INSPIRE Training

1. (2) INSPIRE principles,
components and implementation
Vlado Cetl
European Commission
Joint Research Centre
Institute for Environment
and Sustainability
Digital Earth and Reference
Data Unit
www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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2. Outline
INSPIRE Directive
INSPIRE Principles
INSPIRE Components
INSPIRE Geoportal
INSPIRE Roadmap
INSPIRE Maintenance and
Implementation
• Role of the JRC in INSPIRE
• Summary
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3. Why Europe needs a spatial data
infrastructure (SDI)?
•Natural Disasters and as well as
other environmental phenomena do
not stop at national borders!
•20% of the EU citizens (115 million)
live within 50 Km from a border
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70% of all fresh water bodies in Europe
are part of a trans-boundary river
basin !!
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4. Building a European SDI is complex
•Europe is a patchwork of several countries
with different traditions, cultures and
socio-economic models
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This is reflected in the different
ways in which geo-spatial data is
managed
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5. INSPIRE Directive
“Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the
European Community”
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6. INSPIRE Directive
• The INSPIRE directive came into force on 15 May
2007 and will be implemented in various stages,
with full implementation required by 2020
• The INSPIRE directive aims to create a European
Union (EU) SDI. This will enable the sharing of
environmental spatial information among public
sector organisations and better facilitate public
access to spatial information across Europe
• A European SDI will assist in policy-making across
boundaries. Therefore the spatial information
considered under the directive is extensive and
includes a great variety of topical and technical
themes
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7. INSPIRE Directive
General rules to establish an Infrastructure for Spatial
Information in Europe for
• Community environmental policies and policies
• Policies or activities which impact on the environment
INSPIRE is built on the SDIs established and operated by the
Member States
Spatial data held by/on behalf of public authorities
Does not require collection of new data
INSPIRE is a Framework Directive
• Detailed technical provisions in Implementing
Rules
JRC is the technical coordinator
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8. A collaborative effort
•Transparency and inclusiveness
•Stakeholder consultations
•Support to Member States on
the implementation
•Extend INSPIRE to and ensure
consistency of different policy
domains
•Promote INSPIRE in
international
standardisation
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9. INSPIRE Principles
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Data should be collected only once and kept where it can be
maintained most effectively
It should be possible to combine seamless spatial information
from different sources across Europe and share it with many
users and applications
It should be possible for information collected at one
level/scale to be shared with all levels/scales; detailed for
thorough investigations, general for strategic purposes
Geoinformation needed for good governance at all levels
should be readily and transparently available
Easy to find what geoinformation is available, how it can be
used to meet a particular need, and under which conditions it
can be acquired and used
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10. INSPIRE Directive & Implementing Rules
• The INSPIRE Directive lays down general rules to
establish an Infrastructure for Spatial Information
in Europe for the purposes of Community
environmental policies and policies or activities
which may have an impact on the environment
• Implementing Rules (IR, legal acts)
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Metadata
Interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Services (discovery, view, download, transform, invoke)
Data and Service sharing (policy)
Monitoring & reporting
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11. INSPIRE in a nutshell
• Comprehensive data inventory (Monitoring & Reporting IR)
• Facilitate data discovery through standardised discovery
services & metadata (IR on Network Services & Metadata)
• Data sharing (IR on Data and Service Sharing)
• Facilitate data access by allowing standardised view, download
and transformation (IR on Network Services)
• Facilitate data use and interoperability by adopting common
cross-domain models to exchange data (IR on Data
Interoperability)
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12. INSPIRE Legal Acts published in the Official Journal of the EU
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Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE) 14.03.2007
INSPIRE Metadata Regulation 03.12.2008 (corrigendum 15.12.2009)
Commission Decision regarding INSPIRE monitoring and reporting
05.06.2009
Regulation on INSPIRE Network Services 19.10.2009 (View and
discovery)
Regulation on INSPIRE Data and Service Sharing 29.03.2010
Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as
regards download services and transformation services
10.12.2010
Commission Regulation implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of
spatial data sets and services 10.12.2010 (Annex I)
Commission Regulation amending Regulation 1089/2010 as regards
interoperability of spatial data sets and services 05.02.2011 (code list)
Annex II+III amendment to Regulation on the interoperability of
spatial data sets and services adopted 21.10.2013.
European law affecting 30+ countries, 21+ languages
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13. INSPIRE IRs vs. TG
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14. INSPIRE components
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15. INSPIRE data themes
Annex I
1. Coordinate reference
systems
2. Geographical grid systems
3. Geographical names
4. Administrative units
5. Addresses
6. Cadastral parcels
7. Transport networks
8. Hydrography
9. Protected sites
Annex II
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Elevation
Land cover
Ortho-imagery
Geology
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Annex III
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Statistical units
Buildings
Soil
Land use
Human health and safety
Utility and governmental
services
7. Environmental monitoring
facilities
8. Production and industrial
facilities
9. Agricultural and
aquaculture facilities
10.Population distribution –
demography
11. Area management/
restriction/regulation
zones & reporting units
12. Natural risk zones
13. Atmospheric conditions
14. Meteorological
geographical features
15. Oceanographic
geographical features
16. Sea regions
17. Bio-geographical regions
18. Habitats and biotopes
19. Species distribution
20. Energy Resources
21. Mineral resources
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16. INSPIRE data themes
• Data Interoperability
• Regulation on data interoperability for Annex I data
themes published in 2010
• Common UML data model for all themes
• 2-7 years (after adoption) for MS to make data
compliant
• Annex II/III data themes ongoing (2013)
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17. Metadata
• “Data about data”
• European Union Regulation (1205/2008)
• 2 years for Member States to create metadata (5 years for
Annex III)
• Technical guidelines material (updated in November 2013)
• Metadata Editor for Discovery Metadata
• http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/
• Metadata Validator (extended to validate as well network
services)
• http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/validator2/
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18. Metadata
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19. Network Services
• Discovery & View Service Regulation published 2009
• Amendment on Download & Transformation Service
published 2010
• Member States to make services available in
2011/13
• Initial Operating Capability Task Force to support
Member States in the implementation
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20. Network Services
• Discovery services
 Through metadata and catalogues (DS), publish and find
• INSPIRE Data sets
• INSPIRE Data set series
• INSPIRE Network services
• View services
 Maps
• Download and Transformation services
 Download predefined data sets (atom) or data objects (WFS)
 Transform coordinates or data models
• Invoke and Spatial Data Services
 More generic services
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21. Data and service sharing
•Art. 17 INSPIRE Directive (applicable since May 2009)
• MS shall adopt measures to enable public authorities to gain access to
spatial data sets and to exchange and use them for the purposes of public
tasks that may have an impact on the environment
• Public authorities can license data and/or require payment for them
• Charges must be kept to the minimum required to ensure the necessary
quality and supply of spatial data sets and services together with a
reasonable return on investment
• Data provided to EU as part of reporting obligation must be free of charge
•Regulation published in March 2010
• Access to spatial data sets and services of the Member States by
Community institutions and bodies under harmonised conditions
• Guidelines and good practice documents 2013
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22. Monitoring and Reporting
• Commission Decision 2009/442/EC of 5 June 2009
• Monitoring
• According to Commission Decision 2009/442/EC of 5 June 2009
implementing the INSPIRE Directive, EU Member States have to report
annually a number of indicators for monitoring the implementation and use
of their infrastructures for spatial information
• Reporting
• Report including i.a. information on the coordinating structures, on the use
of the infrastructure for spatial information, on data-sharing agreements
and on the costs and benefits of implementing the INSPIRE Directive, is
prepared and submitted every three years, starting in 2010
• Guidelines templates and justification document
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23. INSPIRE Geoportal
Central access point to the INSPIRE
infrastructure and resources (operated
by the EC)
 “The face” of INSPIRE
Connection to all MS
network services
 cross-border data
discovery and
visualisation
 support to European
policy making
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24. Implementation
Roadmap
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25. INSPIRE implementation status
• The legal framework has been
established
• Development of NSDIs across EU
according to provisions of the
Directive
• Many components and services of
infrastructure are already in place
• Implementation of INSPIRE is
entering a new phase (focus is now
on MS)
• MIF = Maintenance and
implementation framework
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26. Maintenance and Implementation
• Support to the implementation of the IRs, e.g.
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Answering questions around INSPIRE implementation
Facilitating the discussion of issues and exchange of experiences between
INSPIRE experts in existing groups
Implementation/hosting of central infrastructure components
Capacity building, development of training material etc.
Support to eReporting
• Corrective maintenance to IRs, e.g.
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Corrigenda to the MD Regulation and M&R Decision
Corrections and bug fixes in TG documents or schemas
• Evolutive maintenance of the IRs, e.g.
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Taking into account requirements emerging from environmental legislation or
developments in technology / standardisation
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27. Setting up the INSPIRE MIF
Organisation:
• Main pillar: Permanent Commission Expert
Group on INSPIRE Maintenance &
Implementation (MIG)
 1 member (plus back-up) proposed by MS
 based on successful model of IOC Task Force
 Main task: cross-cutting issues, e.g.
architecture, registers
• In addition: Ad-hoc sub-groups for specific
tasks
 Members from a “pool of experts” (proposed by
SDICs/LMOs)
 Tasks: Specific (time-limited)
maintenance/implementation tasks
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28. Setting up the INSPIRE MIF
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29. Role of the JRC in INSPIRE
• Overall technical coordination of the INSPIRE
Directive
• Original role
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Preparation of the INSPIRE IR for Metadata, Data specifications,
Network services and Interoperability
Development and upgrading of the INSPIRE geo-portal
Technical coordination with other EU and international initiatives
Work with international standardisation bodies (e.g. ISO/TC211,
CEN/TC 287 and OGC)
• In the meantime the role of has evolved …
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Implementation and Development
Management and coordination of communication with SDIC and
LMO
CB assessments
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30. Summary
• INSPIRE provides a comprehensive framework
for interoperability of spatial data
• Methods and infrastructure components can be
re-used for data interoperability in other sectors
• Cross-sector & cross-border spatial analysis
• INSPIRE is a process
• Results and benefits
• Data harmonization have just been started!
• Challenges …
• Establishment of INSPIRE MIF
• Evolution of INSPIRE (Powered by INSPIRE)
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31. INSPIRE Web page - navigation
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32. Vlado Cetl
vlado.cetl@jrc.ec.europa.eu
http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
Thank you for your attention!
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