Spatial policy and standards update - Margie Smith (Geoscience Australia). Presented at the ANDS facilitated GeoNetwork Community of Practice on April 3rd, 2017 in Canberra.

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Community of Practice
Spatial Policy and Standards Update
Margie Smith

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What’s happened with Spatial Policy in federal
government
OSDM OSP
Data
Policy
Branch
PM&C Public Data Branch
2001 2011 2013 2015
Spatial Data
Access and
Pricing Policy
Open Data
Agenda
Public Data
Policy
Statement*
*http://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/aust_govt_public_data_policy_statement_1.pdf
^ http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/data-access#report
ANZLIC
Productivity
Commission
Report^

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Productivity Commission 2016‐17
Government Data Availability and Use
Economic
Development
Government
Efficiency
Private
Sector
Efficiency
Key Recommendations
• Broad access to Key National Interest Datasets
• Office of the National Data Custodian
• Creation of a Data Sharing and Release Act
• Accredited Release Authorities
• Comprehensive right for citizens to access
their own data

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Comwth. Public Data Policy Statement of 2015
At a minimum, Australian Government entities will publish appropriately
anonymised government data by default:
• on or linked through data.gov.au for discoverability and availability;
• in a machine‐readable, spatially‐enabled format;
• with high quality, easy to use and freely available API access;
• with descriptive metadata;
• using agreed open standards;
• kept up to date in an automated way; and
• under a Creative Commons By Attribution licence unless a clear case is
made to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for another
open licence.

5. Meteor
Australia Australian Government
ABS Standards
Australia
ISO
OGC
IEC W3C
Standards
accepted for
use in
Government
Internationally
Dublin
Core
GeoNetwork Community of Practice
What’s missing from the Data Policy?
Guidance for which metadata and which standard(s)?
• with descriptive metadata;
• using agreed open standards;
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Practice
Spatial Standards

7. Standards under IT‐004

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ISO/TC211 Mirror group IT‐004 in Standards Australia
The December ISO/TC 211 Plenary and Working Group Meetings was hosted
by ESRI and the main topics covered were:
• Establishing liaison with other ISO committees to collaborate on integrating
geospatial information
• Approval of Spatial schema (ISO 19107) to be submitted for vote
• Revise coordinate reference standards to meet the new technology and
accuracy requirements
• Metadata – Amendment 1 (ISO 19115-1)
• Ontology – Service Ontology (ISO 19150-4)
• Approval to revise Land Administration Domain Model
• Addressing – Address Data Quality (ISO 19160-3)
• Addressing – International postal address components (ISO 19160-4)
• Geodetic References (ISO 19161)
• Preservation of digital data and metadata (ISO 19165)
• Improve data model management, governance and access

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ISO/TC211 Mirror group IT‐004 in Standards Australia
The following standards have been published in the last year:
• ISO 19104:2016 Geographic Information – Terminology
• ISO 19110:2016 Geographic Information – Methodology for feature
cataloguing
• ISO/TS 19115-3:2016 Geographic Information – Metadata -- Part 3: XML
schema implementation for fundamental concepts
• ISO 19119:2016 Geographic Information – Services
• ISO/TS 19157-2:2016 Geographic information -- Data quality -- Part 2: XML
schema implementation
• ISO/TS 19159-2:2016 Geographic information -- Calibration and validation
of remote sensing imagery sensors and data -- Part 2: Lidar
• ISO/TS 19163-1:2016 Geographic information -- Content components and
encoding rules for imagery and gridded data -- Part 1: Content model

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OGC
The March OGC Meeting (Delft, the Netherlands) covered topics and
standards relevant to Australia and New Zealand (and particularly the FSDF)
including:
• Discrete Global Grid which supports the international take-up on the
DataCube initiative and other data at regional and global scales.
• Location Powers Summit – the geo-data structure requirements of linking
geospatial information with communities and citizens.
• LandInfra, Smart Cities, 3DIM, CityGML and SensorThings interest groups
held a forum to further explore the model requirements to improve
interoperability across these groups. The LandInfra standard will be one of
the reference standard to assist in this process.
• Land Administration will support the initiatives of the UN and World Bank
associated with SDG.
• Point Cloud – LAS 1.4 Specification is being submitted as an OGC
Community Standard
• Geocoding API – early stages discussion to establish the need for a
standard.

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OGC
Australia is contributing or leading in a number of OGC Standards
Work. These are:
• WaterML2.0
• Soil Data Interoperability Experiment
• Spatial Data on the Web
• Discrete Global Grid System
• GeoSemantics
• LandInfra
• Metadata

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Other news…
Geospatial Standards Meetings in New Zealand
(Nov – Dec 2017)
ISO/TC 211 and OGC will hold their respective Technical
Committee meetings in Wellington and Palmerston, New
Zealand in the period 27 November ‐ 8 December 2017.
The following organisations are supporting the two
meetings ‐ Landcare Research NZ, Land Information NZ,
Standards New Zealand, and the Department of the
Prime Minister and Cabinet (AUS).

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Other news…
Datacube and the Discrete Global Grid impact on UN
Sustainable Development Goals
Managed by DFAT on behalf of Australia, national reporting on the UN’s
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a major use case for the
Australian pioneered DataCube and associated Discrete Global Grid
standard.
The UN has identified data and processes within the DataCube as very
suitable globally for measuring progress against the 17 sustainable
development goals* (SDGs) and subordinate 169 targets.
Geoscience Australia is leading the development of the Discrete Global Grid
as an international standard.
* http://dfat.gov.au/aid/topics/development-issues/global-development-
agenda/Pages/sustainable-development-goals.aspx

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Other news… ISO/TC 211 and OGC Collaboration
ISO/TC 211 and OGC have been invited by a number of international
institutions and other standard development organisations to collaborate
with them on the integration of geospatial information.
The work being undertaken is to ensure the knowledge and understanding
of geospatial information and coordinate reference systems is being
correctly integrated into these other domains.
These include:
• UN Sustainable Development Goals, including the Inter‐Agency and
Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators working
group on geospatial information
• UN Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial
Information

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Other news… ISO/TC 211 and OGC Collaboration
• UN’s Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information
Management (UNGGIM)
• Expert Group on Land Administration and Management
• Private Sector Network
• Academic Network
• Global Geodetic Reference Frame
• Disasters Working Group
• World Bank – Land Administration
• Smart Cities
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Big Data
• Blockchain and its links with Land Administration, Registries & Titles
• Positioning and data capture to support Intelligent Transport Systems
(ITS)
• BIM & GIS Integration

16. data@ga.gov.au
GeoNetwork Community of Practice
Thank you