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Business Drivers for Interoperability in
SEE Grid
Lesley Wyborn Geoscience Australia
7 September 2005 – Edinburgh, UK
www.seegrid.csiro.au
Outline
1. The realms of interoperability
2. Drivers for interoperability in the Australian
Mining Industry
3. Other Drivers for Interoperability
4. Drivers for SEE Grid
5. Introduce the Solid Earth and Environmental
Grid (SEE Grid) Community
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My Changing Role in Geoscience Australia
I was Group Leader
Geochemistry and
Metallogeny in the
Minerals Division
I am now Group Leader
Interoperability for all
Divisions
 Minerals
 Petroleum and Marine
 Geospatial and
Environmental Monitoring
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The Realms of Interoperability
1. The Sector Realm
 Industry
 Government
 Academic
2. The Content Realm
 Wet
 Dirt
 Topo
3. The Interoperability realm
 Information services especially the semantic realm
 Computational realm
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The drivers from the Minerals Industry: different
formats and standards
Proprietary
Software
Versions of
Software
Client
Data
Structures
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Key Driver: Input to the Minerals Exploration
Action Agenda – July 2003
Industry input highlighted
 problems in gaining access to precompetitive geoscience information.
 described existing information as commonly
incomplete and fragmented across eight
government agencies, each with its own
information management systems and
structures.
 noted that the disparate systems lead to
inefficiencies causing higher costs, reduced
effectiveness and increased risk incurred by
the industry and its service providers
Source:
http://www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/itrinternet/minerals_aa
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_finalreport_July2003.pdf
The Road to Discovery Document: A response to
Minerals Exploration Action Agenda – June 2004
Key Initiative
 Australian Government, State and Territory geoscience
agencies, professional associations and industry to
cooperatively develop and implement nation-wide
protocols, standards and systems that provide internetbased access to, and effective storage and archiving of,
industry and government exploration-related DATA
Recommended actions

Development and endorse a plan to upgrade and expand the
Geoscience portal to include new on-line 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
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Our demonstrator proved interoperability for government
to Industy
Client
XML
GML/XMML
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Industry support for our Innovation
Access Fora Grant – 1
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, BHP Billiton
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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Industry support for the Innovation
Access Fora Grant – 2
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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External Economic Drivers from a government
perspective
Low investment in Australia, = to 15% in USA,
31% Europe, 45% Japan and 39% Canada
Absence of it forces industries to approximate
or sub-optimise high performance tasks by
 dividing task into smaller units
 accepting sub-optimal solutions
 introducing simplifying approximations
ITR report concluded that in an increasingly
competitive global economy, more precise
solutions resulting in better products are
required: these necessitate HPC
Source: DITR report 2001 on “The Impact of High Performance Computing Technologies in Australia”
see http://www.industry.gov.au/library/content_library/12_High_Performance_Computer_Tech.pdf
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Internal Economic Drivers from a
government perspective
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Interoperability drivers for
Emergency Management - Local
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Interoperability drivers for
Emergency Management - International
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Source: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041226/max_global.pdf
Legislative issues driving Interoperability
Industry perspectives:
 New legislation in US and Canada impose strict
requirements on the CEO when announcing year end
results, with severe sanctions for false certification
(fines and/or prison)
 United States – Sarbanes Oxley
 Canada NI 43-101
Government perspectives:
 In Queensland, information is an asset of the crown and
Director Generals are accountable for the information
assets of their departments. Dept. assets can be audited
against ISO standards.
 Similar legislation in Canada for government data
suppliers
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Any Mining
Company
Standardised
XML interfaces
will impose
quality control
by default
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Have we Crossed the Chasm in the Technology
Adoption Life Cycle?
Geoffrey A. Moore, 1991. Crossing the Chasm. Harper Business
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Understanding what is required to move forward
1. interoperability is underpinned by standards
developed at the international level
2. We are at the same point in time as the
industrial revolution where the infrastructure
of the industrial age was underpinned by
standards
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Industrial vs the Information Revolution
1776 - Invention of steam engine
1940 - Invention of the computer
1829 - Invention of railways
1989 - First Generation Internet
1834 - First rail-networks
1996 - First Grid networks
1880 - First Standards Association for 1996 - First Standards for components:
XML appears
individual components
1890 – Manufacturing age
2005 – Interoperability for Geosciences
Peter Drucker - Beyond the Information
Revolution:
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm
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The anatomy of the thread of a screw
Standards are developed at the level
of the lowest common component
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GA Reports
Application
WebMap
Composer
CLIENT
APPLICATIONS
Common Interface Binding – GML/XMML
DATA
ACCESS
SERVICES
DOIR
Web Feature Translation
Service (WFS)
Geoserver
(Open Source)
DATA
SOURCES
DOIR
Geochemistry
Little or
Feature
Data Source
PostGIS
(Open Source)
GA
to standards here
Web Feature Service (WFS)
PIRSA
Web Feature Service (WFS)
no
PIRSA
change
required
Geochemistry
Feature
Data Source
here
GA
Geochemistry
Feature
Data Source
Oracle
PostGIS
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Infrastructure in the Industrial Age vs
Information Age
Narrow
Standard
Broad
New Network
Source http://www.ara.net.au/main.php#http://www.ara.net.au/main.php#
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MODELLING & SIMULATING MINERAL SYSTEMS
Fundamental real world data sets
Create conceptual
models of fundamental
real world data sets
Stratigraphic
index
Geophysics
Structural
Geology
Microstructure
Geomechanics
Rock
Properties
Geological
History
Interrogation
Software
Simulate to determine
essential ingredients
Coupled
Mechanical_thermal_fluid
flow_chemical modelling
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Deformational modelling
Ore zones
3D & 4D
Models
Fluid flow modelling
Metallurgy
Mineralogy
Fluid
Inclusions
Thermodynamics
Geochemistry
Return to
real world
data sets
to validate
simulations
and seek
other
analogues
Visualisation
MODELLING AND SIMULATING REAL EARTH
OBSERVERVATIOMS OF REAL EARTH
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(Source: Bruce Hobbs)
Interoperability Drivers - Scale
Kilobyte
1*103 bytes = a very short story
1990
Megabyte
1*106 bytes = a small novel
1996
Gigabyte
1*109 bytes = Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
1998
Terabyte
1*1012 bytes = all the X-rays in a large hospital
2000
Petabyte
1*1015 bytes = half the content of US academic Libraries
2005
Exabyte
1*1018 bytes = all the words people have ever spoken
2010
Zettabyte 1*1021 bytes = number of grains on all the world’s beaches
?
Yottabyte 1*1024 bytes = the number of atoms in 7000 human bodies
?
http://norway.emc.com/annualreport2000/content_byte.pdf
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Interoperability:
the driver of Innovation in the Information Age
In the Information Age
innovation
comes from the capacity to
mine vast data sets from
distributed sources to
enable the production of
new knowledge
Source: Kaye, D., 2003. Loosely
Coupled: The missing pieces of web
services. RDS Press California
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SEE Grid – an interoperable community that links
distributed, operable components
Modelling environment
Final Model archived with
input data & programs
Linked, distributed
computation
APAC
CSIRO
Linked, distributed
model libraries
Data used
Programs usedto generate
model
to generate
CSIRO
ACcESS
APAC
VPAC
TPAC
CSIRO
GA
State &
Territory
Surveys
CSIRO
ACcESS
Linked, distributed
observational
databases
Linked, distributed
modelling
components
model
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Introducing the SEE Grid community
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Keeping going – remember the trough
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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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