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2.2 Business needs of Stakeholders

Though the businesses of the various stakeholders vary considerably, there is substantial overlap in terms of business needs among most stakeholders, at least from the first three groups described in figure 2.1 . Generally speaking, the business needs include aspects such as easily discover, access, download and analyze arctic spatial data on the data consumer side, and the ability to publish, integrate, aggregate and analyze geospatial data and related non-geospatial data on the data producer, provider and processor side. Focus shall be on ease-of-use and effectiveness, as data producers will not publish data volun- tarily to multiple locations and try to minimize data integration efforts on the other side. Integrated systems, possibly in a system-of-systems or network-of- networks approach with the ability to harvest data from existing solutions in a secure, reliable manner should be supported. In addition, there is a need for certain data sets with further requirements on real-time or archived availability, data and system IPR intellectual property rights, reuse and indemnification rules and regulations, security and privacy settings, as well as costs. As Northern projects often take place in small subsets and consolidation is not always possible, metadata plays an essential role to understand which methodologies or standards have been applied during data acquisition, processing and preparation work. On the system side, it is essential that systems are operational and reliable with clear life cycle costs to providers and users. Stakeholders require robust, but intuitive easy-to-use tools to access, visualize and contribute data and informa- tion in a manner that allows for ingestion into organizations to support policy development and decision making. The underlying systems have to cater for various types consumer capacities. While some of the stakeholders may have very limited internal geospatial capacity or solutions, others are far more ad- vanced. In terms of data sets, a detailed analysis of both provided and required data sets is discussed in chapter 6 . Therefore, the following list only contains aspects that are relevant to the nature and representation of data, independently of the data type and domain; have umbrella importance for other data sets in terms of referencing or geolocation; or represent overarching groups of data: • Consolidated authoritative data sets Chapter 2. Stakeholders 15 • Geographical names capable of handling indigenous language characters, sound andor video clips, spatial delineations, images, and naming deci- sion documents for published names • Geolocations for community infrastructure elements due to lack of street names and addressing in small communities • Traditional knowledge that originates from experiences or oral traditions and that cannot be captured by sensors or processes • Northern statistical information • A baseline knowledge base of physical environmental data for a region is necessary for pre-FEED, FEED front end engineering design, environ- mental assessment, and engineering design. The following figures illustrate the interlocking of data and applications. Even though only a small subset of all data types, stakeholders, and applications is provided, the tables still provide a valuable insight in the richness of applica- tions in the Arctic. The tables are based on input provided by Fugro Pelagos . They show how new data sets made available online often produce many new users that have not been in focus at the phase of publications, but found the data to be useful in contexts not intended before. The tables do not provide an exhaustive list of data and all its possible usages. Chapter 2. Stakeholders 16 F IGURE 2.2: Business needs examples, part 1 Chapter 2. Stakeholders 17 F IGURE 2.3: Business needs examples, part 2 Chapter 2. Stakeholders 18 F IGURE 2.4: Business needs examples, part 3 Chapter 2. Stakeholders 19 F IGURE 2.5: Business needs examples, part 4 Chapter 2. Stakeholders 20

2.3 Analysis of Stakeholders