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Danube_Net (D1)
State-of-play and organisational context of data
infrastructure in Slovakia
Martin Tuchyňa
November 2014
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Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Outline of the task .............................................................................................................................. 3
1.2 Outline of the document ..................................................................................................................... 3
1.3 Context of the country and the main players ..................................................................................... 3
1.3.1 Wider context ............................................................................................................................. 3 1.3.2 SK data and service infrastructure in nutshell .......................................................................... 4
2. Data providers ........................................................................................................................................... 5
3. Policy-making organisations ................................................................................................................... 14
4. Support for the national data infrastructure ............................................................................................ 17
5. Research organisations .......................................................................................................................... 19
6. Stakeholder engagement organisations and networks ........................................................................... 22
7. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................. 24
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1. Introduction
1.1 Outline of the task The main purpose of this document is to provide the initial overview of the data and service infrastructure ecosystem in Slovakia in connection to the establishment of the Danube Reference Data and Services Infra-structure (DRDSI)1. This aim is to cover activities focused on the description of the overall scene from national and wider perspectives, including the overview of the organizational setup, relevant data content, influencing policy framework, supporting initiatives as well as research and development environment and, last but not least, stakeholder engagement organisations and networks.
1.2 Outline of the document In order to address the main goal of the DRDSI to “unlock”, and possibly harmonize data with relevance for the macro-regional development of the Danube region, this document aims to provide a brief introduction to the Danube strategy and role of the DRDSI. In connection to this, the document aims to provide the most up-to-date state-of-play in the Slovak Republic, taking into consideration specific aspects of the national context and ongoing societal and technological changes. Information for this document was collected based on publicly available information and resources, individual email exchange and interviews, as well as via results from a public consultation. The activity described within this document aims to depict the state-of-play of the national data infrastructure in Slovakia with respect to the (DRDSI) including:
List of the key data providers, policy-making organisations, research organisations and organisations, who can aid stakeholders engagement working within a country, in a cross-border context, or at the regional level;
The current legal context and funding of initiatives aiming at building a national data infrastructure;
A list of completed and current projects (either for data production or providing tools to support data sharing).
1.3 Context of the country and the main players
1.3.1 Wider context
In terms of the current structure of the country, Slovakia emerged in 1993 after dissolution of Czechoslovakia. After 11 years, in May 2004, the Slovak Republic joined European Union. From 2010, Slovakia actively joined the preparatory phase of the Danube strategy framework. The European Union Strategy for Danube Region (Danube strategy / EUSDR) is a macro-regional strategy2, contributing to the development and strengthening of the Danube region. The national contact point for Danube Strategy in Slovakia is the Government Office of the Slovak Republic3. In the context of the 11 priority areas of the Danube Region Strategy4, Slovakia is coor-dinating the following priority areas (PAs):
PA 04 | Water Quality: "To restore and maintain the quality of waters" together with Hungary;
PA 07 | Knowledge Society: "To develop the Knowledge Society (research, education and Information and communication technologies (ICT))" jointly with Serbia.
Figure 1: Danube strategy pillars and priority areas
1 http://drdsi.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ 2 http://www.danube-region.eu/about 3 http://www.dunajskastrategia.gov.sk/kontakt-ds/# 4 http://www.danube-region.eu/about/priorities
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In 2013, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) expressed scientific support to the Danube Strategy. The main motivation was driven by the effort to bridge the problematic gaps between data and their relevant utilisation and interpretation for decision-making processes. In order to meet this goal, JRC has focused on the main natural resource areas of water, soil, air and bioenergy and established four thematic flagship clusters:
Danube Water Nexus (DWN)
Danube Land and Soil Nexus (DLSN)
Danube Air Nexus (DAN)
Danube Bio-energy Nexus (DBN) and 3 horizontal activities:
Danube Reference Data and Service Infrastructure (DRDSI)
Smart Specialisation in the Danube Region
Danube Innovation Partnership (DIP)
To support the above mentioned clusters and activities, Slovakia is providing support with relevant information and knowledge (e.g. Air nexus5, DRDSI activity6). DRDSI is also the project and the framework aiming to cover the objectives delineated with this report. Con-sidering its main goal to ‘unlock’, and possibly harmonise data which are relevant for the macro-regional development of the Danube region, the DRDSI is of particular interested in the Slovakian data and service infrastructure.
The DRDSI as an initiative is addressing the support of the Danube Strategy by supporting access to, and exchange of, harmonised data and services with described level of quality within four vertical priorities of the 'Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy’ encompassing data related to each priority:
Environment protection (e.g. data on landscape and biodiversity, flood and droughts risks)
Navigability (e.g. data on river morphology and flood risks)
Irrigation and agricultural development (e.g. data on soils and crops)
Energy production (e.g. data on available energy resources and energy potential)
1.3.2 Slovakian data and service infrastructure in a nutshell
As in many other EU countries there are various aspects influencing the collection, processing, distribution and further reuse of digital content and related functionality in Slovakia. There are various players and initia-tives driving the Slovakian digital ecosystem, which are often significantly interlinked:
Players:
Public sector
Private sector
Academic, Research and Development sector
Professional associations
Third sector (Non governmental organizations (NGO))
Citizens
Further details about these and related players and initiatives are provided within the following chapters.
5 http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/remea/sites/remea/files/files/documents/events/gribaldo-highleveleventwien.pdf 6 http://redmine.sazp.sk/projects/drdsi-sk/wiki
Initiatives:
Policy drivers
eGovernment
INSPIRE
Public Sector Information (PSI)
Open Government Partnership (OGP) including OpenData
Technological drivers
Standardisation
Semantic technologies (Linked Data)
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2. Data providers The DRDSI, like any other infrastructures, relies on two important aspects: content and those creating and providing this content for use and further re-use. The following table provides list of the data providers and typical data relevant to the DRDSI objectives. This list provides an indicative picture and is not exhaustive. In cases, where complex organisational structures are in place (mainly public sector bodies) the top hierarchical body is reported in order to provide an initial overview. Based on this list, a more detailed data inventory will take place in the near future. Table 1: List of data providers and users
N. Name of the organisation
Org.type List of typical types of data provided
1 Government office of the Slovak Republic
(Úrad vlády Slov-enskej republiky)7
Public sector
Danube strategy related resources8
Open Government partnership9
Sk Open Data Portal10
Public sector datasets11
eDemocracy project12
2 National council of the Slovak Republic
(Národná rada Slov-enskej republiky)13
Public sector
Legislation (EN translations)
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Develop-ment of the Slovak
Republic (Ministerstvo pôdohospodárstva a rozvoja vidieka SR)14
Public sector
Register of ecological production (Ekologické regis-tre)15
Central Register of feedstuff-producing business op-erators
Forestry features (Centrálny register krmivárskych podnikov)
List of registered plant varieties (Listina registro-vaných odrôd)
Fruit orchards register (Register ovocných sadov)
Estimation of fruit crops and fruit production (Odhad úrody ovocia a produkcia ovocia)
Vineyard register (Vinohradnícky register)
Central registry of livestock (Centrálna evidencia hospodárskych zvierat (CEHZ))
Beekeeping register (Centrálny register včelstiev)
RASFF – the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS)
Bioenergy (biomass)16
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Soil, Agricultural and aquaculture facilities)17
4 Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo kultúry
SR)18
Public sector
Register museums and galleries of the Slovak Re-public (Register múzeí a galérií Slovenskej repub-liky)19
List of Slovak Libraries (Zoznam knižníc Slovenskej republiky)
7 http://www.government.gov.sk/ 8 http://www.dunajskastrategia.gov.sk/ 9 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/co-je-otvorene-vladnutie/ 10 http://www.data.gov.sk/ 11 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 12 http://www.itapa.sk/5042-sk/open-data-v-projekte-edov/ 13 http://www.nrsr.sk/web/default.aspx?lang=en 14 http://www.mpsr.sk/en/ 15 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 16 http://www.nlcsk.sk/nlc_sk/ustavy/ulpav/publikacie/vb.aspx 17 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 18 http://www.culture.gov.sk/ 19 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/
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N. Name of the organisation
Org.type List of typical types of data provided
National cultural monuments20
Europeana21 contributions
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Pro-tected sites) 22
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Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Repub-lic (Ministerstvo hos-
podárstva SR)23
Public sector
Various subsidies and grants lists24
Overview of business entities that have been ap-proved for investment aid
List of certificates issued under the investment plan with a long-term energy policy concept
Economic register
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. En-ergy, Mineral resources, Production and industrial fa-cilities) 25
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Ministry of Environ-ment of the Slovak
Republic (Ministerstvo životného prostredia
SR)
Public sector
Various subsidies and grants lists26
Corine land cover27
EIA, SEA28
SEVESO29
E-PRTR30
Environmental burdens31
Bathing water32
Drinking water33
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Pro-tected sites, Hydrography, Geology, Atmospheric conditions - Meteorological geographic al features) 34
7 Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo financií
SR)35
Public sector
Codelist of Public sector departments and agenda36
Public sector information systems metadata37
8 Ministry of Health of Slovak Republic (Min-isterstvo zdravotnic-
tva SR)38
Public sector
Database of mineral water resources39
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Hu-man health and safety) 40
9 Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic
Public sector
Various subsidies and grants lists42
Register of natural persons43
20 http://www.pamiatky.sk/en 21 http://www.europeana.eu/ 22 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 23 http://www.mhsr.sk/aboutus-tzz/129946s 24 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 25 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 26 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 27 http://www.sazp.sk/public/index/go.php?id=1143 28 http://www.enviroportal.sk/sk/eia 29 http://www.sazp.sk/seveso/ 30 http://www.sazp.sk/public/index/go.php?id=655&idl=655&idf=797&lang=sk 31 http://www.enviroportal.sk/environmentalne-temy/environmentalne-zataze 32 http://vodanakupanie.sazp.sk/ 33 http://pitnavoda.sazp.sk/ 34 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 35 http://www.finance.gov.sk/En/Default.aspx 36 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 37 http://www.informatizacia.sk/centralny-metainformacny-system-verejnej-spravy/10346s 38 http://www.health.gov.sk/Index.aspx 39 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 40 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 42 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 43 http://www.minv.sk/?RFO_MV
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N. Name of the organisation
Org.type List of typical types of data provided
(Ministerstvo vnútra SR)41
Address Register44
Register of Parties45
Register of Foundations46
Evidence of organisations with the International Ele-ment47
Evidence of Civil Associations48
Register of non-profit organisations49
State borders50
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Ad-ministrative units, Addresses) 51
10 Ministry of the Justice of the Slovak Repub-lic (Ministerstvo spra-
vodlivosti SR)52
Public sector
The Business Register53
11 The Ministry of Edu-cation, Science, Re-search and Sport of the Slovak Republic
(Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a
športu SR)54
Public sector
Overview of the application of graduates in the labor market55
Digital school map56
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The Ministry of Transport, Construc-tion and Regional De-velopment of the Slo-vak Republic (Minis-
terstvo dopravy, výstavby a re-
gionálneho rozvoja SR)57
Public sector
List of heliports58
List of aviation ground facilities
List of airports
Aircrafts register
ERRU-European Register of Road Transport Under-takings
The data for water level gauges Devin, Bratislava, bears, Komarno, Štúrovo
Register of vessels
Register of small vessels
Waterways evidence
Evidence of small vessels rentals
Evidence of arrival, departure and transit of vessels on the Danube
Register of railway vehicles
Postal codes
Post office codelist
Address points register
Statistics of air accidents
Various subsidies and grants lists
Statistics on air accidents
41 http://www.minv.sk/?ministry-of-interior 44 http://www.minv.sk/?RA_MV 45 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startps.do 46 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startrnd.do 47 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startomp.do 48 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startoz.do 49 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startrno.do 50 http://www.minv.sk/?sprava-statnych-hranic 51 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 52 http://www.justice.gov.sk/Stranky/default.aspx 53 http://www.orsr.sk/Default.asp?lan=en 54 https://www.minedu.sk/about-the-ministry/ 55 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 56 http://mapaskol.iedu.sk/ 57 http://www.telecom.gov.sk/index/?lang=en 58 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/
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N. Name of the organisation
Org.type List of typical types of data provided
Vehicle emission and originality control
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Road Transportation Network of the Slovak Republic) 59
13 Geodesy, Cartog-raphy and Cadastre Authority of Slovak
Republic (Úrad geo-dézie, kartografie a katastra Slovenskej
republiky)60
Public sector
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Co-ordinate reference systems, Cadastral parcels, Ele-vation) 61
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Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
(Štatistický úrad Slov-enskej republiky)62
Public sector
Register and identifier of legal entities and entrepre-neurs63
Indicators of Economic Development
National and regional socio-economic development statistics
Catalogue of statistic codelists
INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Sta-tistical units, Popul ation distribution - demography) 64
15 Bratislava Self-Gov-erning Region (Brati-slavský samosprávny
kraj)65
Public sector
Land use and planning
Social service facilities
Municipal authorities,cultural facilities, bike routes
Agicultural areas
Danube public transport plans
16 Košice Self-Govern-ing Region (Košický samosprávny kraj)66
Public sector
Functional utilisation of the built-up area
17 Žilina Self-Governing Region (Žilinský sa-mosprávny kraj)67
Public sector
Land use and planning
Social service facilities
18 ArcGEO Information Systems68
Private sector
Continuous digital vector map 1:50,500 000
19 CORA GEO, spol. s r.o69
Private sector
Local, self government, industrial and infrastructure fa-cilities
20 ErasData-Pro spol. s r.o70
Private sector
Basic map 1:50 000, orthoimagery
21 Esprit spol. s r.o71
Private sector
Geography, geo-ecology and hydrology,Geology and geophysics
22 EUROSENSE spol. s
r.o72 Private sector
Geographical information, derived from three remote sensing sources, being spaceborne, airborne and sea-borne
23 G-BASE spol. s r.o73
Private sector
Remote sensing, photogrammetry, local, self govern-ment, industrial and infrastructure facilities
59 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 60 http://www.skgeodesy.sk/en/ 61 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 62 http://goo.gl/jlvhLj / http://slovak.statistics.sk/ 63 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 64 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 65 http://www.region-bsk.sk/EN/default.aspx 66 http://web.vucke.sk/en/ 67 http://www.regionzilina.sk/en/ 68 http://www.arcgeo.sk/ 69 http://www.corageo.sk/ 70 http://www.erasdatapro.sk/ 71 http://www.esprit-bs.sk/en/index.html 72 http://www.eurosense.com/documents/about-us/contact/slovakia.xml?lang=en-gb 73 http://www.g-base.com/
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N. Name of the organisation
Org.type List of typical types of data provided
24 GeoCommunity spol. s r.o.74
Private sector
International Geo community portal. Community and networks related data
25 Geomodel solar spol. s r.o75
Private sector
Solar and meteorological data
26 GIS Services, spol. s
r.o Private sector
Local, self government facility management, cadaster, land use plans, infrastructure facilities, telecomunica-tions
27 GISTA spol. s r.o76
Private sector
Local, self government
28 Jazzarchitetcure77
Private sector
Land use,planning
29 MK18, spol. s r.o.78
Private sector
Geodetic and cartography data and services
30 SGS Holding a.s.79
Private sector
Surveying, agriculture, contractions, photogrammetry, aerial mapping
31 Skeyemap80
Private sector
Data and services based on Google map
32 Softplan Slovakia spol. s r.o.81
Private sector
Environment, local, self government, surveying, spatial planning, the distribution network, sewerage
33 T-MAPY spol. s r.o82
Private sector
Local, self government, crisis management, transport
34 YMS, a.s.83
Private sector
Environment,forestry, remote sensing, industrial and infrastructure facilities
35 Zymestic Solutions, spol. s r.o 84
Private sector
Planimetric, elevation plans and orthophotomaps , models of buildings, statues, and other similar objects
36
Comenius university Bratislava85
Aca-demic,
Research and De-velop-
ment sec-tor
Health, environment, demography, remote sensing
37
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice86
Aca-demic,
Research and De-velop-
ment sec-tor
3D models
38
Slovak Academy of Sciences87
demic, Research and De-velop-
ment sec-tor
Ecology, ecosystems, remote sensing
74 http://www.geoinformatika.sk/profil-geocommunity 75 http://geomodelsolar.eu/ 76 http://www.gista.sk/ 77 http://www.jazzarchitecture.sk/ 78 http://www.mk18sro.sk/index_kontakt.html 79 http://www.sgs-holding.com/en/ 80 http://www.skeyemap.com/en/ 81 http://www.ingrada.sk/en/index.htm 82 http://www.tmapy.cz/ 83 http://www.yms.sk/en/ 84 http://www.zymestic.sk/en/ 85 http://uniba.sk/ 86 http://www.upjs.sk/en/ 87 http://www.sav.sk/?lang=en
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N. Name of the organisation
Org.type List of typical types of data provided
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Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra88
Aca-demic,
Research and De-velop-
ment sec-tor
Agriculture, surveying,
40
Slovak University of Technology Brati-
slava89
Aca-demic,
Research and De-velop-
ment sec-tor
GNSS measurements
41
Technical University in Zvolen90
Aca-demic,
Research and De-velop-
ment sec-tor
Historical orthoimagery
42
University of Žilina91
Aca-demic,
Research and De-velop-
ment sec-tor
LiDAR, 3D models
43 DataNest
(Aliancia Fair Play)92 Third sec-tor (NGO)
Information on money in politics, government procure-ment, subsidies, and other types of information on the management of Slovakia
44 Freemap.sk93
Third sec-tor (NGO)
SK Open Street Map94
45 INEKO95
Third sec-tor (NGO)
Economy of municipalities, cities and regions96 Evaluation health facilities97 Evaluation of the schools98
46 Association of Towns and Municipalities of Slovakia (ZMOS)99
Third sec-tor (NGO)
Municipality and towns related data
Table 1: List of data providers
The majority of data/details that are potentially relevant to the DRDSI come from the public sector domain, followed by the Academic, Research and Development sector and then the private sector. Except in a few cases, where NGOs can possibly contribute, third sector contributions are likely to be of limited potential. From the content point of view, among the most populated domains belong to the environment and irrigation/ agri-cultural development topics. Data resources can be seen to be in highly heterogeneous structures and in many
88 http://www.uniag.sk/en/ 89 http://www.stuba.sk/english.html?page_id=132 90 http://www.tuzvo.sk/en/ 91 https://www.uniza.sk/menu/inc.php?ver=en 92 http://datanest.fair-play.sk/en/pages/index 93 http://www.freemap.sk/#u=c 94 http://www.freemap.sk/ 95 http://www.ineko.sk/about/about-us 96 http://www.obce.ineko.sk/ 97 http://nemocnice.ineko.sk/ 98 http://skoly.ineko.sk/ 99 http://www.zmos.sk/
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cases with very limited detailed documentation, often with unclear licensing conditions. Such issues are likely to impact on the readiness of organisations to share data or offer ready access to existing online data re-sources. Initiatives like INSPIRE100, Open Data101 have, however, recently stimulated more open and transparent pub-lication of data. At the same time, there are still difficulties to exchange digital data among public bodies and with both private sector actors and citizens. INSPIRE INSPIRE is influencing the subdomain of spatial data and related infrastructures. The underlying legal frame-work and stakeholders’ involvement and coordination mechanisms are helping data to become documented with standardised metadata102, harmonised via interoperable data specifications and published through net-work services under the licensing conditions for sharing. In order to provide a central access point to the national spatial data infrastructure the Slovak National Geoportal has been made created, although data pro-viders can also establish their own (domain/application specific) geoportals.
Figure 2: SK National Geoportal
To support coordination processes and provide the related information, a national INSPIRE website103 has been established. The website also provides access to the List of Liable Entities104 foreseen to be the bodies responsible for the content under the scope of the INSPIRE themes. Some of these entities are likely to be organisations who could potentially contribute metadata/data to the DRDSI.
100 http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reports/country_reports_mr2012/SK-INSPIRE-Report-2013_ENV-2013-00450-00-00-
EN-TRA-00.pdf 101 http://www.opengovpartnership.org/files/slovakia-ogp-irm-public-comment-engpdf-0/download 102 http://geoportal.gov.sk/sk/cat-client 103 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/ 104 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/
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Figure 3: SK INSPIRE Website & List of Liable Entities
OpenData The initial impact of the Open Data movement in Slovakia can be seen from the signing of a participation agreement in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in September 2011. The OGP action plan in Slovakia is a legally binding document. After initial changes in the governance of the OGP, the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic is currently the leading, implementing and coordinating body for the OGP activities in Slovakia. Although commitments are owned by a variety of agencies, the biggest successes are in the area of Open Data105. In cooperation with the Government Office of the Slovak Republic, the Open Government Initiative dedicated website has been established to provide a central point for related information106.
Figure 4: Website for Open Government Partnership in Slovakia
Initial interaction with public sector bodies took place during the period 2012-2013 with the collection of baseline inventory of open data, which were collected by the new Open Data Portal (Portál Otvorených Dát)107. Based on Global Open Data Index 2014108 Slovakia is in 64th position out of 184 countries.
105
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/sites/default/files/Slovakia%20OGP%20IRM%20Public%20Comment%20%28Eng
%29_0.pdf 106 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/ogp-home/ 107 http://www.data.gov.sk/ 108 http://global.census.okfn.org/place/sk
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Figure 5: Open Data Portal in Slovakia
Except for some individual cases, further work will be needed for the identification, willingness and readiness of organisations to provide and use data made available via the DRDSI. From a technical point of view, the majority of the players, however, should be ready to share their content. Among the most absent, or difficult to access datasets were identified as cadastral parcels, general reference data, flood areas, landslides, environ-mental burdens, air quality, soils, addresses, elevation, orthoimagery, buildings, land use, human health and safety, meteorological and energy related data. The possibility to include records, such as statistics, from the Slovak open data portal could be explored further.
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3. Policy-making organisations The legal framework is significantly influencing the environment where data and infrastructures can be estab-lished and successfully operated. Slovakia's highest legislative body is the 150-seat unicameral National Coun-cil of the Slovak Republic (Národná rada Slovenskej republiky). The following table provides an overview of the main policy making players, including an indication of the policy areas they are involved in and related projects.
Table 2: List of policy-making organisations
N. Name of policy-making organisa-
tion
Organisa-tion type
(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-
ment)
Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,
energy)
List of key legal acts responsible
for relating to data
Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube
Region
1 National council of the Slovak Republic
(Národná rada Slovenskej repub-
liky)
Central gov-ernment
Sole constitu-tional and leg-islative body of the Slovak Re-public
Regulation no. 460/1992 Coll., Constitution of the Slovak Republic
Electronic services of National council of the Slovak Re-public
2
Government office of the Slovak Re-public (Úrad vlády Slovenskej repub-
liky)
Central gov-ernment
State admin-istration
Regulation no. 575/2001 Coll., Act on the Organisation of Government and central government ORDER OF THE SLOVAK REPUB-LIC no. 50 from February 22, 2012 to draft Action Plan initiatives for open governance in the Slovak Republic
eDemocracy109
3
Ministry of Agricul-ture and Rural De-velopment of the Slovak Republic
(Ministerstvo pôdohospodárstva a rozvoja vidieka
SR)
Central gov-ernment
Energy and in-dustry, For-estry, agricul-ture
Regulation no. 330/1991 Coll. The Slovak National Council on land consolidation, land ownership, land of-fices, land fund and land communities Regulation no. 326/2005 Coll., Act on Forests
Electronic Services of Agricultural Pay-ing Agency
4
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Re-
public (Ministerstvo kultúry SR)
Central gov-ernment
Intellectual Property, cul-ture,
Regulation no. 618/2003 Coll., Act on copyright and rights related to copyright (Copy-right Act) Regulation no. 206/2009 Coll., Act on museums and galleries and the protection of cul-tural objects
Development of memory and fund repository institu-tions and the re-newal of the na-tional infrastructure
109 http://goo.gl/sFfxg6
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N. Name of policy-making organisa-
tion
Organisa-tion type
(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-
ment)
Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,
energy)
List of key legal acts responsible
for relating to data
Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube
Region
5 Ministry of Econ-omy of the Slovak Republic (Minister-stvo hospodárstva
SR)
Central gov-ernment
Economy, business
Regulation no. 251/2012 Coll., Act on Energy and amending some laws
Digitalization Ser-vices of the Ministry of Economy
6
Ministry of Environ-ment of the Slovak Republic (Minister-
stvo životného prostredia SR)
Central gov-ernment
Environment, Geol-ogy,waste, wa-ter manage-ment,
Regulation no. 3/2010 Coll., Act on national infrastruc-ture for spatial in-formation Regulation no. 223/2001 Regulation no. 543/2002 Coll., Act on nature and land-scape protection Coll., Act on waste and amending cer-tain laws Regulation no. 119/2010 Coll., Act on packages Regulation no. 364/2004 Coll. Wa-ter Act Regulation no. 261/2002 Coll., Act on the prevention of industrial accidents Regulation no. 205/2004 Coll., Act on the collection, storage and dis-semination of infor-mation on the envi-ronment Regulation no. 39/2013 Coll., Coll., Act on Envi-ronmental impact assessment
SmartOpenData110 SDI4Apps111 GI-N2K112 Spatial information register
7
Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Re-
public (Ministerstvo financií SR)
Central gov-ernment
Fiscal eGovernment Information and communi-cation technol-ogies, stand-ardisation
Act No. 305/2013 Coll. about The eGovernment Regulation no. 275/2006 Coll., Act on public admin-istration information systems and amending certain laws
Central meta-infor-mation system of public administra-tion
110 http://www.smartopendata.eu/ 111 http://sdi4apps.eu/ 112 http://www.gi-n2k.eu/
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N. Name of policy-making organisa-
tion
Organisa-tion type
(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-
ment)
Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,
energy)
List of key legal acts responsible
for relating to data
Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube
Region
8 Ministry of Health of
Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo zdra-
votnictva SR)
Central gov-ernment
Health, safety Regulation no. 153/2013 Coll., Act of the National Health Information System
Digitalization of Health Services 113
9 Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Re-
public (Ministerstvo vnútra SR)
Central gov-ernment
Administration Regulation no. 253/1998 Coll., Act on reporting of citi-zen of the Slovak Republic and the population register
COMSODE114 Register of physical persons Address Register
10
Ministry of the Jus-tice of the Slovak
Republic (Minister-stvo spravodlivosti
SR)
Central gov-ernment
Judiciary and Prosecution
Regulation no. 211/2000 Coll., Law on free access to information and amending certain acts (Freedom of Information Act) Regulation no. 530/2003 Coll., Act on Commercial Register
Electronic services of justice
11 The Ministry of Ed-ucation, Science,
Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (Minister-stvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu
SR)
Central gov-ernment
Research and education,
Regulation no. 245/2008 Coll., Act on education and training (Education Law)
Electronic services of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports
12
The Ministry of Transport, Con-
struction and Re-gional Development
of the Slovak Re-public (Ministerstvo dopravy, výstavby a
regionálneho rozvoja SR)
Central gov-ernment
Transport Regional de-velopment
Regulation no. 56/2012 Coll., Act on Road Transport Regulation no. 338/2000 Coll., Act on inland naviga-tion and amend-ments to certain laws Regulation no. 143/1998 Coll. Of the Civil Aviation (Aviation Act) and on amendments to certain Acts Regulation no. 514/2009 Coll., Act of railroad transport Regulation no. 45/2011 Coll., Act
The Operational Programme Transport pro-jects115 Electronic services in Transport
113 http://www.ezdravotnictvo.sk/en/Pages/default.aspx 114 http://www.comsode.eu/ 115 http://www.opd.sk/en/projects_opd
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N. Name of policy-making organisa-
tion
Organisa-tion type
(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-
ment)
Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,
energy)
List of key legal acts responsible
for relating to data
Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube
Region
on Critical Infra-structure
13 Geodesy, Cartog-raphy and Cadastre Authority of Slovak Republic (Úrad ge-odézie, kartografie
a katastra Slov-enskej republiky)
Central gov-ernment
Geodesy, car-tography
Regulation no. 215/1995 Coll., Act of the National Council of the Slo-vak Republic on Geodesy and Car-tography
Electronic services UGKK SR-ZBGIS
14 Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
(Štatistický úrad Slovenskej repub-
liky)
Central gov-ernment
Polulation, de-mography,
Regulation no. 540/2001 Coll., Act on State Statistics
Digitalization Ser-vices of the Slovak Statistical Office Register and identi-fier of legal entities and entrepreneurs
15 Regional and local
governments Regional and
local
Cross domain areas
Electronic services for self-government Data center of towns and villages
16 Anyone Any
Whole legisla-tion framework
Although most of the DRDSI-related priorities are delineated in the existing legislative framework in Slovakia, there are some specific aspects that deserve attention. In many cases, topics to be addressed are fragmented among various pieces of the legislation. In some areas (such as water) there are plans to consolidate and revise existing regulations. It would seem that in some cases legislation is following the outcomes of large ICT projects, rather than policy leading technical developments. Although there were some efforts to introduce “Participatory Policy Making” processes via the OGP initiative, the initial outcomes are somewhat questionable in terms of developing good collaboration between stakeholders. This is unfortunate as such an activity could help to readily promote, for example, the DRDSI. On the other hand, some examples in legislation have pro-vided very successful technical and technology-led developments (Law no. 431/2002 Coll. Accounting and Register of financial statements116, or Regulation no. 211/2000 Coll., Law on free access to information and the From Our taxes web app117). The legislative framework is also important from the data licencing point of view, creating an environment where simple and transparent licencing frameworks can be established. Al-ready, there are a few initiatives heading towards this ambition. The first one is driven by the requirements of the INSPIRE and PSI Directives in the area of spatial data and services under the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic 118. The second one is under Creative Commons Slovakia, where latest version of Creative Commons licences (Version 4.0) was recently translated. A final activity worth noting is related to the cultural heritage under the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, where data in this context may be more readily available in the future.
4. Support for the national data infrastructure
Systematic development and further support in the area of a national data infrastructure is mainly driven by the three initiatives described in the following table, together with key legislation and related funding.
Table 3: Support for the national data infrastructure
116 http://www.registeruz.sk/cruz-public/static/api.html 117 http://znasichdani.sk/l/?l=en 118 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/koordinacia/rove-sk/es-nipi/tpvss
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N. Name of or-
ganisation List of key legal acts respon-sible for relating to data
List of key initia-tives they are in-volved in
List of key funding sources being used to develop the infra-structure (also clas-sified as regional/na-tional and external funding)
1 Government of-fice of the Slo-vak Republic (Úrad vlády
Slovenskej re-publiky)
ORDER OF THE SLOVAK RE-PUBLIC no. 50 from February 22, 2012 to draft Action Plan ini-tiatives for open governance in the Slovak Republic
Open Government Partnership (includ-ing OpenData)
State budget ERDF
2 Ministry of Envi-ronment of the
Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo
životného pros-tredia SR)
Regulation no. 3/2010 Coll., Act on national infrastructure for spatial information
INSPIRE State budget FP7
3 Ministry of Fi-nance of the
Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo fi-
nancií SR)
Act No. 305/2013 Coll. about The eGovernment Regulation no. 275/2006 Coll., Act on public administration in-formation systems and amend-ing certain laws
eGovernment State budget ERDF
Each of the above mentioned main infrastructure frameworks is at different stages of development, including in terms of providing certain types of dataset and service, although there is still significant effort needed to have them fully operational. The overall policy framework supporting data provision for the DRDSI is in place, although still some activities are to be undertaken in the near future (such as the transposition of the new PSI Directive). This context helps to highlight the potential issues that would support an approach to have data producers sharing their data within the DRDSI.
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5. Research organisations
As indicated in the Table1, Slovak research organisations represent significant potential for the DRDSI’s de-velopment. The main responsible authority for research and development in Slovakia is the Ministry of Educa-tion, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. The following table provides information about the main organisations involved in the research and development (R&D) activities with relevance to the DRDSI.
Table 4: List of research organisations
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N. Name of organi-sation
Type of or-ganisation (universities, public re-search cen-tres and pri-vate research firms)
Completed and current projects creat-ing data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube Region
Lists of relevant research net-works they be-long to
1 Ministry of Educa-tion, Science, Re-search and Sport
of the SR
Public re-search centre
Management of R&D projects from na-tional and international funding schemes
2 Slovak Academy of
Sciences Public re-
search centre
European Biodiversity Observation Net-work: Design of a Plane for an Integrated Biodiversity Observing System in Space and Time (EBONE)119
LTER Europe120
3 Slovak Water Man-agement Enter-
prise
Public re-search centre
Danube Flood Risk121 South East Eu-rope Programme Area122
4 Water Research
Institute Public re-
search centre
WANDA (Waste Management for Inland Navigation on the Danube)123
South East Eu-rope Programme Area124
5 Slovak Environ-ment agency
Public re-search centre
CENTROPE Map125
6 State Geological
Institute of Dionýz Štúr
Public re-search centre
OneGeology Europe126 Transenergy127 Minerals4EU128
7 State nature con-
servancy Public re-
search centre
Conservation and management of Dan-ube floodplain forests129 DANUBEPARKS130
The Danube River Network of Pro-tected Areas
8 Slovak Hydromete-orological Institute
Public re-search centre
CEFrame131 SEERisk132 SEE RIVER133
Comenius univer-
sity Bratislava,Fac-ulty od natural sci-
ences
University
Evaluation of geographic information quality for environmental decision mak-ing134 Environmental Medicine for twenty-first century - Geographical Information Sys-tem and Environmental Health135
9 Technical Univer-sity in Zvolen, Fac-
ulty of forestry University
Geographic information on forest and fores landscape - creation and utilization specificness136
10 Slovak University of Technology Bra-tislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering
University
Standardization and Inter-Operability of Geographical Information137
11 Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice, Faculty of science
University Semantic enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development.138
COST
12 Slovak University of Agriculture in Ni-
tra, Horticulture and Landscape
Engineering Fac-ulty
University
Creation of a data foundation/base for the implementation of an information system on land consolidations139 Green infrastructure and urban agricul-ture140
13 Trnava University in Trnava, Faculty
of Education University
Diachronic and synchronic hydronymia of Žitný ostrov141
119 http://www.uke.sav.sk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134&Itemid=72&lang=en
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14 University of Žilina, Faculty of Civil En-
gineering Letisková
spoločnosť Žilina, a.s.
YMS, a.s. Technical Univer-
sity of Košice
University, public research centre and pri-vate research
firm
Brokerage center of aviation technology transfer and knowledge in transport and transport infrastructure
15 National Forest Centre
Public re-search centre
ARANGE Project142
Despite the relatively high growth of the Slovak economy, research and development (R&D) and innovation lags behind the European average. The reason is not only lower than average funding of R&D processes, but still a strong focus on basic research, the relative isolation of Slovak Research and relatively low impact on the innovative capacity of the Slovak economy (SK R&D report 2012)143. From the DRDSI perspective, there are already examples of projects and cooperation activities in the Danube region. In addition, other players and activities with potential impact on the DRDSI have been identified. The majority of the R&D activities are undertaken by public research bodies, whilst a slow uptake by private sector actors to support the development of research and innovation activities can be found. From the data content point of view, many R&D organisations are creating and maintaining highly relevant data and services. Further details about their accessibility will have to be closely examined should the DRDSI aim to include such data as content in the platform.
120 http://www.lter-europe.net/ 121 http://enviroiforum.sazp.sk/uploads/2013/05/page/prezentacie-4/04%20-%20Dobias_Enviroiforum_2013.ppsx 122 http://www.southeast-europe.net/ 123 http://www.vuvh.sk/index.php/en_US/rozne/projekty 124 http://www.southeast-europe.net/ 125 http://www.centropemap.org/ 126 http://onegeology.org/ 127 http://transenergy-eu.geologie.ac.at/ 128 http://www.minerals4eu.eu/ 129 http://www.dunaj.broz.sk/lesy/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=66 130 http://www.danubeparks.org/ 131 http://www.ceframe.eu/ 132 http://www.seeriskproject.eu/seerisk/#main 133 http://www.see-river.net/ 134http://goo.gl/IoXOJB 135 https://uvp.geonika.sk/map/ 136 http://goo.gl/J4dT8W 137 http://www.svf.stuba.sk/en/departments/department-of-theoretical-geodesy/science-and-research/inland-
projects.html?page_id=3505#kapitola1 138 http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/tud/Actions/TU0801 139
http://is.uniag.sk/vv/projekty.pl?projekt=6764;podrobnosti=1;zpet=http://is.uniag.sk/pracoviste/projekty.pl?id=134,lan
g=en;lang=en 140
http://is.uniag.sk/vv/projekty.pl?projekt=6686;podrobnosti=1;zpet=http://is.uniag.sk/pracoviste/projekty.pl?id=74,lang
=en;lang=en 141 http://goo.gl/iMKdxF 142 http://www.arange-project.eu/ 143 https://www.minedu.sk/data/att/6990.rtf
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6. Stakeholder engagement organisations and networks In addition to the previously mentioned players, there is another society segment with a specific role in the data infrastructure, particularly linked to coordination, networking and social validation aspects. The following table provides an overview about such stakeholders, including their scope and area of activity.
Table 5: Stakeholder engagement organisations and networks
N. Name of organisation Type of organisation (na-tional, cross-border or whole Danube Region)
Main area of interest
1 Association of Slovak Geomor-phologists
National Geomorphology and related disci-plines
2 CentropeMap Crossborder
Cross border cooperation for AT-CZ-SK-HU
3 Commission for the standardiza-tion of information systems in
public administration National eGov + Open Data standards
4 Danube Environmental Forum +
Daphne International
Support for sustainable development of Danube region in biodiversity, land use and environmental education
5 DEUS - eGov DataCenter for self-Government of the Slovak
Republic National
eGovernment support forl self-gov-ernment
6 EIONET International
Development and dissemination of information concerning Europe’s en-vironment
7 Employer Union of Geodesy and
Cartography National
Geodesy, cartography, cadastre, land consolidation, photogrammetry and geographic information systems
8 EUROGI International
European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information
9
Geoinformatika.sk International
CZ+SK Geo community portal for users of geographic information systems and technolo-gies
10 GI N2K International Academia and SMEs in GeoICT
11 INSPIRE Maintenance and Im-plementation Group
International Support in spatial data infrastructures depoyment and maintenance
12 Microregions alliance Danube - Vah - Moravia
Regional Cross border cooperation for AT-CZ-SK-HU
13 ReŠtart Slovensko (Center for Philanthropy)
National Ideas and use cases
14 Slovak Association for Geoinfor-matics
National Geographic information systems, Re-mote sensing
15 Slovak Geographical Society National Geography and related disciplines
16 SmeSpire International SMEs in GeoICT
17 StartUpSlovakia (Various organisers)
National, Regional Ideas and use cases
18 The Society for Open Information Technologies
National Open information technologies
19 TPVSS National
Licencing framework for geospatial data and services
The majority of the stakeholder engagement organisations and networks identified with potential for the DRDSI objectives are operating at the national level. There are also some projects and associations with the potential to stimulate various networks and communities. From the domain point of view, the strongest representation comes from the GeoICT sector accompanied by the environment and regional/local government related or-ganisations and activities. Last but not least, some players can be represented by the various initiatives that focus on supporting innovative activities and start-up companies, acting as important incubators for interesting
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projects, business ideas and use cases. An important role is also played by standardization activities aiming to deliver national and cross-domain ICT standards mainly in the area of eGovernment and Linked/Open Data. From the initial input received, the main expectations from the DRDSI are the possibility to access useful and attractive data and the expectation to communicate the goals, progress and outcomes of the DRDSI for the wider public.
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7. Conclusions The investigations collected with this report should serve as starting point for further activities focused on supporting the Slovakian contribution to the DRDSI, as well as for shaping and ensuring relevant benefits come from having this platform for both Slovakian stakeholders and the whole Danube region. These activities should include the creation of a data inventory, the assessment of data access conditions and a series of related outreach efforts to help raise awareness and promote the DRDSI. In addition, activities related to identification of the gaps in important data resources and pilots can demonstrate the value of the DRDSI and further support of organisational engagement from different sectors. From the situation depicted in this report, Slovakia comes with high potential to effectively participate in the shaping, implementation and reuse of the DRDSI. At the same time, it is important to point out some chal-lenges, deserving relevant attention:
The involvement of the stakeholders is difficult to stimulate based on the currently high/abstract level of DRDSI benefits;
Stakeholders were often indicated their limited infrastructure, capacities and resources to be committed for specific DRDSI activities;
There are heterogeneous data and licensing policies impacting on ready data-sharing;
There is insufficient information and awareness about existing data resources and their quality With this in mind, further steps and actions will have to be jointly done to ensure the DRDSI can meet its potential via the engagement of stakeholders. These stakeholders from EU to local level will need to be moti-vated to contribute metadata, data and infrastructure assets. More emphasis should be placed on the co-creation of a shared knowledge base that can help to prove the meaning and justification of the effort to be invested.