching and retrieving records (ISite)
• Academic profile based on theUK NGDF metadata guidelines
• Project started 2001
• JISC funded
• Collaboration betweenEDINA Data Centre andUK Data Archive
• Go-Geo! portal launchedin early 2003
OtherContent ProvidersNGDF/GIgateway
Network
Geo-data Gateway
Local Go-Geo!database
Go-Geo!Portal
User
Augment with content from UK network
The long journey to service
• A new profile compliant withISO 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 tosupport 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 and geo-services.
Mapped to Dublin Core, DDI, FGDC, INSPIRE and UK GEMINI 2.
UK Academic Geospatial UK Academic Geospatial Metadata Application Profile, Application Profile, Version 2 (UK AGMAP 2)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 CreationMetadata Creation
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Mind reading aliens?
Solutions?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 guidelinesand 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 WorkshopsJuly 2007
Aberdeen University Marine/ECO-IMAGINE
Geospatial Technologies Course
2008 Sheffield University
Southampton University
June 2010Plymouth University
2003Durham University
City University
2004University of Essex
York UniversityStrathclyde UniversityBradford University
Oxford Brookes University
Coventry UniversityEdinburgh University
Oxford UniversityKingston UniversitySheffield University
2006 Aberdeen University
Leeds UniversityCambridge University
Oxford UniversityStirling UniversityGlasgow University
Heriot-Watt UniversityStrathclyde UniversityKingston UniversityGISRUK Conference
(Nottingham)Edinburgh University
Autumn 2010Aberdeen University
Cardiff UniversityGlasgow University
St. Andrews UniversityStirling University
Civil Engineering
Biological Sciences
Planning
Environmental Sciences
Architecture
Information Technology
Retailing
Climate
Sociology
Library Science
Landscape Planning
Archaeology
Mathematics
Health
Ecology
Geosciences
Go-Geo! 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 licence data rightsfor derived spatial data
ShareGeo • A repository for academic
deposit and extraction of spatial data.
• Resides under Digimap Collections Service.
• Addresses IPR and residual licence data issues.
• Holds almost 100 nationaland international spatial datasets.
• Open access version of ShareGeo to be completedin July 2010.
Ordnance Survey and Open Data
UK AGMAP 2Guidelines
Geodoc tadata toolCustomised Go-Geo! Portal
NodesTraining
Geography
Archaeology
Geological Sciences
Biological Sciences
Go-Geo!
Go-Go!
Go-Geo!
University A
UK AGMAP 2 Guidelines
Geodoc metadata toolCustomised Go-Geo! Portal
NodesTraining
Geography
Archaeology
Geological Sciences
Biological Sciences
Go-Geo!
Go-Go!
Go-Geo!
University B
UK AGMAP 2Guidelines
Geodoc metadata toolCustomised Go-Geo! Portal
NodesTraining
Geography
Archaeology
Geological Sciences
Biological Sciences
Go-Geo!
Go-Go!
Go-Geo!
University C
UK AGMAP 2Guidelines
Geodoc metadata tool Customised Go-Geo! Portal
NodesTraining
Geography
Archaeology
Geological Sciences
Biological Sciences
Go-Geo!
Go-Go!
University D
Go-Geo!
SDI for UK academia
Otherresourcesand portals
Spatial Data Repository
Spatial data
Metadata
Search
Spatial datauser
Metadata
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)
Thank you!
