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