Focus Day: 24 August 2009

Key Highlights Include:

• Promoting interoperability between agencies to achieve a whole-of-government collaboration
• Supplying the tools to legally express how you want others to use your work
• Highlighting open standards that promote optimum interoperability
• Coordinating the development, use, sharing, and dissemination of your geospatial data on a national basis
• Developing and making available interoperable digital geographic data and technologies to support decision making at all scales for multiple purposes

About 2009’s Keynote Presentation – Geoconnections Canada

Sylvain Latour, Director of the world renowned fully interoperable Canadian Government Geoconnections project, will provide you with information on how they developed their Data Infrastructure. Replicate the best to create an Australian National Geospatial Data Infrastructure.

The secret to the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure’s (CGDI) success is twofold, it:

• Provides decision-makers with online access to hundreds of location-based databases throughout the country
• Standardises the way information in many of these databases is stored, accessed, and presented online

In essence, the CGDI serves as a one-stop catalogue for a wealth of location-based information. Compatibility is important because it enables decision-makers to:

• Create online maps generated from more than one database
• Combine different types of data often provides a more revealing and helpful view than producing two or more separate maps

8.30 Registration and Coffee

9.00 Welcome remarks and opening address from Focus Day Chair

Anne Fitzgerald
Professor
QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Driving a Whole-of- Government Effort to Establish a National Spatial Data Infrastructure

9.10Interactive International Case Study: Serving as a Model for Australia to Create a National Geospatial Data Infrastructure

• Looking at the advantages of a joined up geospatial capability: How we got there and strategies for the future
• Overcoming the inhibitor of a lot of different agencies with a lot of different needs/interests: Meeting those needs in a holistic way
• Investigating the politics of implementing this approach: How everyone agreed and how to get buy in
• Understanding the importance of having champions: Not underestimating the power of one
• Developing a one-stop searchable portal for a wealth of location-based information
• Bringing Canada’s geomatics community together to agree on policies that simplify data licensing, access, sharing and usage
• Streamlining the data licensing process: Adopting a standard form for issuing data licenses
• Pulling together in the same direction: Doing more in less time at less cost - particularly in current economic uncertainty
• Advocating the use of national standards: Encouraging technology developers, solutions developers, and data suppliers to adhere to national standards endorsed for the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)
• Producing richer and more useful information with nationwide interoperability than any single dataset can provide

Sylvain Latour
Director
GEOCONNECTIONS - CANADA

10.10 Keynote Address: Driving the Spatial Data Network: A Long Awaited Approach

“With nearly 90% of all government activities involving a spatial element, the benefits of an ASDI will be widespread, particularly with respect to the environmental, social and economic sectors.”

• Ensuring the development of a digital compatibility throughout the nation: Discussing the need for leadership from the top
• Analysing the investment needed over 5 years to develop a national spatial data infrastructure
• Promoting open standards that promote optimum interoperability
• Ensure SDI’s are put in place: Providing feedback from key global entities

The Hon. Gary Nairn
Consultant in Business Development, Negotiations
MEDIATIONS AND PROPERTY MATTERS

10.50 Morning Tea and Networking

11.20 Analysing the Business Benefits for Australian Government of Using OGC Standards

• Simplifying your approach: No single structure for the interchange of data
• An Open Geospatial Consortium Initiative: Legacy data to the future in GML
• Analysing the current state of interoperability in the field of geographic information
• Creating synergy between the various producers and users of geographic information and geomatics products and services in Australia
• Improved analysis and response to regional and global issues via OGC standards
• Empowering technology developers to make complex geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled
• Supporting interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT

Mark E. Reichardt
President and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium
INC (OGC)

12.00 Creating a Framework and Single Point for Accessing All Government Spatial Data: A Groundbreaking, Whole-of-Government Initiative

• Enabling participating organisations to conveniently share spatial data independent of source, format and location in real-time
• Providing access to latest spatial data: Building on a combination of commercial and open source software via the OGC web services
• Providing ready access to a wide range of spatial data and information products from State repositories
• Enabling framework to support focus areas: Natural Resource Management, Emergency Management, Interest Enquiry and Electronic Land Development Process
• Analysing the success of the project one year on: The challenges and triumphs
• Revolutionising the way spatial data is shared and used between government, industry, business and community
• Reducing cost and effort of sourcing, accessing, maintaining and updating spatial data
• Providing a single online environment for live spatial data from all participating agencies, reducing effort to locate and negotiate access to required data
• Developing strategies to reduce compatibility issues and processing costs: Obviating the need for infrastructure and processes to manage external spatial data

Damian Shepherd
Geographic Information Services Manager
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD, WA

12.40 Analysing the Role of Metadata & Standards for Effective Interoperability

• Developing a whole of government continuity plan
• Managing digital information, standards and strategic awareness
• Looking at how standards can be used within government for discovery of information, information reuse and interoperability
• Developing a metadata standard across government

John Roberts
Archives Management – Group Manager
ARCHIVES NEW ZEALAND

1.20 Lunch and Networking Break

2.20 Showcasing Effective Geospatial Analysis at Medicare for Criminal Intelligence

• Analysing strategies for effective data sharing between government organisations
• Overcoming problems with a variety of different datasets from various sources
• Developing new models and techniques to use on different target sets
• Discussing the benefits for government and stakeholders of a spatially enabled organisation
• Overcoming privacy and confidentiality issues both internally and externally: Amalgamated grids
• Highlighting geo-coding and compliance initiatives
• Looking at the future: Where spatial will fit in

Horst Peemoeller
National Intelligence Team Leader
MEDICARE AUSTRALIA

3.00 Developing Policies to Standardise GIS Information within Australia’s Police Force

• Analysing how working groups and government information licence framework will assist in internal federal police departments
• Implementing a geo-enabled dispatch system: Investigating the possibilities, advantages and challenges of rolling it out throughout Australia
• Applying a better approach to metadata, licencing, government frameworks and sharing of information between police departments
• Incorporating GIS to better manage publishing of information: Getting the privacy issues right, first time

David Williams
Inspector
VICTORIAN POLICE

3.40 Investigating the Role of Land Information New Zealand’s in leading the Development of a Geospatial Data Infrastructure and Leadership in Geospatial information

• Providing an update on the New Zealand Geospatial Strategy and work programme
• Analysing collaboration across sectors in geospatial information

Brendon Whiteman
Director – Geospatial Office
LAND INFORMATION NEW ZEALAND

4.20 Collaboration Power Panel: How Can a Whole of Government Interoperability be Best Achieved?

• Understanding the technical and institutional issues that need to be overcome
• Discussing the latest interoperability initiatives: What can work and what do we all need to do
• Highlighting information management and corporate governance of spatial data
• Analysing the steps towards data standardisation

Panellists include:

Sylvain Latour Director GEOCONNECTIONS – CANADA	The Hon. Gary Nairn Consultant in Business Development, Negotiations MEDIATIONS AND PROPERTY MATTERS
Professor Brian Fitzgerald Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY – LAW	Peter Bowen Principal Geospatial Scientist NATIONAL NATIVE TITLE TRIBUNAL
Yvonne Thompson Strategic Data Development Manager EMERGENCY SERVICES	Mark E. Reichardt President and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium INC (OGC)
John Roberts Group Manager, Archives Management ARCHIVES NEW ZEALAND

5.20 Closing Remarks from Chair

5.30 Close of Focus Day

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