Presentation to UK Location Programme INSPIRE In The UK - Are You Ready For Annex III? web conference 05-02-13

1. INSPIRE in the UK
Virtual Conference
5 February 2013

2. Agenda
• INSPIRE & the UK Location • Please types questions in to the
Programme chat box as we go through the
– Tim Ashelford presentations.
– Senior Engagement Officer
• The line will be muted during
• The UK Location Infrastructure presentations
– Ian James
– Technical Architect • The conference will be recorded
• 5 Steps to INSPIRE Success
– Andrew Newman
– Engagement Manager
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3. INSPIRE & the UK Location Programme
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4. INSPIRE
Improving environmental policy making and delivery
• Environmental impacts do not
respect borders
• Understanding and protecting
environmental assets will
boost the economy
• A macro view is required to
understand Climate Change
• environmental policy needs to
be based on robust evidence
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5. INSPIRE
• Data collected once and used/ shared many
times..
• Combine data easily from different sources.
Harmonised data.
• Common standards for data & clear licensing.
• Easy to discover what geographic information
is available, view & download it.
• Statutory obligations on public bodies.
• No requirement to create any new data.
• Publication milestones
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6. Current situation in the UK
Situation before INSPIRE
User

7. Impact of INSPIRE
Impact of INSPIRE
Integration, Interoperability, Efficiency
Time, Resources
OS
OS
SEPA EA
User
SEPA EA
Land
INSPIRE MAGIC
Registry
LandRegistry User MAGIC
Landmark GeoPlace
Landmark GeoPlace
CLG
CLG
Before INSPIRE Future
(2009) (2019)

8. The Coalition Government has made a number achievements
on transparency and Open Data
Built the largest data.gov resource in
the world, with over 8,400 datasets
available
Over 1000 location datasets published
Published unprecedented data including
transport, health, justice and
education
Over £188bn of spending transactions
now published by central government
UNCLASSIFIED

9. INSPIRE Requirements - Data
• Publish spatial datasets that are within scope of 34 legally defined themes
• INSPIRE does not require us to collect any new data
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10. INSPIRE Requirements - Deadlines
Nov 2011 Discovery & view Services for Annex I and II data compliant
Dec 2012 Download and transformation services available for existing Annex I
and II datasets Initial Operating Capability
Dec 2012 Any new or extensively restructured Annex I datasets must be
available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the
Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)
Dec 2013 Full Discovery Metadata, View Services made available for INSPIRE
Annex III datasets
Dec 2015 Any new or extensively restructured Annex II & III datasets must be
available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the
Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)
By 2017 Publish INSPIRE Annex I compliant Data
By 2020 Publish INSPIRE Annex II & III compliant Data
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11. The UK Location Infrastructure
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12. The UK Location Infrastructure
data.gov.uk/location 12

13. A Service Based Infrastructure
Discovery
Find data quickly and easily
View
Visualise data in client
applications
Download
Consume and analyse data
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14. 1. Find
Search over 1000 location datasets and services
2. Preview
Preview location datasets in a simple web viewer
3. Consume
Integrate location data in to your applications
4. Help
UK Location guidance, helpdesk.
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16. INSPIRE Annex I &II Data
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17. INSPIRE Annex III Data
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18. The UK Location Strategy
– We know what data we have and avoid duplicating it
UK Location Strategy – Deliver better public services using location
1. We know what data we have and avoid duplicating it
2. We use common reference data so we know we are talking about the same
places
3. We share location-related information through a common infrastructure of
standards technology and business relationships
4. We have appropriate skills, both among geographic professionals and amongst
other professional groups who use location info or support its use
5. We have strong leadership and governance to drive through change including
the implementation of this strategy and INSPIRE

19. The UK Location Programme
• UKLP is a partnership programme • Offering UK solution with benefits...
– Lead by Defra – Common standards for metadata,
– Working across central and local data and services
govt. – Single point of access for users
– Engaged with circa 35 INSPIRE – Reuse of systems and services
annex I & II data providers reducing costs
– User Group circa 20 members – Common approaches to
– OS and CO main delivery partners o Identification of data
o Licensing & charging
• Successful joint working with devolved o Application of standards
administrations – Communities of practice to share
– Scottish, Welsh and NI SDI’s knowledge and drive innovation
integrated into data.gov.uk

20. Engagement - Supporting data providers
and users
Data providers Data users
• Communications • Communications
• Help desk • Help desk
• Guidance • Guidance
• Business case support • Business case support
• Interventions to drive change • Interventions to demonstrate
• Assurance process benefits
• Publishing software • Case studies and pilots
• Supplier engagement • Making data accessible, e.g.
data.gov.uk, licensing
• Promoting best practice& new
technology, e.g. linked data • Responding to User Group
and user community, e.g. new
• Integrated UK approach data, enhancements
• Joint planning on environmental • Supporting developers
data initiatives 20

21. Conclusions
 INSPIRE places legal obligations on public bodies
 Good fit with other transparency initiatives
 Support available
 Will enable much easier discovery, sharing and reuse of location data.
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22. Questions
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23. THE UK LOCATION INFRASTRUCTURE
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24. What we’re going to look at
• What is the UK Location Information Infrastructure (UKLII)?
• How does it work?
• Metadata
– Why?
– Creating and Publishing
• View Services
– What they are?
– How they are used?
• Download Services
– What they are?
• Discovering data – the data consumer experience

25. What is the UK Location Information
Infrastructure?
• The technical infrastructure that enables the publishing,
discovery and use of UK Location data
• Metadata driven
• A “distributed” infrastructure
• Standards-based services published and accessed over the
internet

26. UK Location Information Infrastructure
UK Location
Data Publisher
Data Provider

27. Data Provider contributions
Three key components for providing access to data:
– Structured information about datasets and services
(metadata)
– Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View
Service)
– Services that provide access to data content (Download
Service)

28. Data Provider contributions
Three key components for providing access to data:
– Structured information about
datasets and services
(metadata)
– Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View
Service)
– Services that provide access to data content (Download
Service)

29. Metadata
• UKLII requires that metadata is published for all datasets and
services
• All metadata is captured to a defined UK standard (GEMINI2) -
see http://www.agi.org.uk/uk-gemini/
• UK Location has also published guidance on implementing
GEMINI2
• UK Location provides an
on-line tool for creating
GEMINI2 metadata
(the “Metadata Editor”)
http://location.defra.gov.uk/resources/disco
very-metadata-service/metadata-editor/
[“Other metadata tools are
available”]

30. Metadata resources
• As well as the Metadata Editor, UKL also provides:
– A user guide
– Online tutorials (YouTube)
– Metadata Editor available as a download

31. Data Provider contributions
Three key components for providing access to data:
– Structured information about datasets and services
(metadata)
– Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View
Service)
– Services that provide access to data content (Download
Service)

32. Data Provider contributions
Three key components for providing access to data:
– Structured information about datasets and services
(metadata)
– Services that allow datasets to
be visualised (View Service)
– Services that provide access to data content (Download
Service)

33. View Services
What it is
• A publically-accessible* network service
• Provides an image of part of a spatial data set in response to
user-defined requests
• A Web Map Service (WMS)
What it isn’t
• A web mapping application (although they may use a View Service)
• A GIS (although a GIS may use a View Service)
• Does not provide access to the data itself
(only an image)

38. What support does UKL provide?
• Operational Guidance for setting up a WMS
• An INSPIRE-conformant open-source WMS (GeoServer)
• Guidance on setting up GeoServer

39. Data Provider contributions
Three key components for providing access to data:
– Structured information about datasets and services
(metadata)
– Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View
Service)
– Services that provide access to data content (Download
Service)

40. Data Provider contributions
Three key components for providing access to data:
– Structured information about datasets and services
(metadata)
– Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View
Service)
– Services that provide access to
data content (Download
Service)

41. What is a Download Service?
• Simplistically, INSPIRE is about implementing:
– Standard data specifications, to enable interoperability
– Standard network services, to allow access to that data
• A View Service is a Network Service
that provides an image of a
dataset for a user-defined area
•A Download Service is a Network
Service that provides access to the
underlying data;
– data, rather than a picture of data

42. What is a Download Service?
Or, in INSPIRE terms:
…enabling copies of spatial data sets, or parts of such sets, to be
downloaded and, where practicable, accessed directly
[INSPIRE Directive]

43. Download Service Implementation Options
• Guidance provides three implementation options
• …two providing pre-defined datasets…
1. Atom feed delivering pre-defined datasets
(Atom is an XML-based subscription pointing to pre-
packaged data files – e.g. Shape files)
2. Web Feature Service (WFS) delivering pre-defined
datasets
• …and one providing direct access download…
3. WFS providing direct access to features

44. Download Service Implementation Options
• Implementation of any option would provide conformance
with the regulation
• However, option 3 (direct access WFS) is preferred:
– it supports full interoperability
– should be implemented “where practicable” (the definition
of which is up to the data provider)

45. Data Provider contributions
Three key components for providing access to data:
– Structured information about datasets and services
(metadata)
– Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View
Service)
– Services that provide access to data content (Download
Service)

46. Putting it all together Create metadata

47. Putting it all together Publish metadata

48. Publish metadata to
Putting it all together EU

49. Putting it all together Discover datasets

50. Putting it all together Preview datasets

51. Putting it all together Consume datasets

52. 1. Search
Search over 1000 location datasets and services
•Text search
•Map based search
•Filter by publisher, tag, type and more
•Machine to machine services - Permanent URI’s; RESTful API, CSW service
2. Preview
Preview location datasets in our simple web viewer
•Overlay layers from up to 10 web map services
•Change layer orders and transparency
•Click to get feature information where available
3. Consume
Integrate location data in to your applications
•Web Map Services available for over 200
•Download Services
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56. Results filtered for WMS 56

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58. Questions
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59. 5 Steps to INSPIRE Success*
* or Publishing Your Location Data 59

60. 1. Understand your data
• You need to:
• Understand what location data your organisation maintains
• Identify data that is in-scope of INSPIRE
• Look at how your data is published (if it is)
• Consider issues such as licensing, IP, charging
• Discuss issues emerging with data owners/custodians
• Decisions:
• Agree priorities for data publication particularly for INSPIRE
• Agree publication approaches for datasets
• Agree data sharing policies if you don’t have them (licensing etc)
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61. INSPIRE Requirements - Data
• Publish spatial datasets that are within scope of 34 legally defined themes
• INSPIRE does not require us to collect any new data
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62. 2. Options Analysis
• You need to consider how you will:
• Provide view, download services
• Transform your data
• Create metadata for your data and services and register it with data.gov.uk
• Decisions
• Phasing of delivery
• How will I create my metadata?
• How will I deliver my services?
1. Direct 2. Agent 3. Shared Service/Portal
Provider Publisher Publisher
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Provider P1 P2 P3 P...

63. INSPIRE Requirements - Deadlines
Nov 2011 Discovery & view Services for Annex I and II data compliant
Dec 2012 Download and transformation services available for existing Annex I
and II datasets Initial Operating Capability
Dec 2012 Any new or extensively restructured Annex I datasets must be
available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the
Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)
Dec 2013 Full Discovery Metadata, View Services made available for INSPIRE
Annex III datasets
Dec 2015 Any new or extensively restructured Annex II & III datasets must be
available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the
Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)
By 2017 Publish INSPIRE Annex I compliant Data
By 2020 Publish INSPIRE Annex II & III compliant Data
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64. 3. Make a business case
• You need to convince your budget holders that they should invest in
sharing location data.
• Your business case should set out:
• Why you need to act
• What the benefits are for your organisation and others
• The options you have considered
• What the implications of not acting are
• A recommendation
• If taking a phased approach make this clear in the business case
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65. 4. Develop and Implement Services
• Define the business requirements and functional requirements
• Ensure you are applying the relevant standards and guidance
• Develop the solution
• Load the data
• Launch the services
• Create metadata for the datasets and services
• Register the metadata with data.gov.uk
• If taking a phased approach ensure your solution is “future proof”
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66. INSPIRE Requirements - Technical
• Standards based infrastructure
• Catalogues allow users to identify what
information is available
• Online services to consume data
• EU data specifications to make data
interoperable
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C. Ansorge, Umweltbundesamt, 2012, http://www.inspiration-westernbalkans.eu/5/9/1/4/7/6/Beyond_INSPIRE_-_GMES_and_SEIS.pdf.

67. 5. Maintain, Improve, Benefit
Maintain
• Keep your data and metadata up-to-date
Improve
• Regularly check you are publishing all the required data
• Work to publish more data
• Respond to user feedback and priorities
• Consider the requirements of INSPIRE when defining new data products
Benefit
• Start consuming data as a service to reduce data processing costs and ensure
you are using current data
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68. Questions
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