FAQs
The following questions are those most commonly asked
by the user community about LRDW content, processes
and functionality.
1.
What is the LRDW?
The Land and Resource Data Warehouse (LRDW) is a central,
consolidated repository of land and resource information
from across the province, offering a powerful suite
of services for clients in government ministries and
other agencies, business partners, and the public. The
LRDW allows users to browse, search, query, view, access,
analyze, order, pay for, and download data sets from
the warehouse.
2.
Who is responsible for the LRDW?
The Integrated Land Management Bureau is responsible
for the actual management of the warehouse acting as
a data steward of the information content. The contact
for the LRDW Project is the Project Director Al Becker
email: al.becker@gov.bc.ca
3.
What types of data are in the LRDW?
The LRDW includes: cadastral information (tenures, ownership,
boundaries); resource information (vegetation, fisheries,
wildlife), provincial atlas (rivers, roads, buildings,
topography, surveys), and planning and analysis information
(Land and Resource Management Plans, Sustainable Resource
Management Plans). The Discovery Service provides information
about the data that is loaded into the warehouse.
4.
What forms are the data in?
The information is in the following formats: table (attribute
data), vector (spatial data, accessed as layers), raster
(images), and documents.
5.
Who provides the data to the LRDW?
Various government ministries (such as Agriculture and
Lands, Environment, Forests and Range, Energy and Mines)
and business partners (forest companies, consultants,
and federal government) provide data for loading (publishing)
into the LRDW.
6.
How is data loaded to the LRDW?
Various government ministries and business partners
(forest companies, consultants, federal government)
provide data for actually putting (publishing) into
the LRDW.
7.
What is the Population Service?
The Population Service allows designated people to upload
information to the LRDW. Publishing to the warehouse
is a multi-step procedure that involves such things
as: acquiring the data, determining user requirements,
designing the warehouse model and ways to view the data,
documenting security restrictions, and developing the
metadata.
8.
What is metadata?
Metadata is data about data. It is data that describes
a particular data set — the nature, extent, method
and time of collection and all other pertinent information
about the data. Metadata is a very crucial component
to any data set because the information in the metadata
allows users to search for a particular data set.
9.
What is the Discovery Service?
The Discovery Service allows users to search the information
in the LRDW in a number of different ways to find different
types of information and data that is most appropriate
for their use. Discovery Service uses the information
contained in the metadata and allows users to search
on a keyword, data custodian, theme, date, location
and more.
10.
What are Access Services?
Access Services allow users to work directly with warehouse
information using a variety of different ways to look
at the data (views).
11.
What is the Distribution Service?
The Distribution Service allows users to order data
for download from the warehouse. Users receive a copy
of the data from the warehouse for analysis on their
own systems. To avoid problems with data duplication
and using data that may rapidly become out-of-date,
users are encouraged to use data online through Access
Services.
12.
What is a data custodian?
Each data set has a data custodian who is accountable
for the data published to the LRDW. The data custodian
is responsible for overseeing that the data is organized
and "packaged" in an appropriate way, is up-to-date
and of high quality, follows clear and consistent standards,
has security "clearance" for release, is uploaded
using reliable and secure processes, and contains comprehensive
and accurate metadata. | 
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