GIS Engagement Strategy Workgroup

The GIS Engagement Strategy Workgroup is the foundation upon which UC San Diego instantiates resource coordination and governance, data structure, and standards/procedures for a viable GIS weaved for administrative, academic, and community purposes. Striking a balance between security and sharing data for improvement in planning, modeling, campus operations and maintenance, wayfinding, response, and education.

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 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 d 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, predominantly for RMP staff and key allies, to collaborate concerning Geographic Information Systems

• Formulate GIS campus organizational structure based on the existing environment: Centralized vs Decentralized

• Delineate critical or useful campus-wide geospatial data layers, prioritizing the hierarchy of development and maintenance, responsible parties, how and where layers are stored, and frequency of update

• Articulate business workflows (at a high level) and understand the efficiency and accuracy impacts insertion of a GIS solution may offer

• Identify areas of redundancy, vacuum, and formulate a plan for evolving all geospatial solutions to one source of data

• Adopt tools, methodology, training, and additional resources targeting identified gaps and opportunities

• Communicate GIS metrics for success: quality, speed, and with which regulatory requirements

• Generate creative and practicable GIS recommendations and solutions

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

• Inspire innovation and provide pedagogical use of data by the UC San Diego community

📋 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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