EUROGI/eSDI-Net SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings and Perspectives
Franco Vico*
Bruce McCormack
Catharina Bamps
Ian Masser
François Salgé
*EUROGI/eSDI-Net initiative portfolio leader, e-mail [email protected]
EUROGI/eSDI-Net initiative
background
eSDI-Netplus European Commission co-funded
project
eSDI-Netplus organized a SDIs Best Practice
Awards
EUROGI took over responsibility for continuing
the network after the project end
2007–2010
2009
2011
EUROGI/eSDI-Net SDIs Best
Practices Awards 2011
Austria 1
Belgium 1
Czech Republic 1
France 5
Hungary 1
Ireland 2
Italy 7
Netherlands 4
Poland 13
Portugal 3
Slovenia 3
Spain 2
Switzerland 1
United Kingdom 2
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Participating SDIs by country
CentropeMAP
Flemish SDI
Flood portal of Liberec RegionGéoPlateforme17
GEOPAL
GéoBretagne
CRAIG - Centre Régional
Auvergnat de l'Information
Géographique
Portail Géofoncier de l’Ordre des
Géomètres-Experts
SOILPORT@RISSAC
Fingal Data Hub
All-Island Research
Observatory (AIRO)
GeoPortal of the City of Turin
IRDAT fvg
SIT-PUGLIA
IDT Regione Emilia-Romagna
SITAD Regione Piemonte
TIS Provincia di Bolzano
SibaPo
Gisweb 2.1
Atlas van Overijssel
Provinciaal GeoRegister
Vastgoed Rijksoverheid
Geoportal miasta Torunia
System Informacji o Terenie m. Tychy
Miejski System Informacji Przestrzennej w
Kielcach
Bytomska Infrastruktura Informacji Przestrzennej
BIIP
InterSIT - Lodz Land Information System
System Informacji Przestrzennej Powiatu
Cieszynskiego
Serwis Mapowy Powiatu Minskiego
Integrated Spatial Information System of Olesnica
District
SIP Wyszkow
Wroclaw Spatial Information System
Malopolska Spatial Information Infrastructure
Mazovia Spatial Information System
Geoportal Zwiazku Celowego Powiatów
Województwa Zachodniopomorskiego
IDEiA
IRIG-Madeira Infraestrutura
Regional de Informação
Geográfica
SIARL - Sistema de
Administração do Recurso
Litoral
iObčina
Geoportal ARSO
Geopedia
IDEZar-Infraestructura de
Datos Espaciales de
Zaragoza
IDENA-Infraestructura de
Datos Espaciales de
Navarra
geo.admin.ch
Dudley GIS-MO-Getting
Information Simply-
Mapping Online
The national address
gazetteer hub
46 SDIs
EUROGI/eSDI-Net
SDIs Best Practices
Awards 2011
EUROGI/eSDI-Net initiative pillars
SDI self-assessement framework (SDI-SAF)
on-line sub-national SDIs database
SDI self-assessement framework
(SDI-SAF)
What is
61 indicators dealing with - SDI legal status, workforce, organizational model...
- quantity and quality of datasets and services, grow rates
- use of technology
- number of partners, networking activities, sustainability
- users and uses
+ 9 descriptive textual fields (SDI name, objectives...)
What is intended to
- be used as a check-list by SDI’s officials
- provide a normalised way for describing SDIs
- be a tool for analysis and assessment of each SDI
- foster communication and comparison among SDIs
For the 2011 Awards the SDI-SAF was available and filled in
using an on-line tool
see: www.eurogi.org/esdinet-publications/file/ 5-
sdi-selfassessmentframework-pdf.html
On-line sub-national SDIs database
see: www.eurogi.org/eurogiesdinet-db/sdi-best-practice-database.html
On-line sub-national SDIs database
see: www.eurogi.org/eurogiesdinet-db/sdi-best-practice-database.html
SDIs Best Practices Awards
participation
2009
eSDI-Netplus
Awards
46
SDIs
2011
EUROGI/eSDI-Net
Awards
135
SDIs
Awarding process: identification of
criteria
Users/uses
Sustainability
Quantities/qualities
Trajectories
Technology
Networking/partners
6 macro-criteria
indicators included in the SDI-SAF 61
considered in assessment process 37
Awarding process: indicators,
grades, weights
grades weights 6 indicators
Quantity_3 1-10 0-1
Quantity_4 1-10 0-1
Quantity_5 1-10 0-1
Quantity_6 1-10 0-1
Quality_1 1-10 0-1
Quality_2 1-10 0-1
grades weights 5 indicators
Trajectory_quantity_1 1-10 0-1
Trajectory_Quantity_3 1-10 0-1
Trajectory_Quantity_4 1-10 0-1
Trajectory_Quantity_5 1-10 0-1
Trajectory_Quantity_6 1-10 0-1
Macro-criterion
Quantities/qualities
Macro-criterion
Trajectories
weighted sum
weighted sum
Awarding process: indicators,
grades, weights
grades weights 6 indicatorsTechnology_1 1-10 0-1
Technology_2 1-10 0-1
Technology_3 1-10 0-1
Technology_4 1-10 0-1
Technology_5 1-10 0-1
Technology_6 1-10 0-1
grades weights 5 indicators
Technology_7 1-10 0-1
Networking_1 1-10 0-1
Networking_4 1-10 0-1
Networking_5 1-10 0-1
Networking_6 1-10 0-1
Macro-criterion
Technology
Macro-criterion
Networking/partnersweighted sum
weighted sum
Awarding process: indicators,
grades, weights
grades weights 8 indicators
Networking_3 1-10 0-1
Use_1 1-10 0-1
Use_2 1-10 0-1
Use_3 1-10 0-1
Use_4 1-10 0-1
Use_5 1-10 0-1
Use_7 1-10 0-1
Use_12 1-10 0-1
grades weights 7 indicators
Legitimacy 1-10 0-1
Organizational_model 1-10 0-1
Partners_binding_mech. 1-10 0-1
Sustainability_1 1-10 0-1
Sustainability_2 1-10 0-1
Sustainability_3 1-10 0-1
Sustainability_5 1-10 0-1
Macro-criterion
Users/uses
Macro-criterion
Sustainabilityweighted sum
weighted sum
Awarding process: the Jury
Ian Masser, CASA, University College London, UK President
Christine Archias, CRIGE-PACA, France
Arnulf Christl, Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Ana García de Vicuña Ruiz de Argandoña, Gobierno de La Rioja, Spain
Max Craglia Joint Research Centre EC
Nick Land, ESRI
Mike Jackson, University of Nottingham, UK
Bastiaan Van Loenen, GIM International
François Salgé, AFIGEO, France
Athina Trakas, Open Geospatial Consortium
Franco Vico, AMFM GIS Italia, Italy
Robin Waters, RSWGeomatics, UK
SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011
Awarded SDIs
Category: QUANTITY/QUALITY
The national address gazetteer hub - UK
Category: TRAJECTORIES
GéoBretagne - France
Category: TECHNOLOGY
The geoportal of the Swiss Confederation - Switzerland
System Informacji Przestrzennej Powiatu Cieszynskiego – Poland
Category: NETWORKING
Infraestrutura Regional de Informação Geográfica - IRIG-Madeira – Portugal
Category: USES/USERS
IDEZar (Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Zaragoza) - Spain
Category: CATEGORY : SUSTAINABILITY
Vastgoed Rijksoverheid – the Netherlands
SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
see: www.eurogi.org/eurogi-esdi-net-initiative-2012-2013-roadmap.html
SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
SDI’s Legal status All analysed
SDIs
Sub-national
general purpose
SDIs
institution or company created ad hoc 6 3
association or consortium of various public bodies (an
association is seen as something more “light” then an ad hoc
institution or company) 14 11
association or consortium of various private and public
bodies 1 0
SDI is in charge of an existing body and is "embedded" in it 25 20
missing information 1 0
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SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
Legitimacy All analysed
SDIs
Sub-national
general purpose
SDIs
a state law 15 12
a regional law 10 9
other act 9 5
none 12 8
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SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
Organizational model All
analysed
SDIs
Sub-national
general
purpose SDIs
centralized model: a stable (more or less)
group of people is in charge of SDI, they are
employed in the SDI's body or in the key
partner's body
27 21
distributed model: most of activities related to
SDI’s management and improvement are
fulfilled by a network of small groups of
people, that likely are employed in partners’
bodies
17 12
externalised model: most of activities related
to SDI’s management and improvement are
fulfilled outside partners bodies
2 1
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SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
Focus themes
All analysed
SDIs
% Sub-
national
general
purpose
SDIs
%
- spatial planning 41 89.1 31 91.2
- environmental protection and management 35 76.1 29 85.3
- mobility and transportation 28 60.9 25 73.5
- natural parks, nature conservation 28 60.9 23 67.6
- heritage protection and management 27 58.7 23 67.6
- tourism 22 47.8 20 58.8
- water management 24 52.2 20 58.8
- risk and disaster management 25 54.3 19 55.9
- utilities and government services 23 50.0 19 55.9
- agriculture 16 34.8 15 44.1
- statistics 16 34.8 13 38.2
- production and industrial facilities 10 21.7 9 26.5
- meteorology 7 15.2 3 8.8
out of 46 SDIs out of 34 SDIs
SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
Use of open SWs and
open specifications All analysed SDIs
Sub National General
Purpuse SDIs
yes exclusively 12 8
yes partly 28 20
no 6 6
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SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
General purpose sub-
national SDIs:
Prevalent users
Group of
regions,
Region
Province,
Department
R
District,
Metropolitan
AreaR
Municipality
Total
internal 2 0 3 5
controlled 1 1 3 5
general public 10 0 9 19
no prevalent users 3 2 0 5
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SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Some Findings
General purpose sub-national
SDIs: general public, prevalent
use by NUT
Group of
regions,
Region
Province,
DepartmentR
District,
Metropolitan
AreaR
Municipality
discovery 1 1 0
view 6 1 4
on-line services 1 0 2
discovery + view 3 1 2
view + download 1 0 1
view + on-line services 0 0 3
no prevalent uses or no general
public
4 0 3
16 3 15
SDI Self-assessment framework 2011
weaknesses
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
0.0-1.0 1.1-2.0 2.1-3.0 3.1-4.0 4.1-5.0 5.1-6.0 6.1-7.0 7.1-8.0 8.1-9.0 9.1-10.0
Macrocriterion Quantities/qualities / All analysed SDIs
a reverse process: from macrocriteria indexes to “assess” indicators
+/- normal
distribution
SDI Self-assessment framework 2011
weaknesses
Macrocriterion Technology / All analysed SDIs
a reverse process: from macrocriteria indexes to “assess” indicators
distribution
shifted to higher
scores
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
0.0-1.0 1.1-2.0 2.1-3.0 3.1-4.0 4.1-5.0 5.1-6.0 6.1-7.0 7.1-8.0 8.1-9.0 9.1-10.0
SDI Self-assessment framework 2011
weaknesses
This shifting toward high scores could have two different meanings:
• the “model” (e.g. as far as technology is concerned) embedded into SDI-
SAF, at this stage, is more or less stabilized and implemented in most
cases; or
• indicators are not sensitive and capable of capturing phenomena.
For future developments, some revision and update of SDI-SAF is needed
SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011:
Main questions posed to all participating
SDIs
• similarities and differences among various SDIs are identifiable: what
typologies of SDIs could be single out?
• the same as far as the development trajectories are concerned: what forces for or against this development could be recognized (in our
opinion: these forces are not described by any of current indicators)?
“each spatial data infrastructure is a special case”
(eSDI-Netplus, 2009)
EUROGI/eSDI-Net initiative:
perspectives
EUROGI/eSDI-Net sub-national SDIs Best Practices Awards
3rd edition
2013
Final conference
late June or mid October 2012
location to be defined
EUROGI/eSDI-Net initiative:
perspectives
EUROGI/eSDI-Net SDIs Best Practices Awards 2013
Actions
- SDI-SAF revision (so that it is closer to the INSPIRE Implementation process,
e.g. as far as the use of technology is concerned)
- improvement of on-line sub-national SDIs database
* so that it is updated continuously by stakeholders
* including some on-line analytical tools
- parallelism/convergence among EUROGI initiative (at European level)
and some national initiatives (e.g. AFIGEO France)
sub-national SDIs community
is invited to participate see: www.eurogi.org/eurogi-esdi-net-initiative-2012
2013-roadmap.html
