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Our VisionIt’s 2015. A major natural disaster strikes. UN relief agencies, governments and partners already have an accurate and shared understanding of the situation on the ground. They use state-of-the-art technologies to coordinate seamlessly with one another, the affected population and remote volunteers. The response is efficient and effective. Lives are saved and the affected population rebuilds better prepared for the next time.


UN Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI)

Gazetteer Framework Project

Suha Ü[email protected]

Senior Advisor on Spatial Data InfrastructureCo-chair of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group

Office of the Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer New York, USA

26th Session of UNGEGN - Vienna, 2-6 May 2011


Realizing our vision

1. Define data standards needed to integrate operations between UN agencies, governments, and partners.

2. Ensure availability of data in these standard formats detailing the facilities, resources, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and gaps in high-risk countries.

3. Identify key roles, types of information, and technologies pertaining to extra-institutional actors.

4. Based on these findings, design public UN Crisis Information Management application programming interfaces (APIs) – compliant with the aforementioned data standards -- to allow real-time interaction between UN agencies and extra-institutional actors.

5. Drive adoption of the data standards by supporting UN agencies in their efforts to bring their systems up to the level of compliance required to implement the public APIs.


The situation today

Who has up-to-date

admin. boundaries?

Where can I find a list of villages?

There’s no metadata What’s the

datum?

Can you send me your list of affected

villages?

There’s no metadata!

How old is this data & who

collected it ?

Is Mytown in this dataset the same as Yourtown in that data set?

OK I think I have the right data,

let’s make some maps!!I’ll have to ask

my boss

How come these three versions of admin areas

use different boundaries?

This health centre is supposed to be in admin area A but is mapped to

a village in Area B. Which one is right?

Understand Discover Access Extract, Transform & Load Use

Time and effort


2015

Discover/Access/Extract, Transform & Load

Understand Use and re-use

UNSDI Gazetteer Framework Project developed by

• Office of the Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer (ASG/CITO) of the UN Secretariat

and• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research

Organization (CSIRO) of Australia


UNSDI Gazetteer Framework

Project Objectives

Establish a services infrastructure enabling online (web) access to and improved use of published gazetteers

Establish a framework for improved description of information resources to support evolution of the shared services infrastructure and its content

Develop a reference architecture to guide the growth, and local exploitation, of a shared services infrastructure

The problem...

Application:“When I select an object on the map I get a reference I can re-use”• record in my dataset• find related resources for the object• tell someone else what I’m referring to


Gazetteer service concept

Model and vocabulary

registry

Application

Gazetteer

“Foo”, type=Local Government, src=…

Type?Admin

schemaAdmin

schema

Getadmin.area

Getadmin.area

Getadmin.parent=“foo”

SDMXSDMX


Another City / Province / Country


An application example

Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

Another City / Province / Country

One City / Province / Country

Radio

Television

Fax

Cell / SMS

SirensStorm

Earthquake

Fire

Tsunami

Volcano

CAP gazetteer reference

Any City / Province / Country

Radio

Television

Fax

Cell / SMS

Sirens

Storm

Earthquake

Fire

Tsunami

Volcano

CAP

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?> <alert xmlns = "urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1"> <identifier>KSTO1055887203</identifier> <sender>[email protected]</sender> <sent>2003-06-17T14:57:00-07:00</sent> <status>Actual</status> <msgType>Alert</msgType> <scope>Public</scope> <info> <category>Met</category> <event>Severe Thunderstorm</event> <responseType>Shelter</responseType> <urgency>Immediate</urgency> <severity>Severe</severity> <certainty>Observed</certainty> <senderName>National Weather Service Sacramento CA</senderName> <headline>Severe Thunderstorm Warning</headline> <description>Radar indicated a severe thunderstorm over Alpine County... moving southwest at 5 mph. Hail...intense rain and strong damaging winds are likely with this storm.</description> <instruction>take cover in a substantial shelter until the storm passes.</instruction> <area> <areaDesc>extreme north central Tuolumne County in California, extreme northeastern Calaveras County in California, southwestern Alpine County in California</areaDesc> <polygon>38.47,-120.14 38.34,-119.95 38.52,-119.74 38.62,-119.89 38.47,-120.14</polygon> </area> </info> </alert>

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?> <alert xmlns = "urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1"> <identifier>KSTO1055887203</identifier> <sender>[email protected]</sender> <sent>2003-06-17T14:57:00-07:00</sent> <status>Actual</status> <msgType>Alert</msgType> <scope>Public</scope> <info> <category>Met</category> <event>Severe Thunderstorm</event> <responseType>Shelter</responseType> <urgency>Immediate</urgency> <severity>Severe</severity> <certainty>Observed</certainty> <senderName>National Weather Service Sacramento CA</senderName> <headline>Severe Thunderstorm Warning</headline> <description>Radar indicated a severe thunderstorm over Alpine County... moving southwest at 5 mph. Hail...intense rain and strong damaging winds are likely with this storm.</description> <instruction>take cover in a substantial shelter until the storm passes.</instruction> <area> <areaDesc>extreme north central Tuolumne County in California, extreme northeastern Calaveras County in California, southwestern Alpine County in California</areaDesc> <polygon>38.47,-120.14 38.34,-119.95 38.52,-119.74 38.62,-119.89 38.47,-120.14</polygon> </area> </info> </alert>


3-year work plan Build

Identify key data sources and user needs for re-use

Model and harvest a “resource view” of data sources

Prototype gazetteer and underlying model registry

Review prototypes for key re-use requirements

Refine Design of content and tools based on feedback

Propose simplifications

Sustain with stable production version Five workstreams – shared models; community agreements;

infrastructure; tools & methods; information productsUnited Nations Geographic Information Geographic Information Working Group

Gazetteer Framework partners

UN UNGEGN

Global Pulse Project (Secretary-General’s Office)

Non-UN Member State organizations

CSIRO


Advantages to participants

Declaration of dataset as authoritative ISO-compliant documentation Usage statistics Crowdsourced inputs for revisions Updated registry of revisions Cloud hosting option under UN’s auspices Technical support on building system interfaces User Committee membership



Thank you

Suha ÜLGENUNGIWG Co-chair

Office of the ASG/CITO, New York

[email protected]

www.ungiwg.org

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.ungiwg.org/

Geographic Information United Nations Geographic Information Working Group Our Vision It’s 2015. A major natural disaster strikes. UN relief agencies,

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