PGIST CyberGIS Integration Strategy

Timothy Nyerges, Mary RoderickUniversity of Washington

November 10, 2011

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About PGIST

Enables large-scale, asynchronous participation of a diverse group of actors in a decision making process. Delphi and Technology of Participation heavily influence both processes.

Structured deliberation, consensus-building & decision-making Open, transparent decision repository Participation metrics for reporting

Collection of participatory deliberation tools: BCT/CCT/CSTBrainstorm Concerns / Categorize Concerns / Concerns Synthesis

TypicalWorkflow:

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PGIST Architecture

Web-based application, user-interface needed for deliberationBCT/CCT/CST are composed of DWR agents, Struts action classes, Hibernate persistence objects

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CyberGIS & PGIST Integration

Two-fold Purpose: Enable structured discussion about Gateway integration

Discuss

Discuss

Not Bug Tracking! Deliberative framework to advance GIScience.

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CyberGIS & PGIST Integration

Two-fold Purpose: Support collaborative domain science research and problem-solving

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CyberGIS & PGIST Architecture

Single sign-on via Token ServiceCustom web interface for CyberGIS

PGIST Server

IFrame

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1st Deliberation Topic

Evaluation and development of metrics for:CyberGIS Gateway

Integrated Software ElementsBackground:VCC (the specific PGIST application being integrated into the Gateway) is useful for synthesizing open dialog into a definitive set of topics/indicators/metrics through a mix of automated text mining, user interaction, and group decision making.

Why Participatory Metrics Development?We want to know about people’s experience with CyberGIS and need a systematic way of structuring that information. Through participatory metrics development we achieveboth.

From CyberGIS Proposal, pg. C-6: “Evaluation of the CyberGIS framework will be based on rigorous metrics and driven by the same participatory approach developed to capture evolving community requirements.”

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CyberGIS Metrics Overview

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CyberGIS Collaboratory

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Brainstorm = free form input from each user, for which key words are generated that will later be used to develop metric categories and assign measurement units

Assess = provide comments on others’ feedback and vote to move forward to metric category development

Proposed Agenda:One week per step

Agenda is generic. Instructions for each step will provide specific details about metric development.

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CyberGIS Collaboratory

Write about your experience using CyberGIS in the box on the right and select or write your own keywords and keyphrases. Be specific. Try to use keywords and keyphrases that describe your experience in terms of how you used CyberGIS and any issues or difficulties you encountered. Of course, praise is welcome too! We will use these keywords and key phrases to develop evaluation metrics in the next step.

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CyberGIS Collaboratory

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CyberGIS Collaboratory

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CyberGIS Collaboratory

Explore other participants’ metric categories for keywords and keyphrases. Make comments and discuss how well they capture your experience with using CyberGIS. Vote on moving forward to Step 3 when satisfied.

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Requirements Analysis Review & Update

Requirements Overview4 Broad Areas of Participatory Requirements

BusinessThe character of geospatial problem solving.

SystemCapabilities to address geospatial problem solving.

ComponentSoftware design for implementing capabilities.

ApplicationPackaging the components into solutions to address scientific problem solving requirements.

Web Survey

Use Cases

CyberGIS Integration Requirements

Applications

Generic CyberInfrastructure

Service Providers

Service Consumers

End Users

Portals

Model Standards

TechStandards

Service Registry

Devices

Spatial Middleware

System, Component,ApplicationRequirements

BusinessRequirements

IntegrationRequirements

Use Case Overview

Use Case Overview

Requirements Synthesis ExampleEM.BUC.1 Wildfire Evacuation Triggers

Yan’s Comment: This table is a good starting point, but it only lists what current system use cases claim to have. To enrich this section:• Find more details of each existing software to make the list more complete. • Ask each software provider to check what they have, will have, would like to have in CyberGIS project. I believe we have most of capabilities, but the challenge is on integration.

What have we learned?• Range of use cases represents the diversity of research CyberGIS can support and need for on-going contributions.• Business use cases should be supported by one or more system use cases. Due to the distributed and voluntary nature of the participatory requirements process and SE contributions, this 1:1 or

1:M relationship is not given at this time. • Identification of missing functionality important to drive future

requirements and prioritize software element integration. • Gaps between the emergency management and software element use cases also indicate the need for both a top-down, domain science driven and a bottom-up, interoperability- focused integration strategy.

Next Steps

Bottom Up Strategy:• Pairwise integration with Gateway • Documentation of best practices:

SEs and Gateway in action.• Integration across SEs

Top Down Strategy:• Selection of one domain science UC

(UW suggests flooding vulnerability)• Creation of baseline UC

• Mapping between baselineand CyberGIS

Flooding is the most severe hazard – causing both the largest loss of life and most physical damage. It is both an acute emergency management and climate change issue.

Social Media

How can social media enhance CyberGIS?“for broad-based communication functionalities and are used to develop affinity groups among colleagues, fostering social topic awareness and allowing for rapid communication” CyberGIS Proposal, pg. C-7

How can CyberGIS support social media-oriented research?See Wilson Center webcast: Social Media in Emergency Management: Transforming the Response Enterprise

How does Social Media differ from PGIST & CyberGIS WIKI? What are the synergies? What is the integration potential?

Example: Add social media derived content to maps, ie. live info feeds from disaster sites.

Example: Create maps and share via a range of social media outlets

Example: Create special interest groups and integrate popular social media tools

Example: Add twitter feed to Gateway (can already follow GISolve on twitter)