WISE European System for Water Information

• WISE – part of Eionet (European Environment Information and Observation Network)

http//www.eea.europa.eu

WISE - Aims and opportunities

Aims• Efficient management of information on water• Coherence between various reporting mechanisms• Access to information/data

Opportunities• Long term vision• Policy tool• Different interests of EU bodies (ENV, JRC, EEA,

EUROSTAT), WISE based on joint EU position

WISE - Delivery of Information through EIONET via Reportnet services

http://water.europa.eu

WISE – Useful links

WISE• http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/index.html • http://themes.eea.europa.eu/Specific_media/water • http://agrienv.jrc.it/activities/catchments/• http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/

WISE – How is it organised?

DG ENV – leading the policy and strategic part

EEA – water data centre and

hosting public WISE web page

EUROSTAT – collecting water

statistics, GIS part

JRC – responsible for data

synchronisation

A WISE data flow (all steps involve QA/QC)A WISE data flow (all steps involve QA/QC)

Submission

Analysis

Development Database

Acceptance

Viewing, GIS visualisation

Production Databases (WISE nodes)

Data definition/requirements Step 1: Compliance or SoE, voluntary (or through comitology)

Step 2: End-user tool, schema/DEM, XML/shape/GML, other tools (DD, glossary), help desk

Step 3: central holding area (CDR), management of access rights

Step 4: Standardised manual or automatic tests, feedback to data submitters

Step 5: Final data storage

Step 6a: Public or restricted viewing, map service, aggregation, statistics, GIS reference dataset

Step 6b: Tools for compliance or SoE assessment, CCM2

Challenges: Support data integration and content interoperability along the WISE IP