the environmental informatics programme
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Dr Matthew StiffCEH Director Environmental Informatics
Presentation to CRM SIGNeSC Edinburgh 12 July 2007
The Environmental Informatics Programme
A “flagship” programme for CEH
The Environmental Informatics Programme
• A new programme for CEH• An integrated approach to knowledge
management encompassing digital, paper and object archives
• Delivery to be achieved through revised management structures with increased emphasis on data management and informatics
• Improved service and delivery
Informatics leadership
Working with the core science programmes to
• Establish/facilitate data management
• Develop strategy
• Coordinate informatics development
• Facilitate data integration
• Meet the needs of external partners and stakeholders
Key objectives of EI01
• Development of an integrated framework for the long-term management of CEH’s environmental data
• Data archaeology and capture of corporate knowledge
• Provision of a secure environment for the curation of CEH’s physical archives, integrated with CEH digital data archives
• Development of a defined commercial policy for exploitation of CEH data holdings
Key objectives
• Development of a geospatial gateway providing comprehensive access to CEH spatial and temporal data
• Evaluation and/or development of domain ontologies for semantic integration of environmental data
• Support for and development of CEH corporate and science project Web sites and implementation of Web standards for these sites
Semantic Integration
Semantic Integration
Data Integration
Domain Ontologies
Contextual Metadata
Resource Discovery Metadata
Integration and Analytical Tools
Geo-spatial Integration
Geospatial integration
Land cover map of Great Britain
CEH digital terrain model 50m × 50m resolution (upper Eden catchment)
1:250 000 scale mapping (Ordnance Survey)
CEH 50 × 50 m resolution hydrologically- corrected digital terrain model overlain with derived river network
National soil series from NSRI (250 × 250 m resolution).CEH land cover map (25m x 25m resolution)
Modelled critical loads for acidity of soils (1km resolution)
Modelled spatial variation in soil organic Carbon
National river flow information from the CEH National Water Archive
English Nature Sites of Special Scientific Interest – SSSI boundaries.
Combining ecological and hydrological data
Bringing together CEH tools with those of partners and commercial suppliers
Adding value with CEH knowledge and expertise
Environmental Informatics developing better access to consistent data sets
EI is bringing together CEH’s numerous data holdings into standard corporate structures
Enabling better integration of these and other third party data sets
And providing better access to consistent data at both national and local level
This will allow researchers to investigate complex environmental issues across a range of consistent data sets
Hydrology
Land cover
Cartography
Stewardship Areas
Environmental Informatics support for corporate information management
EI has created a network of information specialist to support science teams
They are fostering Web-based collaborative working methods to track scientific data through projects and from CEH staff leaving and moving from different sites
They will assure proper data cataloguing and storage in new, long-term corporate facilities
This is raising science information management standards across CEH and securing unique environmental records for future research
Lancaster Long-term Archive
CEH Dorset Decommissioning
Environmental Informatics support for
CEH science projects
EI is supporting national-scale monitoring projects such as the Countryside Survey
Developing rugged digital data capture systems for field survey
And comprehensive Web-based data delivery
This is significantly improving quality and speed of data capture, analysis and delivery
Facilitation role
Existing:• IT Strategy Group
Planned working groups• Modelling• Statistics• Field data capture• GIS• Standards• Semantics and data integration
Key collaborative projects
Managed by EIP through the IT Strategy Group
• Storage Infrastructure Project
• Access Grid
• High-performance cluster at Edinburgh
In collaboration with People and Skills/Knowledge Transfer
• Intranet/Internet redevelopment
Thoughts?
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