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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Another City / Province / Country
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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>
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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;
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Gazetteer Framework partners
UN UNGEGN
Global Pulse Project (Secretary-General’s Office)
Non-UN Member State organizations
CSIRO
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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
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Thank you
Suha ÜLGENUNGIWG Co-chair
Office of the ASG/CITO, New York
www.ungiwg.org