ESDIN - the geospatial reference data and services for INSPIRE
David Overton – Project Coordinator
EuroGeographics Project Manager
www.esdin.eu
This presentation argues that;
• INSPIRE remains a dream with national INSPIRE compliance alone
• Creating an “E” SDI from an “n”SDI needs standards• The resultant common reference unlocks PSI re-use• ESDIN has provided tools and best practice for you
Content
• Introduction• Overview of the Project
• From requirements gathering• Via proposed processes• To a new architecture
• Demonstration• Conclusions
Introduction
• Collaboration of 20 partners plus non-beneficiaries– Data providers– Developers– Academia– Software companies
• Best Practice– Processes– Services– Specifications
• Meeting INSPIRE obligations & extending specifications for pan-European use
ESDIN outcomes
Key Benefits
• Improve process efficiencies
• Enable interoperability• Support users processes
with consistent, reliable reference data
Important Results• User requirements
• Harmonised data specifications
• Transformation rules & services
• A quality assurance approach
• Generalisation rules and services
• Modular pricing & licensing & Geo Product Finder
• Federations authenticated by Shibboleth
• Tools for testing infrastructure
• Proposals and tools for maintenance
• Solution to technical architecture.
• On-line demonstrator of Download and View services
Understanding the Requirements of Users
• Desk based• Primary research: Design principles• Value propositions;
– Flexibility to pricing and licensing– Harmonization for multinational work– Consistency– Trustworthy data
We already have national INSPIRE serivces, why bother?
Using data that does not join-up
Downstream
Mash-up
Re-Use?
Forget it!
Throughout the workflow...
Schema/CRSTransformation
DataIntegration
& Conflation
EdgeMatching
GeometricGeneralisation
MaintainData
Users
Harmonised Specifications for Data
• A history of Harmonisation
• INSPIRE data specification profiles
• Extended specification• Meet INSPIRE
requirements• Enable
harmonisation
Transformation Rules and Services
• A process that accounts for diversity
• A standardised template• Used with positive results
with 7 NMCAs
A Comprehensive Quality Approach
Generalisation Rules and Services
A Modular approach to Pricing and licensing – The Geo Product Finder
• License and access policy of European NMCAs
• Break-down of license models into modules
• One-stop-shop License wizard prototype: "Geo Product Finder"
Gaining Access to Data
• Single-sign-on solution
• Development with OGC and communicated to INSPIRE.
Testing the Infrastructure
Reusable automated test components for:
• spatial data• network services • data production
processes
Tools are available under the BSD Open Source License.
The management of Maintenance and Update
• Edge-matching rule sets improve cross border quality
• Stable Unique-Identifier logic address INSPIRE requirements
• Incremental change management allows flexibility in life-cycle and update management
Proposed Integrated Architecture
EuroGeographicsArchitecture integrated with INSPIRE conceptual model
What about the future?
An example of viewing and downloading Hydrography
• Looks at Hydrography theme
• INSPIRE compliance• Does a number of
Name searches• Uses E.L.F./INSPIRE
demonstrator to view and download data
• Interoperates data with relevant environmental data.
<<See our video on Hydrography>>
There’s also...
• Software:BSD license• Deliverables• INSPIRE demonstrator• Tools for consistent data• A task force• Rules on quality processes
www.esdin.eu
Mapping / Cadastral agency adopted
• NMCA decided to implement specifications
• Joined the Federation• Used the code; created INSPIRE
services• Adopted the E.L.F. extensions • Quality process • Made their data accessible via the
EuroGeographics architecture• Boosted usage of their data
When a European Agency used data
• Trusted quality data• Used the INSPIRE compliant
services with their partner data• Realised benefits
• Spent less time validating• More time analysing• Boosted their usage
ESDIN becoming real now!
• EuroGeoNames• A test federation of
NMCAs provide an access for INSPIRE data & services
• EuroGlobalMap: creating from mid-scale data holdings
Conclusion –Prospects for the European Location Framework (E.L.F.)
• INSPIRE dream will not be realised, unless;
• ESDIN best practices are adopted for pan-European, Cross border data and services
• An emergent community supports the E.L.F.
www.esdin.eu