The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers - Heather Hedden.pdf
Alberts ppt gi2011_imcs_habitats_pilot_dd_andas_final
1. Economical activity at marine
coastal benthic habitats
M.Alberts, A.Ikauniece, P.Bruns, J.Kalnins,
J.Martinsons
IMCS,
Riga,
23 May, 2011
2. Situation overview
Latvian marine coastal habitats are currently represented
by various sets of data owned by Latvian Institute of Aquatic
Ecology (LIAE).
As the coastal region encompasses also protected areas
(Natura 2000) with limited allowed actions the knowledge on
location of habitats and their value is essential for all types of
economical activities.
The cross-border nature of any marine data on habitat
situation therefore is relevant also for the other countries
sharing the Baltic Sea area.
3. Data “mining”
Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology datasets:
biotopes,
water bodies,
monitoring data - stations and video monitoring data, bottom type,
physico-chemical features – temperature and salinity regimes, content of
oxygen and nutrients, density of benthic animals,
marine sediment composition,
Potential additional thematic datasets (depends from other project
success and results):
– GORWIND – areas suitable for the development of the wind
energy production,
– MARMONI – addtional knowledge on benthic habitats in the
protected areas.
5. What is HABITATS project?
HABITATS project (Social Validation of
INSPIRE Annex III Data Structures in EU
Habitats) focuses on the adoption of
INSPIRE standards through a participatory
process to design and validate Data,
Metadata and Services Specifications with
real citizens and business.
6. HABITATS objectives
Build HABITATS User Communities of
stakeholders involved in the demand and
supply of spatial information, usage
scenarios, requirements and services
Consolidate best practice from previous
experiences
Define and implement data and metadata
models for INSPIRE Annex III themes 16,
17, 18 and 19
Design and open and efficient HABITATS
7. What are the needs of the Latvian
Institute of Aquatic Ecology
Harmonize existing data,
Get infrastructure for harmonized data
management and use,
Possibility to publish data.
8. Main overlaps
Consolidate best practice from previous
experiences
Any previous experience and examples
are useful
Define and implement data and
metadata models for INSPIRE Annex III
themes 16, 17, 18 and 19
Define common data models for internal
use in organization, perfect if we can
9. To be compliant
Harmonize data to be INSPIRE/HABITATS
data model compliant
We have:
Currently harmonized one type data to one
data model in organization
To do:
Implement INSPIRE/HABITATS data model
and migrate data to this model, if this
models is not usable for daily work provide
compliant view on data. The main problem
10. HABITATS Use case
The provision of information about possible economical
activities in marine areas is one of the pilot cases in
project INSPIRED HABITATS. INSPIRED
HABITATS infrastructure and platform
implementation is planned as INSPIRE requirement
compliant.
To provide such information it is planned to reuse project
GORWIND results - the defined matrix of factors and
possible activities in selected area.
11. HABITATS Use case
To make use case scenario INSPIRE
compliant WPS service will be used.
12. HABITATS use case
For implementation of the envisaged WPS
we depend on:
GORWIND results,
INSPIRE/HABITATS data modelling
results,
GORWIND and INSPIRE/HABITATS
results’ matching to be possible for the use
in one system.
14. Desktop application
As default proposed desktop application is
used Quantum GIS, because:
supports all mainly used web services,
is good PostgreSQL support,
GUI is translated in Latvian language,
flexible GUI and input form customization
(important if linked tables with code lists
that may change are used)
is for free
Since well known components are used in
15. WEB client
Default web client is OpenLayers with small
customization.
Depending from needs and development
stage web client can be replaced with other
well known and well developed clients like:
HS Layers
MapFish
16. Metadata
Micka metadata system will be used as meta-
data system deployed under Technology
Development Forum (TDF)
[http://geoportal.tdf.lv/]
Reason to use existing service:
LIAE dataset and service amount currently
is small and own metadata system
deployment is financialy inapropriate
Organization is not so big to maintain their
own system