IRDAT Fvg, evolving a regional Spatial Data Infrastructure according to INSPIRE Tutti i diritti riservati. Proprietà INSIEL SpA. A. Benvenuti, A. Chiarandini Insiel (Italy) M. Lunardis - Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy) INSPIRE Conference 2010 - Krakow, 23 June 2010
Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and Insiel The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region is located in the north-east of Italy, on the border with Austria and Slovenia. Insiel, the FVG Region ICT Company, is in charge of Information Systems development, including GIS applications and Spatial Data Infrastructure, for regional Departments and local Authorities. 2
Summary GIS policies in Friuli Venezia Giulia Region towards a regional SDI IRDAT Project: main features SDI implementation: activities and results cross border cooperation future activities 3
A bit of history The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region put the basis of its Cartographical and Geographical Information System about twenty years ago, with the regional Law n. 63/1991, Order concerning regional cartography and cartographical Information System. Since then, by means of coordinated actions and investments aiming at public sector GIS development, the Region put the basis for the SDI implementation. 4
Cartographical basis Homogeneous digital Maps, covering the whole regional territory, have been produced and made available to public authorities of FVG Region: digital topographic Maps, 1:5.000 scale digital topographic Maps, 1:25.000 scale digital Orthophotos (up to 50cm resolution) 5
Departmental GIS Under the coordination of the GIS and Cartography Office, regional Departments have been provided with GIS solutions and services to support data production and elaboration in several fields: Environment Hydrography Transport networks Spatial Planning Forests Agriculture 6
The regional GIS architecture The regional GIS, originally based on a centralized approach, has evolved over time towards a distributed architecture, consisting of several nodes of data users and producers connected through the intranet (RUPAR).. Dedicated Servers ensured the storage and management of digital Maps and general-interest Datasets. Departmental DB GIS and Cartography Office Departmental DB RUPAR GIS applications Cartographical basis Servers 7
GIS for local Authorities Customized GIS solutions, enabling the integration of geographical and administrative data at municipal level, have been realized and disseminated among local authorities, in order to support backoffice as well as front-end activities. 8
Other services and thematic Projects Besides GIS solutions, public authorities have been provided, on the basis of institutional agreements, with technical support, data production protocols as well as training services. Moreover, several thematic Projects, dealing with specific geospatial issues, have been promoted and carried out over years, involving regional and local subjects. Among others: Town Plans mosaic, aiming to support regional Spatial Planning strategies DB Prior Project, concerning Topographical DB implementation Cadastral Project, aiming at full integration of cadastral data in local/regional GIS 9
From GIS to SDI At the beginning of 2000s, the scenario was characterized by: a leading role of regional Authority in the GIS field a wide diffusion of GIS among public authorities, including the smallest ones an ever increasing number of geographical data producers at regional, intermediate and local level a good awareness and knowledge of policy makers and public sector operators about geo information potential an emerging demand of geospatial data sharing and integration There were the conditions to move from a collection of GIS towards an SDI 10
The IRDAT Project By taking into consideration the European scenario and the INSPIRE initiative, the SDI implementation was identified as a strategic goal by Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. the regional Order DPR n.063 of 7 th March 2006 indicated the main contents and milestones of the IRDAT Project, aiming at a Regional Infrastructure of Geographical and Environmental Data a Steering Group, including members of main regional Departments and Insiel, was formally established in June 2006 with the goal to coordinate the SDI development 11
IRDAT, the cornerstones The regional SDI is based on the following features: Metadata Catalogue and Web GIS data sharing services (WMS, WFS,..) technological Infrastructure on-line thematic services networking and capacity building data modelling guide-lines/protocols organizational Model and juridical framework 12
The Metadata Catalogue A Metadata Catalogue and related Viewer, collecting about 300 Dataset produced and updated by regional Departments, are available in the official Website. The Viewer The search engine 13 http://www.irdat.regione.fvg.it/catalogo/default.jsp
Metadata Catalogue: technical notes Technology Metadata Profile based on ISO 19115 and 19119 Standard and INSPIRE implementing rules J2EE Technology Map Server engine DB independent (currently based on Oracle 10g) Browser independent Available services Search Engine: based on key-words, data producer, date, geographic box, theme/topic (Thesaurus GEMET) general purpose Web GIS, integrated with the Catalogue, enabling data visualization and query Printing of Metadata elements and Maps Download services in SHP, DGN, DXF, Geomedia formats WMS and WFS services CSW Catalogue services, aiming at interoperability with other Catalogue across Europe 14
The IRDAT Infrastructure, an overview A general overview of data and Metadata production, storage and publication framework. 15
Data publication Data and Metadata publication Infrastructure, a detailed view. 16
On-line thematic services On line services are available in the regional Website since 2008 to search, visualize/query and download free of charge- digital topographic Maps and to visualize/query aerial Photographs. On-line Photographs On line Digital topographic Maps 17 http://www.irdat.regione.fvg.it/consultatore/gisviewer.jsp
Web Community In order to ensure an interactive, easy and fast communication among subjects involved in the SDI implementation, a Web Community, split in several thematic areas and Forums, has been implemented in the official Website. 18 http://www.regione.fvg.it/rafvg/territorioambiente/areaargomento.act? dir=/rafvg/cms/rafvg/at9/arg18/
Capacity building Aiming at improving awareness and knowledge of public sector operators, technical Workshops and training sessions are regularly carried out involving local Entities and regional Departments, concerning theoretical as well as operational issues: GIS tools use digital Maps management geographical data production and elaboration data integration and sharing organizational aspects SDI: European, national and regional scenario Moreover, the regional training programs are going to be aligned with ECDL GIS Syllabus contents in the next future. 19
Cross border cooperation Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and Insiel are also involved in European Projects dealing with geographical data interoperability according to INSPIRE framework. Among others: ISA-Map Project (INTERREG IIIB, 2003-2006), with Austria and Slovenia, aiming at data integration for crossborder Spatial Planning purposes; GIS4EU Project (econtentplus, 2008-2010), which goal is the provision of interoperable datasets to open GI to EU communities. Moreover, several European Project proposals concerning geospatial data and services have been recently presented and are currently under evaluation. 20
21 Future activities By considering regional and national framework and taking into account INSPIRE roadmap, the following activities will be carried out in the next future: Catalogue services improvement SDI basis enlargement involving local authorities and agencies in charge of geospatial data production data remodeling according to INSPIRE Data Specification (Administrative Units and Addresses) transformation services implementation INSPIRE-compliant data production and publication: organizational and operational aspects coordination with INSPIRE implementation at National level regional thematic Projects, e.g. Mountain Paths, as an example of SDI involving public and private sector.
Contacts Alessandra Benvenuti Insiel Via Umago 15, 33100 Udine (Italy) +39 0432 557235 alessandra.benvenuti@insiel.it Alessandra Chiarandini Insiel Via Umago 15, 33100 Udine (Italy) +39 0432 557258 alessandra.chiarandini@insiel.it Marco Lunardis- Friuli Venezia Giulia Region Via Giulia 1, 34126 Trieste +39 040 3774056 marco.lunardis@regione.fvg.it 22