Abstract
Uttarakhand Geo-Portal is a single window access mechanism at the State level to an Internet-based directory of geospatial data , metadata and services. Such data sets are usually acquired or provided by the line departments and agencies of the Government of Uttarakhand for conducting its own businesses. The Geo-Portal allows the data providers and users to discover and share geospatial data related to features like block-, tehsil-, district- and state-level boundaries, population; agro- and socio-economic items; natural resources; infrastructure facilities along with their relevant attributes to support developmental decision-making at different levels of the governance in the State. Designed and developed with the involvement of the end-users, the underlying database schema of the Geo-Portal is based on the ISO 19103 (Conceptual Schema Language) specifications and provides standards -based Web services like Web Map Service (WMS) , Web Feature Service (WFS ), and Catalogue Service on Web (CS-W) for accessing data and metadata in a service-oriented architecture (SOA ). The paper aims at providing the details of the underlying activities leading to the development of the geospatial database, the State Geo-Portal, the State Data Sharing Policy and a coordinating structure for the provision of up-to-date data and GIS application services for transparent, good and decentralized governance of the State.
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This paper constitutes parts of research projects on “Setting-up Digital Data base Centre District Almora”, “Upgradation and Application of NRDMS Technologies in District Almora” and “Setting-up Centre of Excellence for NRDMS in Uttarakhand” sponsored by the NRDMS Division, DST New Delhi during 2002–2012; and project on “Development of Standard-based Uttarakhand Geo-Portal for Decentralised Governance ” conducted during 2012–2018 jointly by the UCOST Dehradun and COE NRDMS Centre, Department of Geography, Kumaun University and collaboratively funded by the DST, Government of India and Government of Uttarakhand.
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Rawat, J.S., Dobhal, R. (2018). Uttarakhand State Geo-Portal for Decentralized Governance. In: Sarda, N., Acharya, P., Sen, S. (eds) Geospatial Infrastructure, Applications and Technologies: India Case Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2330-0_6
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