Title: Interoperability in the Australian Mining Industry AUSIndustry Workshops Executive Briefing Part 2
1Interoperability in the Australian Mining
IndustryAUSIndustry Workshops Executive Briefing
Part 2
- Lesley Wyborn
- Geoscience Australia
- 22 June 2005
2Outline Interoperability in the Australian
Mining Industry
- Revision What is interoperability
- Placer Dome case history
- Runge case history
- Other industry needs
- Where to next?
- Key take home message
3Acknowledgements pt 1
- The work to be presented in this workshop has
been funded by the - 1. Commonwealth
- AUSIndustry Innovation Access Program (IAccP)
- AUSIndustry Innovation Access Fora Program (IAF)
- Geoscience Australia
- CSIRO
- 2. State
- 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
4Acknowledgements part 2
- Andrew Scott of Placer Dome
- Jane Kato of Runge
- Colleagues of CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and
Social Change Online who never gave up.
5Setting 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_in
teroperability_con_03112004/neilwilliams1.pdf
6What 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
Lesleys definition
My stuff operates with your stuff and I dont
give a damn where it is, how it works and what
the format is
- Source OGC Abstract Specification Topic 12
Services. Derived from ISO 2382-1.
Where stuff digital computers programs
data etc
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8Caveat
- 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.
9The 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 pmdCRC. - 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
10Where will we be at the end July?
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11Is 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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32Reasons 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
33Reasons 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
34Reasons 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
35Key points from case studies and support letters
- Show the diversity of use cases for the same data
type throughout the mining value chain - Show a strong business case for interoperability
for management of your data in the external world - Show an even stronger business case for
interoperability for internal data management - Show why standards need to be developed by groups
working together as part of a community - Highlight the emerging issue that responsibility
of data quality becoming a legislative issue
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37Standardised XML interfaces will impose quality
control by default
38Standardised XML interfaces will impose quality
control by default
39There 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
40The 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
41Key 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
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 http//www.industry.gov.au/assets/documents/it
rinternet/Road_to_Discovery20040702155050.pdf?CFID
284582CFTOKEN83266426
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43What 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
44Industry Cooperative Innovation Program (ICIP)
the realities
- We will need cash support from industry for an
ICIP grant - 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 SMEs and - will address the bigger picture needs expressed
by submissions by industry to the Minerals
Exploration Action Agenda - The ICIP scheme will leverage the dollars you are
currently investing by giving you dollar for
dollar return on your investment - We will need industry to lead the program
- Please let us know ASAP if you are interested
remember the 25 August deadline
45Any Mining Company
Any Mining Company
46Any Mining Company
47There is no doubt our Interoperability test bed
has wider applications eg it could also
facilitate real time Emergency Management
Source http//www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041
226/max_global.pdf
48Key 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 Australias future
sustainably
49Thank You
Contact Lesley Wyborn Geoscience
Australia Phone 02 62499489 Email lesley.wyborn_at_ga
.gov.au
Contact Robert Woodcock CSIRO Phone 08 6436
8780 Email robert.woodcock_at_csiro.au