Approaches to interoperability and future aspirations

Interoperability Work Group

Approaches to interoperability

and future aspirations

Lesley Wyborn

Boyan Brodaric

Harvey Thorleifson


Outline of session

• Part 1: Approaches to Interoperability

– The Why and The What: Lesley Wyborn

– How: Boyan Brodaric

• Part 2 Future Aspirations: Harvey Thorleifson


Outline of my presentation

• Australian perspectives

• The Why: just why are we doing interoperability?

• The What: just exactly what is interoperability?

• Australian example of an interoperability test bed

• My role– Group Leader Interoperability Geoscience Australia,

– Co-leader of the GeoSciML outreach group, IUGS-CGI


Don’t YOU personally hate it when…………• You want bits and pieces from different

websites, CD’s and desktop files

• You can’t remember which website, CD or file the information is on?

• No matter how well organised your system is – when you eventually find the right website, CD or file you are not sure it is the latest version of the data?

• You actually do find the bits and pieces but the formats are all different……..

WHY?


and then there is the bigger picture in the Australian Mining Industry and other industries………

Data Structures

Proprietary Software

Versions of Software

Client


Industry input to inquiry on impediments to exploration in Australia– July 2003

– Problems in gaining easy access to pre-competitive geoscience information listed as one of four major impediments to exploration

– Described existing information as commonly incomplete and fragmented across eight government agencies, each with its own information management systems and structures

– Noted that the disparate systems lead to inefficiencies causing higher costs, reduced effectiveness and increased risk incurred by the industry and its service providers Source:

http://www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/itrinternet/minerals_aa_finalreport_July2003.pdf


The biggest why of all: the data deluge

Source: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Tech_Transfer/Events/Canberra/web_services_cnb02.pdf

People

People

People

Information

Machine

Machine


Just EXACTLY what are we doing?

Can we learn from history?


Peter Drucker - Beyond the Information Revolution: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm

• 1776 - Invention of steam engine

• 1829 - Invention of railways

• 1834 - First rail-networks

• 1880 - First Standards Association for individual components

• 1890 - Manufacturing age

• 1940 - Invention of the computer

• 1989 - First Generation Internet

• 1996 - First Grid networks

• 1996 - First Standards for components: W3C & XML appear

• 2007 - OneGeology & Information Age

Industrial Revolution vs the Information Revolution

«FeatureType»GeologicFeature

+ age: GeologicAge [1..*]+ physicalProperty: CGI_PhysicalDescription [0..*]+ purpose: DescriptionPurpose = instance

«FeatureType»MappedFeature

«CodeList»DescriptionPurpose

+ definingNorm: + instance: + typicalNorm:

«FeatureType»SamplingFeature

+ responsible: CI_ResponsibleParty [0..1]

«Type»GM_Object

«FeatureType»GeologicUnit

«FeatureType»GeologicStructure

+ genesis: CGI_TermValue [0..1]

«ObjectType»ControlledConcept

+ preferredName: CharacterString

0..*

AlternativeClassification

+alternativeClassifier

0..*

+specification1

Description

+occurrence 0..*

0..*

PrimaryClassification

+classifier 1

+shape 1

+samplingFrame

1

James Watt

Simon CoxXMMLData Model



The anatomy of the thread of a screw

Standards of the industrial age were developed at the level of the lowest common component


your internal database: your storage

You map word for word

transfer standard: an agreed schema


An ultimate vision for the WHAT of OneGeology

Through standardised interfaces OneGeology will allow usnew levels of innovation which will come from the capacity to mine vast data sets from globally distributed sources to enable the production of new geoscience knowledge to solve issues of global sustainability

Geoscience Transfer Standards


The Australian Interoperability Test Bed: June 2004 Response to Minerals Exploration Action Agenda

– Australian Government, State and Territory

geoscience agencies, professional associations and

industry to cooperatively develop and implement

nation-wide protocols, standards and systems that

provide internet-based access to, and effective

storage and archiving of, industry and government

exploration-related DATA

See http://www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/itrinternet/Road_to_Discovery20040702155050.pdf?CFID=284582&CFTOKEN=83266426


Phase 1: 2004 Geochemistry test bed: Established web services (wfs, wms) using open sourcein 3 surveys


June 15

July 28

July 14

June 22

July 21

1. Virtual expert team set up who worked with states for preliminary set up via phone and web (http://www.seegrid.csiro.au)

Phase 2: 2005Technology Capacity Building

2. Expert team then visited each state for 3 days to install the technology and lecture on web services to the wider community


Common Interface Binding – GML/XMML

SAWFS

WAWFS

GAWFS

NTWFS

TASWFS

QLDWFS

NSWWFS

VICWFS

APPLICATIONS

DATA SOURCES

DATA SERVICES

Map Service WAReport CanberraService Desktop

Western Australia

Sth Australia NSWTasmania

Nth Territory

QueenslandVictoria

GA


Our demonstrator proved interoperability was feasible and what was required was that the organisation serving the data could map to an agreed standardised interface

XMML + NADM = GeoSciML

Client


Common Interface Binding – GML/XMML

UKWFS

AustralianWFS

FrenchWFS

SwedishWFS

CanadianWFS

USWFS

APPLICATIONS

DATA SOURCES

DATA SERVICES

Map Service France

Australia

United Kingdom USA SwedenCanadaFrance

Landslide Modelling

Tool Kit

CO2 Sequest.Tool Kit

Earth-quakeRisk

Tool Kit

3D Modelling

Tool Kit

FUTURE POSSIBILITIESMap Service

Canada


Infrastructure in the Industrial Age vs Information Age

Source http://www.ara.net.au/main.php#http://www.ara.net.au/main.php#

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Approaches to interoperability and future aspirations