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Scotland's Environment Web NESAC. Dave Watson 02 April 2014 www.environment.scotland.gov.uk. Presentation/Session Outline. SEWeb introduction SEWeb data journey What has been encountered on that journey SEWeb as a data consumer Spatial data Data visualisation
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Scotland's Environment WebNESAC Dave Watson 02 April 2014 www.environment.scotland.gov.uk
Presentation/Session Outline SEWeb introduction SEWeb data journey What has been encountered on that journey SEWeb as a data consumer Spatial data Data visualisation SEWeb partnership as data suppliers Repository based data service publication Linked Data
Scotland’s Environment Web www.environment.scotland.gov.uk Aims to be the “Trusted” gateway to everything you want to know about Scotland’s Environment, bringing together the most up to data environmental information and data in the one place, so that it is easy to find, view, analyse and interpret Transformational shift from Data Richto Information Rich.
Scotland’s Environment Web ‘The gateway to everything you want to know about Scotland’s environment’ • Three year programme launched November 2011 • Provides a single view of Scotland’s Environment • via ‘State of Environment Report’ • Shared services approach • Provides a forum for debate and engagement • EU LIFE+ funded • April 2014 – Major upgrade released
What do we do with the data? Themed spatial maps Advanced Maps Visualisation Applications Task Specific Applications Linked Data Repository
Indicators & Data – Phased Approach(New Site Launch 14th March 2014) New site launch – Presentation layer Create page layouts and navigation paths for Topic summary page Explanatory “about” / “help” text to explain the meaning of Indicators & Data and how to use the features Revise the plan and methodology to move to full implementation
Land Information Search Task Specific Application - Launch January 2014 Data Download Service to support environmental impact assessments for forestry Data sets provided by partners through web services Long-term aim – use INSPIRE compliant WFS Short-term – use ESRI REST services Development led by SNH, involving FCS and SEPA Forum for development of common standards and templates for environmental mapping applications in Scotland
Why Linked Data? - 5 Star Model of Open Data http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
(Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/)http://lod-cloud.net/versions/2011-09-19/lod-cloud_colored.png
SEWeb Data Discovery SEWeb uses Exalead search engine to create focussed Scottish Environmental Search. Exalead will connect to Local SEWeb Resource Library Partner sites via XML site map files SEWeb Spatial data pool (uses SSDI data) SEWeb Citizen Science Register Linked Data Repository
SEWeb Demo www.environment.scotland.gov.uk
Useful Links SEWeb www.environment.scotland.gov.uk Scottish Soils http://www.soils-scotland.gov.uk/ Aquaculture http://aquaculture.scotland.gov.uk/ Linked Data Lab http://data.sepa.org.uk SSDI http://scotgovsdi.edina.ac.uk/srv/en/main.home INSPIRE http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ Water Classification Visualisation http://www.environment.scotland.gov.uk/get_interactive/data_visualisation/water_body_classification.aspx