GI2010 symposium-ws1.1 sdi-readiness-checklist (longhorn 14+15-may2010)

Please note the Workshop‐1 on Saturday 8:00
on
“INSPIRE – The Readiness Checklist”
INSPIRE‐Vorbereitungs‐Test für Kommunen und Landkreise
( Kurzeinführung am 14.05.2010 )

Roger Longhorn
Director, Info‐Dynamics Research Associates Ltd, UK
Editor, GEO:connexion International magazine
INSPIRE Expert, Compass Informatics Ltd, Ireland
Chair, GSDI Association Legal & Socioeconomic Working Group
ral@alum.mit.edu
[ http://www.gsdi.org/standingcomms.asp ]
10. Sächsisches GIS‐Forum
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GI2010 ‐ SDI Readiness Workshop

Learn from our successes –
and from our mistakes!
• Identify, codify, monitor and diffuse ‘Best Practice’
wherever it is found.
• Think laterally! The geo world is not the first to be involved
in developing information infrastructure.
• Observe and adopt best practice from allied initiatives –
e‐Government, health information infrastructure, etc.
• Continue efforts on awareness and dissemination of
information regarding info infrastructure and its benefits –
to both decision makers and to those who will be
impacted upon by the decisions!

• Most importantly – participate!
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The SDI Readiness Checklist:
Are YOU ready for INSPIRE?
Workshop 1
Roger Longhorn
ral@alum.mit.edu
www.gsdi.org/standingcomms.asp

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SDI Readiness – the FUD Test

Fear – Uncertainty ‐ Doubt

• Purpose of the FUD test was to discover just
how much our INSPIRE Master Class
participants actually knew about INSPIRE
before we began the class.

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Ranking SDI Components
Using the sheet that says “Assignment #2”
please rank the 9 components
for a Spatial Data Infrastructure
(according to many different definitions)
in the order that you think they are important:
1 = Highest importance
9 = Lowest importance
( Yes, you can rank more than one component to be of
equal importance, if you wish! )

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SDI Readiness Checklist ‐ Introduction
1. Understanding your spatial data holdings and
requirements ‐ Data is at the heart of information
infrastructure.
2. Information Infrastructure Vision ‐ Information
infrastructures must satisfy a need.
3. SDI Strategy ‐ Visions are implemented by robust
strategies – based on identified needs.
4. Policy Readiness – “Informal” policies often equate
to “no policies”.
5. Collaboration and Governance ‐ Geospatial data
use spans many users – all need engagement.

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6. Technology Readiness ‐ Is your technology
infrastructure robust?
7. Data Readiness ‐ “Data that is unused has no
value.”
8. Resource Readiness ‐ Resources take many forms –
people are key!
9. ‘Customer’ Readiness & Awareness ‐ Users outside
your own Unit could use your data.
10. Cultural Readiness ‐ Information cultures vary
widely in and across organisations – and nations.

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11. YOUR Readiness!
• What special circumstances exist in your Unit or
Organisation in relation to implementing an
internal SDI or in supporting creation of a national
SDI?
• Are you already involved?
• Do you know what is expected of you?
Fill in the blanks!

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1. Understanding your spatial data holdings
and requirements.
• Have you conducted a formal (spatial) information
audit?
• Looked at your own internal needs?
• Identified external users’ (real or potential) needs?
• Have the findings (and requirements) been
expressed formally? [data models created?]
• Is the knowledge of your data assets and
information requirements sufficient to assess
barriers, costs and benefits regarding its use?

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2. Information Infrastructure Vision
• Have you prepared an internal SDI ‘vision’
statement?
• Is the vision supportive of national and
regional goals?
• Does the vision address deficiencies that may
have been identified in the audit?
• Does the vision address benefits and costs?
• Does the vision have a ‘champion’?

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2. Information Infrastructure Vision
• Has the vision been widely promulgated?
• Is the vision accepted by all stakeholders?
• Is the vision accepted by funders?
• Is there an established link to e‐Government
initiatives?
• Are there links to other government
Information Infrastructure initiatives?

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3. SDI Strategy
• Have you developed a formal, stated SDI Implementation
Strategy?
• Have you identified and specified SDI Performance
Indicators?
• Is ‘system performance’ identified separately from
‘infrastructure performance’?
• Does the implementation strategy identify all costs,
especially related to human resources – over reasonable
time frames?
• Can forecast benefits be attributed to the ‘outputs’ and
‘outcomes’?
• Have you considered different ways to convey to decision
makers the ‘value’ of an SDI ?
• Does your current SDI Strategy accommodate sharing data
across borders?
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4. Policy Readiness
• Does the organisation have a formal information or data
policy for all forms of data and information that it creates
or uses?
• Is the policy in the form of enforceable ‘rules’ or general
‘principles’?
• Was a specific spatial information policy framework set
out in either the Vision or Strategy documents?
• Does the ‘SDI Policy’ sit within the general info/data
policy of the organisation?
• Are policies expressed in sufficient detail to be understood
and applied?
• Do mechanisms exist to ensure that policies are enforced?
• Do your access and sharing policies encourage cross‐
border activities?

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5. Collaboration and Governance

• Do collaboration agreements exist with other
agencies regarding your use of geospatial data?
• Do collaboration mechanisms exist for exchanging
knowledge, experience and best practice?
• Do you have a robust, formal SDI governance
structure in place?

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6. Technology Readiness
• Are ICT standards already in place, especially
those relating to geographic information and
services?
• Do developers and custodians understand the
relevant standards sufficiently well?
• Is the ICT infrastructure sufficiently robust to
handle processing and dissemination of spatial
data?
• Is the infrastructure adequate throughout the
whole organisation? Region? State?

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7. Data Readiness
• Is sufficient spatial data available for operational
requirements, to meet all organisation goals and
mandated tasks?
• Does sufficient data capture capability exist?
• Are standards relating to spatial data in place and
sufficiently well understood?
• Do custodians have sufficient experience with
spatial information processing technology and
principles?

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8. Resource Readiness
• Are the people available, with appropriate data and
ICT skills, to implement the SDI strategy?
• If not, can skills be created or improved quickly
enough not to jeopardise SDI implementation?
• Have you investigated what level of capacity building
is needed across all stakeholders, not just for ICT or
geomatics staff?
• Have you looked at the impact that new tasks related
to SDI implementation may have on current
workloads and staffing requirements?
• Is there budget available to implement the SDI
strategy?

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9. ‘Customer’ Readiness & Awareness

• Do you understand what we mean by ‘customers’?
• Are your users going to benefit from implementing
the SDI elements that you are proposing?
• Is there anything you can do to increase ‘customer’
readiness?

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10. Cultural Readiness
• Is the organisation’s information culture amenable
to change, to accommodate potentially new
requirements for spatial data?
• Are stakeholders likely to accept changes to
established practices that may be caused by
introduction of spatial data usage?
• Is there an information infrastructure governance
structure in place and does spatial data fit within
that structure?

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YOUR Readiness!
• Do you feel that you are sufficiently prepared and
resourced to fully participate in developing your
organisational, regional and/or national SDI?
• If not, you need to quantify where additional
resources are needed, and what these are –
training, capacity building, more help, ...
• If the challenges and barriers relate to info
infrastructure, how can you make an impact on that
– more widely than just in your own Unit or
Organisation?

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Sustainability
• Your geospatial data exists within your own
organisation, which is part of a wider information
infrastructure.
• You may also be using spatial data created by others
and made available to you.
• Do you know how much the activities relating
specifically to SDI are costing you / your organisation?
[Catalonia example]
• Do you have sufficient resources to do what is asked of
you, already, in regard to spatial data use and
dissemination?
• Will you have the resources needed to potentially
expand the work required from you to participate in
SDI development for your Unit, Organisation or State?
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Sustainability Issues
• Resources (human and financial),
• Skills, capacity building and retaining
experienced staff (and their knowledge),
• Legal requirements that must be met,
• (Potentially) adapting to new work methods
and principles, e.g. on data access, sharing,
use and re‐use,
• ‘Business models’?

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Thank you for your attention!

Now comes the difficult part –
assessing your own SDI readiness!

Roger Longhorn
ral@alum.mit.edu
www.gsdi.org/standingcomms.asp
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