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ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003

Implementing strategy for the

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in

Europe - INSPIRE

Paul Smits

European Commission

DG Joint Research Centre

Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Ispra, Italy


European Commission

DG Joint Research Centre

• Mission: to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for theconception, development, implementation and monitoring of EuropeanUnion policies.

• The JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology forthe Union.

• Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of theMember States, while being independent of special interests, whetherprivate or national.

• 7 institutes in 5 countries, 2400 people


• Increasing interest for the spatial dimension

– GI-GIS needed to

• Assess needs

• Formulate the policy

• Monitor its implementation

• Evaluate its effectiveness, …

– GI-GIS explicitly required in EU directives/regulations

• Water Framework directive, Habitat, …

• IACS, LPIS, Olive Trees registers, …

• ICZM, ESDP, Urban, Noise, …

EU policies and Geographic Information


• From sectoral to a more integrated approach– Increased complexity

– Policy interaction (including cumulative impacts)

– Environmental aspects integrated in sectoral policies, …

• Increasing needs for harmonisation and/or coordination(data/systems/approaches/… )– Natural disasters (eg flooding)

– Transports (eg European Transportation and Energy Networks),

– Other trans-boundary activities (e.g., Agriculture, River Basin Mgt., ),

• Increasing transparency towards and attention to EU citizens/individuals– From top down approach to green papers (consensus based)

– Increasing transparency

– Europe on line, eGovernement, PSI, Ratification of the Arhus convention ….

Significant shift in last decade


• Increasing demand of better GI

– Quality,

– Certification,

– Authority,

– Consistency,

– Updating,

– Harmonisation,

– Interoperability,

• reference systems, data models,

semantic,.,.

Direct consequences on GI-GIS requirements

EU has islands of

data of different

standards and

quality...


Examples of Problems

• Data policy restrictions– pricing, copyright, access rights, licensing policy

• Lack of co-ordination– across boarders

– between levels of government

• Lack of standards and their use– incompatible information

– incompatible information systems

– fragmentation of information

– redundancy

• Lack of data


INSPIRE

INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe

Need for action !

Without a co-ordinated

framework as “minimum

common denominator for all

Member States” the

problems will persist.

INSPIRE launched in

September 2001.


European Spatial Data Infrastructure

Catchments

Meteo data

Land Cover

5 cm/year

ITRF93

NNR-NUVEL1A

GI Institutional

framework

GI technical

standards

Spatial

Information

Services

Fundamental

and thematic GI

data sets

Spatial Data

Infrastructure

GIS to manage Natura2000 sites

Different

Policies and

standards

Europe is moving

3cm/ year

Different

sea levels

in Europe

Needs to create european

spatial data setseEurope : eGovernement on line


INSPIRE framework

• Objectives – Linked to legal basis, Protection of the environment, Sustainable

development, Integration

• Scope– Existing spatial data (exception: essential datasets), Public sector,

Electronic format, Corresponding to 17 themes, 60 data components,

• General principles– Policy measures, Require datasets , Require metadata, Require

harmonisation , Require services

• Data policy– 1) licensing framework for sharing between public bodies, 2) Publish,

discover and view services free of charge, 3) no charging constraints on access

• Implementing provisions– Establishment of Committee, Monitoring and reporting


INSPIRE complements other key Information Directives...

INSPIREEnabled

Access

Copyright

Databases

Data Protection

Ratification of Aarhus

WFD

Habitats

Noise


DG ENV

COGIMain Commission DG’s

(AGRI, TREN, REGIO, FISH,

INFSO, …)

INSPIRE Expert Group

Member States Environmental and geographic information

ministries, Accession countries, Regions, EFTA Countries,

Umbrella organisations, ETC/TE, ESPON, UNEP

The INSPIRE driving forces


INSPIRE objectives

Make relevant, harmonised spatial data available for

Community Environmental Policy (formulation,

implementation, monitoring and evaluation) and for

the citizen ...

… through the establishment of integrated

spatial information services, based upon a

distributed network of databases, linked by

common standards and protocols to ensure

compatibility.


INSPIRE principles

a) spatial data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively

b) it must be possible to combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources across the EU and share it between many users and applications

c) it must be possible for spatial data collected at one level of government to be shared between all the different levels of government

d) spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use

e) it should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditionsapply for its use.


INSPIRE Information Flow

Harmonised

Data policy

Collaborative

agreements

CEN / ISO / OGCNational and Sub-

national SDI

Commercial &

Professional Users

Citizens

Utility & Public

Services

NGOs and

not-for-profit orgs

Government &

Administrations

ResearchEuropean Data

National and Sub-

national SDI

National and Sub-

national SDI

Local data

Local data

European Data

Discovery Service

Technical Integration/

harmonisation

Data resources

INSPIRE specifications

Users

request for information services

delivery of information services

SDI – Spatial Data Infrastructure


Towards an Infrastructure for Spatial Information

Standardisation Harmonisation Integration

From discovery to Full Interoperability

• Geodetic

Framework

• Seamless data

• Quality insurance

• Certification

• Updating

• Data model

• …

• Metadata

• Discovery Service

• Data Policies

• Licensing

Framework

• Coordinating

structures

• …

• Catalog Services

• View Service

• Query Service

• Object Access

Service

• Generalisation

Services

• Geo-Processing

services

• …


INSPIRE Outlook

• Oct 2002 : final position papers

• May 2003 : Internet consultation

• June 2003 : Extended impact assessment

• End of 2003 : Interservice consultation

• 2004 : Adoption of proposal by EC

• 2006 : Adoption of INSPIRE

• 2006+ : Implementation of framework

Pre

-im

ple

men

tati

on

ph

ase


Pre-implementation phase, 2004-2005

• Development of the “Technical Specifications”– Standards

• ISO, CEN, OGC, ...

– Architecture

• EU Portal, Catalog Services, WMS, ..

– Application schema and data models

• Semantic Interoperability, ..

– through harmonisation projects’ under FP6.

• INSPIRE Guidelines – harmonised documentation of existing datasets (metadata)

– Implementation guidance

– Cookbook for Spatial Interest Groups


Project control

INSPIRE

oriented

sub-projects

Money

Time

InformationQuality

Organisation

Risk

This we can influence in the pre-

implementation phase

involving users,

suppliers and

technology

developers.

EU portal, with demonstration pilots linking to national and regional levels


INSPIRE Cookbooks

• A significant amount of stakeholders and geo-spatial

interest groups will be linked to INSPIRE

– Networked approach, as much as possible automated

– Focal point will need to provide all information

necessary

• The EU Portal will host two types of “cookbooks”

– Technical Cookbook for INSPIRE (Technical guidelines)

– Cookbook for Geo-spatial Interest Groups


INSPIRE EU PortalJRC ESDI Action

• The portal is a web site that acts as door to a collection of geospatial information resources, including data sets, services and cookbooks

• It is a web environment that allows an organization or a community of information users and providers to aggregate and share content and create consensus

– It is also an organized, collection of links to many other sites usually through catalogs.


INSPIRE EU PortalUser

User Interface: Search

(Coordinates/Map/ Gazetteer/…)

EU Portal

NSDI

(DE)

NSDI

(FR)

NSDI

(IT)

Forestry(Private)

DTM/DEM(EU)

RSDI

Liguria

RSDI

Lombardia

RSDI

Sicilia

LSDI

Varese

LSDIComo

LSDI

Bergamo

RSDI RSDIRSDI

LSDI LSDI

EU data sets

Regional SDI’s

Local SDI’s

National and Thematic SDI’s


• Publish metadata: Mechanisms will need to be in place that

allow “GI search engines” to search the catalogues of producers

and custodians.

• Display Metadata: Display of metadata for both discovery and

evaluation/use

• Search Services: Catalogue services will have to support multi-

lingual searches with a gazetteer, thesauri, data categories, key

words, etc.

• Web Mapping Service: view maps of geo-referenced data

• WFeatureS, WCoverageS, WRegistryS, ….

• Delivery of data: FTP, or WFS, WCS. off-line media such as

DVD/tape for large volumes of data.

EU Geo-Portal Functionality (1)


SIG Portal

View on

Geo-objects

SIG Portal

View on

Geo-objects

INSPIRE EU Portal

Metadata catalogue

EU Portal

View on

metadata

Registries of geospatial objects

EU Portal

View on

Geo-objects

ISO 19115:2003 ISO series of standards on GI

OpenGIS specifications

Current situation Future

http://eu-geoportal.jrc.it/


The Value of Standards

• Benefits of use of standards:

– Improve Sustainability of Investments

– Enable full-scale IT Integration

– Gain Vendor Independence

– Improve Process Efficiency

– Increase Liquidity



• 800+ Organisations responded to a Delphi Group

survey in June 2003

• There is a clear and sudden shift in attitudes towards

software standards. The climate of economic

constraint and risk aversion along with the mandate

to integrate systems on both sides of the firewall has

created a sea change in the sense of imperative to

adopt software standards

• Standards = Liquidity




Thank you for your attention !

http://eu-geoportal.jrc.it

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