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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