Interesting national resource, shame we don't have something similar...
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- There are 3 posts — by 3 authors — in this topic.
- Latest post made by Glen Barnes at Jan 31 13:33 NZDT
Perhaps DOC, MfE, MAF, CRI's, Regional Councils, etc., could collaborate on a national resource such as this, rather than developing multiple limited focus (sometimes overlapping focus) catalogues, which seems to be the current trend. http://www.the-eis.com/aboutus.php While it is certainly easier to focus & fund the development of small bite-sized domains, these should form part of a cohesive national strategy & system. A lack of focus on the overall national picture will lead the results of small, domain specific efforts into limited value & obscurity. Much as described in the recent data.govt.nz review. NZ should at least agree on a common vocabulary for such catalogues & systems before going too much further... such as the GEMET list or the GCMD vocabularies, etc., to try & ensure such systems will at least have some level of interoperability. Someone with a national strategic role in geospatial data management could perhaps provide some valuable leadership here. Hint :-) Cheers, Brent Wood
Thanks Brent Good point. I agree, we need a way(s) of ensuring we're talking about the same thing within and across domains. And controlled vocabularies seem to provide a way of achieving this semantic interoperability. However, in order for controlled vocabularies to be of more (maximum?) value - it is appropriate that they are agreed across a variety of domains, including the geospatial domain. Consequently, I propose that the (cross domain) Open Government Data and Information Reuse Working Group is a more appropriate forum for discussing/agreeing a controlled vocabulary for catalogues and systems (rather than limiting to the Geospatial Steering committee or the geospatial domain). I will raise this item with Keitha and Kevin to table with the Working Group accordingly. While controlled vocabularies are generally of interest to all data management communities, New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO) has a particular interest in the aspect of a controlled vocabulary that defines how we describe where things are, namely a gazatteer. To this extent I propose that NZGO's role is to bring all the parties with an interest in developing a gazatter service together. I have discussed this with Wendy Shaw (Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) and Richard Fone (project manager, LINZ) and note that LINZ is developing a gazatter service that we hope to be accessible mid-2012. I am currently seeking a revised document describing the user requirements and have been advised that I can email this to you shortly. And in terms of the opportunity for interested parties, such as you, to get involved in the development of the gazatter, Wendy/Richard agreed that it would be good for you to participate during the review of the gazatter during the pilot phase. I trust this helps, John.
The goal of the first data.govt.nz was to get things out there and working using an MVP/JFDI approach. This worked well to start with but I guess somewhere along the lines things stagnated. Maybe with a renewed focus on this there can be some resources put in place to start building a constantly evolving data catalogue? In my mind whatever we build needs to cover 2 use cases - People who are browsing and don't know much about data and those who need the hardcore. They shouldn't be mutually exclusive but it will take some pretty talented UX and dev peeps to get it done. I would be interested to find out what the mindset is in government to sharing resources and building something decent on one of the open source catalogue stacks. Glen On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 2:48 PM, <email obscured> wrote: > Perhaps DOC, MfE, MAF, CRI's, Regional Councils, etc., could collaborate on a national resource such as this, rather than developing multiple limited focus (sometimes overlapping focus) catalogues, which seems to be the current trend. > > http://www.the-eis.com/aboutus.php > > While it is certainly easier to focus & fund the development of small bite-sized domains, these should form part of a cohesive national strategy & system. A lack of focus on the overall national picture will lead the results of small, domain specific efforts into limited value & obscurity. Much as described in the recent data.govt.nz review. > > NZ should at least agree on a common vocabulary for such catalogues & systems before going too much further... such as the GEMET list or the GCMD vocabularies, etc., to try & ensure such systems will at least have some level of interoperability. > > Someone with a national strategic role in geospatial data management could perhaps provide some valuable leadership here. Hint :-)
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