Business drivers for Open Geospatial

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Business drivers for Open Geospatial

• Cameron Shorter, Geospatial Architect
• http//lisasoft.com

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Overview

• Explain business of Open Technologies
• Introduce the Open Geospatial Foundation
• Why open is good for SDIs
• Identify key enablers for SDIs

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What is Open Source?

• Freely distributed, modified, extended.
• Accompanied by source
• Encourages communities
• Reduces vendor lock-in

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Open Geospatial Foundation

• Non profit
• Founded in 2006
• Volunteer based paid Executive Officer
• Supports quality open source geospatial software
  and data.
• Covers a full stack of mature, robust, geospatial
  software.

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Open Source Business

• Software is free.
• Pay for service
• Integration
• Configuration
• Customisation
• Support

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Open Source Business
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OSGeo Mature Software
OSGeo Stack
http//www.ohloh.net/stacks/151/report
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Why Geoscince?

• Collect and analyse data to make effective
  decisions.

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Requirements of SDIs

• Available
• via robust SDI
• Suitably licensed
• Up to date
• Updated at source
• Inclusive
• More data more value
• Integrated
• Data schemas match
• Cost effective
• Efficient collection, maintenance publishing

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Who pays for the data?

• Funding challenge
• SDI beneficiaries are not the data custodians.
• How can users influence custodians Quality of
  Service?
• User pays models are flawed.

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Free Tools Frees Data

• an effective way to increase access to other
  agencies data is to sponsor free, Open Source
  tools which will reduce the cost barrier to
  sharing data.
• Ben Searle, Australian Government Office of
  Spatial Data Management

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Open Geospatial Sponsors

• CSIRO
• Invest 10 million for robust SDI tools by 2011
  through NCRIS
• Investing in Geoserver and Geonetwork Open Source
• ANZLIC, OSDM, Aust/NZ Gov Agencies
• Supporting and deploying Geonetwork Open Source
• OGC
• Uses Open Source for reference implementations
  for standards.

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Data Licenses

• Incompatible licenses prevent sharing and
  extending datasets.
• Qld Government Information Licensing Framework
• 85 of Australian Government Data could be
  released under Creative Commons license.
• Adding options to Creative Commons to cover extra
  15 of data requiring royalties.

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Community Schemas

• Community Schemas define terms to use when
  describing databases
• (Hi,Med,Lo) doesnt match (Good, Bad)
• Deployments
• Australian Water Data Infrastructure
• GeoSciML
• Geoserver (OSS)

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ROI on Open Standards

• 26 overall saving.
• Low Maintenance and Operation costs outweigh
  higher implementation costs.
• Lower transition costs for sharing data.
• Half the risk.
• Geospatial Interoperability Return on Investment
  Study, NASA Geospatial Interoperability Office,
  April 2005

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Opportunity Management
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Questions?

• Further information
• http//wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies
• Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft
• 61 (2) 9402-0223
• cameron.shorter_at_lisasoft.com

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FOSS4G Conference

• 17 21 November 2009
• Free and Open Source for Geospatial
• Theme User Driven

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What is FOSS4G

• Annual gathering of the geospatial tribes
• Draws the best international Open Source
  Geospatial talent.
• 700 delegates

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Get involved

• Showcase Australia to the world
• Shape the conference
• http//wiki.osgeo.org