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Business Drivers for Interoperability in SEE Grid

Lesley Wyborn Geoscience Australia

7 September 2005 – Edinburgh, UK

AUKEGGS Workshop on Grid and Geospatial Standards for Earth System Science Data: September 2005

Outline

1. The realms of interoperability

2. Drivers for interoperability in the Australian Mining Industry

3. Other Drivers for Interoperability

4. Drivers for SEE Grid

5. Introduce the Solid Earth and Environmental Grid (SEE Grid) Community


My Changing Role in Geoscience Australia

I was Group Leader Geochemistry and Metallogeny in the Minerals Division

I am now Group Leader Interoperability for all Divisions

Minerals

Petroleum and Marine

Geospatial and Environmental Monitoring


The Realms of Interoperability

1. The Sector Realm

Industry

Government

Academic

2. The Content Realm

Wet

Dirt

Topo

3. The Interoperability realm

Information services especially the semantic realm

Computational realm


The drivers from the Minerals Industry: different formats and standards

Data Structures

Proprietary Software

Versions of Software

Client


Key Driver: Input to the Minerals Exploration Action Agenda – July 2003

Industry input highlighted

problems in gaining access to pre-

competitive geoscience information.

described existing information as commonly

incomplete and fragmented across eight

government agencies, each with its own

information management systems and

structures.

noted that the disparate systems lead to

inefficiencies causing higher costs, reduced

effectiveness and increased risk incurred by

the industry and its service providers

Source: http://www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/itrinternet/minerals_aa_finalreport_July2003.pdf


The Road to Discovery Document: A response to Minerals Exploration Action Agenda – June 2004

Key Initiative Australian Government, State and Territory geoscience

agencies, professional associations and industry to

cooperatively develop and implement nation-wide

protocols, standards and systems that provide internet-

based access to, and effective storage and archiving of,

industry and government exploration-related DATA

Recommended actions Development and endorse a plan to upgrade and expand the

Geoscience portal to include new on-line datasets

Endorse and adopt standards for company exploration data

submitted to Mines Departments

Implement web-based services for on-line access

Develop and endorse a plan for implementation of an Australian

Earth Science Grid

See http://www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/itrinternet/Road_to_Discovery20040702155050.pdf?CFID=284582&CFTOKEN=83266426


Our demonstrator proved interoperability for government to Industy

XML

GML/XMML

Client


Industry support for our Innovation Access Fora Grant – 1

BHP Billiton is focussed on the utilisation and analysis of geospatial data to provide advice across our global operations in a timely and efficient manner. The ability to obtain these data more readily, and in open exchange formats will increase our efficiency to do what we do best

Grant McLatchie, BHP Billiton

In the process of implementing acQuire software throughout the world the implementation personnel have continued to discover significant issues with the transfer and effective use of data between systems. Many issues have been identified including:

Data is invalidated or lost in the transfer process

Metadata … is often lost because it was not convenient to transfer

Unsupportable data conversion tools are constructed to facilitate transfers of data that are part of a critical process

Bill Withers, Managing Director, Metech Pty ltd


Industry support for the Innovation Access Fora Grant – 2

The issue of poor data interoperability and interchange in the exploration and mining industry is widely recognised as a significant barrier to achieving better outcomes – both scientifically and economically, within the industry.

As a software vendor, Fractal Technologies is acutely aware of the inefficiencies caused by having to support such a wide range of data formats, which requires us to spend a significant portion of our development resources writing file format translators rather than adding value through the creation of smarter data processing algorithms and data analysis tools

Mark Morrison, Technical Director, Fractal technologies Pty Ltd


Low investment in Australia, = to 15% in USA, 31% Europe, 45% Japan and 39% Canada

Absence of it forces industries to approximate or sub-optimise high performance tasks by

dividing task into smaller units

accepting sub-optimal solutions

introducing simplifying approximations

ITR report concluded that in an increasingly competitive global economy, more precise solutions resulting in better products are required: these necessitate HPC

Source: DITR report 2001 on “The Impact of High Performance Computing Technologies in Australia” see http://www.industry.gov.au/library/content_library/12_High_Performance_Computer_Tech.pdf

External Economic Drivers from a government perspective

http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/Talks/FutureInfrastructure.ppt


Internal Economic Drivers from a government perspective


Interoperability drivers forEmergency Management - Local


Interoperability drivers forEmergency Management - International

Source: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041226/max_global.pdf


Legislative issues driving Interoperability

Industry perspectives: New legislation in US and Canada impose strict

requirements on the CEO when announcing year end results, with severe sanctions for false certification (fines and/or prison)

United States – Sarbanes Oxley

Canada NI 43-101

Government perspectives: In Queensland, information is an asset of the crown and

Director Generals are accountable for the information assets of their departments. Dept. assets can be audited against ISO standards.

Similar legislation in Canada for government data suppliers


Any Mining Company

Standardised XML interfaces will impose quality control by default


Have we Crossed the Chasm in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle?

Geoffrey A. Moore, 1991. Crossing the Chasm. Harper Business


Understanding what is required to move forward

1. interoperability is underpinned by standards developed at the international level

2. We are at the same point in time as the industrial revolution where the infrastructure of the industrial age was underpinned by standards


Peter Drucker - Beyond the Information Revolution: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm

Industrial vs the Information Revolution

1776 - Invention of steam engine

1829 - Invention of railways

1834 - First rail-networks

1880 - First Standards Association for individual components

1890 – Manufacturing age

1940 - Invention of the computer

1989 - First Generation Internet

1996 - First Grid networks

1996 - First Standards for components: XML appears

2005 – Interoperability for Geosciences

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm


The anatomy of the thread of a screw

Standards are developed at the level of the lowest common component


PIRSAWeb Feature Service (WFS)

Common Interface Binding – GML/XMML

GA Geochemistry

Feature Data Source

DOIRGeochemistry

FeatureData Source

DOIRWeb Feature Service (WFS)

GAWeb Feature Service (WFS)

Geoserver (Open Source)

PostGIS (Open Source)

OraclePostGIS (Open Source)

CLIENT APPLICATIONS

DATA ACCESS SERVICES

DATA SOURCES

WebMap Composer

GA Reports Application

PIRSA Geochemistry

FeatureData Source

Little or no change required here

Translation to standards here


Infrastructure in the Industrial Age vs Information Age

Source http://www.ara.net.au/main.php#http://www.ara.net.au/main.php#

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Interrogation Software

Visualisation

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Create conceptual models of

fundamental real world data sets

Mineralogy

Geophysics

Metallurgy

Geomechanics

Geochemistry

Structural Geology

Geological History

Fluid Inclusio

ns

Microstructure

Thermo-dynamics

Rock Properties

Stratigraphic

index

Simulate to determine essential

ingredients

MODELLING & SIMULATING MINERAL SYSTEMS

Coupled Mechanical_thermal_fl

uid flow_chemical modelling

Deformational modelling

Fluid flow modelling

Return to real world

data sets to

validate simulatio

nsand seek other

analogues


http://norway.emc.com/annualreport2000/content_byte.pdf

Interoperability Drivers - Scale

Kilobyte 1*103 bytes = a very short story 1990

Megabyte 1*106 bytes = a small novel 1996

Gigabyte 1*109 bytes = Beethoven’s 5th Symphony 1998

Terabyte 1*1012 bytes = all the X-rays in a large hospital 2000

Petabyte 1*1015 bytes = half the content of US academic Libraries 2005

Exabyte 1*1018 bytes = all the words people have ever spoken 2010

Zettabyte 1*1021 bytes = number of grains on all the world’s beaches ?

Yottabyte 1*1024 bytes = the number of atoms in 7000 human bodies ?


Interoperability: the driver of Innovation in the Information Age

In the Information Age

innovation

comes from the capacity to

mine vast data sets from

distributed sources to

enable the production of

new knowledge

Source: Kaye, D., 2003. Loosely Coupled: The missing pieces of web services. RDS Press California


Linked, distributed observational databases

Linked, distributed modelling components

Linked, distributed computation

Modelling environment

Linked, distributed model libraries

Programs used to generate

model

Data used to generate

model

Final Model archived with input data & programs

SEE Grid – an interoperable community that links distributed, operable components

CSIROGA

State & Territory Surveys

CSIRO ACcESS

APAC CSIRO

CSIROACcESS APAC VPACTPAC


Introducing the SEE Grid community


Keeping going – remember the trough

www.seegrid.csiro.au

Thank You

Contact Robert Woodcock

CSIRO

Phone 08 6436 8780

Email [email protected]

Contact Lesley Wyborn

Geoscience Australia

Phone 02 62499489

Email [email protected]

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