Implementing strategy for the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe - INSPIRE Paul Smits

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1 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

2 European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Mission: to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of European Union policies. The JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national. 7 institutes in 5 countries, 2400 people

3 EU policies and Geographic Information 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,

4 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

5 Direct consequences on GI-GIS requirements Increasing demand of better GI Quality, Certification, Authority, Consistency, Updating, Harmonisation, Interoperability, reference systems, data models, semantic,.,. EU has islands of data of different standards and quality...

6 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

7 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.

8 European Spatial Data Infrastructure Different Policies and standards 5 cm/year ITRF93 NNR-NUVEL1A Europe is moving 3cm/ year GI Institutional framework Spatial Data Infrastructure GI technical standards Different sea levels in Europe Meteo data Fundamental and thematic GI data sets Spatial Information Services Catchments Needs to create european ISO/TC211 spatial - Standards data in sets Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Land Cover eeurope : egovernement on line GIS to manage Natura2000 sites

9 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

10 INSPIRE complements other key Information Directives... Copyright WFD Databases Habitats Data Protection INSPIRE Enabled Access Noise Ratification of Aarhus

11 The INSPIRE driving forces DG ENV COGI Main 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

12 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.

13 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 conditions apply for its use.

14 Data resources Local data INSPIRE Information Flow INSPIRE specifications request for information services Users Government & Administrations National and Subnational SDI Discovery Service Technical Integration/ harmonisation Utility & Public Services Commercial & Professional Users National and Subnational SDI European Data Harmonised Data policy Research European Data National and Subnational SDI Local data SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure Collaborative agreements delivery of information services CEN / ISO / OGC NGOs and not-for-profit orgs Citizens

15 Towards an Infrastructure for Spatial Information From discovery to Full Interoperability Standardisation Harmonisation Integration Metadata Discovery Service Data Policies Licensing Framework Coordinating structures Geodetic Framework Seamless data Quality insurance Certification Updating Data model Catalog Services View Service Query Service Object Access Service Generalisation Services Geo-Processing services

16 Pre-implementation phase INSPIRE Outlook Oct 2002 May 2003 June 2003 End of : final position papers : Internet consultation : Extended impact assessment : Interservice consultation : Adoption of proposal by EC : Adoption of INSPIRE : Implementation of framework

17 Pre-implementation phase, 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

18 involving users, suppliers and technology developers. Project control Risk Money EU portal, with demonstration pilots linking to national and regional levels Organisation INSPIRE oriented sub-projects Time Quality Information This we can influence in the preimplementation phase

19 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

20 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 Portal JRC ESDI Action

21 EU data sets INSPIRE EU Portal User User Interface: Search (Coordinates/Map/ Gazetteer/ ) EU Portal National and Thematic SDI s NSDI (DE) NSDI (FR) NSDI (IT) Forestry (Private) DTM/DEM (EU) RSDI RSDI RSDI RSDI Liguria RSDI Lombardia RSDI Sicilia Regional SDI s LSDI LSDI LSDI Varese LSDI Como LSDI Bergamo Local SDI s

22 EU Geo-Portal Functionality (1) 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 multilingual 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.

23 INSPIRE EU Portal Current situation EU Portal View on metadata Future SIG Portal SIG Portal EU Portal View on Geo-objects View on View on Geo-objects Geo-objects Metadata catalogue Registries of geospatial objects ISO 19115:2003 ISO series of standards on GI OpenGIS specifications

24 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

25 The Value of Standards 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

26 The Value of Standards

27 Thank you for your attention!

28 and see you in Italy, 4-8 October 2004!