SoE Reporting in Scotland

Scotland’s Environment Web LIFE Project

www.environment.scotland.gov.uk

Joanna MusePrincipal Policy Officer

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

The journey of Scotland’s Environment Web

Working towards becoming a “Trusted” gateway to everything you want to know about Scotland’s Environment

Help people discover and understand more about the environment.

Tell a comprehensive story 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 search, find, view, analyse and interpret

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From the seeds of an idea in 2010• A wide range of organisations involved in

monitoring and reporting on Scotland’s environment

• Information scattered across many different websites

• A centalised gateway to data and information

• INSPIRE Directive• Shared Environmental Information

Systems • Technology shift

Grows a projectScotland’s Environment Web

• Long-term intention to present a wide and comprehensive view of Scotland’s environment.

• Phase one - setting up the infrastructure of a new website to host SoE, straight-forward descriptions of the environment, map-based data query tools allowing direct access to data and search facilities.

In November 2011......

A new website is born....

LIFE funding awarded to SEPA A new phase begins

Phase 2

In December 2011, a new LIFE Project was formed, with the aim of

1. Inclusive partnership

2. Shared Environmental

Information System

3. Improve understanding

and prioritisation

4. Engage the public

Behind every great project......

Is a great partnership

• Provide a single “authoritative” view of Scotland’s environment and how it’s changing

• Streamline access to multiple sources of data and information

• Present data from multiple sources in one place, interesting and dynamic data views, exploring relationships, supporting analysis and prioritisation

• Public engagement through Citizen Science and Public/Youth Discussion, education, and community empowerment to take action

• Extended communication networks and reach new audiences

Web platform to find data; get information from data; and use it to inform, understand, decide and behave....

DATA, DATA, DATA….

Shared Environmental Information System “One version of the truth”

Publish Once, Use Many Times, Different Users

DATA

PROVIDERS

Publish DataStandard Formats

Linked Data

Scottish Gov Open Data Strategy

Web Sites

Maps

Desk top Application

Mobile Applications

European Environment

Agency

Discovery Portal -

Scotland’s Environment

Web

Engaging with Scotland’s Citizens

DiscussionMonitoring

ActionEducation

Who are the users of Scotland’s Environment website?

• Scotland’s Environment Web supports the work of partners to make information and data easily available to those who are seeking a broad overview of the multiple aspects of Scotland’s environment.

• It will tell a comprehensive story of Scotland’s environment to interested members of the public, generalist professionals, community/third sector, and users from the education sector.

• It will also provide clear links to more detailed information relating to specialist topics and themes that is available on partner and other associated websites, including daughter websites.

What do users want from the website

What you think users want can be quite different to what they actually want.

Users wanted to:• Viewing trusted and authoritative data/info• Search and find information quickly (within the

website and across websites)• Be taken on a journey of discovery • More images and less text• Interaction with data • Quick analysis and interpretation (visualisation,

graphs etc), with links to data for more detailed analysis

• Localised view

SoE Reporting in ScotlandPublic Feedback

• Trustworthy• Evidence

Based• Impartial

SoE ReportStructure and connectivity

SoE Report 2014Published 5th June

SoE ReportingIndicators & Data

SoECommunicating key messages

SoE – interacting with the underpinning, localised dataSpatial Data – Map View

4 new baselayer maps incl. aerial photographyGeolocator – maps on the go.

SoE Themed MapsorView any combination of INSPIRE data from multiple sources (over 300 data sets)

Land Information Search – Agri-Environment

Save and date stamp Search for future use / reference

Run search of 40+ open data sets – always the most up-to-date data

Run search and print off report - list of all designations & organisation to contact for more information e.g. SEPA, FCS, Historic Scotland, SNH

Draw and measure the area of a line, polygon or point

View designations that fall within the 500m buffer zone

Data Visualisation

UPDATES : Household Waste and Bathing Waters

NEW Apps : Climate Projections, Climate Trends, Native Woodland Survey Scotland, Bathing Waters, Waste from all sources.

UNDER DEV : Local Air Quality/School Travel Plans, Greenspace, Soils.

SoE – Get Involvedrecording observations and action

SoE – The Family from national overview to more specific topic view

SoE A collaborative approach

SoE Topic AuthorsState & Trend Assessment Experts

Editorial Group

Scotland’s Environment Web - SoE“So What?”

- Transparency

- Increased profile of partner organisations and the data/information they publish

- Wider use of data (extended reach and influence)

- New analysis, identification and prioritisation based on the use of trusted and authoritative centralised source of evidence;

- Informed decision making

- Shared resource to collaboratively design, develop and implement solutions

- Optimised and streamlined user experience of search and discovery

- Access to tools that can transform complex scientific data into more useable and understandable formats

- Personalised view of the local environment.

The Future for Scotland’s Environment Web

Through innovation, demonstration, shared learning and collaborative working, create a Web of :– Data providers– Data users– Shared knowledge and data– Connected websites– Environmental Scientists and Observers– Environmental Stewards

Benefit the Environment, Society and the Economy

Scotland’s Environment Webwww.environment.scotland.co.uk

Take a Look at the website, let us know what you think, share new ideas

seweb.administrator@sepa.org.uk“contact us” on the website