Scotland’s Environment Web

WISE/GIS IT Workshop 07-08 May 2012

Duncan Taylor/Dave Watson

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

about Scotland’s environment’

• Phase 1 completed November 2011• Provides a single view of Scotland’s Environment

State of Environment Report• Demonstrates shared services approach• Fits into national and international frameworks• Provides a forum for debate and engagement• Phase 2 – three year programme• EU LIFE+ funded

SEWeb - Partners• Scottish Government (SG)• Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)• Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)• Historic Scotland (HS)• Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS)• James Hutton Institute (JHI)• Marine Scotland (MS)• LINK• RAFTS• NHS• COSLA• Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS)

Themed Maps

• Developed to support State of Environment report• Constructed from 30 existing WMS • Summary ‘crafted maps’ plus ability to access more data

sources• Metadata harvest from national metadata repository• Development of 60 additional WMS over next 3 years to

target gaps identified in Phase 1

SEWeb Themes – Phase 2

• Incorporation of data download services• Demonstration applications – data accessibility and

visualisation• Channelled data provision • INSPIRE• SENSE2 – linked data trials

• Citizen Science• Portal to existing sites (NBN, OPAL, Eye on Earth)• How to exploit citizen data

Citizen Science

• Scotland possesses many isolated Citizen Science data repositories

• SEWeb looking at developing mechanisms to make prioritised datasets available.

• Construction of Citizen Science register characterising projects to allow prioritisation

• Explore linked data options for disparate Citizen Science datasets.

Linked Data Development

• Promote publication of data held by Agencies

• Academic involvement – development of ontologies and “inference engines”, integration of citizen science data

• Participation in SENSE2 (Shared European National State of the Environment) project – focusing on exchange of environmental indicators.

EEA SENSE2 Trial Indicators

Theme Code Indicator name

Air pollution CSI 001 Emission of acidifying substances

Air pollution CSI 002 Emissions of ozone precursors

Air pollution CSI 003 Em. of primary particulate matter and sec. partic. matter prec.

Biodiversity CSI 008 Designated areas

Cl. change CSI 010 Greenhouse gas emission trends

Cl. change CSI 011 Greenhouse gas emissions projections

Energy CSI 029/ENER 026 Primary energy consumption by fuel

Fisheries CSI 033 Aquaculture production

Water CSI 018 Use of freshwater resources

Water/Freshwater Resources Indicator – Candidate Datasets

• Water Resources Data Returns• Scottish Water Leakage Rates• Meteorological Office - Rainfall

Linked Data Availability/Information Integration

National - Scotland

Agency

Individual

International

Data Summarisation

DataDetail

Data Availability – Reporting

CitizenScience

SEPA

SEWeb,SSDI

Eye on Earth,

INSPIRE,SENSE2

Links

• Scotland’s Environment Website• http://www.environment.scotland.gov.uk/

• Scottish SDI Metadata Discovery Catalogue• http://scotgovsdi.edina.ac.uk/srv/en/main.home