GIS Engagement Strategy Workgroup

Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, is critical to effective business function, additionally, in a campus environment, this “digital twin” can be leveraged as a tool for pedagogy and research. GIS defines the “where” of elements, and its power rests in this spatial representation linked to relevant and query-capable attributes.

The GIS Engagement Strategy Workgroup intends to instantiate the foundation for resource coordination and governance, data structure, and standards/procedures to develop GIS as a viable and necessary fabric of data for administrative, academic, and community uses. Striking a balance between security and sharing of data for improvement in education, modeling, planning, campus operations, wayfinding, and response.

Align Resource Management and Planning (RMP) GIS focus with the UC San Diego Strategic Plan. Goal 5 of the Strategic Plan, Supportive Infrastructure, is an area in which RMP development, maintenance, and use of GIS can have a direct and significant impact: enabling integrated technologies and process efficiencies. The data produced by RMP GIS, and any tools can peripherally assist meeting Goal 1, providing course work content and opportunities for internships and community scientist involvement. This platform can also assist answering questions in Goal 4, Community Enrichment, measuring of service activities and impact on the community.

The following is a list of tasks this Workgroup should, at a minimum, undertake:

• Provide a forum for RMP staff GIS collaboration

• Advocate RMP adoption of tools, methodology, and additional resources to target identified gap

• Understand areas of redundancy and formulate a plan for elimination

• Monitor the status of existing campus-wide data layers: who maintains each, how are they stored, where are they stored, how often they are updated

• Prioritize the list of development for data layers

• Determine which audience has access to data, from a practical as well as a security standpoint: internal power users or viewers, consultants, and the public

• Generate creative and practicable GIS recommendations and solutions

• Inspire innovation

📋 Roadmap overview

Major intended projects, and transition to internal Administrative ArcGIS Online data dissemination platform, over the course of the next year.

🔍 Detailed quarterly roadmap

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