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Introducing the WISERD Geoportal WISERD DATA TEAM Dr Robert Berry & Dr Richard Fry, University of Glamorgan Dr Scott Orford, Cardiff University

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Introducing the WISERD GeoportalWISERD DATA TEAM

Dr Robert Berry & Dr Richard Fry, University of Glamorgan

Dr Scott Orford, Cardiff University

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WISERD

• Major investment in research infrastructure in Economic and  Social Sciences across Wales (£4.8 million over 3 years)

• 28 posts at 5 higher education institutions in Wales

• Strategy for generating research grant bids and sustainability

• Major innovations in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods

• Links with WAG, ONS, LAs and other institutions/partners across  Wales

• Establish integrated sets of socio‐economic metadata & data  relating to Wales

What is WISERD?Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and 

Methods

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WISERD – Main Themes

• ‘Knowing’

localities– Cardiff City Centre– Heads of Valleys– Ceredigion– A55 corridor

• Policy analysis and evaluation• Training and capacity building• Data integration (discovery, re‐use, sharing)

Bringing together expertise in criminology, economics and  finance, geography and GIS, public health, urban studies, 

political science, sociology and social policy

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Why?• Enhance a researcher’s ability to discover quantitative and qualitative 

socio‐economic research data for Wales

• Enable geographic

as well as thematic and temporal searching

• Encourage re‐use of existing data and more collaborative research

What?• Online map and text‐based application for accessing META‐database:

– Quantitative Survey Data (e.g. Living in Wales, Welsh Health Survey)

– Qualitative Data (e.g. WISERD research interviews)

– Administrative data (e.g. PLASC, Benefits, health records)

– ‘Grey’

data (e.g. academic publications)

– Public data and linked data (e.g. data.gov.uk, DBPedia)

• Disparate data ‘integrated’

into spatial framework using Geographical  Information Systems (GIS) technology

The WISERD Geoportal (WGP)

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Example Queries• Textual: Show me all the surveys conducted in Wales 

that are related to health or contain questions on  health.

• Spatial: I need to find out what socio‐economic  exists that relates to Cardiff.

• Spatial: Show me all the data you have for this area  (user‐defined)

• Textual/Spatial: I’m conducting a project on schools  in Merthyr Tydfil – I want a printed report of all the 

datasets related to education within the Merthyr UA.

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• Surveys:– Census (1991, 2001)

– Labour Force Survey 2010

– Living in Wales (2004‐2008)

– National Survey for Wales (2010)

– Shelter Cymru HAC

– Skills Surveys (1997‐2006)

– Wales Rural Obs. Rural Business (2004‐

2010)

– Wales Rural Obs. Household Survey (2004‐

2010)

– Welsh Health Survey (2003‐2011)

– Working in Britain (1999‐2002)

– Workplace Employment Relations (2004)

The WISERD Meta-Database (30/08/2011)

Stats:

•63 surveys 

•30 with responses mapped

•5122 tables

•6700 questions

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• Administrative Data: selected PLASC stats (2003‐10) mapped 

at UA level. School‐level stats mapping planned.

• Qualitative Data: Dozens of WISERD stakeholder interview 

transcripts

• Grey MDB: 20+ academic journal articles and PhD theses

• Public: No data added yet (future development)

WISERD Meta-Database: Current Status (30/08/2011)

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Architecture

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Standards compliant metadata

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* Dublin Core (Metadata about the metadata) 

* GEMINI 2.1 (Spatial metadata – INSPIRE compliant)

Survey Data* Survey

* Questions* Responses

Qualitative Data* Keywords* Geo‐tags

Grey Data* Keywords* Geo‐tags

Public Data* As supplied

Admin Data

Metadata Tables (*)

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Free and Open Source Technology

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Spatial Search Tools

• Find by Location• Find by Point and Click• Find by drag rectangle• Find by user defined area…..

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Issues!

• Huge amounts of data for Web delivery. Working on  simplifying and adding topology to boundary data for more 

accurate representation/faster loading.

• Map labelling

• Speed (database, mapping). Investment required (database  server), although CLOUD‐BASED Geoportal may be explored.

• Valuable and original technological research as well  innovative tool for social sciences.

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Further Developments (‐Dec 2011)

• Expand meta‐database ‐

inc. new metadata types:– Public (NOMIS; ONS Neighbourhood Stats)

– Environmental 

– Linked data/RDF (e.g. DB Pedia, data.gov)

• Improve data analysis and charting

• Refine user interface and cartography

• Spatial statistics

• Fully‐featured help and video tutorials

• Print and save metadata and metadata reports to PDF

• Multi‐browser support

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Future Developments ‐

pending  additional funding (2012>)

• Enhance hardware infrastructure (Database server,  storage)

• Integrate metadata entry tools into WGP for end‐ user metadata generation

• Potential secure download of source data• Metadata download in GIS formats

• ‘Community’

features (forums, sharing etc.)

• Publish linked data on other sites (e.g. Data.gov)• Expansion into a ‘Wales Geoportal’

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Schedule

• Release ‘Alpha’

version 1.00 for user‐testing October  2011.

• Incorporate user feedback and develop release  version October‐December 2011

• First release version of WISERD Geoportal  end of  December 2011.

• 2012>....????