Leveraging SMEs’ Strength for INSPIRE

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www.snowflakesoftware.com

Richard Rombouts

Snowflake Software

Software Development Off-the-Shelf Products Training and Support

Snowflake Software

The Data eXchange Company

INSPIRE at SnowflakeSoftware

GO Publisher• Create INSPIRE data• Share INSPIRE data

GO Loader• Load INSPIRE data

INSPIRE-as-a-Service• Let us do it for you

Training

• INSPIRE Essentials• GML• XML • Data Modelling

Consultancy

• Implementing INSPIRE• Transforming data• Implementing enterprise-sized data publication systems

What I want to talk about...• Experiences

• Opportunities

• Barriers

• New initiatives

• Innovation

Experiences• INSPIRE puts data sharing and open

standards on agenda with data providers

• Growing realisation that data is an asset

• INSPIRE is actually being implemented across Europe; no more paper tiger

• INSPIRE is often perceived as technological problem, not as an opportunity for innovation.

Opportunities• SMEs are agile by nature and are close to

their customers making them ideal to cooperate with

• Training and knowledge sharing on technical and management level still required

• Other domains adopting INSPIRE-like initiatives, eg. Single European Sky and OneGeology.

Barriers• Long implementation timescales causing

– Data providers to wait with implementation– Upfront investment and uncertain long-term

revenues for SMEs

• Current tendering procedures not beneficial for SMEs

• Governments competing with businesses• Perceived complexness by data providers• EU not leading by example...yet

Leading by example

96% of open datasets from just a single organisation

(<2% from EEA)

Leading by example

Wide variety of data providers

New Initiatives• European Location Framework

(E.L.F.)– Technical infrastructure which delivers

authoratative, interoperable, cross-border geospatial reference data.

• CITI-SENSE– Development of sensor-based Citizens'

Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities.

• UK Open Data Institute– Catalyst for the evolution of an open data culture

in the UK.

Innovation

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Walt Disney

Innovation requires...• Innovative data providers

– More than just opening up datasets

• Innovative technology providers– More than just selling software licences

• Inspiration– More than just ticking the INSPIRE-box

Final Thoughts• INSPIRE can be a driver for open data

innovation

• INSPIRE is not a technological problem requiring a single software solution

• SMEs have an intimate understanding of their customers and their culture. Use it!

• SMEs are agile and innovative, because it is in their DNA.

Richard Romboutsrichard.rombouts@snowflakesoftware.com

@RichRombouts

info@snowflakesoftware.com

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Leveraging SMEs’ Strength for INSPIRE

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