Update on INSPIRE
CDDA/European protected areas technical meeting 2015
Darja LihtenegerProject manager - Data centres and INSPIRE implementationIDM - IDM4: Data management03. – 04.08.2015
Outlines
• INSPIRE update:• Roadmap• INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation
Framework and Group (MIG)• INSPIRE Mid-term Evaluation Report• INSPIRE Thematic Clusters• INSPIRE Reporting
• INSPIRE in thematic domains - extensions• EEA – INSPIRE activities
INSPIRE web-sitehttp://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
INSPIRE Implementation RoadmapSpatial data sets:Annex I: Protected sitesAnnex III: Habitat and biotopes, Species distribution, Bio-geographical regions
INSPIRE services:DiscoveryViewDownloadTransformation
New:INSPIRE invocable spatial data services – Implementing Ruleshttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32014R1312&from=EN
INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation Framework • INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation Group is
active:– European Commission expert group, composed of two
permanent sub-groups:• Policy sub-group (MIG-P)• Technical sub-group (MIG-T)
– Members: representatives of Members States, European Commission, European Environment Agency
• Programme and actions:– Several endorsed actions– Regular web-conferences– Physical meetings– Improved INSPIRE documentation
https://ies-svn.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/mig-inspire
INSPIRE MIG activities
National implementations of INSPIRE – webinars:https://ies-svn.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/mig-inspire/wiki/National_implementation_webinars
Thematic Forum:https://ies-svn.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/inspire-gml-encoding/boards INSPIRE issues
INSPIRE mid-term evaluation report (joint EEA – JRC)
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/midterm-evaluation-report-on-inspire-implementation
Improvements:- Documentation of data and services- Easier to find (discovery service)- Compatible infrastructures between MS
Gaps:- Data and service sharing, coordination between stakeholders- Not consistent geographic coverage of implementation- INSPIRE knowledge and resources
INSPIRE Thematic Clustershttps://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
- Building community of INSPIRE implementers and data & service users
- Exchange of best practices- INSPIRE implementation Q/A- Feedback to INSPIRE documentation- Using spatial information and standards in thematic domains
INSPIRE Reportinghttp://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/182/list/maptwo/y/2014/sel/2 Reporting spatial data
sets and services, conformance with INSPIRE, coverage, …
Example: Austria – INSPIRE Protected sites
INSPIRE and thematic domains
• Thematic domains have specific conceptual and implementation knowledge: vocabulary, constraints and conditions, standards, legacy data and systems
• Connection/use of INSPIRE data specifications might require extension of INSPIRE data models
• Needed:Guidelines INSPIRE Generic Conceptual Model, ISO standards,
OGC standards, UML guidelines, data modelling
Knowledge (INSPIRE, UML, geographic information)
lack of knowledge and experts is own of the findings in the INSPIRE mid-term evaluation report
Best practices Few: Air Quality Directive, projects – prototypes, national implementations
Tools Software registries – INSPIRE, national, EEA, …,
INSPIRE Protected sites – examples
• Draft INSPIRE data models:– INSPIRE PS Full application schema (connection with
habitats and biotopes, species distribution)– INSPIRE PS – Natura2000
• Example from Germany: extending to include German Monuments and Archaeological Sites (extending schema and code lists)INSPIRE Conference 2015
! Update is needed, no roadmap yet !
INSPIRE and Air Quality Directive• Changes in AQ Directive (thematic) including INSPIRE
• INSPIRE data specifications used to design application schemas for AQ reporting (extensions)
• Reporting data flow: Reportnet is used to provide data (limited INSPIRE services are available – mostly for near real time data)
http://www.eionet.europa.eu/aqportal
EEA and INSPIRE activities• EEA
– Is a member in INSPIRE Coordination Team (DG ENV, JRC, Eurostat, EEA)
– Is a member in INSPIRE MIG, supporting specific sub-groups and activities
– Provides technical support for INSPIRE Reporting
– Participates in INSPIRE and environmental reporting projects and pilots, for example: WFD, UWWTD, AQD
– Introduces INSPIRE in Eionet/ETC activities
– Builds INSPIRE knowledge in Eionet (seminars with NRC)
– Invests in prototypes and project for INSPIRE implementation
1. EEA project “CDDA in conformity with INSPIRE Protected sites” – concluded!
• Data transformation from CDDA to INSPIRE Protected sites
• Deliverables:– Mapping rules– Transformed GML files– Validation – conformity with INSPIRE
• Usability: – CDDA transformation to INSPIRE PS (sub-set of CDDA that
matches with INSPIRE PS)– Mapping rules useful for countries to design transformation of
national data to INSPIRE PS
https://taskman.eionet.europa.eu/issues/21735
https://taskman.eionet.europa.eu/issues/19469 Transformed GML files INSPIRE compliant per country:
2. New EEA project: CDDA reporting data flow and INSPIRE
• Started in 2015• Scope:– Prepare the complete reporting data flow to be INSPIRE based
– providing INSPIRE metadata, data and services– Fulfil INSPIRE Directive (2017 deadline for INSPIRE Protected
sites) for the CDDA reporting in 2018– Design CDDA data model according to ISNPIRE Protected sites
and based on the outcomes of previous data transformation project
– Propose the common INSPIRE based reporting to Eionet countries and consider that INSPIRE is not mandatory outside EU
– Keep consistency with WDPA
http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-biodiversity-data-and-information/library/bdc/cdda-data-model-and-inspire
3. Test EEA project – prototype: Bio-geographical regions as INSPIRE conformant data and serviceINSPIRE metadata
Data transformation with software: FME and HALE
Screencast available:
https://quatin.com/photos/index.php?/category/310
3. Test EEA project – prototype: Bio-geographical regions as INSPIRE conformant data and serviceINSPIRE services: developed with software Degree
Use of INSPIRE services in GIS with specific portrayal
• EEA is data provider and user
• With INSPIRE implementation more data will be available in INSPIRE infrastructure (data and services)
• INSPIRE – knowledgeable community is important, including Eionet
• Assuring harmonised reporting data flows based on INSPIRE implementation
Conclusions