Introducing the WISERD Geoportal. WISERD DATA TEAM Dr Robert Berry & Dr Richard Fry, University of Glamorgan Dr Scott Orford, Cardiff University

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1 Introducing the WISERD Geoportal WISERD DATA TEAM Dr Robert Berry & Dr Richard Fry, University of Glamorgan Dr Scott Orford, Cardiff University

2 WISERD What is WISERD? Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods Major investment in research infrastructure in Economic and Social Sciences across Wales ( 4.8 million over 3 years) 28 posts at 5 higher education institutions in Wales Strategy for generating research grant bids and sustainability Major innovations in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods Links with WAG, ONS, LAs and other institutions/partners across Wales Establish integrated sets of socio economic metadata & data relating to Wales

3 WISERD Main Themes Knowing localities Cardiff City Centre Heads of Valleys Ceredigion A55 corridor Policy analysis and evaluation Training and capacity building Data integration (discovery, re use, sharing) Bringing together expertise in criminology, economics and finance, geography and GIS, public health, urban studies, political science, sociology and social policy

4 The WISERD Geoportal (WGP) Why? Enhance a researcher s ability to discover quantitative and qualitative socio economic research data for Wales Enable geographic as well as thematic and temporal searching Encourage re use of existing data and more collaborative research What? Online map and text based application for accessing META database: Quantitative Survey Data (e.g. Living in Wales, Welsh Health Survey) Qualitative Data (e.g. WISERD research interviews) Administrative data (e.g. PLASC, Benefits, health records) Grey data (e.g. academic publications) Public data and linked data (e.g. data.gov.uk, DBPedia) Disparate data integrated into spatial framework using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology

5 Example Queries Textual: Show me all the surveys conducted in Wales that are related to health or contain questions on health. Spatial: I need to find out what socio economic exists that relates to Cardiff. Spatial: Show me all the data you have for this area (user defined) Textual/Spatial: I m conducting a project on schools in Merthyr Tydfil I want a printed report of all the datasets related to education within the Merthyr UA.

6 The WISERD Meta-Database (30/08/2011) Surveys: Census (1991, 2001) Labour Force Survey 2010 Living in Wales ( ) National Survey for Wales (2010) Shelter Cymru HAC Skills Surveys ( ) Wales Rural Obs. Rural Business ( ) Wales Rural Obs. Household Survey ( ) Welsh Health Survey ( ) Working in Britain ( ) Workplace Employment Relations (2004) Stats: 63 surveys 30 with responses mapped 5122 tables 6700 questions

7 WISERD Meta-Database: Current Status (30/08/2011) Administrative Data: selected PLASC stats ( ) mapped at UA level. School level stats mapping planned. Qualitative Data: Dozens of WISERD stakeholder interview transcripts Grey MDB: 20+ academic journal articles and PhD theses Public: No data added yet (future development)

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16 Standards compliant metadata

17 Metadata Tables (*) Survey Data * Survey * Questions * Responses Qualitative Data * Keywords * Geo tags * Dublin Core (Metadata about the metadata) * GEMINI 2.1 (Spatial metadata INSPIRE compliant) Grey Data * Keywords * Geo tags Admin Data Public Data * As supplied

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29 Spatial Search Tools Find by Location Find by Point and Click Find by drag rectangle Find by user defined area..

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32 Issues! Huge amounts of data for Web delivery. Working on simplifying and adding topology to boundary data for more accurate representation/faster loading. Map labelling Speed (database, mapping). Investment required (database server), although CLOUD BASED Geoportal may be explored. Valuable and original technological research as well innovative tool for social sciences.

33 Further Developments ( Dec 2011) Expand meta database inc. new metadata types: Public (NOMIS; ONS Neighbourhood Stats) Environmental Linked data/rdf (e.g. DB Pedia, data.gov) Improve data analysis and charting Refine user interface and cartography Spatial statistics Fully featured help and video tutorials Print and save metadata and metadata reports to PDF Multi browser support

34 Future Developments pending additional funding (2012>) Enhance hardware infrastructure (Database server, storage) Integrate metadata entry tools into WGP for enduser metadata generation Potential secure download of source data Metadata download in GIS formats Community features (forums, sharing etc.) Publish linked data on other sites (e.g. Data.gov) Expansion into a Wales Geoportal???

35 Schedule Release Alpha version 1.00 for user testing October Incorporate user feedback and develop release version October December 2011 First release version of WISERD Geoportal end of December >...????

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