Stewarding America’s Data Assets

Ronald Matzner

I-Team Coordinator

Arizona GIS Conference

August 6, 2002

What is Our Vision?

Geographic Information that Anyone, Anywhere Can Readily Access, Plug In and Use For Any Legitimate Purpose With Confidence That Is Current, Accurate and Nationally Consistent

What Did You Tell Us It Will Take?

A Community Mandate• Build National Resources From Bottom Up• Create Partnerships• Get Everyone Around the Table• Best Partner Develops and Stewards Data• Develop and Implement Consensus Standards and

Specifications • Share Data Collections• Transparency and Accountability • Align Roles, Responsibilities and Resources• Pool and Leverage Investments

A Presidential Mandate President Bush’s Management Reform Agenda A National GIS Strategy is Essential for at Least 2 of his Five

Primary Objectives Integrating Management Performance and Budget E-government

increase agency productivity eliminate redundancy improve service delivery

How Do We Get There?

There is No One Program or Process that Will Get Us There

Many States Already Planning and Executing an Enterprise Strategy

We Need An Integrated National Enterprise Strategy

An Integrated Strategy

ProcessProcessInstitutional

Data

Institutional

Political

Technical

Financial

3R Alignment

America’s Data

Overcoming Barriers Institutional I-Teams

Mission-critical initiatives dependent

on local data Technical Geospatial One-Stop

OGC Interoperability Political Community Strategic

Initiative Financial Financing Solutions

Interoperability

Political Awareness

NSDI

Financing

Intergovernmental Partnerships

THE SUM OF MANY PARTS

Web Services

Metadata - Clearinghouse - StandardsFramework, Other A-16 Themes & all Geodata National Infrastructure (NSDI)

APPLICATIONS AND USES Homeland Security E-Gov Business Needs All Levels of Government & Private Sector

Interoperability Specifications and Web Services

Data from all sources, programs,procedures and technologies

State &Local

TribalFederal Agencies Private, NGO, Academia

NSDINSDIAMERICA’S DATA ASSETS

NSDINSDI

GI For America:Roadmap for Design

1 - ObtainMandate(PoliticalProcess)

0- FeasibilityStudy Anecdotal Evidence

Of Benefits

3 - SurveyUser

Needs

4 - Analyze Relationships

-Apps/Data-Data/Data-Apps/Apps

List/ReportOf Apps/Problems/

Issues

List ofExisting

Data(Metadata)

Publish onMetadata

Server

List ofData Needs

NotSatisfied

Research/Report

Findings

-Redundancy

-Synergy-C

onflicts

5 - Define ‘Generic’Applications & Functions

Necessary to Support

2 - InitiateDesignProcess

for NationalGIS System

6 - DraftGIS

Data Model

7 - Devel.‘Pilot’/

PrototypeImplement. ofData Model

Generic Prototype

Apps Demo

8 - PublicReviewProcess

DataModelAccept.

9 - DesignSystem Arch. & Tech.

Standards for Implement.

10 - DesignOrganizational

GovernanceStructure

GI For America:Roadmap for Design

DataModelAccept.

9 - DesignSystem Arch. & Tech.

Standards for Implement.

11 - Implementation Plan-Tasking-Data Modernization (Multi-user)-Technical Infrastructure-Implementation Org.-Budget-Schedule 12 - Cost/

BudgetAnalysis

13 - NationalGIS Legislation &

MobilizationOf GIS

Community

Overlapping Phases

Phase I

Phase II

Phase III

Phase IV

Critical Path Phase I

Engage State and Local Leaders Engage White House Engage OMB Budget Examiners

Phase II (Next 18 Months) Complete Essential Infrastructure Elements Develop Business Case and Cost/Benefit Educate Legislative Branch Engage State Budget Offices Design Enterprise Implementation Plan

Critical Path

Phase III Build A Broad Political Coalition Legislate Incentives for Local Governments Address the Geospatial Digital Divide

Phase IV Align Roles, Responsibilities and Resources Secure Funding and Financing

Phase IISteps Along the Path

Technical

Geospatial One-Stop - a Presidential Initiative to

Accelerate Implementation of Essential NSDI

Components Needed to Produce, Steward and

Access America’s Data Assets

Phase IISteps Along the Path

Metadata - Document and Post Existing and Planned Data Activities

Core Data Content Models and Standards OGC Translation Schema, Test Beds, and

Interoperable Web Services Abstract Features Model in UML to support exchange of

data Gazetteer – place names Catalogue services specifications– search and find data Web mapping, and data access

Portal

OGC Web Feature Service

MissionSystem AWeb Feature

Browser/Client Application

MissionSystem B

Native FormatGML

(XML)

WFS

WFS

translationutilities

BprivateschemaPpublic

schematransformation

rules

Phase IISteps Along the Path

Political Spatial Technology Community Educates and

Builds Awareness Develop Alliances with Other Sectors

Financial Facilitate 3R Process Among All Levels of

Government Match I-Plans and Federal Planned Data Collections Prepare Cost/Benefit Analysis

Phase IISteps Along the Path

Institutional I-Teams Producing I-Plans Increased reliance on partnerships to Fulfill

Essential National Missions using America’s Data Assets

Opportunities for Collaboration National Map Census TIGER Modernization FEMA NFIP and Disaster Mitigation 120 Cities

Develop Data Coordination Strategy

Local data needed for daily business operations is the same data needed by other jurisdictions and levels of government, as well as for HS and to protect CI

National Map, Census TIGER Modernization, FEMA NFIP, and other mission-critical national initiatives need the same data

Unprecedented opportunity for collaboration to align roles, responsibilities, and resources

Yet, enormous challenge - no forum exists for this

HSIP Summit

Convened by Council for Excellence in Government Sponsored by NIMA and USGS National Map Engage all levels of government Forum for dialogue with potential local partners and

their professional organizations NSGIC September 10 Leaders Forum September 18 FGDC Steering Committee Workshop October 10

Some Practical Questions

What is and who determines best available data? What process will be used to determine which entities should

produce, steward, and distribute it? If data doesn’t exist, what resources will there be to produce it? How will the data be kept current? What intergovernmental mechanisms will exist to foster

collaboration? What will be the organizational and governance structure? What financial incentives and value exchange would be

necessary for local governments to consider it worthwhile to collaborate and share data?

Coordinated Local Government Enterprise

PUBLICPUBLICWORKSWORKS

PROPERTYPROPERTY APPRAISERAPPRAISER

PLANNINGPLANNING

BUILDINGSBUILDINGS

PARKS & RECPARKS & REC

ECONOMICECONOMICDEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT

LICENSESLICENSES

FINANCEFINANCEEMERGENCY EMERGENCY SERVICESSERVICES

POLICEPOLICE

ENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTALSERVICESSERVICES

UTILITIESUTILITIES

Geodata

Geodata

Geodata

Geodata

Geodata

service

service

serviceservice

service Rules

Rules

Data andService

Registries

HSIP Summit

Evaluate HSIP draft report Identify State and local needs Assess State and local capacity Identify gaps Prioritize efforts Begin to consider coordination strategy Leverage State and local Data Leverage mission-critical national initiatives

Colorado Plateau Colorado Plateau Data Coordination Group proposes an

NSDI Demonstration Project Develop a coordination strategy and process enabling

National Map, Census, other national missions and CPDCG to align roles, responsibilities and resources for data production, stewardship and distribution across all sectors

Start with boundaries layer and extend to other framework layers

Provide a functional template for the collaborative process that would apply as well to CI

WHAT IS AN I-TEAM ?

A Collaborative Process that Effectively and Efficiently

Organizes the Way We Produce and Steward A Portion of America’s Data Assets

Helps All Levels of Government Fulfill Their Missions

Supports Geospatial One Stop

StewardSteward

PublicPublic UtilityUtility

Local Local GovernmentGovernment CountyCounty

GovernmentGovernment

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FederalFederalAgencyAgency

TribalTribalGovernmentGovernment

StewardStewardAcademic Academic InstitutionInstitution

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Local Local GovernmentGovernment

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I-TEAM

I-Teams Steward Data Assets

WHAT IS AN I-TEAM ?

Locally Formed, Interdependent Inclusive, Voluntary, Open Expanded from Existing Collaborations Local, State, Federal, Private Sector, Academic Brand Name to Help Build Political Awareness

What Do I-Teams Do?

Address Institutional Barriers Identify most effective ways to collect, maintain and distribute Data Designate data stewards Develop Enterprise Plans (I-Plans) for Data Production and

Publication by the Most Appropriate Partner at Accuracy and Scale Needed by Local Jurisdictions

•

I-Team Role Essential and Continuing

Play Key Role in Geospatial One-Stop Telling Us What You Need for Portal and Standards Developing Consensus for Data Content Models and

Standards Work with OGC on Cutting Edge of Technology

(Semantic Translators and Exchange Schemas, Web Services)

Enable Role, Responsibility, Resource Alignment Provide, Steward, and Export America’s Data Assets

How It All Fits Together Producers, users steward America’s data assets NSDI - the infrastructure Geospatial One-Stop - a Presidential initiative to complete

the infrastructure I-Teams - a process to help produce and steward data National Map, Census Modernization, NILS, MMI - Federal

programs using the I-Team process to produce products to fulfill essential national missions

The products are available through and become part of the infrastructure.

How It All Fits Together

NSDI

VendorData

Local Government

Data

FederalGovernment

Data

OtherCollection

Data

Clearinghouse

BuildingsRoadsImagesTargetsBoundaries ...

CatalogView

Queries extract info from diverse sources

Gazetteer CoordinateTransform

Catalog Services

OtherServices

Internet

Geoparser

ServiceSchema

Registries

Common interfaces enable interoperability

Web Mapping Server, Web Feature Server, Web Coverage Server

NASANASA National MapNational MapCensusCensusMAF/TIGERMAF/TIGER FEMA NFIPFEMA NFIP

StewardSteward

Public Public Utility Utility

Local Local GovernmentGovernment CountyCounty

GovernmentGovernment

StewardSteward

FederalFederalAgencyAgency

TribalTribalGovernmentGovernment

StewardStewardAcademic Academic InstitutionInstitution

StewardSteward

Local Local GovernmentGovernment

StewardSteward

I-TEAM

120 Cities120 Cities

StewardSteward

Public Public Utility Utility

Local Local GovernmentGovernment CountyCounty

GovernmentGovernment

StewardSteward

FederalFederalAgencyAgency

TribalTribalGovernmentGovernment

StewardStewardAcademic Academic InstitutionInstitution

StewardSteward

Local Local GovernmentGovernment

StewardSteward

I-TEAM

StewardSteward

Public Public Utility Utility

Local Local GovernmentGovernment CountyCounty

GovernmentGovernment

StewardSteward

FederalFederalAgencyAgency

TribalTribalGovernmentGovernment

StewardStewardAcademic Academic InstitutionInstitution

StewardSteward

Local Local GovernmentGovernment

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I-TEAM

Applications - Homeland Security, E-Gov, Everything Else

Integrated View

OMB Geospatial Information Initiative

www.fgdc.gov/I-Team

rmatzner@fgdc.gov