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Thinking outside the polygon: Spatial Information for Social Protection and Disaster ManagementPaul Box

ANZDMC 30 May 2013, Brisbane

CSIRO all hazards approach

Information integration challenges

Spatial Identifier Reference Framework – SIRF

Overview

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All Hazards Approach:Information Services for Disaster Management

Disaster management

Goal - improve the supply of timely and accurate information enabling all actors involved in the

disaster management cycle to make better informed decisions

Infrastructure Data provision Integration Analysis DeliveryInformation productsAnalytics

http://www.csiro.au/Disaster-Management-Report

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Disaster Management Cycle

Response

Recovery

Prevention

Preparedness

Information

1 A Needless Toll of Natural Disasters

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Understanding and communicating risk

‘Prosumers’- Community- Government - Response agencies - Private sector

Hazard

Vulnerability Exposure

People, property, systems, present in hazard zones and subject to potential losses.

Characteristics of a community, system or asset that make it susceptible effects of hazard

RISK

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The problem

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The challenges

• Large scale complex interwoven challenges• Multiple organisations, scientific disciplines, perspectives • Multiple data and information sources with different scales,

sources • Rapid information integration• Information granularity

• Spatially & temporally variable phenomena• ‘Glocalisation’

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The information tsunami

• Big data• The internet of things • Traditional large-ish data• Lots of small data

Over the nextdecade, the numberof "files,“ or containers for Information will grow by (source: EMC)

75xPhilip Russom, Big Data Analytics, TWDI 2011

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Information silos

System 1

System 2

System 3

System 5 System

4

System n

System 7

$$

$$$

$ $

Discover Access Understand Extract, Transform, Load

Use

Time and effort

Everything Happens

Somewhere

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Queensland floods & Christchurch earthquake 27 online map sites Media Government NGO

6 alert/community report sites

Social media 7 twitter feeds 2 face book pages

All relate to place

• multi sources

• multiple channels

• cannot easily integrate

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Spatial Identifier Reference Framework for Social Protection in Indonesia

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Social Protection in Indonesia

1United Nations Research Institute For Social Development

Social Protection- preventing, managing, and overcoming situations adversely affecting people’s well being[1] - policies & programs to reduce poverty / vulnerability - reducing exposure, enhancing capacity to manage risks

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One real world feature - multiple representations

Multiple - names, identifiers, geometries, versions

Geospatial information

UNSTATS Name GRP’08 $

IND03 NTB 8,080

IND05 NTT 4,769

BPS-ID Name GER ‘08 Tpop’10

003 Nusa Tenggara Barat 111.08 1,318,840

005 Nusa Tenggara Timur 112.09 335,805

Statistical information (Implicitly geospatial)Spatial

IdentifierReference FrameworkMin of Planning 002234

Bureau of Stats 003

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) West Nusa Tenggara

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What’s in a name?Official Country name lists

• United Nations Statistics Division Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use

• United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names - List of Country Names

• Department for General Assembly and Conference Management - Multilingual Terminology Database (UNTERM)

• ISO - ISO 3166: Codes for country names

• UN FAO - Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL)

Figure 1: Variation rates in spelling for country names between the UN Statistical Division’s Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use and UN datasets from data.un.org

Name ambiguity• One place - many names

• Sydney, City of Sydney• Australia, Australie, أستراليا• Wollongong, ‘the gong’

• One name – many places

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SIRF – spatial identifiers to link information

SIRF

Spatial Information

StatisticalInformation User

Linked Data Web

National Spatial Data

InfrastructureIndex

Agency BTreasury

API

Agency C Welfare

API

Agency AStatistics

API

http://id.sirf.net/siset/CGNA/NSW56500

Same as

http://linkedgeodata.org/triplify/node13766899

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9.63 millionpeopleSource: BPS population census, 2010

Bar annotation

Bar annotation

Bar annotation

96%

73%

84%

Gender distribution(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)

31%households with handphonesSource: BPS Susenas, 2011

1

2

34

Area title

Area title

Area title

Area title

H’helds

Title(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)

201320122011

Raskin

Jamkesmas

20

40

60

80

100

Households receiving benefit(Unit: ‘000s | Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)

3.69%People living below the poverty lineSource: BPS SUSENAS, 2012

Total

Urban

Rural

363,124

201,123

152,001

People in poverty(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)

2040

60

80

100

Consumer Price Index (CPI)(Source: BIG | Date: June 2013)

National

Province

Jan Apr Jul Jan

Where are we SIRFing?PartnershipsIndonesia - InaSDI - GoI, BIG, Pulse Lab JakartaAustralia - FSDF - Office for Spatial Policy, GA, CGNAUganda – Pulse Lab KampalaGlobally – UNSDISystem of systems alignment

• INSPIRE -EU• GEOSS - Eye on Earth • OSM

Standards• W3C, ISO, OGC, Statistical -SDMX

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Understanding the need

• Delivering the right information• Unambiguously reference a place using URI – multiple names• Identity not Geometry – ‘the Freemium model’ • Linking not central storage • In the right way

• Granularity - from dataset to feature - Improved - discovery, exploration, understanding, use

• Linked data - ‘spatial bookmarks’ for the web • Feature-level metadata• Scalable data licencing framework• Semantics - multiple languages, definitions• Multiple formats

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For disaster management

• Persistent information infrastructure to link information about places

• crowd-sourced and formal government data

• Linking of spatial and statistical systems • Uptodate, timely information – with metadata • Open data – available for all stakeholders

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Thank youCSIRO Land and Water

Paul BoxProject Leader - UNSDI SIRF for Social ProtectionInteroperable System Research Team Leader

Phone: +61 0406256006Email: paul.j.box@csiro.auWeb: www.csiro.au/gazetteer

... Information is very directly about saving lives. If we take the wrong decisions, make the wrong choices about where we put our money and our effort because our knowledge is poor, we are condemning some of the most deserving to death or destitution.

John Holmes UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for

Humanitarian Affairs

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