From FAUST to VOYAGER efforts to maintain map and geodata stocks 17th Conference of the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires TALLINN, Estonia June 2010 Sabine Witschas Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER) Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany Motivation IOER Research areas Unit Research Infrastructure Maps and geodata IOER - Management of maps and geodata Demands Tools Management measures Future From FAUST to VOYAGER efforts to maintain map and geodata stocks

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany IOER Research areas Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany IOER Unit Research Infrastructure 14 employees>> service for about 150 scientists Library IT (concept, administration, hardware, software, trouble shooting, programming) Communication (Groupwise, Intranet, Internet) DTP (desktop publishing: poster, flyer, presentations, papers, books etc.) GIS/Cartography Public relations/Event management etc.

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany IOER maps and geodata The Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development IOER is a spatial research institute with strong demands for maps and geodata as information sources for spatial researches as well as final representations of the study results.

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany Geodata management is a task for the institute's geo-experts due to different investigated subjects, spaces, time periods, data characteristics (metainformation), and also due to the fluctuation of the employees.

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany IOER - Management of maps and geodata DEMANDS Legal obligations Documentation of research data and products Consideration of copyright restrictionsTrends Open Access Repositories INSPIRE Infosystems, Data bases, Archiving systems Communication systems, Intranet, Internet, Search engines INTERNALEXTERNAL PRESSURE TOOLS ORGAN. MEASURES INFORMATION + Metainformation (Quality, Copyright…) improvement of workflow find reliable and useful internal and external INFORMATION and METAINFORMATION for referring and re-use rapidly concept of knowledge management (probably downscaled to information/data/document management) Tools + Organisational measures

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany Map Archiv Paper maps Folder structure Geobase data on G:/geobasis Groupwise/Intranet-Information Communication opportunity: information about new acquired maps/geodata to all or selected IOER-employees (can be archived) FAUST document retrieval - Metainformation ESRI ArcCatalog ESRI ArcGIS modul to manage access to geodata and GIS documents VOYAGER Tool to explore internal and external stored geodata IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany implementation of a document archiving system (appropriate for the institute scale) FAUST with one section for maps and geodata. The relevant documents and data have to be integrated manually and labour-intensively by registering their metainformation which is necessary for retrieval and reuse. IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany FAUST. PROs and CONs: 2710 Objects integrated: 2350 topographical and thematical maps 102 geo-statistical data 181 geodata (raster, vector, remote sensing) (77 research project information) Metainformation Hard job to generate/input Useful for retrieval Difficult search (FAUST options and Generally geographical search terms – ontology, language… No preview No direct access (link) IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany Metainformation This procedure confronted us with issues of  spatial description,  ontology, and the  lingual determination of metainformation, and directed our attention to the endeavors of  metainformation standardization and  the actual implementation progresses. IOER - Management of maps and geodata METAINFORMATION

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany ESRI ArcCatalog ArcCatalog geodata and GIS document management application in ESRI ArcGIS. provides views of all the data files, databases, and ArcGIS documents, (including relational databases, files, ArcGIS documents, and remote GIS web services) Browse and find geographic information Record, view, and manage metadata Define, export, and import geodatabase data models and datasets Search for and discover GIS data on local networks and the Web IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany ESRI ArcCatalog ArcGIS 10 (2010) IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany Quickly index GIS data and maps on internal computer and external servers Search for data and maps using full text and spatial queries as easily as you search the web Preview of the results of your search using thumbnails and Access for use in a variety of GIS applications Build a spatial data portal in just a few clicks Fits into existing workflows by not requiring metadata (improved when metadata exists) IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS Voyager GIS 1.1

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany Voyager GIS 1.1 Experience of the first tests of the free download version IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany IOER - Management of maps and geodata TOOLS Voyager GIS 1.1 Complete the tests

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany IOER - Management of maps and geodataMANAGEMENT MEASURES Choose and maintain tools and workflows (incl. communication structures) Define instructions Provide expertise Organisational Measurements Sustainable Maintainance Map and geodata management

Sabine Witschas IOER Dresden Germany IOER - Management of maps and geodataFUTURE Work in Process … keeping pace with the developments…DYNAMICS THANK YOU for having patience, compassion and hints or questions… concept of knowledge management (probably downscaled to information, data, document management) looking for inspiration, experiences… DEMANDS CAPACITIES!!! SOFTWARE, TOOLS, ORGAN. MEASURES “Management” INITIATIVES.. INSPIRE metainformation, data access Open Access Repositories OpenGeodata (OSM, ESRI ArcMap Server online, Natural Earth etc.) copyrights/intellectual properties, technology and standards Semantic web