cebit spatial@gov 2012 - cathy crooks, senior business engagement advisor, department of...

Australia and New Zealand

Spatial Marketplace

Demonstrator Project

Cathy Crooks

ANZSM Project Manager

Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment

cathy.crooks@dse.vic.gov.au

Vision

the Spatial Marketplace will be a simple and useable

one-stop-shop for finding spatial data, accessing

spatial analysis tools and sharing spatial resources.

�complete publishing, discovery, access, distribution and

interoperability services for all spatial information

resources in Australia and New Zealand

2

ANZSM Partners

New Zealand

& Program 3

Project Control

Board

Steering Committee

Technical

Reference

Group

ANZSM Evaluation

�Series of roadshows and workshop during 2012

across Australian and New Zealand

Evaluation and feedback

Evaluation Purpose

�Engage a broader range of stakeholders

and users

�Receive feedback, thoughts and ideas

�Evaluating options for the Spatial

Marketplace

�Determining next steps

Key Questions

�Do you support the Australia and New

Zealand Spatial Marketplace concept?

�Would you actively support a Australia and

New Zealand Spatial Marketplace?

�What functions would you like to see in an

operational Australia and New Zealand

Spatial Marketplace?

Where did we go?

Who did we speak to?

Government Private Academia

Brisbane 9 4 0

Melbourne 6 10 1

Wellington 10 6 2

Sydney 7 9 2

Canberra 11 3 0

Adelaide 8 6 0

Perth 3 5 4

Hobart 10 2 0

Top 5 benefits1 2 3 4 5

Brisbane Discoverability Improved

access

Provision of

resources

Transparency

of source

Access to fit

for purpose

Melbourne Discoverability National not

state

Simplified

licensing

Improved

access

Access to fit

for purpose

Wellington Simplified

licensing

Facilitates

linkages

Control of

resources

Commercial

issues resolved

Increase

productivity

Sydney Single point of

access

Simplified

licensing

Choice of

resources

Facilitate

innovation

Promotional

for industry

Canberra Discoverability Authoritative

resources

Single point of

access

Reduce costs /

cost effective

Understand

resource value

Adelaide Discoverability Improved

access

Saves time and

money

Single point of

access

Innovation/

value adding

Perth Reliability Automated

serendipity

All data can be

found

Data currency Multiple access

channels

Hobart Efficiency Networking

crowdsourcing

Awareness of

what is there

One stop shop Reduce some

barriers to access

Barriers to participation

�Politics and government policy

�Resourcing

�Broad scale commitment

�Truly representative model

�Pricing and licensing, IP

�Sustainable business model

�Work with existing systems

�Unknown cost of participation

�Existing commercial agreements

�Unknown return on investment

�Resolving the ‘hard issues’

�Standards implementation

�Understanding legal liability

� IT infrastructure

�Quality of current data

�Confidence levels by users

�Custodian comfort

�Resistance to change

Question 1

�Do you support the Australia and New

Zealand Spatial Marketplace concept?

�Majority

• Yes – definitely

• Yes – maybe

�The rest = No

Question 2

�Would you actively support a Australia and

New Zealand Spatial Marketplace?

�Half = Conditional maybe

• Depends on business case

• Depends on commitment

�Half = No

Question 3

�What functions would you like to see in an

operational Australia and New Zealand

Spatial Marketplace?

Functionality required

�Discovery that works

�Mixed models for payment

�Reminders to update

metadata/ good metadata

�Custodian contact details

�Feedback for resources

�Web services integration

�User friendly

�SaaS

�Visualise before download

�Tools for linking data

�Data and product access

�Secure transactions

�Access to skills/ knowledge

�Advertising functions

�Accessing most recent resources

�Automation of mechanical

functions

Current state

�Agreed that there is a difference between

a SDI and the Spatial Marketplace

�Can be created by adapting existing

infrastructure, but …

�It is an evolving and maturing concept

requiring further research and innovation

Recommendations

�Leverage existing infrastructures – adopt, adapt,

invent

�Focus on standards

�Research industry standard search architectures

�Garner support from the private sector

�Make the most of lessons learned

�Maintain the vision

�Openly share the demonstrator IP and code

Recommendation 1.1

� The current Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) Project being

undertaken by the Office of Spatial Policy (OSP) and Geoscience

Australia (GA) seek to leverage the opportunities for research and

collaboration with the research community, including CSIRO, NCRIS,

and CRC-SI to test and develop, a robust national search and

discovery capability with a focus on moving to a semantic web

environment in the future.

� Where possible CRC-SI leverage the research ontologies /vocabularies

/semantics / and linked data of those entities and other jurisdictions

that have already made significant progress in this area; and

� Consult with OSP, GA and CSIRO to understand the SIS Stack (SISS)

architecture and potential national capabilities.

Recommendation 1.2

�To increase existing levels of interoperability across the

system of systems ANZLIC leverage both completed and

current work on standardised reference architectures,

middleware and crosswalks, including:

�CRC-SI Project 3.06 Alignment Study of Spatial Data Supply

Chains; and

�existing SDIs including, but not limited to, ASDD, AuScope, SISS,

National Environmental Information Infrastructure (NEII), LINZ

Data Service, SLIP Future, AURIN and PSMA systems.

Recommendation 2.1

�ANZLIC, via TC-211 Working Group and

ANZ OGC Forum, tap into the existing

standards work in the ISO, OGC and

INSPIRE (and the Canadian equivalent)

organisations.

Recommendation 2.2

�CRC-SI use its relationship with OGC to

input and leverage the work of the OGC

Phase 9 (OWS-9).

Recommendation 2.3

�ANZLIC Secretariat engage with the Open

Technology Foundation and similar

organisations to explore opportunities to

work through standards issues and

compliance of existing infrastructures.

Recommendation 2.4

�As part of the development of the NFSDF ANZLIC

to provide oversight to the development of a

standards based spatial information architecture,

in consultation with the jurisdictions, to facilitate

search/discovery/access via the web for existing

infrastructure. This effort will draw upon the

current effort in developing a reference spatial

architecture in OSP, Landgate, the NZ Geospatial

Office, CSIRO and BOM.

Recommendation 2.5

�Seek commitment from ANZLIC members

to implement the agreed standard

architecture to ensure interoperability and

maximise the search, discovery, and access

opportunities from a national perspective.

Recommendation 3.1

�The CRC-SI undertake research, and use

the OGC Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed, to

further develop web-based services,

specifically search and discovery as

outlined in the current Program 3 Strategy

including WFS, WPS etc.

Recommendation 3.2

�The Defence Science and Technology

Organisation (DSTO) be consulted with a

view to linking the Defence Geospatial

Domain to the future infrastructure.

Recommendations 4.1 & 4.2

�CRC-SI use industry partners to assist in

the research into semantic web search

capabilities.

�Industry partners to leverage the research

and resulting capabilities and where

possible commercialise them to assist in

the realisation of a distributed online

marketplace.

Recommendation 5.1

�The lessons learned and knowledge generated

from the ANZSM project be utilised by ANZLIC

and other stakeholders to help inform

discussions on the development of policies and

architectures for spatial information.

Recommendation 6.1

�ANZLIC retain the Spatial Marketplace vision for

the longer term, but will refocus its efforts from

the single portal approach to a distributed online

market. The market can then be underpinned by

the next generation spatial infrastructure and will

become accessible through a range of devices

and channels, including social media.

Recommendation 6.2

�ANZLIC review the ANZSM Principles document

and use it to inform decisions that support

emerging models, technologies and marketplaces

that align with the overall vision.

Recommendations 7.1 & 7.2

�The CRC-SI be given ownership of the

spatial marketplace demonstrator to

extract value from work completed, and to

enable further research and development.

�Ownership of the domains

www.spatialmarketplace.net.au and

www.spatialmarketplace.co.nz to remain

with ANZLIC.

Recommendations 7.3 & 7.4

�The working ANZSM Demonstrator, as

developed up to Friday 9 November 2012,

be formally retired by PSMA Australia.

�The ANZSM Demonstrator code be made

available under creative commons

licensing and made freely available for all

who wish to use it.

Recommendation 7.5

�The Intellectual Property arising from the

ANZSM Demonstrator project be made

freely available.

What next

�ANZLIC to focus on maintaining the vision, developing

foundation data and policies, and standards coordination

across the jurisdictions

�CRCSI to focus on researching the tricky issues –

discoverability, usability, accessibility, data federation

�SIBA to encourage all members to leverage what has

been achieved and what will come to innovate and

compete

And finally …

�Thank you to the Steering Committee and

Technical Reference Group members

�Thank you to all workshop participants

and those who have provided input along

the way

Cathy Crooks

Project Manager, ANZSM

Cathy.crooks@dse.vic.gov.au

+61 418 377 233

+61 3 9637 8501

@Spatial_Cathy

Brisbane

�Something needs to happen

�Organisational leadership required

�Focus on discoverability

�Evolutionary approach required

�Shouldn’t be driven by government

�Get some easy wins

�People problem, not technology

�Need a robust business case

Melbourne

�Viable business model needed

�Lots of planning and work is required

�Standards are important

�Need commitment from all

�Need to work with current commercial markets

�Can’t just be a government resource

Wellington

�Can’t just be a portal

�Commitment from all sectors

�Critical mass of resources

�Manage quality of resources

�Must be user friendly

�Must use standards

�Good discoverability and access required

�If we don’t do this Google will. Do we want that?

Sydney

�Being able to understand fitness-for-purpose is

key

�Need people who understand business

�Must be attractive to the private sector

�What about engaging non-traditional users?

�We have been here before, sort out the hard

issues

Canberra

�Governance of the marketplace needs to be

resolved

�How do we engage non-traditional users?

�Sustainable structure

�Who is going to pay for this?

�Good idea, but ...

Adelaide

�What is the payment model?

�An opportunity for government and the private

sector

�Business model is important

�Need buy in from all sectors

�Quality of the resources is important

�Long term viability

Perth

�Learn from the ‘lessons learned’

�Need ‘trusted’ relationships

�Discoverable via google

�Challenge is not the technology

�Getting uptake is the challenge

�Linking, not duplicating, infrastructure

Hobart

�What is taking you so long? Get something

working!

�What about aspatial data?

�Need to have authoritative data

�Need to leapfrog technology