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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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?