certainty and continuity of provision, price, conditions

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Victorian Geospatial Information
Strategy(VGIS)first draft briefing

• Government On Line Group
• 14 September 1999

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VGIS Context

• Strategy for the period 2000-2003
• Victorian geospatial information strategy -
  applicable to State government, but
• relevant to whole Victorian geospatial
  information industry

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VGIS Context

• Departmental endorsement September 1999
• Whole of government endorsement (Cabinet) early
  2000
• Extensive consultation period up until end 1999
• Seeking the involvement and commitment of a wide
  range of participants

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VGIS Elements
V I S I O N
O B J E C T I V E S
FRAMEWORK INFORMATION
KEY BUSINESS INFORMATION
CUSTODY
METADATA
PRICING
ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE
SPATIAL ACCURACY
AWARENESS
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Vision

• All Victorians will access and use the geospatial
  information they require

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Objectives

• maintain and develop a comprehensive geospatial
  information resource - the infrastructure and
• drive, to the fullest extent, the value and
  capability of this resource - the benefit

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Strategies

• Framework Information
• Key Business Information
• Custody
• Metadata
• Access Infrastructure
• Pricing
• Spatial Accuracy
• Awareness

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Framework information Key Business information

• Relationship of Framework Information to Key
  Business Information is fundamental
• Framework information consists of the basic
  elements
• Key business information are components and
  complete structures

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Framework Information

• Framework information is the base for VGIS
• Geodetic control
• Address
• Cadastral
• Transport
• Administrative
• Elevation
• Hydrology
• Imagery

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Framework Information

• Objectives
• acknowledged framework role
• single best available data
• solid information platform for Victoria

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Framework Information

• Outcomes
• secure and maintained GI platform for Victoria
• published quality standards for all Framework
  Information
• published plan for custodians to, where
  necessary, upgrade to required quality standards

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Key Business Information

• Key business information capitalises on framework
  data benefit and
• Engages key stakeholders
• Natural resources
• Planning, regulatory/strategic
• Socio-economic/demographic
• Transport
• Water utilities
• Energy utilities
• Telecommunications
• Financial

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Custody

• A custodian is responsible for a dataset
• Custodians become partners in VGIS
• Clear custody
• sets scope
• eliminates data duplication
• specifies single best data
• provides certainty
• Custody roles underpin VGIS

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Custody

• Outcomes
• custodians identified, with stakeholder
  endorsement
• agreed minimum standards
• development of upgrade path where standards not
  met
• definition and publication
• published and agreed plan

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Metadata

• key enabling mechanism
• discovery
• management
• utilisation
• provide content for Victorian Spatial Data
  Directory (VSDD)
• specify clearinghouse links
• conform to ANZLIC metadata guidelines

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Metadata

• Outcomes
• acknowledged metadata role
• page0 implementation
• page1 definition, documentation, implementation
• page2 guidelines, implementation
• published implementation plan

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Access infrastructure

• Simple, effective means of locating and obtaining
  GI
• single access point (VSDD), with transparent
  links to
• many distributed, custodial data stores
  (clearinghouses)
• Outcomes
• consolidation of the VSDD
• clearinghouse(s) establishment

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Pricing

• Pricing principles that
• encourage use by minimising licence and delivery
  costs and
• provide a revenue base sufficient for custodians
  to maintain geospatial information to the
  standard required by users.
• Private sector to play an increased role in
  pricing

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Pricing

• VGIS will call up the existing GI pricing policy
• Outcomes
• data at the lowest possible cost to ensure
  sustainable, ongoing maintenance
• certainty and continuity of provision, price,
  conditions

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Spatial Accuracy

• Provide means of integrating framework and key
  business data
• Accuracy not widely understood on the demand
  side.
• Technical specifications
• datums, projections and coordinates systems, and
  preferred options
• accuracy upgrade procedures
• significant changes in base (GDA94)

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Spatial Accuracy

• Outcome - certainty
• of spatial accuracy standards
• of confidence levels for merging geospatial
  information

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Awareness

• Move from inaccessible complex, specialised, to
  open, simple, easy to use
• An awareness program is required to accompany
  this process, to ensure full benefit realised
• benchmark of the existing awareness and
  acceptance
• performance indicators for improved awareness -
  especially ease of entry

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Roles Responsibilities

• VGIS benefits all, so all have a role in VGIS
• State participation under Cabinet endorsement,
  others by mutual agreement, for mutual benefit
• Land Victoria will have the overall
  responsibility for VGIS, with key roles being
  played by GIRG and Data Custodians Group (DCG)

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GIRG

• Membership representative of the geospatial
  information industry. GIRG members will
• contribute their personal and industry experience
  to VGIS
• gain the commitment to and involvement in VGIS of
  their constituents
• play a key role in developing and monitoring the
  performance of VGIS

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Data Custodians Group

• Key enabling role, comprised of data custodians
• Balance of supply (framework) and demand (key
  business) perspectives
• Will require custodians to formally agree to and
  undertake the rights and responsibilities of
  custodianship

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Data Custodians Group

• DCG members will
• contribute their personal and industry experience
  to VGIS
• represent agencies identified as custodians
• develop and undertake implementation plans for
  custodial requirements
• canvas and incorporate the views and requirements
  of their user base

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Land Victoria

• Responsible for implementing VGIS
• Coordinate and support the actions of GIRG and
  DCG
• Direct role as framework and key business
  information custodian
• Jurisdictional linkages
• National
• Local government
• Private sector
• Community groups

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Roles Responsibilities
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VGIS environment
CUSTODIAN
DATASET
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Further Information

• Available in draft from Geospatial Information
  Policy team
• ? Bruce Thompson [phone]
• bruce.thompson_at_nre.vic.gov.au
• ? Garry Mahon [phone]
• garry.mahon_at_nre.vic.gov.au
• ? Peter Mosley [phone]
• peter.mosley_at_nre.vic.gov.au
• ? Katie Falzon [phone]
• katie.falzon_at_nre.vic.gov.au
• Available when NRE endorsed (October) on GI
  Connections
• www.giconnections.vic.gov.au