Friday 23 October 2009 presentation at FOSS4G (Free and Open Spatial for Geospatial) Conference in Sydney Australia. Describes Geomemes work building Community Information Systems for indigenous groups in BC Canada using the Drupal CMS and Open Layers javascript library. Also binds to PostGIS.

1. Building community information systems with Drupal and Open LayersFOSS4G – Sydney Australia Charles Burnett & Patrick Hayes Geomemes Research Inc Victoria BC Canada 1 54° 20' 13.72" N 130° 26' 36.93" W Metlakatla First Nation Village, Prince Rupert, Canada http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17998472

2. 2 FOSS4G4IC<->GOV All exchanges are contextualized by the cultures that are party to the exchange. “Prototypes of New Understanding” - Brian Jungen (Swiss/Dunne-za), Vancouver, Canada

3. Wawa of the BC Context 3 Wawa = Chinook Jargon: Kloshe Konaway!, Skookum INAC: Indian Act 1876, Federal responsibility Reserves: post gold rush, Euros: traders to settlers First Nation: Indigenous political unit (~203 in BC) Treaty: BC has a Treaty Commission, some FNs “in treaty”, 2 modern signed, Land/$$/Co-management Land Claims: negotiate through the courts “Duty to Consult” and Accomodation Referrals: BC Gov system for doing consultation TUS/TEK: Traditional Use Study, -Ecologial Knowledge EBM: Ecosystem Based Management

4. 4 Band Chief Councilor: “I need CED (“referrals”) reports with summary, maps, analysis, communications highlights.” School Teacher: “I need access to the maps and multimedia files to teach our culture.” Referrals Manager: “I need to track staff time spent on consultation.” Fisheries Officer: “I need a (spatialized) system to record environmental data.” Teeenager: “I want to access to some community data, calendars, blogs, job lists and our elections info.” Cultural Expert: “I need a better way of doing interviews and for digitizing our TUS/TEK/Arch data.” GIS techniciam: “I’m swamped and need help wit hdata entry, but we have no $$ for training.” CED Staffer: “I need a better way to track consultation. Paper copies suck!” 54° 20' 13.72" N 130° 26' 36.93" W Metlakatla First Nation Village, Prince Rupert, Canada

5. 5 To change the rules, change the tools Lee Felsenstein (1945-), computer engineer

6. CIS: One Basket, Many Views Cultural / Language Revitalization Spatial Data Storage & Viewing Community Building / Governance FN Data Basket Economic Development & Consultation (including Referrals Tracking) 6

7. Start with a GIS? Or a CMS? 7 Start with a Mapping Application, add CMS-ness Add tools to add/edit/manage non-geographic information, incl. multimedia Add tools to manage roles/access/views/communications/... + Use Scripting to generate reports Start with Content Management System (CMS) Add tools to interactively enter and display geographic information Add tools to link CMS with spatial databases + Use Scripting to generate reports

8. Content Management System 8 A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text. Modular: Core (user management, security) Contributed Modules(1000s of modules to at data types and funtionality) E.g. Drupal Open Layers, Geo

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11. Ubuntu, Canonical

12. Die Zeit

13. Die Welt

14. CNN

16. NASA

17. NATO

18. The United Nations

19. IBM

20. Popular Science

21. Fast Company

22. America Online

23. Sun Microsystems

24. Novell

25. Yahoo!

26. Harvard University

28. Nike

29. Forbes

30. Warner Bros

31. 20th Century Fox

32. MacWorld

33. Adobe

34. Java.net

36. Drupal: Nth Degree Control 12

39. Which “preset”?

40. Filters (which nodes?)

45. Build navigationhttp://geomemes.com/openlayers-screencast

46. Drupal Open Layers: Capabilities 14 Create spatial nodes in Drupal (point/lines/polygon) – don’t need code to use the OL API Can make complex maps, lots of layers DOL API has “glue” to approximately 30% of OL library One level up: Snippet – small code to create easy People sharing Snippets Upload shapefile (stored in MySQL Spatial or PostGIS), Drupal doing the db abstraction Point and click map building and styling Styling Engine pretty powerful now Dynamic styles (attributes in Drupal can be used to make styles) E.g. Taxonomy image for icons, or cck field for line weight

47. Drupal Open Layers: Next Steps 15 We have a solid API and a rapidly growing group of developers. Core Functionality (Drupal/OL glue) ready to be built upon... DOL 2.0 is accepting new feature requests http://drupal.org/project/openlayers Add easier way to upload shapefiles Expand to WMS/WFS... All data types in Open Layers Integrate Drupal Chaos Tools module; allows custom bundles of snippets as a ‘feature’ -> module Improved Styling

48. CIS: Add Maps for Community Health 16

49. CIS: Add Maps for Language Revitalization FNs = spoken language cultures Drupal, Multimedia Javascript links automatically seeded when a new “term” + MP3 added ...Localization! ...Cross-site API! ...+ Maps! ... education... 17 http://maps.fphlcc.ca/

50. CIS: Add Advanced File Management 18

51. ...DEMO 19 Gilakasla – Thank-you! http://geomemes.com charles@geomemes.com

52. Demo Functionality 20 Add individual TUS sites - (CCK, Related Fields, DOL) Add/modify many site nodes (Views) Load Shapefile - (Table Wizard, Geo) Show different features on the same map -(Views/Roles/Permissions) Filter maps – (Faceted Search) WMS/WFS – (DOL Snippets, API calls) Links to desktop – (Geo, custom PHP) Reporting – (DOL, Geo, PHP calls to PostGIS)

53. Community Information System 21

54. 1. Add Traditional Use Site (page top) 22

55. 1. Add Traditional Use Site (mid) 23

56. 1. Add Traditional Use Site (bottom) 24

57. 2. View All Trad Use Sites, Map View 25

58. 3. Show diff. features on same map 26 Automatic filtering by Views/Roles/Permissions

59. 4. View Only Some Sites, Adv Filter by User 27

60. 5. From Google/Yahoo Base Maps... ...to secure local WMS/WFS layers... 28

61. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 29

62. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 30

63. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 31

64. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 32

65. 6. Links to Desktop GIS Apps 33 (<->PostGIS)

66. 7. Report Generation 34 CIS... DOL, PHP, PostGIS, PDF module Sky’s the Limit...