Nationally Significant Databases and Collections

Providers’ Group

Emma KellyEnvironmental Information Advisor

Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Team

Overview1. Ministry for the Environment

Monitoring and Reporting Team

2. E-Govt What is it?

Interoperability (e-GIF)

3. Officials Committee on Geospatial Information Government Geospatial Metadata COLABII

4. Review of NATSIGDC

1. Monitoring and Reporting Team

• Reporting on NZ’s environment- State of the Environment- Sustainable Development - RMA Performance

• Partnerships to facilitate sharing of environmental information- Local Government and Regional

Councils- CRI’s- Central Government

1. Monitoring and Reporting Team

• Protocols for monitoring- Based around environmental

performance indicators- Information management,

standards and compliance

• Classification Systems - National monitoring and

reporting frameworks for indicators, conservation and resource management

Why interest in NatSigDC’s

• To monitor and report nationally we need to- discover what environmental

information is out there- ensure it supports management

decisions we need to ask of it - form partnerships to access and use

environmental information- Be confident of the quality and

consistency of the environment information collected

Why interest in NatSigDC’s

Some of the 25 databases and collections identified as nationally significant underpin our needs as a user

2. E-Government

• Adapting government to the information age and the Internet

• E-Government Unit within SSC• Set up to facilitate whole-of-

government programmes that develop policies, standards and operational infrastructure

Key Components

Mandatory E-Govt strategy in business

planning NZGLS E-GIF Information Security Authentication

Discretionary E-government portal Web guidelines

E-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF)

“The ability of government organisations to share information and integrate information and business processes by agreeing to use common standards”http://www.e-government.govt.nz/docs/e-gif-v-1-0/

chapter2.html

E-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF)

• Networks (TCP, IP)• File Transfer (FTP, HTTP 1.1)• Mail (SMTP)• Metadata (Discovery) (NZGLS)• Data Modelling (UML)• Database Exchange (XML 1.0)• Web Design and Maintenance

(NZ Government Web Guidelines 1.0)

E-GIF Compliance

• All new systems developed by Central Govt. must comply

• Where there is direct funding of information management and systems from Central Govt. including PGSF activities

3. OCGI

• Advisory group to LINZ• Development of

technical strategies, the setting of standards and work programmes to ensure nationally consistent geographical information

• Key projects• Emergency Services and Government

Administration (ESA)• Government geospatial metadata• COLABII

ESA• Data quality improvement

project for core datasets for emergency service activities• Street addresses• Road centerlines• Placenames

• Currently the Cost Benefit Analysis is being worked through to improve the existing LINZ databases to the ESA standard

Geospatial Metadata

• Development of a geospatial metadata standard for all of government lead by LINZ

• Based on Environmental Metadata Framework

• Timetable for profile, guidelines and recommendations is 30 June 2003

• Currently testing profile with agencies

COLABII

• Co-ordinated Land and Area based Information Interoperability

• NZ spatial data infrastructure• Solving the geospatial area of e-

government• Development of a common frame

of reference to enable the various geospatial initiatives to fit into a wider context

NetworkServices(Internet)

Electronic Access

CoreDataset

sGeodetic

Base

Property Cadastre

Elevation/Bathymetry

Transport/Addresses

Places& Names

Hydrog’phy& Coastline

Administ’nAreas

Imagery

Users’Dataset

s

Shareddataset

Privatedataset

Services

Standards & Good Practice

Guidelines

Right to Use(Intellectual Property)

InstitutionalArrangements

Common

Datasets

Standards Repository

Visualisation(e.g. on-line

mapping tool)DiscoveryCatalogue

Collateddatasets

Metadata Repository

This framework covers interoperability requirements

to allow the easy sharing of geospatial information in electronic form by use of the Internet

The building blocks of the framework fit together and interact

4. Review of NatSigDC

Key Drivers (from i3 Challenge)• Improved performance of NZ

businesses and creation of new industries

• Sustainable management of our environmental resources

• Insights and solutions to health and social issues

Thoughts…

• The list of 25• Are they linked to the key drivers?• Do the criteria need to redefined?

• E-Govt• It changes the way we view

isolated databases and collections• Interoperability is important

• This is a lot of activity and the Review cannot occur in isolation