Transcript Executive Briefing Part 2

Interoperability in the Australian Mining Industry
AUSIndustry Workshops Executive Briefing Part 2
Lesley Wyborn
Geoscience Australia
22 June 2005
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Outline: Interoperability in the Australian Mining
Industry
1. Revision: What is interoperability
2. Placer Dome case history
3. Runge case history
4. Other industry needs
5. Where to next?
6. Key take home message
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Acknowledgements – pt 1
The work to be presented in this workshop has been funded by the:
1. Commonwealth
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AUSIndustry Innovation Access Program (IAccP)
AUSIndustry Innovation Access Fora Program (IAF)
Geoscience Australia
CSIRO
2. State
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Mineral Resources Tasmania
Geoscience Victoria
NSW Department of Mineral Resources
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines
Northern Territory Geological Survey
Western Australia Department of Industry and Resources
Primary Industry and Resources South Australia
3. Industry
 Minerals Council of Australia
 Social Change Online
 Fractal Technologies
4. All of the Above
 Predictive Minerals Discovery CRC (pmd*CRC)
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Acknowledgements – part 2
Andrew Scott of Placer Dome
Jane Kato of Runge
Colleagues of CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and Social
Change Online who never gave up………………………….
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Setting the context for this paper
Interoperability represents perhaps the most
significant paradigm shift in how data and
information are managed and utilised since
the emergence of the Internet
Neil Williams
CEO Geoscience Australia &
Chair Australian Government Spatial Policy Executive
Interoperability: responding to national Drivers. OSDM conference on Interoperability October 2005
http://www.osdm.gov.au/osdm/docs/resources/osdm_interoperability_con_03112004/neilwilliams1.pdf
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What is interoperability?
"capability to communicate,
execute programs, or transfer
data among various functional
units in a manner that
requires the user to have little
or no knowledge of the unique
characteristics of those units“
Source: OGC Abstract Specification
Topic 12: Services. Derived from
ISO 2382-1.
Lesley’s
definition
My stuff operates with your
stuff and I don’t give a damn
where it is, how it works and
what the format is
Where stuff =
digital computers
programs
data etc
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Caveat
The work to be presented is the result of a
test bed.
Participants should only act on the
presentations and technical advice after
independent consideration of their own
particular circumstances.
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The role of AUSIndustry
The Test bed demonstrator was developed under an AUSIndustry
Innovation Access Program (IAccP) grant led by the Minerals
Council of Australia, CSIRO, GA and the pmd*CRC.
Geoscience Australia and all State and Territory Geological
Surveys funded the building of a demonstrator of real time
interoperability between GA, SA and WA
The current AUSIndustry Innovation Access Fora (IAF) grant is to
hold workshops in every capital city to
 showcase interoperability - what it is and how Australian Industries can benefit from it
 Install the test bed on the remaining state surveys
 Seek feedback on future directions
All results from both projects are available online at
http//:www.seegrid.csiro.au
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Where will we be at the end July?
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Is there a business case for us to continue?
At the end of the current Innovation Access
Fora grant we will have test bed interfaces
between GA and every state and Territory
Survey
This test bed makes some data accessible by
industry from government sources
Are there other use cases?
Does industry value interoperability?
Let us look at two use cases
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Reasons from our letters of support for
the Innovation Access Fora Grant – 1
The Geoscience Agencies recognise that significant
potential of this technology to deliver strategic geoscience
data to the minerals exploration industry
David Mason, Chair Chief Government Geologists Committee
BHP Billiton is focussed on the utilisation and analysis of
geospatial data to provide advice across our global
operations in a timely and efficient manner. The ability to
obtain these data more readily, and in open exchange
formats will increase our efficiency to do what we do best
Grant McLatchie, Co-ordinator Business Improvement, GIS, IT &
Databases, BHP Billiton
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Reasons from our letters of support for
the Innovation Access Fora Grant – 2
io global utilises geochemical data sets from government and the
private sector on a daily basis, and improved efficiencies through
interoperability would greatly benefit our business
Stephen Winter, Managing Director io global
In the process of implementing acQuire software throughout the
world the implementation personnel have continued to discover
significant issues with the transfer and effective use of data between
systems. Many issues have been identified including:
 Data is invalidated or lost in the transfer process
 Metadata … is often lost because it was not convenient to transfer
 Unsupportable data conversion tools are constructed to facilitate transfers of data that
are part of a critical process
Bill Withers, Managing Director, Metech Pty ltd
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Reasons from our letters of support for
the Innovation Access Fora Grant – 3
The issue of poor data interoperability and interchange in the
exploration and mining industry is widely recognised as a
significant barrier to achieving better outcomes – both
scientifically and economically, within the industry.
As a software vendor, Fractal Technologies is acutely aware of
the inefficiencies caused by having to support such a wide
range of data formats, which requires us to spend a significant
portion of our development resources writing file format
translators rather than adding value through the creation of
smarter data processing algorithms and data analysis tools
Mark Morrison, Technical Director, Fractal technologies Pty Ltd
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Key points from case studies and
support letters
1. Show the diversity of use cases for the same data
type throughout the mining value chain
2. Show a strong business case for interoperability
for management of your data in the external world
3. Show an even stronger business case for
interoperability for internal data management
4. Show why standards need to be developed by
groups working together as part of a community
5. Highlight the emerging issue that responsibility of
data quality becoming a legislative issue
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Standardised
XML interfaces
will impose
quality control
by default
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Standardised
XML interfaces
will impose
quality control
by default
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There is a clear need to go further
What are our options?
Introducing the AUSIndustry Industry
Cooperative Innovation Program (ICIP)
Announced 2 June 2005
Round 1 applications due 25 August
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The AUSIndustry Industry Cooperative
Innovation Program
Is this a viable mechanism for us to proceed?
Do we meet the criterion of an Action Agenda?
Are we an Innovation Implementation Activity?
 The systematic work necessary for installing and establishing
tools, processes, systems and services to implement
innovation in an industry
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Key initiative and actions: Response to Minerals
Exploration Action Agenda – June 2004
Recommended actions
 Development and endorse a plan to upgrade and
expand the Geoscience portal to include new online datasets
 Endorse and adopt standards for company
exploration data submitted to Mines Departments
 Implement web-based services for on-line access
 Develop and endorse a plan for implementation of
an Australian Earth Science Grid
See
http://www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/itrinternet/Road_to_Discovery20040702155
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050.pdf?CFID=284582&CFTOKEN=83266426
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What would we do for Industry
Cooperative Innovation Program (ICIP)?
We could extend the development of production system for the
ADX standard beyond just interfacing assay data between the
assay laboratories and industry to achieve part of the Minerals
Action Agenda for improved access to pre-competitive
geoscience information
Through ICIP we would expand the framework for this standard to
also be one for interfacing assay data between and within
government and industry
We would develop the means of having this standard used for
company exploration data submitted to Mines Departments
This standard would be available for internal business use cases
The ADX standard would provide a framework for other minerals
industry observational data as well as helping establish a viable
metadata schema
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Industry Cooperative Innovation Program
(ICIP) – the realities
1. We will need cash support from industry for an ICIP grant
2. As several companies are already investing in this technology
then if we work together and do it in a partnership we can ensure
the standards developed
 will suit all your use cases both internal and external;
 will involve government, and industry (both large and SME’s; and
 will address the bigger picture needs expressed by submissions by
industry to the Minerals Exploration Action Agenda
3. The ICIP scheme will leverage the dollars you are currently
investing by giving you dollar for dollar return on your investment
4. We will need industry to lead the program
5. Please let us know ASAP if you are interested – remember the 25
August deadline
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Any Mining
Company
Any Mining
Company
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Any Mining
Company
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There is no doubt our Interoperability test bed has wider
applications – eg it could also facilitate real time Emergency
Management
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Source: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041226/max_global.pdf
Key Take Home Message –
realise the dimensions of the bigger picture
Interoperability represents perhaps the most significant
paradigm shift in how data and information are managed and
utilised since the emergence of the Internet
If you want to know where interoperability is ask the person
in front of you if their digital stuff is interoperable with your
stuff and then you will know where interoperability is!!!
As interoperability is everywhere the standards that underpin
it must be developed at the international level
All sectors that support the mining industry – government,
industry, academic need to work together to develop the
required standards
As the standards of other disciplines may be standards
relevant to the mining industry we need to work in a very
wide international forum
If we do this then we will develop the standards that underpin
developing Australia’s future sustainably
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Thank You
Contact Robert Woodcock
Contact Lesley Wyborn
CSIRO
Geoscience Australia
Phone
08 6436 8780
Phone
02 62499489
Email
[email protected]
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