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Build Bottom-Up SDI With Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo

Build Bottom-Up SDI With Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

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Build Bottom-Up SDI With Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo

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  1. Build Bottom-Up SDI With Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo

  2. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

  3. “[Spatial Data Infrastructure] provides a basis for spatial data discovery, evaluation, and application for users and providers within all levels of government, the commercial sector, the non-profit sector, academia and by citizens in general.” – SDI Cookbook Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

  4. The theory of SDI developed before we learned what was possible with the Internet

  5. ...what an ideal SDI would be like Imagine...

  6. ...an SDI that makes uploading, sharing, and working with data as easy as blogging Imagine...

  7. Publishing data Anthony has some spatial data and wants to display it as part of a blog post.

  8. Publishing data Anthony uploads it to a public SDI, styles it, provides a background, and then puts a map widget on his blog.

  9. Publishing data Meanwhile, the data, style, and map remain available on the public SDI for others to use.

  10. Metadata and reputation The World Organization tells Cameron, their consultant, to put data she has gathered on their SDI.

  11. Metadata and reputation Other users notice mistakes in the metadata. They notify Cameron and give it a low rating.

  12. Metadata and reputation Cameron fixes the mistakes, and the other users rate the data more highly. Her reputation on the SDI improves.

  13. Federated search A regional Health agency and a regional Transit agency have separate SDI systems.

  14. Federated search Tom, a GIS analyst doing research, seeks out correlations between health and bicycle routes

  15. Federated search Tom searches for data in a single federated index and downloads the data as a batch.

  16. Vision

  17. Theory

  18. How do you make an SDI that's as compelling as modern, widely-used web services?

  19. Make an SDI using the best practices of these web services and projects

  20. General Principles Grow Bottom Up Align Incentives through Openness Build it for Casual Users Features, not Policies

  21. Grow Bottom-Up Reduce barriers to participation as much as possible. Be useful (if imperfect) as fast as possible.

  22. Grow Bottom-Up Start with data. Let users work with it. Generate metadata as needed.

  23. Align Incentives... Align incentives for contribution and use so growth is natural.

  24. Align Incentives... Reward data providers for good contributions Encourage users to contribute back Make value of service transparent to system providers

  25. ... through Openness Provide a reason to participate Reward collaboration Make it as transparent as possible

  26. Build it for Casual Users Using Spatial Data Infrastructure should not require expertise

  27. Build it for Casual Users Reading documentation is too much work. The burden is on the system developers to make it intuitive to use.

  28. Features, not Policies If SDI technology requires No overhead or compromises there will be No organizational resistance

  29. Features, not Policies Look for and implement smart technical solutions to legitimate organizational concerns.

  30. Vision Theory

  31. Context

  32. is a new software project to build this SDI

  33. Founders Want GeoNode for disaster reduction Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and World Bank UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)

  34. Builders Not-for-profit social enterprise Builds and supports open source geospatial software Aims to build the Open Geospatial Web

  35. GeoNode is open source.

  36. Install it for free. Contact the developers directly. Collaborate with us and each other. Build local capacity and be independent of any vendor.

  37. We will soon release GeoNode 1.0

  38. Vision Theory Context

  39. What does GeoNode actually do ?

  40. Give a reason to participate A major problem with SDI is that people lack incentives to use it

  41. Problems with Portals No benefit to registering Few real users No recognition or reward for the effort Uses stick, not carrot

  42. GIS SDI

  43. GIS SDI

  44. Embed SDI in the real work of GIS practitioners, and it will have more impact.

  45. Provides styling and cartography tools Users can use the tools on data they upload GeoNode provides a reason to participate

  46. Map composer makes Maps Maps are an important content type They bind together ecosystem of geospatial content

  47. Maps, Data and Users form an web to be browsed

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