The Go-Geo! Spatial Data Portal: A Data Discovery and Research Tool for UK Academia

Tony MathysGeospatial Metadata Co-ordinatorEDINA National Data CentreUniversity of Edinburgh

Geospatial

Metadata (food labels)

Content?

Expire date?

Quality?

Metadata (recipe)

WhatWhat are the ingredients?

WhatWhat are thebrewing steps?

WhoWho sells the ingredients or

Wherehere can youbuy them?

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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! started

• Perl

• Z39.50 protocol

• GEO Profile for searching and retrieving records (ISite)

• Academic profile based on the UK NGDF metadata guidelines

• Project started 2001

• JISC funded

• Collaboration between EDINA Data Centre and UK Data Archive

• Go-Geo! portal launched in early 2003

OtherContent Providers

NGDF/GIgatewayNetwork

Geo-data Gateway

Local Go-Geo!database

Go-Geo!Portal

User

Content and metadata across UK network

The long journey to service

• A new profile compliant with ISO 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 to support 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 or geo service.

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 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 mandatory32 mandatory

91 elements 91 elements

UK AGMAP 2 for Geo-services

40 elements 40 elements 25 mandatory25 mandatory

UK AGMAP 2 guidelines

Metadata CreationMetadata Creation

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Mind reading aliens?

Solutions?Solutions?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 guidelines and 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 Workshops July 2007 Aberdeen University Marine/ECO-IMAGINE

Geospatial Technologies Course

2008 Sheffield University

Southampton University

June 2010Plymouth University

2003 Durham University

City University

2004University of Essex

York UniversityStrathclyde University

Bradford University Oxford Brookes

University Coventry UniversityEdinburgh University

Oxford University Kingston University

Sheffield University

2006 Aberdeen University

Leeds UniversityCambridge University

Oxford UniversityStirling University

Glasgow University Heriot-Watt University Strathclyde University

Kingston UniversityGISRUK Conference

(Nottingham)Edinburgh University

Autumn 2010 Aberdeen 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

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 licensed data rights for derived data

ShareGeo • A repository for academic deposit and extraction of spatial data.

• Resides under Digimap Collections Service.

• Addresses IPR and licensed data issues.

• Holds almost 100 national and international spatial datasets.

• Open access version of ShareGeo to be completed in 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

Otherresources and 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)

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