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Interoperability in the Australian Mining IndustryAUSIndustry Workshops Executive Briefing Part 2

Lesley Wyborn

Geoscience Australia

22 June 2005

SEEGrid Roadshow 2005

Outline: Interoperability in the Australian Mining Industry

1. Revision: What is interoperability

2. Placer Dome case history

3. Runge case history

4. Other industry needs

5. Where to next?

6. Key take home message


Acknowledgements – pt 1

The work to be presented in this workshop has been funded by the:1. Commonwealth

AUSIndustry Innovation Access Program (IAccP) AUSIndustry Innovation Access Fora Program (IAF) Geoscience Australia CSIRO

2. State Mineral Resources Tasmania Geoscience Victoria NSW Department of Mineral Resources Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Northern Territory Geological Survey Western Australia Department of Industry and Resources Primary Industry and Resources South Australia

3. Industry Minerals Council of Australia Social Change Online Fractal Technologies

4. All of the Above Predictive Minerals Discovery CRC (pmd*CRC)


Acknowledgements – part 2

Andrew Scott of Placer Dome

Jane Kato of Runge

Colleagues of CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and Social Change Online who never gave up………………………….


Setting the context for this paper

Interoperability represents perhaps the most significant paradigm shift in how data and information are managed and utilised since the emergence of the Internet

Neil Williams CEO Geoscience Australia &

Chair Australian Government Spatial Policy Executive

Interoperability: responding to national Drivers. OSDM conference on Interoperability October 2005 http://www.osdm.gov.au/osdm/docs/resources/osdm_interoperability_con_03112004/neilwilliams1.pdf


What is interoperability?

"capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units“

Source: OGC Abstract Specification Topic 12: Services. Derived from

ISO 2382-1.

My stuff operates with your stuff and I don’t give a damn where it is, how it works and what the format is

Where stuff = digital computers

programs data etc

Lesley’s definition



Caveat

The work to be presented is the result of a test bed.

Participants should only act on the presentations and technical advice after independent consideration of their own particular circumstances.


The role of AUSIndustry

The Test bed demonstrator was developed under an AUSIndustry Innovation Access Program (IAccP) grant led by the Minerals Council of Australia, CSIRO, GA and the pmd*CRC.

Geoscience Australia and all State and Territory Geological Surveys funded the building of a demonstrator of real time interoperability between GA, SA and WA

The current AUSIndustry Innovation Access Fora (IAF) grant is to hold workshops in every capital city to

showcase interoperability - what it is and how Australian Industries can benefit from it

Install the test bed on the remaining state surveys

Seek feedback on future directions

All results from both projects are available online at http//:www.seegrid.csiro.au


Where will we be at the end July?

June 15

July 28

July 21

June 22

July 14


Is there a business case for us to continue?

At the end of the current Innovation Access Fora grant we will have test bed interfaces between GA and every state and Territory Survey

This test bed makes some data accessible by industry from government sources

Are there other use cases?

Does industry value interoperability?

Let us look at two use cases






















Reasons from our letters of support for the Innovation Access Fora Grant – 1

The Geoscience Agencies recognise that significant potential of this technology to deliver strategic geoscience data to the minerals exploration industry

David Mason, Chair Chief Government Geologists Committee

BHP Billiton is focussed on the utilisation and analysis of geospatial data to provide advice across our global operations in a timely and efficient manner. The ability to obtain these data more readily, and in open exchange formats will increase our efficiency to do what we do best

Grant McLatchie, Co-ordinator Business Improvement, GIS, IT & Databases, BHP Billiton



io global utilises geochemical data sets from government and the private sector on a daily basis, and improved efficiencies through interoperability would greatly benefit our business

Stephen Winter, Managing Director io global

In the process of implementing acQuire software throughout the world the implementation personnel have continued to discover significant issues with the transfer and effective use of data between systems. Many issues have been identified including:

Data is invalidated or lost in the transfer process

Metadata … is often lost because it was not convenient to transfer

Unsupportable data conversion tools are constructed to facilitate transfers of data that are part of a critical process

Bill Withers, Managing Director, Metech Pty ltd



The issue of poor data interoperability and interchange in the exploration and mining industry is widely recognised as a significant barrier to achieving better outcomes – both scientifically and economically, within the industry.

As a software vendor, Fractal Technologies is acutely aware of the inefficiencies caused by having to support such a wide range of data formats, which requires us to spend a significant portion of our development resources writing file format translators rather than adding value through the creation of smarter data processing algorithms and data analysis tools

Mark Morrison, Technical Director, Fractal technologies Pty Ltd


Key points from case studies and support letters

1. Show the diversity of use cases for the same data type throughout the mining value chain

2. Show a strong business case for interoperability for management of your data in the external world

3. Show an even stronger business case for interoperability for internal data management

4. Show why standards need to be developed by groups working together as part of a community

5. Highlight the emerging issue that responsibility of data quality becoming a legislative issue



Standardised XML interfaces will impose quality control by default


Standardised XML interfaces will impose quality control by default


There is a clear need to go further

What are our options?

Introducing the AUSIndustry Industry Cooperative Innovation Program (ICIP)

Announced 2 June 2005

Round 1 applications due 25 August


The AUSIndustry Industry Cooperative Innovation Program

Is this a viable mechanism for us to proceed?

Do we meet the criterion of an Action Agenda?

Are we an Innovation Implementation Activity?

The systematic work necessary for installing and establishing tools, processes, systems and services to implement innovation in an industry


Key initiative and actions: Response to Minerals Exploration Action Agenda – June 2004

Recommended actions Development and endorse a plan to upgrade and

expand the Geoscience portal to include new on-

line datasets

Endorse and adopt standards for company

exploration data submitted to Mines Departments

Implement web-based services for on-line access

Develop and endorse a plan for implementation of

an Australian Earth Science Grid

See http://www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/itrinternet/Road_to_Discovery20040702155050.pdf?CFID=284582&CFTOKEN=83266426



What would we do for Industry Cooperative Innovation Program (ICIP)?

We could extend the development of production system for the ADX standard beyond just interfacing assay data between the assay laboratories and industry to achieve part of the Minerals Action Agenda for improved access to pre-competitive geoscience information

Through ICIP we would expand the framework for this standard to also be one for interfacing assay data between and within government and industry

We would develop the means of having this standard used for company exploration data submitted to Mines Departments

This standard would be available for internal business use cases

The ADX standard would provide a framework for other minerals industry observational data as well as helping establish a viable metadata schema


Industry Cooperative Innovation Program (ICIP) – the realities

1. We will need cash support from industry for an ICIP grant

2. As several companies are already investing in this technology then if we work together and do it in a partnership we can ensure the standards developed

will suit all your use cases both internal and external;

will involve government, and industry (both large and SME’s; and

will address the bigger picture needs expressed by submissions by industry to the Minerals Exploration Action Agenda

3. The ICIP scheme will leverage the dollars you are currently investing by giving you dollar for dollar return on your investment

4. We will need industry to lead the program

5. Please let us know ASAP if you are interested – remember the 25 August deadline


Any Mining Company

Any Mining Company


Any Mining Company


There is no doubt our Interoperability test bed has wider applications – eg it could also facilitate real time Emergency Management

Source: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041226/max_global.pdf


Interoperability represents perhaps the most significant paradigm shift in how data and information are managed and utilised since the emergence of the Internet

If you want to know where interoperability is ask the person in front of you if their digital stuff is interoperable with your stuff and then you will know where interoperability is!!!

As interoperability is everywhere the standards that underpin it must be developed at the international level

All sectors that support the mining industry – government, industry, academic need to work together to develop the required standards

As the standards of other disciplines may be standards relevant to the mining industry we need to work in a very wide international forum

If we do this then we will develop the standards that underpin developing Australia’s future sustainably

Key Take Home Message – realise the dimensions of the bigger picture

www.seegrid.csiro.au

Thank You

Contact Robert Woodcock

CSIRO

Phone 08 6436 8780

Email [email protected]

Contact Lesley Wyborn

Geoscience Australia

Phone 02 62499489

Email [email protected]

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