Since 2010, geospatial data of Swiss Gov. agencies can be viewed and accessed over geo.admin. ch in a fast, free and state of the art manner. Over 200 datasets are accessed by up to 50’000 users daily. To initialize a spatial data infrastructure, key constraints are data management methodologies: establishment of uniform standards for data capture and dissemination as well as in the modeling and archiving of data and metadata. Those are the fundamentals for interdisciplinary and international collaboration. After 3 years of operation, lessons learned cover Open Source Software: no license cost, short time to market, scalable, innovative, user driven, and cost /benefit effective. Open Standards: interoperability with existing and future solutions guaranteed. Open Access: Access is where all content (data) is going. Where ever possible data, data services and application programming interface including sources were made public available – open government data portal opendata.admin.ch. In the talk we will leverage why open data & code is crucial to science. Technology has changed the nature of experimentation, data, and communication. On the other hand we will show how to deal with the main barrier: Copyright of Gov. data and data generated by scientist.

1. Geosharing 2013
Bern
geo.admin.ch
Geoportal of the Swiss
Confederation
3 years of successful
data sharing for the masses –
best practice
David.Oesch@swisstopo.ch
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

2. SHARING
in science ???

4. one study (alawi 2011): 9% of
paper AUTHORS studied
MADE DATA AVAILABLE

5. has science a CREDIBILITY crisis ?

6. 1
GEO
SHARING

7. it is about
OPENDATA

8. OPEN DATA is data that can be
freely used, SHARED and built-on
by anyone, anywhere, for any
purpose.
http://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/03/defining-open-data/

9. not a new
CONCEPT
for science…

10. rooted in
SCEPTICISM
transparancey , knowledge
transfer

12. TECHNOLOGY
has
CHANGED nature of
experimentation, data and communication

13. imporatance of open
OPEN CODE

14. “really REPRODUCIBLE research”
(Claerbout)
more by @victoriastodden
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/5389255/okcon

15. is Swiss
GOVERNMENT
sharing?

16. OPENDATA.ADMIN.CH
pilot
several federal agencies
e-gov strategy
movement

17. GEO
is delivered by the federal
spatial data infrastructure
FSDI

18. 2
GEO
SHARING

19. CHALLENGES
for
YOU
as a user?

20. 4 frictions
FORMAT
PRICE
RIGHTS
ACCESSIBILITY
@twbell http://strata.oreilly.com/2013/10/the-four-frictions.html

21. the
SWISS WAY
to deal with it

22. FEDERAL ACT ON GEOINFORMATION (GEOIG), 1. July 2008
Art. 1 Aim
This Act has the aim of ensuring that geodata relating to the
territory of the Swiss Confederation is made available for
general use to the authorities of the Confederation, the
cantons and communes, the private sector, the public and to
academic and scientific institutions in a sustainable, up-todate, rapid and easy manner, in the required quality and at a
reasonable cost.

23. realized with
GEO.ADMIN.CH
the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation

25. geodata are
NOT yet OPEN
but
FREELY ACCESIBLE

26. 300,000
VISITORS last 3 years
250,000
200,000
DESKTOP
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
MOBILE

27. 2011 vs 2012
map
mobile
wms
wmts
.geo.admin.ch
+45%
+360%
+43%
+132%
visitors
.map.geo.admin.ch
.geo.admin.ch
.geo.admin.ch
requests
requests
visitors

28. LESSONS
learned?

29. 3
MAP
LITERACY

30. DATA logger/book
!=
GIS dataset
!=
screen PRESENTATION

31. a MAP is
ONE FORM
of geodata
REPRESENTATION
/sharing

32. EFFECTIVE
but has its
CAVEATS

33. not only
« SHARING DATA »
but
« SHARING INFORMATION »

34. agency: « we need to publish DATA »
INTERNET : « geodata are MAPS »
CITIZEN : « I need an INFORMATION »
GOV

35. Is the PRODUCER able to CREATE a map ?
Is the USER able to READ a map ?

36. http://s.geo.admin.ch/c50ed2b85

37. «same same but different?»
http://s.geo.admin.ch/e3cd650e6

38. reduce
COMPLEXITY
with
STORYTELLING

39. http://storymaps.geo.admin.ch/storymaps/storymap1/

40. http://storymaps.geo.admin.ch/storymaps/storymap4/

41. MAP LITERACY
interpreting information behind a map

42. 4
SHARING
DATA MEANS
ALSO …

43. OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE
and OPEN CODE
« your data will stay but your software will go away »

44. OPEN STANDARDS
to ensure
INTEROPERABILITY

45. open METADATA
to ensure
« SOURCE CRITICISM »
…data is useless without it…

46. 5
DOWNLOAD
OR SERVICE

47. both
BUT
47

48. EVERYTHING
is a
CACHE
as long as you are not the owner of
the data
48
http://blog.ping13.net/open-data-services.html

49. It’s about
data consumer
RESPONSIBILITY
and
ETHOS
49

50. attribute
REFERENCE
TIME STAMP
and
UPDATE
third party published data
50

51. access to
GEO.ADMIN.CH
data ?
51

52. 99% SERVICE
1% DOWNLOAD
52

53. 1
2
3
OPENDATA.
OPENACCESS.
MAP LITERACY.
4
5
!
METADATA.
CACHE.
SHARE.

54. THANK YOU
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Image credits: Erik Johansso
Alawi et al (2011), Public Availability of Published Research Data in High-Impact Journal