Scotland's Environment Web

NESAC

Dave Watson

02 April 2014www.environment.scotland.gov.ukwww.environment.scotland.gov.uk

Presentation/Session Outline

• SEWeb introduction• SEWeb data journey

• What has been encountered on that journey• SEWeb as a data consumer

• Spatial data• Data visualisation

• SEWeb partnership as data suppliers• Repository based data service publication• Linked Data

Scotland’s Environment Webwww.environment.scotland.gov.uk

Aims to be the “Trusted” gateway to everything you want to know about Scotland’s Environment, bringing together the most up to data environmental information and data in the

one place, so that it is easy to find, view, analyse and interpret

Transformational shift from Data Rich to Information Rich.

Scotland’s Environment Web‘The gateway to everything you want to know

about Scotland’s environment’

• Three year programme launched November 2011• Provides a single view of Scotland’s Environment

via ‘State of Environment Report’• Shared services approach• Provides a forum for debate and engagement• EU LIFE+ funded• April 2014 – Major upgrade released

Scotland’s Environment Web of PartnersWeb of Partners

SEWeb Data Journey - DATA, DATA, DATA….

Partners

Data Publication

Data Consumption

Daughter Sites

INSPIREWMS

SSDI

Eye on Earth

Gemini2,

IPR

Data Protection

WFS

Data Download Service

Scottish Government

Digital Stategy

Data Visualisation

Linked Data

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??National Security

SEWeb Data Journey

Scotland’s Environment Web “Family”

Scotland’s Environment

Scotland’s Soils

Scotland’s Aquaculture

Others.... tbc

· More focussed partnership group· Collate data sets and publish as

Open Data · High profile view of an important

environmental issue in Scotland· In-depth analysis to support

Scotland’s SoE Summary· Connected user journey

· Data viewable along with other environmental data

· Single View of Scotland’s Environment

· Connected user journey· High Level Introduction to a more

detailed view· Shop window to introduce DW

data to new audiences

Daughter Web Sites (DW)

SEWeb Brand – Daughter Web Sites

SEWeb Data Progress

What do we do with the data?

• Themed spatial maps• Advanced Maps• Visualisation Applications• Task Specific Applications• Linked Data Repository

SEWeb Data/Application Channels

Web Map Services

Waste Land Information

SearchWater Climate

ESRI Rest Services

Spatial Visualisation

Trends and Indicators

Map Viewer

ServiceDirect

Connect

Linked Data

Linked Data Repository

XML

RDF

Transform

SEWEB

Widgets

Web Feature Services

SSDIMetadata

AIR

Air Quality

Benefits from air

Health and wellbeing

LAND

Benefits from the environment

Cities, towns and greenspaces

Crops & livestock

Farmland

Fossil fuels and minerals

Health and wellbeing

Historic Environment

Landscape

Mountains and uplands

Recreation and amenity

Rocks and landforms

Soils

Timber and forestry products

Urban

Woodlands & forests

WATER

Aquaculture

Benefits from the environment

Fisheries

Freshwater lochs

Groundwater

Health and wellbeing

Offshore waters

Recreation and amenity

Rivers

Lochs

Water supply

Wetlands & peatlands

ENVIRONMENTAL

Benefits from the environment

Climate change

Energy

Flooding

Health and wellbeing

Land use strategy

Recreation and amenity

Waste

WFD

CLIMATE

Climate

INDICATORS & DATA MAIN SUMMARY PAGE HELP

Date: 16/07/2012Publisher: SESO

Distribution of mean nitrate concentrations in rivers 1993-2012, % of sites within each band

Mean nitrate concentration are taken at around 200 (nitrate directive based) locations in Scotland. These means have been divided into five bands (ranging from < 0.3 mg N/l to ≥ 7.5

mg N/l) and the percentage of samples in each band has been calculated.

Date: 16/07/2012Publisher: SESO

Distribution of mean orthophosphate concentrations 1993-2012, % of sites within each band

Mean orthophosphate concentration are taken at around 200 locations in Scotland. These means have been divided into six bands (ranging from < 25 μg P/l to ≥500 μg P/l) and the

percentage of samples in each band has been calculated.

Date: 16/07/2012Publisher: SESO

River water quality indicator: 1992-2012

The lengths of river in Scotland which have been classified as according to SEPA's long term river quality indicator classification scheme.

Date: 01/01/2014Publisher: NAME

Next relevant dataset……………………………………………….(the dataset name links to graphic)

Information about the file

KEY DATASETS: 9SUPPORTING DATASETS: 22

DATASET SEARCH RESULTS

ENIRONMENTAL TOPIC: RIVERS

Data Search

Dataset Details

Date: 10/06/2013Publisher: SESO

Distribution of mean nitrate concentrations in rivers 1993-2012, % of sites within each band

Mean nitrate concentration are taken at around 200 (nitrate directive based) locations in Scotland. These means have been divided into five bands (ranging from < 0.3 mg N/l to ≥ 7.5

mg N/l) and the percentage of samples in each band has been calculated.

SEPA laboratory service is accredited by UKAS to ISO 17025 for the analyses reported here. SEPA's Data Unit is accredited to ISO 9001 and aims to report data accurately and consistently. Internal audits are used to verify that the procedure is being followed.

KEY DATASETS

DATASET DETAILS

ENIRONMENTAL TOPIC: RIVERS

0.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

35.0

40.0

45.0

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

mg

N/l

Mean Nitrate Concentrations in Rivers

% of sites with meanconcentrations of < 0.3mg N/l

% of sites with meanconcentrations of 0.3to < 0.75 mg N/l

% of sites with meanconcentrations of 0.75to < 2.5 mg N/l

% of sites with meanconcentrations of 2.5to < 7.5 mg N/l

Downloading data is enabled

Indicators & Data – Phased Approach(New Site Launch 14th March 2014)

• New site launch – Presentation layer• Create page layouts and navigation paths for

• Topic summary page • Explanatory “about” / “help” text to explain the

meaning of Indicators & Data and how to use the features

• Revise the plan and methodology to move to full implementation

Themed/Advanced Maps

Visualisation Tools

Land Information Search

• Task Specific Application - Launch January 2014• Data Download Service to support environmental impact

assessments for forestry• Data sets provided by partners through web services• Long-term aim – use INSPIRE compliant WFS• Short-term – use ESRI REST services• Development led by SNH, involving FCS and SEPA• Forum for development of common standards and

templates for environmental mapping applications in Scotland

Linked Data Repository http://data.sepa.org.uk

# Available on the web (whatever format) but with an open licence, to be Open Data

# # Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)

# # # as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)

# # # # All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff

# # # # # All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context

Why Linked Data? - 5 Star Model of Open Data

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

(Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/)http://lod-cloud.net/versions/2011-09-19/lod-cloud_colored.png

SEWeb Data Discovery

• SEWeb uses Exalead search engine to create focussed Scottish Environmental Search.

• Exalead will connect to• Local SEWeb Resource Library• Partner sites via XML site map files• SEWeb Spatial data pool (uses SSDI data)• SEWeb Citizen Science Register• Linked Data Repository

SEWeb Data Discovery

SEWeb Search (Exalead)

SSDI Metadata(Spatial)

Partner Content Management

Systems

Citizen Science Register (May

2014)

Linked Data Metadata

Resource Repository

SSDI Metadata Non-Spatial

Edina API SQL ViewEdina APIXML

Site FilesOracle View SPARQL ‘Service’

SEWeb Demo

• www.environment.scotland.gov.ukwww.environment.scotland.gov.uk

Useful Links

• SEWeb www.environment.scotland.gov.uk • Scottish Soils http://www.soils-scotland.gov.uk/ • Aquaculture http://aquaculture.scotland.gov.uk/• Linked Data Lab http://data.sepa.org.uk• SSDI http://scotgovsdi.edina.ac.uk/srv/en/main.home• INSPIRE http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ • Water Classification Visualisation

http://www.environment.scotland.gov.uk/get_interactive/data_visualisation/water_body_classification.aspx

Questions?