1. Washington, DC USA Luis Bermudez March 23 2017
The Way of Sharing Open Geospatial Data to Support the Planet’s Biggest Challenges
Washington, DC USA
Luis Bermudez
March
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2. “Geospatial information is the most fundamental tool to support the planet’s joint efforts in resolving global issues. By interconnecting information on natural disasters, poverty and the environment through location data, global issues such as sustainable development and poverty eradication can be effectively managed.” Prime Minister Kim Hwang-Sik, Republic of Korea (UNGGIM HLF, 2010).

3. Where are we in the process of interconnecting data?
New (2017) Various assessment for NSDI tools
Kelme (2017) Creating a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Diagnostic Tool
Lawrence (2017) Assessing The Maturity Of National And Regional Geospatial Infrastructures:
(2016) OGC study: World Bank Geospatial Standards Inception Report
(2015) Guide to the Role of Geospatial Standards (OGC, ISO TC 211, & IHO, 2015)
(2012) Developing spatial data infrastructures: the SDI cookbook” (D. Nebert),

4. World Bank Geospatial Standards Inception Report
Goal: identify key global practices and sector workflows utilizing geospatial information.
Phases:
Survey (April 2016)
27 WB staff members of 22 units.
selection of the participants coordinated by Development Data Hub (DDH) and the Analytics and Geospatial Working Group (AGWG).
Sample selected is not a probability sample
Interviews with 21 units (April 2016)
Report (May-June 2016)

5. Survey Results

6. Survey Results

7. Survey Results

9. Developing policy and terms of reference supporting open standards
“The World Bank seeks geospatial products (systems, components or services) that provide maximum interoperability with World Bank and data sharing partner’s systems. To accomplish this, the World Bank seeks to make maximum use of open standards provided by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), ISO, and [list of other standards, profiles or recommendations]…. “

10. Developing policy and terms of reference supporting open standards
All the data and development of information systems shall follow industry standards as follows [add data types and recommended standards and interfaces]:

11. Developing policy and terms of reference supporting open standards
Compliance of the data and services
The World Bank requires that the data encodings and interfaces of information systems that are based on OGC standards, and for which a conformance test exist, to be compliant. The OGC Testing Facility web page lists the OGC standards for which compliant tests are available and explains the procedure for running those tests and get a OGC certification. [List conformance with other standards organization, if applicable]

12. (www.opengeospatial.org/ resource/products/compliant)
Organization seeking to buy or use software they can search in the OGC database and check what implementations have been certified

13. Central Catalog Comments from interviews
Systematic documentation is lacking from datasets and data services. Some GIS datasets are not known or difficult to find in the public domain and visualize.
The GIS data supporting World Bank reports are not easily shared and discovered
Lack of a central catalog and discovery mechanism for the Bank. Difficult to do verification and assurance of the correctness of the data.

14. Central Catalog
Leverage the work advanced by the World Bank Development Data Hub (DDH) 1) central catalog 2) repository for data sets that don’t have a repository, and 3) advisory and curation

15. Central Catalog Metadata ISO profiles
Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) which is used for Microdata (surveys)
Support for metadata standard mappings (e.g. Search survey data using ISO metadata standards)

16. Central Catalog Leverage tools and best practices
The Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR), as part of the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI), has in the last five years installed 15 geospatial data portals in different countries to enable access to and sharing of disaster risk data .

17. Enable access via open standards
Identify themes
Data themes of INSPIRE

18. Enable access via open standards
2. Identify the encoding

19. Enable access via open standards
3. Identify protocols (interfaces or services) to share the data over the Web
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20. Why open standards?
"...integration is key. Using standard data structures and formats all data about any object of interest any person, place or thing can be easily shared with and accessed by anyone with the need to know..." Letitia A. Long, Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, October 4, 2013, KMI Interview
"Governments like to say they can publish to OGC KML instead of Google KML ... everyone has confidence we won’t take advantage of the format or change it in a way that will harm anyone ..."
Michael Weiss-Malik, Google KML product manager

21. Not agreed standards

22. Not agreed standards

23. Not agreed standards

24. Interoperability via standards
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25. Enable access via open standards
Example using OGC Web Map Service
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26. Data types encodings and interfaces

27. Other related technologies
Controlled vocabularies and semantic mediation
Symbology and Styles
Anonymization of data using open standards
Big Data
Digital Preservation
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28. The Open Geospatial Consortium
OGC Standards - freely available
OGC on YouTube
OGC on Twitter
OGC on LinkedIn
Luis Bermudez
Executive Director Innovation Program
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