Friday 23 October 2009 presentation at FOSS4G (Free and Open Spatial for Geospatial) Conference in Sydney Australia. Describes Geomemes work building Community Information Systems for indigenous groups in BC Canada using the Drupal CMS and Open Layers javascript library. Also binds to PostGIS.

1. Building community information systems with Drupal and Open LayersFOSS4G – Sydney Australia Charles Burnett & Patrick Hayes Geomemes Research Inc Victoria BC Canada 1 54° 20' 13.72" N 130° 26' 36.93" W Metlakatla First Nation Village, Prince Rupert, Canada http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17998472

2. 2 FOSS4G4IC<->GOV All 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 Context 3 Wawa = Chinook Jargon: Kloshe Konaway!, Skookum INAC: Indian Act 1876, Federal responsibility Reserves: post gold rush, 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-management Land Claims: negotiate through the courts “Duty to Consult” and Accomodation Referrals: BC Gov system for doing consultation TUS/TEK: Traditional Use Study, -Ecologial Knowledge EBM: Ecosystem Based Management

4. 4 Band 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" W Metlakatla First Nation Village, Prince Rupert, Canada

5. 5 To change the rules, change the tools Lee Felsenstein (1945-), computer engineer

6. CIS: One Basket, Many Views Cultural / Language Revitalization Spatial Data Storage & Viewing Community Building / Governance Drupal + PostGIS FN Data Basket Economic Development & Consultation (including Referrals Tracking) 6

7. Start with a GIS? Or a CMS? 7 Start with a Mapping Application, add CMS-ness Add tools to add/edit/manage non-geographic information, incl. multimedia Add tools to manage roles/access/views/communications/... + Use Scripting to generate reports Start with Content Management System (CMS) Add tools to interactively enter and display geographic information Add tools to link CMS with spatial databases + Use Scripting to generate reports

8. Content Management System 8 A 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

9. 9

11. Die Zeit

12. Die Welt

13. CNN

15. NASA

16. NATO

17. The United Nations

18. IBM

19. Popular Science

20. Fast Company

21. America Online

22. Sun Microsystems

23. Novell

24. Yahoo!

25. Harvard University

27. Nike

28. Forbes

29. Warner Bros

30. 20th Century Fox

31. MacWorld

32. Adobe

33. Java.net

35. Drupal 12

38. Which “preset”?

39. Filters (which nodes?)

44. Build navigationhttp://geomemes.com/openlayers-screencast

45. Drupal Open Layers: Capabilities 14 Create spatial nodes in Drupal (point/lines/polygon) – don’t need code to use the OL API Can make complex maps, lots of layers DOL API has “glue” to approximately 30% of OL library One level up: Snippet – small code to create easy People sharing Snippets Upload shapefile (stored in MySQL Spatial or PostGIS), Drupal doing the db abstraction Point and click map building and styling Styling Engine pretty powerful now Dynamic styles (attributes in Drupal can be used to make styles) E.g. Taxonomy image for icons, or cck field for line weight

46. Drupal Open Layers: Next Steps 15 We 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 requests http://drupal.org/project/openlayers Add easier way to upload shapefiles Expand to WMS/WFS... All data types in Open Layers Integrate Drupal Chaos Tools module; allows custom bundles of snippets as a ‘feature’ -> module Improved Styling

47. CIS: Community Health 16

48. CIS: Language Revitalization FNs = spoken language cultures Drupal, Multimedia Javascript links automatically seeded when a new “term” + MP3 added ...Localization! ...Cross-site API! ...+ Maps! ... education... 17 http://maps.fphlcc.ca/

49. CIS: Advanced File Management 18

50. ...DEMO 19 Gilakasla – Thank-you! http://geomemes.com charles@geomemes.com

51. Demo Functionality 20 Add 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)

52. Community Information System 21

53. 1. Add Site 22

54. 1. Add Site 23

55. 1. Add Site 24

56. 2. View Sites 25

57. 3. Show diff. features on same map 26 Views/Roles/Permissions

58. 4. View Sites, Filter by User 27

59. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS 28

60. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 29

61. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 30

62. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 31

63. 5. Basic map... ...WMS/WFS... 32

64. 6. Links to desktop 33

65. 7. Report Generation 34 CIS... DOL, PHP, PostGIS, PDF module