Building Community Information Systems with Drupal and Open Layers Rev2
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The document discusses building community information systems using Drupal and Open Layers, focusing on the needs of First Nations in British Columbia, Canada. It highlights various stakeholder requirements for spatial data management and content accessibility, and proposes a CMS-based approach to facilitate data integration and community engagement. The presentation emphasizes the capabilities of Drupal and Open Layers for creating dynamic, interactive maps and managing diverse data types to support cultural and environmental projects.
Building Community Information Systems with Drupal and Open Layers Rev2
- 1. Building community information systems with Drupal and Open LayersFOSS4G – Sydney AustraliaCharles Burnett & Patrick HayesGeomemes Research IncVictoria BC Canada154° 20' 13.72" N 130° 26' 36.93" WMetlakatla First Nation Village, Prince Rupert, Canadahttp://www.panoramio.com/photo/17998472
- 2. 2FOSS4G4IC<->GOVAll exchanges are contextualized by the cultures that are party to the exchange.“Prototypes of New Understanding” - Brian Jungen (Swiss/Dunne-za), Vancouver, Canada
- 3. Wawa of the BC Context3Wawa = Chinook Jargon: Kloshe Konaway!, SkookumINAC: Indian Act 1876, Federal responsibilityReserves: post gold rush, Euros: traders to settlers First Nation: Indigenous political unit (~203 in BC)Treaty: BC has a Treaty Commission, some FNs “in treaty”, 2 modern signed, Land/$$/Co-managementLand Claims: negotiate through the courts“Duty to Consult” and AccomodationReferrals: BC Gov system for doing consultationTUS/TEK: Traditional Use Study, -Ecologial KnowledgeEBM: Ecosystem Based Management
- 4. 4Band Chief Councilor: “I need CED (“referrals”) reports with summary, maps, analysis, communications highlights.”School Teacher: “I need access to the maps and multimedia files to teach our culture.”Referrals Manager: “I need to track staff time spent on consultation.”Fisheries Officer: “I need a (spatialized) system to record environmental data.”Teeenager: “I want to access to some community data, calendars, blogs, job lists and our elections info.”Cultural Expert: “I need a better way of doing interviews and for digitizing our TUS/TEK/Arch data.”GIS techniciam: “I’m swamped and need help wit hdata entry, but we have no $$ for training.”CED Staffer: “I need a better way to track consultation. Paper copies suck!”54° 20' 13.72" N 130° 26' 36.93" WMetlakatla First Nation Village, Prince Rupert, Canada
- 5. 5To change the rules, change the toolsLee Felsenstein (1945-), computer engineer
- 6. CIS: One Basket, Many ViewsCultural / Language RevitalizationSpatial Data Storage & ViewingCommunity Building / GovernanceFN DataBasketEconomic Development & Consultation(including Referrals Tracking)6
- 7. Start with a GIS? Or a CMS?7Start with a Mapping Application, add CMS-nessAdd tools to add/edit/manage non-geographic information, incl. multimedia Add tools to manage roles/access/views/communications/...+ Use Scripting to generate reportsStart with Content Management System (CMS)Add tools to interactively enter and display geographic informationAdd tools to link CMS with spatial databases+ Use Scripting to generate reports
- 8. Content Management System8A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.Modular: Core (user management, security) Contributed Modules(1000s of modules to at data types and funtionality)E.g. Drupal Open Layers, Geo
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- 10. Like Many Others... ...Drupal10WhiteHouse.gov
- 12. Die Zeit
- 13. Die Welt
- 14. CNN
- 15. Amnesty InternationalGreenpeace
- 16. NASA
- 17. NATO
- 19. IBM
- 20. Popular Science
- 21. Fast Company
- 22. America Online
- 23. Sun Microsystems
- 24. Novell
- 25. Yahoo!
- 27. Many, many other universitiesFedex
- 28. Nike
- 29. Forbes
- 30. Warner Bros
- 31. 20th Century Fox
- 32. MacWorld
- 33. Adobe
- 34. Java.net
- 35. RackSpaceSpatial DataManagement ESRI / Manifold / (Quantum)DesktopGISDrupal + MySQL DatabaseIndustryFills Out ProposalCED (Referrals) ManagerPostGISDatabase(via ArcSDE or ZigGIS)Community Member/TeacherESRI/Oracle Databases11
- 36. Drupal: Nth Degree Control12
- 37. Drupal Open Layers (DOL)13Node Type Field (CCK)
- 38. Spatial Field Widget (DOL)Views Style (table, list, map)
- 39. Which “preset”?
- 40. Filters (which nodes?)
- 41. Arguements (e.g. URL)DOL+ Snippets
- 43. PHP files & CSS filesDOLCreate presets
- 44. Set proj, set base layers, set zoom, center, default style, overlay layersBlocks, Panels, Menus Structure your layout
- 46. Drupal Open Layers: Capabilities14Create spatial nodes in Drupal (point/lines/polygon) – don’t need code to use the OL APICan make complex maps, lots of layersDOL API has “glue” to approximately 30% of OL libraryOne level up: Snippet – small code to create easy People sharing SnippetsUpload shapefile (stored in MySQL Spatial or PostGIS), Drupal doing the db abstractionPoint and click map building and stylingStyling Engine pretty powerful nowDynamic styles (attributes in Drupal can be used to make styles)E.g. Taxonomy image for icons, or cck field for line weight
- 47. Drupal Open Layers: Next Steps15We have a solid API and a rapidly growing group of developers. Core Functionality (Drupal/OL glue) ready to be built upon... DOL 2.0 is accepting new feature requestshttp://drupal.org/project/openlayersAdd easier way to upload shapefilesExpand to WMS/WFS... All data types in Open LayersIntegrate Drupal Chaos Tools module; allows custom bundles of snippets as a ‘feature’ -> moduleImproved Styling
- 48. CIS: Add Maps for Community Health16
- 49. CIS: Add Maps for Language RevitalizationFNs = spoken language culturesDrupal, MultimediaJavascript links automatically seeded when a new “term” + MP3 added...Localization!...Cross-site API!...+ Maps!... education...17http://maps.fphlcc.ca/
- 50. CIS: Add Advanced File Management18
- 51. ...DEMO19Gilakasla – Thank-you!http://geomemes.com charles@geomemes.com
- 52. Demo Functionality20Add individual TUS sites - (CCK, Related Fields, DOL) Add/modify many site nodes (Views)Load Shapefile - (Table Wizard, Geo)Show different features on the same map -(Views/Roles/Permissions)Filter maps – (Faceted Search)WMS/WFS – (DOL Snippets, API calls)Links to desktop – (Geo, custom PHP)Reporting – (DOL, Geo, PHP calls to PostGIS)
- 54. 1. Add Traditional Use Site (page top)22
- 55. 1. Add Traditional Use Site (mid)23
- 56. 1. Add Traditional Use Site (bottom)24
- 57. 2. View All Trad Use Sites, Map View25
- 58. 3. Show diff. features on same map 26Automatic filtering by Views/Roles/Permissions
- 59. 4. View Only Some Sites, Adv Filter by User27
- 60. 5. From Google/Yahoo Base Maps... ...to secure local WMS/WFS layers...28
- 61. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS...29
- 62. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS...30
- 63. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS...31
- 64. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS...32
- 65. 6. Links to Desktop GIS Apps33(<->PostGIS)
- 66. 7. Report Generation34CIS... DOL, PHP, PostGIS, PDF moduleSky’s the Limit...
Editor's Notes
- #7: The idea of “separation of presentation (form, style) and content” means that data once stored it can be viewed in many ways.And when we say data, we mean everything including text, pdf, doc, spreadsheets, multimedia (images, audio, video), and maps.So, data can be used in a number of ways, and for a number of applications.The clever thing about our approach is that the underlying software (in our case, the Drupal Content Management System, http://drupal.org) was purpose built for collaborative information and multimedia data sharing.We suggest that FNs start with a system for Economic Development/Land Management (including Referrals Tracking). Then add other components like web-forms and views for Language Revitalization and TUS/TEK Data Collection. Later, you can leverage your investment by moving more of your GIS Systems into the common data basket. All the while you can start to let Band members build their own web-pages and access the multimedia content. Eventually, you can use the system to have Band members learn about initiatives before voting - Governance.
- #8: CMS: a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic texthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
- #10: http://drupal.org/books
- #27: Show different features on the same map -(Views/Roles/Permissions)