Max Craglia(1), Stefano Nativi(2), Mattia Santoro(2), Lorenzino Vaccari(1), Cristiano Fugazza(1)

Inter-disciplinary interoperability for global sustainability research

(1) EC–JRC, Institute for Environment and Sustainability -SDI Unit (2) National Research Council of Italy

GEOS 2011 - 4th International Conference on Geospatial Semantics 12-13 May 2011 – Brest, France

Outline

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Introduction

Over the next decade the global scientific community must take on the challenge of delivering to society the knowledge and information necessary to assess the risks humanity is facing from global change and to understand how society can effectively mitigate dangerous changes and cope with the change that we cannot manage. We refer to this field as ‘global sustainability research’ (ICSU, 2010).

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Five ICSU Grand Challenges

2. OBSERVING Develop, enhance and integrate the observation systems needed to manage global and regional environmental change

1. FORECASTING Improve the usefulness of forecasts of environmental conditions and their consequences for people

3. THRESHOLDS Recognizing key thresholds of non-linear changes to improve our

ability to anticipate, recognize, avoid and adapt to abrupt global environmental change.

4. RESPONDING Determine what institutional,

economic and behavioral changes can enable effective steps toward

global sustainability

5. INNOVATING Encourage innovation (coupled

with sound mechanisms for evaluation) in developing technological, policy, and

social responses to achieve global sustainability

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Global research needs

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Enabling Multidisciplinarity

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The role of public participation

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Outline

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Enabling integration of EO systems

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GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas

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European contributions to GEOSS

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Outline

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The EuroGEOSS Project

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The EuroGEOSS Thematic Areas

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Three Interoperability phases

Connect systems vertically from local to global

Connect systems horizontally

Expand to additional systems

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Weather  Ecosys.   Ocean  

Apply to

… .

Two iterations: Initial Operating Capability and Advanced Operating Capability

   Requirements  

GMES  

INSPIRE  GEOSS  

IOC  

Forestry  

Biodiv.  

Drought  

requirements

requirements

requirements

Inputs  

NL  

MulE-­‐scale  

Work-­‐flow  

Web  2.0  

AOC  extensions

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… .

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Outline

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The EuroGEOSS broker

EuroGEOSS Broker

Provider

User

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Services  Data   Catalogs  Registries  OGC  W*S  

GEO  Portals  

GEO  Clearinghouse  

Catalogs  GEO  Registries  

Web  2.0  Resources  

EuroGEOSS Brokering Platform (GeoRSS support)

BROKER  

INSPIRE  Portals  

Communi8es        Portals  

Web  2.0        clients  

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Supported Resource types •  Download/Data/Process Access Services

–  OGC WCS 1.0; 1.1.2 –  OGC WMS 1.1.1; 1.3 –  OGC WFS 1.0.0

•  Discovery/Catalog Services –  OGC CSW 2.0.2 core

•  CSW /ISO AP 1.0 •  CSW /ebRIM AP 1.0

–  CSCSW /ebRIM/EO extension package –  W /ebRIM-CIM extension package

•  CSW OpenSearch extension

–  OpenSearch discovery services •  OpenSearch/FP7 GENESI-DR extension

–  GeoNetwork 2.2.0 (or less) –  - GeoNetworks 2.4.1

–  Degree catalog service 2.2 –  OpenSearch 1.1 –  OpenSearch/GENESI-DR –  THREDDS 1.0.1;1.0.2; –  CDI 1.0.4; 1.3; 1.4; 1.6 –  GI-cat 5.x; 6.x; 7.x; –  GBIF discovery (REST-Full)

–  GBIF access (REST-Full) –  OGC WPS 1.0

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Published Discovery Interfaces •  Published interfaces

–  OGC CSW 2.0.2 –  OGC CSW 2.0.2 ISO 1.0 –  OGC CSW 2.0.2 ebRIM/CIM –  OGC CSW 2.0.2 ebRIM/EO –  OpenSearch –  OpenSearch GENESI-DR extended interface –  GI-cat extended interface

We do not impose one standard but accept diversity of disciplinary approaches and build

bridges to facilitate communication.

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Outline

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Services  Data  Catalogs  Registries  

Data  (Transac@onal)  

Data  Data  

THREDDS/  OPeNDAP    

GEO  Portals  

GEO  Clearinghouse  

Catalogs  GEO  Registries  

Web  2.0  Resources  

EuroGEOSS Brokering Platform (GeoRSS support)

BROKER  MD  Editor  

INSPIRE  Portals  

Communi8es        Portals  

Web  2.0        clients  

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SKOS/RDF

Semantic Augmentation Component

Semantic Augmentation

Component OpenSearch

Extended Interface

Thesaurus A

Gazetteer

Adapter

Adapter

(Mediator)

Adapter

Discovery Broker

CSW/ISO

Thesaurus B

.. .

Client

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The Vocabulary Service

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Available Thesauri

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Semantic Augmentation Component

skos:prefLabel

skos:narrower

skos:narrower

skos:prefLabel

gemet:14937

gemet:14936

gemet:6033

“Географска дължина”@bg

"longitude"@en

“latitude"@en

skos:prefLabel

skos:prefLabel

skos:prefLabel

skos:prefLabel “co-ordinate system"@en

"Параметър"@bg

“parameter"@en

skos:narrower skos:prefLabel

gemet:14935

"Координатна система"@bg skos:prefLabel "Географска ширина"@bg

inspire:1

skos:closeMatch

skos:prefLabel

“Coordinate reference systems"@en

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Harmonization of Thesauri

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SKOS/RDF

Semantic Augmentation Component

Semantic Augmentation

Component OpenSearch

Extended Interface

Thesaurus A

Gazetteer

Adapter

Adapter

(Mediator)

Adapter

Discovery Broker

CSW/ISO

Thesaurus B

.. .

Client

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Semantic enhanced functionalities

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Outline

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Process integration

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Modelling Workflows and Processes

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The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

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Example of workflow: Forest map

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…….described in BPMN (extract)

•  BPMN is a standard and has a precise semantic: each shape, symbol and connection has a well defined meaning, the participants are clearly identified and input datasets, intermediate products and final results are represented.

•  It is possible to transform the diagram into an XML representation for the execution of the process and its exchange with other scientists.

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JRC RSDI Initiative (Michele Chinosi, Nicole Outslander)

Outline

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Web 2.0: two-way interaction

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Web 2.0 services analyzed

Service Name Available content type Twitter short texts Google Search API Vector data (KML format) Panoramio Raster data (photographs) Picasa Raster data (photographs) Flickr Raster data (photographs) OpenStreetMap Vector data (OSM format) Wikimapia Text (place names & descriptions) Geonames Text (place names) Geocommons Raster and vector data (maps)

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Web 2.0 resources support

Discovery Broker

CSW/ISO

Adaptor

Geonames

Twitter

Flickr

OpenStreet Map

Wikipedia

Adaptor

Adaptor

Adaptor

Adaptor

Geocommons

OpenSearch(-geo) interface

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EuroGEOSS is also…

•  Natural Language Processing discover and query interface.

•  Cost-benefit analysis for the development of European and Global Spatial Data Infrastructures.

•  Extension of the EuroGeoss multidisciplinary approach to other disciplines (3rd Interoperability phase): –  Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Marine environments

(May 2011).

–  Weather, Ocean and Water domains (September 2011).

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Conclusions

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For more information…

The EuroGEOSS Project and Broker (www.eurogeoss.eu)

DEMOS:

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Thank you for your attention