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Distributed Data Ownership: Northwest Data Sharing Network A Public/Private/Academic Partnership. Barry Watson Canfor Houston Division Don Morgan Ministry of Forests Research Branch & Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management Skeena Region. “Data Ethic”.
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Distributed Data Ownership: Northwest Data Sharing Network A Public/Private/Academic Partnership Barry Watson Canfor Houston Division Don Morgan Ministry of Forests Research Branch & Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management Skeena Region
“Data Ethic” • Recognize the value and cost of data • Secure the investment in data • Establish a commitment to data • standards • metadata • lest you be shamed • quality • understand its potential and know the limitations • custodianship • stewardship
“Data Ethic” Lifecycle of mature data • DATA • INFORMATION • KNOWLEDGE • DECISONS
Redundant Infrastructure IFPA SFM + Analysis Decision fc bec + Wet’suwet’en WSP 0 Analysis Decision fc bec 0 MSRM LRMP Z Analysis Decision fc bec Z
Shared Data Management Infrastructure IFPA Analysis Decision Data Partnership Wet’suwet’en 0 0 + Analysis Decision fc bec + Z Z MSRM Analysis Decision
Competition vs Cooperation • Competition - Strive against others • Survival of the fittest - Darwinian • Efficiencies through survival • Cooperation - Work or act together • lichen - fungus and alage • cell - nucleus and mitochondria • Opportunity through mutual interests • Mutualism - Benefit of both
Local Business Drivers • Short Term: • Morice/Lakes IFPA - Sustainable Forest Management Plan • Morice LRMP • Wet’suwet’en Stewardship Plan • Long Term • Designated Forest Area Management • inventory update • Analysis and planning
Government Organizational Drivers • Alternative service delivery methods, including public/private partnerships • Skeena: • Morice LRMP data and analysis support • data services to government agencies and external clients • maintain veg and road update
Canfor Drivers • Strategic Data Sharing alliance • effective, efficient and equitable geospatial data flow between private and public partners. • future cost avoidance • certification • eliminate redundancy and duplication of effort • promote shared application development • leverage the data and technology across the board
Canfor Commitment • Canfor commits over $2.5 Million per year on data, information, knowledge and decisions in support of Houston Woodlands effort to manage the: • harvest 1.2 Million m3 of AAC • from 200,000 ha of mature forest • within 665,000 ha Landscape Units • over 1.5 Million ha Morice TSA. • We are committed to investing in our data holdings in support of both environmental stewardship and profitability.
Steps to Implementation 1. Governance - how to get organized 2. Data model 3. Technical implementation for sharing data
Governance • What makes it work! • Clearly identify the business need • Form society before implementation • board membership • Develop trust • Keep it simple • Formalize policy structures • manage expectations • Business Planning - Business Case
Governance • Data sharing policy defines: • custodianship • permissions - user/data specific • non-member access • membership • funding • rules and regulations • external partnerships - IDW
Data Model • Standards • Meta data • Content • Data model • Topologically enabled • Adaptive
Technical Implementation • Partner Interviews - current infrastructure • Technical issues, challenges and options • Implementation options • Security • Broker between business and IDW • Technology under consideration • Data format - XML/GML • Meta format - XML • Open Source standards - metadata, web feature server • Translation - FME • Biz Talk - for process flow
Northwest Data Sharing Network and theIntegrated Data Warehouse • Northwest Data Sharing Network • Business focused • Local value added information • Local information broker • Integrated Data Warehouse • Data management focused • Corporate data
The Future • All data will be Assimilated • You will become part of the Collective • Resistance is Futile The Data Borg is coming Shared Data NOT Decisions