The document summarizes a presentation given at the 2011 INSPIRE Conference about implementing an organizational spatial data infrastructure (SDI) at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). The presentation discussed CEH's efforts to make its environmental data more accessible and shareable by developing an SDI using Esri and con terra technology. This included building an information gateway with automated metadata and data management. The presentation emphasized that an SDI requires addressing organizational and cultural challenges to data sharing, and suggested going beyond basic INSPIRE compliance to realize greater benefits like cost savings and improved stakeholder access to data.

1. 2011 INSPIRE Conference Implementing an Organisational SDI: What Works and What Doesn’t Keith Wishart, Esri (UK), Mike Brown, NERC and Peter Vodden, CEH

3. Present a leading UK SDI

4. Offer a framework for evaluating SDIMike Brown Programme Manager, NERC Peter Vodden Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Our message: “Go Beyond INSPIRE”

5. The Team Centre for Ecology and Hydrology The UK’s centre of excellence for integrated research in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their interaction with the atmosphere Major custodian of Environmental Data. 20 million records covering: 12,000 species across Britain and Ireland 50,000 station years of river flow from 1,300 gauging stations Esri (UK), part of the global Esri network providing market leading GIS and SDI solutions con terra, Esri (UK) Business Partner providing solutions for building SDIs with a strong focus on spatial standards 3

6. The Countryside Survey Challenge To reduce the time required for the publication of its field-based survey results by 50% Benefits of GIS solution Digitally mapped 591 separate 1km2 plots Reduced data capture time from months to days Efficiency savings of over £700,000 on this survey alone Case Study available 4

7. The Challenge Make CEH’s data more accessible to the public and easier to share within the scientific community INSPIRE and NERC Science Strategy More joined up working Cross-discipline access to data 5

8. The Information Gateway 6

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13. Assess full level of support for each option

14. SDI Technology from Esri (UK) and con terra

15. Partnering Approach

16. Multiple search methods

17. Automated metadata management

18. Metadata Extensions

19. Focus on Services (rather than the portal itself)

20. Metadata limitations

21. Users weren’t ready for some of the features10

23. Different levels of data sharing throughout the community

24. “My data”

25. Gain buy-in through workshops

26. Data sharing linked to citations

27. Data Management Plan

28. Projects now have to have a Data Management Plan

29. CEH is learning future data management requirements11

30. Benefits Better view of CEH’s data for external stakeholders and internal management Automated approach to metadata and data management Developing a Data Curation Approach across NERC Reducing ingestion and curation costs (currently 37% of Data Centre costs) Seamless integration with data.gov.uk UK GEMINI 2.1 compliance Going beyond INSPIRE compliance 12 http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/documents/nerc-sis.pdf

31. Potential Cost Benefit Costs Benefits Delivering ROI or Cost:Benefit ratio of 1:4 is reasonable, achievable and defensible http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reports/Study_reports/catalonia_impact_study_report.pdf

32. Lessons Learnt INSPIRE is not a spectator sport Success is measured by how you deal with organisational and cultural issues Technology and standards are always going to be moving Go beyond INSPIRE – its more than a compliance exercise 14

33. A Framework for evaluating SDI 15 Architecture Data Standards Metadata Services Search Costs Silos Compliance Buy-in ROI Stakeholders Take-up Barriers Value

34. Further Information Esri Stand in Cromdale Hall CEH Case Studies available Spatial Gateway Countryside Survey Video demo of Information Gateway kwishart@esriuk.com Twitter: @keith_wishart 16

35. Thank you