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© 2010 Humboldt Consortium

Data Harmonisation Put into Practice by the HUMBOLDT Project

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Contents

Overview of the HUMBOLDT project

HUMBOLDT Framework for data harmonisation

HUMBOLD products

INSPIRE and HUMBOLDT

Application of HUMBOLDT Framework in scenarios

Training platform

HUMBOLDT results for the community

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HUMBOLDT Facts

Full title: Development of a framework for data harmonisation and

service integration

Term : 48 months (01/10/2006 – 30/09/2010)

Effort :~ 13.5 mill. € ~ 110 person years

Contracting authority: Commission of the European Community FP6 –

Aeronautics and Space (Global Monitoring for

Environment and Security)

Consortium: 27 partners (coordinator Fraunhofer IGD)

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The HUMBOLDT ProjectDuration: 10/2006 – 09/2010

Objectives

Overcome barriers in multidisciplinary and cross-border usage of spatial information

Development of tools and services to support transformation needs

Integration of these tools and services into existing Spatial Data Infrastructures

Support for INSPIRE (tools for data harmonisation) and GMES (theme-specific services in scenarios)

27 partners from 14 countries

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Data Harmonisation Issues in HUMBOLDT Scenarios

Data formats

Spatial reference systems

Conceptual schemas (data models)

Classification schemes (e.g. different ways to classify land cover)

Scales / resolutions of vector or raster datasets respectively

Levels-of-detail of data content

Metadata (e.g. different metadata profiles or lack of standardised metadata)

Terminology (e.g. different application domains and natural languages)

Portrayal (e.g. different styles in map symbology)

Multiple representation of the ‘same’ spatial objects

Spatial consistency at borders (e.g. edge-matching)

Processing functions (parameters and computational functions / algorithms, e.g. to compute land cover classification )

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Functionalities for covering the data harmonisation process as a whole

Analysis of sources Creation of

target

Input for transformation

(mapping rules)

Source TargetSchema

Transf.

Edge

Matching …

Executed technical processes

User knowledge

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HUMBOLDT Framework for Data Harmonisation

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HUMBOLDT Open Source Software (released under the LGPL 3.0 license)

http://www.community.esdi-humboldt.eu/

HUMBOLDT Model Editor

For the creation of UML application schemas

HUMBOLDT Alignment Editor

Definition of conceptual schema transformation

Workflow Service

Service Composition for handling transformation needs

Mediator Service

Execution of transformation chains

Transformation Services

Exposed as Web Processing Services (e.g. Schema Transformation, Coordinate Transformation, Edge Matching)

We invite developers to test the design

and expandability of the framework.

We invite users to test the framework with

its functionality in their user environment.

Suggestions and contributions are

highly welcome.

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HUMBOLDT products

There are three levels of software products defined and implemented:

1. The HUMBOLDT Framework: A set of software components that can be

used by themselves or all together to create geodata harmonisation

applications and that are re-useable in multiple toolset applications and

scenario applications DEVELOPERS

2. The HUMBOLDT Toolset: A set of applications that support data modelling

experts with all activities surrounding data harmonisation processes DATA

CUSTODIANS, DATA INTEGRATORS, (end-users of geodata)

3. The HUMBOLDT Scenario Applications: Concrete End-User applications

using the framework components and (adopted) versions of toolset

applications END-USERS OF GEODATA / SPATIAL INFO.

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HUMBOLDT products (contd.)

Further, supporting products are also important from the user perspective:

1. HUMBOLDT Documentation:

• Reports, deliverables and other documentary output

• Software documentation, „cookbooks”

• HUMBOLDT Wiki (currently used internally, can be made available to the wide

public

in the future)

2. Training products:

• HUMBOLDT Training Platform

• Overall training on data harmonization, specific trainings on the HUMBOLDT

project tailored to user needs

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The key role of Humboldt scenarios

• Develop harmonised specification (for given theme(s))

• Identify data harmonisation issues

• Harmonisation tools to be developed

• Test the harmonisation capabilities that have been developed by

Humboldt

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The Data Harmonisation Process


real-world use cases

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User-driven Approach: Scenarios

List of ScenariosBorder Security ERiskA

Urban Planning Forest

Ocean Galileo

Protected Areas Transboundary Catchment

Urban Atlas

Applies to each scenario :-Implementation of an end user application using harmonised data

in a specific GMES domain

-Evaluation against user requirements

-Demonstrator for the framework

-National, regional and local (end-) users are involved in the

development

http://www.gisig.it/humboldt/demonstrator/EMS.html

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List of Scenarios

BorderSecurity – revolves around supporting border police on the outer

border of Europe, the focus is on the use of highly sensitive data, real-

time sensor input and high availability of geodata from trans-border

sources.

Urban Planning – addresses environmental, architectural, and social

needs of stakeholders in urban planning by offering them integrated

access and visualization of such different data as sociodemographic

information and city models, which makes this Scenario a perfect test for

data integration from different application domains. Recently,Urban Atlas

related activities were also incorporated.

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List of Scenarios

Forest – centres on the management of forests in Czech Republic both

also between countries on both sides of the Czech-German border,

metadata harmonisation, geometric and semantic harmonisation and

different sources of geodata are the aims.

Protected Areas – highly different data sets to be used together, from

biodiversity, land cover information to data for planning, management

and promotion of protected Areas.These geo-information flows are

identified at all management levels (EU, national;regional and local).

ERiskA – aims at developing a cross-border risk management

application for floods in the Lake Constance region (Austria, Germany

and Switzerland).

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List of Scenarios

Transboundary Catchment – applications to manage transboundary

catchments and to evaluate effects of water consumption or

contamination in the context of the Water Framework Directive using the

HUMBOLDT framework.

Ocean – the largest Scenario in HUMBOLDT, focuses on cross-border,

multi-language data, with high amounts of satellite data playing an

important role. Distributed processing and 4D visualizations are used for

the simulation of oil spills and other disasters.Includes 3 sub-scenarios.

Galileo – makes use of the new GNSS Galileo to collect and distribute

Atmosphericdata. These are required from several domains, use cases

concentrate on healthcare

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Anders Östman

University of Gävle, SWEDEN

[email protected]

Alexander v Humboldt Wilhelm v Humboldt

The HUMBOLDT Training Platform.

Anders Östman

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To increase the impact and efficacy of the project outcomes by providing training tools and actions

Why training?

For the user communities of the HUMBOLDT tools, as well as for the communities of GMES and INSPIRE.

Addressed both to users and software developers as target audiences.

Training for who?


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Training material prepared during the project (with the contribution of project partners)

Training material developed in other contexts and made available for the project

Training by whom?

Project results (The use of the HUMBOLDT tools)

Data harmonisation, data modelling and IT standards

INSPIRE and GMES

Application of the HUMBOLDT tools (H. Scenarios)

Training about what?


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2 - The HUMBOLDT Training Platform

Constitutes the infrastructure hosting the training modules and training material.

Established by widely diffused open source e-Learning tools.

Once subscribed to the Module (or Modules), the user is redirected to an e-Learning

platform with personalized access.

Decentralised: Training Material is hosted in different platforms in Italy and Sweden.

Training material developed on a variety of formats: Presentations with voice,

screencasts, plain text lectures, exercises, etc.

Allows monitoring the user progress and students/teachers interaction

Link with Vesta-GIS (all HUMBOLDT courses listed in the Vesta-GIS catalogue)


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Entrance test:

Finished and integrated to the eLearning content

Creation of the HUMBOLDT curricula system

Level 1 “Preliminary Knowledge”:

Overview of GMES (concepts and services): Finished

Web Services: Finished

Metadata (concepts and standards): Finished

INSPIRE (Directive and the Specifications): Finished. Work in progress to add voice

Introduction to Data Harmonisation: Finished.

Other training courses could be added (also with links to others platforms/projects)

Level 2 “The HUMBOLDT Framework“:

The Data harmonisation within HUMBOLDT“

Training on the HUMBOLDT Tools:

Level 3 “The HUMBOLDT Scenarios“:

3 - The HUMBOLDT Training Modules


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INSPIRE

A Spatial Data Infrastructure Directive

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What is the aim of the Directive?

- To establish a European SDI on the basis of SDIs created by Member

States

What does INSPIRE stand for?

- Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

Why is it needed?

- To better enable the Commission and Member States to prepare,

implement and monitor environmental policies

- However, the infrastructure will create a ‘platform’ (infrastructure)

which can be used for many other purposes

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Who will be affected?

- Data producers

- A number of government departments

- Certain state agencies

- All local authorities

- Users

- Public sector

- General public

- Academics and researchers

- Professionals

- Business

- Potentially everyone

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What does the Directive deliver?

- At its core it will provide two main ‘things’

- Various types of spatial data

- Network services

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What are the types of spatial data involved in INSPIRE?

- Coordinate reference systems (height, latitude and longitude etc)

- Geographical grid systems (a standardised sized grid laid across

Europe)

- Geographical names (eg areas, regions, localities, cities, suburbs,

towns and settlements, and geographical or topographical features)

- Administrative units (areas for local, regional and national boundaries

and administrative areas)

- Addresses (road name, house number, postcode)

- Cadastral parcels (ie registered land properties)

- Transport networks (road, rail, air and water networks and related

infrastructure; the links between these networks)

- Hydrography (marine areas, river basins and sub-basins, rivers,

coastline. lakes etc)

- Protected sites (areas designated by international, European

Community, and national legislation aimed at achieving conservation

objectives eg national monuments, Special Areas of Conservation etc)

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What are the types of spatial data involved in INSPIRE? (continued)

- Elevation (land, ice and ocean surfaces, shoreline etc)

- Land cover (physical and biological surfaces, including built-up

areas, agriculture, forests, wetlands, water bodies etc)

- Orthoimagery (images of the earth’s surface from satellites and

airborne sensors)

- Geology (characterised according to composition and structure,

including bedrock, aquifers and geomorphology)

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What types of ‘network services’ will be provided?

- Data discovery (based on metadata and catalogue)

- Viewing

- Downloading

- Transforming

- Invoking

- Licensing (click licenses most likely)

- Payment

- Multilingual thesauri

- System usage monitoring

- Update facilities

- etc

- The above services will be accessible through a European

INSPIRE portal and probably through Member State (or other)

portals

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Where can I find out more about?

http://inspire.jrc.it/

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INSPIRE and HUMBOLDT

Harmonising data from European countries, e.g. Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Switzerlandand the United Kingdom

HUMBOLDT participates in review of documents and testing of Data Specifications

INSPIRE Data Specifications used in HUMBOLDT Administrative Units Geographical Names Hydrography Natural Risk Zones (draft) Protected Sites Transport Networks Land Cover (currently used: CORINE Land Cover)

INSPIRE Methodology for the development of data specifications used for HUMBOLDT application scenarios


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Humboldt users

-Classification of Humboldt users:

data providers / data custodians

developers

data users

-Involvement of users

within the project

survey about user requirements

involvement of users through 8 scenarios

-without the project

will to involve key users to ensure sustainability of the project

will to create a community of Humboldt developers

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HUMBOLDT Results for the Community

Sharing experiences in data harmonisation and testing of INSPIRE data specifications

Open Source HUMBOLDT Framework → www.community.esdi-humboldt.eu

→ tools and services for data harmonisation

→ cover data harmonisation process as a whole

→ flexible, can be integrated with existing SDIs

HUMBOLDT Scenarios → www.esdi-humboldt.eu/scenarios.html

→ end-user application demonstrators for different domains

HUMBOLDT Training Plattform → www.gisig.it/humboldt/training

→ Basics Knowledge (e.g.web services, metadata)

→ HUMBOLDT Framework (e.g. data harmonisation concepts and tools)

→ HUMBOLDT Scenarios (e.g. data harmonisation examples using the

Framework)


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