Implementation of Inspire in Denmark - How we get it flying! Olav Eggers oe@kms.dk National Survey & Cadastre -Denmark
Introduction Overview Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act National Survey and Cadastre (KMS) role and tasks INSPIRE implementation NSDI developments Goals
Scene
Scene Denmark A small country in northern Europe Full national coverage of up to date spatial databases Long tradition with public registers (property, business, environment, personal information etc.) Consensus oriented public administration Denmark is now ranked as number two in the UN E- Government Readiness Rankings (2008) In order to improve the public online service the Danish government has decided that all relevant communication between the citizen and the public sector has to be digital in 2012 Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act
INSPIRE implementation
INSPIRE / NSDI /egov INSPIRE is; Basically in line with the ongoing Danish developments within GI and egovernment However there are differences in scope, organisational set-up and architecture approaches The Danish INSPIRE implementation is moving forward in a close partnership with the NSDI and egovernment initiatives The goal is to fit INSPIRE implementation into this development It is a challenge to ensure that INSPIRE will support the definition of reference data for the Danish NSDI Securing only ONE reference dataset per theme The Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act in force, will support both the NSDI and INSPIRE development
Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act (I) The Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act approved by Parliament on the 9th December 2008 and came into force May 2009 Minimum implementation of the directive, with three amendments, allowing to develop the NSDI and strengthen egovernment with geodata. The Minister for the Environment; gets a mandate to let the provisions comprise other themes than those in Annexes I, II and III of the Directive may lay down regulations on the spatial data sets to be used by the public administration as a common basis for egovernment shall set up a Coordinating Committee for infrastructure for spatial information -> will advise the Minister for the Environment on ways to promote development of the SDI and assist the Minister on the reporting obligations that stem from the INSPIRE Directive Change to the KMS Act: The National Survey & Cadastre (KMS) will be responsible for implementing the National Spatial Infrastructure
Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act (II) The Minister of the Environment has assigned most of his authority pursuant to the Act to The Danish National Survey and Cadastre (KMS) National contact Point Represent Denmark in the INSPIRE Committee Responsible for the Danish implementation of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act and thereby implementation of the INSPIRE directive
Responsibilities / Tasks National Survey & Cadastre Establishment of the Danish geoportal Link to the European geoportal Establishment of a shared metadata container and discovery services Establishment of other shared services Data owners Create INSPIRE metadata INSPIRE comply their data Provide access to data
Governance The Minister for the Environment shall set up a Coordinating Committee for infrastructure for spatial information The Coordinating Committee for infrastructure for geographic information shall consist of a chairman and up to 10 other members Members may be representatives of the public authorities holding spatial data sets covered by this Act Furthermore, persons with specific knowledge of the infrastructure for spatial information may be appointed as members of the committee
Operational Coordination Coordination is taking place in several established forums with different stakeholders from state to municipal level and also embracing private industry LMO/data owners forum LMO/SDIC sforum Ministry of the Environment data board http://www.webdesign-guru.co.uk
Implementation deadlines 15-May-2010 Implementation of provisions for reporting 24-Dec-2010 Metadata available for spatial data corresponding to Annex I and II January 2011** Discovery and view services operational (depending on entry into force probably later) January 2012* Transformation services operational January 2012* Download services operational June 2012** Newly collected and extensively restructured Annex I spatial data sets available * Date proposed by the commission ** Date depending on entry into force of measure
Implementation approach Monitoring & reporting Work beginning now Aware of deadlines Challenges with the baseline Ensuring ground truth Defining potential crossborder use Cost/benefit approach
Implementation approach Content (data+metadata) Annex 1 datasets Appoint national reference data sets data to be distributed by the download services Process of agreement with data owners/shareholders is soon to begin Metadata Annex 1+2 Distribute metadata for all data sets concerning specific themes - published via the portal discovery service Data owners shall create metadata for the spatial data sets or spatial data services which they hold. Definition of metadata for the expected Annex 2 datasets Publication without a discovery service?
Implementation approach Service architecture (data) Public authorities must link their spatial data sets and spatial data services to Denmark's INSPIRE geoportal The data providers are responsibility for ensuring access to their data Wrapping our map delivery system in SOAP because of specific e-government requirements. However, most applications will continue to use a OGC HTTP binding implementation Reuse existing map delivery system Based on WMS and WFS including authentication, authorisation, ecommerce components
Implementation approach Service architecture (Metadata) One National Geoportal application with one catalogue An upgrade of our current geoportal which does not provide any service interface and needs updating KMS will develop this application, expecting to provide a harvest mechanism to other catalogues via the service interface (if other data providers will implement their own), but also provide a editor for those data owners not having a catalogue Moving towards an Open Source based solution In parallel investigating the possibility of using ebxml based register or the ebrim profile in order to facilitate e- government requirements
The infrastructure for spatial information in Denmark focuses on technologies, strategies and governance - necessary for an economically efficient development and use of spatial information Danish NSDI Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act (2009) Bent Hulegaard Jensen
NSDI strategy latest developments All government authorities have full access to the National Survey & Cadastres services A new national Elevation model (DEM) has become available A web based infrastructure component Show the location has become available The Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act came into force
Goals
Goals Focus on coordination and collaboration strengthen the consensus based developments Integration with egovernment initiatives broadening the DIRECTIVE scope Building on existing NSDI components Remove barriers for public authorities use of the NSDI Futher integration of the NSDI in the daily work routines in public administration Minimising duplication of efforts Effective implementation of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act, minimising the gap between technical / Governance models between the NSDI and INSPIRE egovernment NSDI Coordinating Committee INSPIRE
Thank you for your attention! http://inspire-danmark.dk/ inspire@kms.dk DK INSPIRE team: Ulla Kronborg Mazzoli, Lise Just, Olav Eggers