Utilising highly interoperable

harmonised INSPIRE web services to

create pan-European datasets:

an Example for the EuroGeoSurveys'

European Geological Data Infrastructure

(EGDI) using the INSPIRE Earth Science

Thematic Cluster

INSPIRE conference, 29th September 2016, Barcelona.

Dr. Tim Duffy (trd@bgs.ac.uk), Amelia Baptie (BGS), Diego Doce Diaz (BGS),

Matija Krivic (GEO-ZS), James Passmore (BGS), Martin Podboj (GEO-ZS), Marcus Sen (BGS),

Agnes Tellez-Arenas (BRGM) and Jorgen Tulstrup (GEUS) and the staff of 17

European Surveys: GeoZS,BRGM,GEUS,BGS,GTK,TNO,MFGI,CGS,SGU,IGME,GSI,LNEG,IGME-GRE,

Naturalsciences-BE,PGI,BGR,ISPRA

Support INSPIRE Implementation

Completely open platform

Members of 9 clusters can,

- Ask and answer questions

- Share experiences

- Share best practice

- Share training resources

- & build communities!

Earth Science Cluster has 169

members,

• Posting questions and replies

• Sharing news items

• Uploading files

• Discussing topics

Please have a look join the

platform

INSPIRE Thematic Clusters / Earth Science Cluster

Geology Cluster & INSPIRE web services

17+ European Geological

Surveys used the Cluster to

(help them) create INSPIRE

compliant web services

- Sharing technical knowledge

- Providing training

- Sharing & discussing

experiences

- Providing feedback

Excellent example of how the

Thematic Clusters platform can

be used to support the

implementation of INSPIRE

Harvesting INSPIRE compliant

Download WFS 2 services to a

pan-european INSPIRE dataset:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<wfs:GetFeature

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation=

"http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0

http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/2.0/wfs.xsd"

xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0"

xmlns:gsmlb="http://xmlns.geosciml.org/GeoSciML-

Basic/4.0"

service="WFS" version="2.0.0" startIndex="0"

count="100000">

<wfs:Query typeNames="gsmlb:MappedFeature"

srsName="urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3034"></wfs:Query>

</wfs:GetFeature>

Data Provider’s

systems

Web

Services

Web

Services

Provider 2Provider 1

European level

National level

Central DB

Thank you for your attention

Tim Duffy, trd@bgs.ac.uk and

Amelia Baptie (BGS), Diego Doce Diaz (BGS),

Matija Krivic (GEO-ZS), James Passmore (BGS), Martin Podboj (GEO-ZS), Marcus Sen (BGS),

Agnes Tellez-Arenas (BRGM) and Jorgen Tulstrup (GEUS) and the staff of 17+

European Geological Surveys:

GeoZS,BRGM,GEUS,BGS,GTK,TNO,MFGI,CGS,SGU,IGME,GSI,LNEG,IGME-GRE,

Naturalsciences-BE,PGI,BGR,ISPRA