A Collective Approach to Spatial Data Management. Scottish Local Government

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1 A Collective Approach to Spatial Data Management Scottish Local Government Iain McKay Improvement Slide 1 of 142

2 Spatial Information Service Context Scottish Local Government is facing:- The most severe budget reductions to date: circa 14% in real terms to 2020/21 Significantly increased demand: population growth, demographic change, etc. Easy productivity and efficiency gains already taken: phase 2 needs to be transformation Community Empowerment Scotland duties: partnership; integration; improved outcomes; reducing inequalities

3 Spatial Information Service Context

4 Demand on Public Services Emergency Hospital Admission Rate, 65+: Emergency Hospital Admission Rate, 65+: Emergency Average S5 Hospital tariff score: Admission 244 Rate, all: % Average S5 tariff score: 10% Most Income Deprived Most Affluent Emergency Hospital Admission Rate, all: 6531 Average S4 tariff score: 141 SIMD crime rate: 928 Average S4 tariff score: 226 SIMD Crime rate: 163

5 Demands on Public Services Identifying communities of place and need: concentration and dispersion are both spatial phenomena Getting below predictive averages: area/community household (high demand users) Integrating real time data spatially: trends and change Link to strategic and local development planning: design of future places and infrastructure

6 Pre-requisites for Data Building trust around public big data linkage and spatial analysis: building or working with trusted brands Inter-agency collaboration and capacity sharing Open data: multiplicity of interests, perspectives and creativity Making data available to communities in useful ways

7 The Origins of the Scottish SDI Proposal It started with the GI Strategy for Scotland - One Scotland - One Geography Strategy Objective 2 Ensure that everyone can use the most up-to-date and accurate geographic information about Scotland that can be delivered with best use of resources Strategy Objective 3 Develop and promote the means whereby geographic information can be shared, within the practical limits of best value, so as to give a high quality and knowledge return from each set of data..and the recommendations of the McClelland Report (2011) Shared procurement of (spatial) datasets Shared procurement/development of software/applications Changing procedures, organisational design and resourcing to enable delivery cost effective delivery of ICT applications (SDI) -

8 How has the Scottish SDI been developed? So far it appears to be largely by using the Jirecek approach. Konstantin Jirecek ( ) Czech historian, politician, diplomat, and Slavist. He was the founder of Balkan Studies and Byzantine* Studies. *Byzantine: excessively complicated, and typically involving a great deal of administrative detail We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. K Jirecek

9 INSPIRE and Scottish Local Government The INSPIRE (Scotland) Regulations came into force on 31 December 2009 and turned the EU Directive into law that applies in Scotland. INSPIRE is concerned with environmental data which is classified into Theme and Annexes. Some workshops and meetings took place in 2012 based around a Thematic approach including :- Land, Property and Addressing Admin Boundaries Transportation Protected Sites Metadata Revised approach to INSPIRE involving workshops led by SG. There is plenty of guidance available from a variety of sources

10 (Why) Is INSPIRE Relevant? It s a statutory obligation so we have to get on with it so let s use it! Local government will incur costs but gain very little benefit

11 Cost / Benefit for INSPIRE? Potential INSPIRE Benefits EU Level COSTS UK Level Scottish Level Time for Max Inspire Effort Regional Level BENEFITS Council Level Figure by Bregt (2012)

12 INSPIRE and Scottish Local Government Non compliance carries the risk of infraction proceedings on local authorities. Frost Report April 1966

13 Current Progress Report Still waiting for Scottish local government to publish its INSPIRE data.

14 Spatial Information Service Objectives The Spatial Information Service will:- provide technical support and guidance to improve the management and availability of spatial information owned by Scottish Local Government be responsible for the development and operational management of the Spatial Information Hub and the One Scotland Gazetteer work directly for Scottish Local Government and collaborate closely with strategic partners will keep up to date on Scottish, UK and EU legislation and regulation, including INSPIRE, and will support Scottish Local Government to achieve compliance use software, systems and methods which are innovative and reliable and of world class excellence centralise the efforts and costs associated with the improvement of spatial information management across local government resulting in long term efficiency gains and cost savings ensure that improved spatial information management increases value to data owners and the wider Scottish community

15 How does Spatial Information Hub work? Operational GIS Unpublished Proprietary published Open source published Publish CKAN CKAN Collect Geo Server Process POST GIS FME

16 Scottish Land and Property Information Service What might a Scottish Land and Property Service look like? Data Providers RoS LAs SAA OS Util MetaData Scottish SDI Menu Portals Web Services L&P Portal SE Web Community What Data? Users

17 End Users (Customers) Data Service Developers Value Added Applications Red Kites nesting sites, brilliant. At last some useful data! Public Sector Local government National government Stakeholder Organisations Private Sector Support investment decisions Regulatory reporting General Public Statutory Notification Citizen Engagement

18 Spatial Information Service Progress The Spatial Information Service now has:- seven staff in place with the a blend of subject and technical experience taken over the custodianship of the One Scotland Gazetteer engaged with OS and others in a collaborative approach to the proposed Emergency Service Gazetteer a cloud hosted technical infrastructure running open source software established communication and procedures with the majority of the 32 councils created a prototype portal to allow uploads and publication of data, compatible with the Scottish SDI metadata catalogue contributed national spatial data and technical expertise for the newly developed Community Council Portal

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20 IS Spatial Information Service - Challenges Strategic Engagement at all levels Managing expectations Sustainability of the service Funding model Operational Identify data custodians within organisations Agree procedures and licensing issues with OS and other data owners Harmonise metadata and publication standards with other parties (eg. INSPIRE, SSDI)

21 Benefits and Drivers Local Government benefits from :- Meeting INSPIRE obligations Minimal interference with existing business process Reduced overheads in dealing with requests for data from third parties Issues such as data exemptions would be dealt with at centre Free up time for more interesting things Citizens, Public and Private Sector benefits from :- Better information to build better services Availability of national layers of consistent and current data Opportunities from access to OpenData

22 OpenData & Consequences Idealist arguments for open data: Opendata will lead to business opportunites SMEs and others will create employment Businesses and employees will pay taxes The country will reap great benefits Reality: Opendata could lead to business opportunites SMEs and others might create employment Businesses and employees might pay taxes The UK Treasury will reap great benefits Jobs in local government which create this high value data are being cut Data Quality will suffer over time Poorer services because poorer information to base decisions

23 Open Data Property Enquiry Certificates PECs part of the conveyancing process mostly local government sourced information Annually there are 150,000 property transactions in Scotland Average cost of PEC 100 Annual Market c 15M Scottish local government earned 500k from PEC Private searchers must then have made over 14M revenue (based on largely on data from Scottish local government) Scottish local government is facing the most severe budget reductions to date. Oh Yes! we ve got to prepare our data for Inspire

24 IS Spatial Information Service Update - Conclusion However by setting up the Spatial Information Service we intend to make all of this happen through what is a transformational approach to managing spatial information Success will be measured against: Consolidating funding model reducing grant funding 32 Councils plus 2 National Park Authorities active on IS Spatial Hub, within one year. Deliver local authority dataset for ScotLIS launch in October 2017 Meet INSPIRE obligations for Scottish LG by 2020 Productive and sustainable relationships with strategic partners (eg. OS, RoS, SG) Use of Open Source Software by default minimal software costs

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