INSPIRE Thematic Clusters - building communities to support INSPIRE implementation Robert Tomas INSPIRE Thematic clusters coordinator MIWP 2016.4 Action INSPIRE MIG-T Workshop, Ispra; 30-31 of October 2017

Share – Find – Propose - Discuss Since 11.12. 2014 INSPIRE Thematic Clusters - What ? On-line INSPIRE users collaborative platform .. to share User’s implementation “knowledge base” .. to find Incubator for change/addition proposals .. to propose (e.g. 1st set of corrigenda published end of 2016) Discussion forum for e.g. links with other environmental policies .. to discuss Share – Find – Propose - Discuss https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

INSPIRE Knowledge base – Thematic Clusters Since 11.12. 2014 INSPIRE Knowledge base – Thematic Clusters http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

INSPIRE Thematic Clusters – How? Coordinated by JRC with the help of 9 Facilitators and MIG Liaisons Defined in the endorsed INSPIRE MIG Working Plans: MIWP 2014-2016: Action MIWP14 MIWP 2016-2020: Action 2016.4: Theme specific issues of data specifications & exchange of implementation experiences in thematic domain https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

INSPIRE Thematic cluster Statistics on use 835 Registered members 50  Groups (groups + sub-groups) 608 Discussion topics 1591  Responses 222  Files uploaded 187  Issue/topic dedicated pages created 151 News Note: No need to register to read/use (e.g. download) any information!! Visits: from 1-1-2017 until 26-10-2017: 17957 Pageviews:  from 1-1-2017 until 26-10-2017: 50891 129 98 195 140 93 90 191 115 members 141 https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

INSPIRE Thematic Clusters Content statistics.. https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

INSPIRE Thematic Clusters Upcoming events European Forum for Geography and Statistics 2017 – 02/11 Dublin UNECE Workshop on Integrating Geospatial and Statistical Standards – 06/11 Stockholm Land use/land cover products: challenges and opportunities workshop – 15/11 Brussels Copernicus Land Monitoring Service: Corinne Land Cover+ Technical Workshop – 16/11 Brussels Implementation of INSPIRE Coverage Webinar – 06/11 - 10:30-12:00

INSPIRE Thematic Clusters recent activity Facilitator structured reports on Inspire Conference 2017 activities e.g. Meetings with cluster members, dedicated Worksop etc. - MIG collaborative platform Facilitator first-cut technical/expert evaluation of the IR change proposals New system for documenting, status monitoring of changes/additions proposed by TC facilitators / MIG-T liaisons.

System for documenting & status monitoring of changes/additions INSPIRE Thematic Clusters TC Issue tracker System for documenting & status monitoring of changes/additions Process steps: 1) Registration of a proposal by TC facilitators – new issue Status 2) Evaluation by members of MIWP 14 subgroup (MIG-T liaisons, facilitators, EC) – working in progress Status (if accepted) 3) Presentation of selected proposals to MIG-T by authors during face to face or virtual meetings 4) MIG-T decision and agreed follow-ups (e.g. ad- hoc expert group) https://ies-svn.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/thematic-clusters/issues/new    

INSPIRE Thematic Clusters near future Face to face meeting MIWP 14 - Jan/Feb. 2018 (Ispra?) to: Evaluate 3 years of INSPIRE TC activity & discuss (agree) EC possible requests for changes in TC facilitators operation/tasks New contracts from 6/2018 including the Earth Science TC, Utilities (?) Continue integration of TC content with INSPIRE in Practice under INSPIRE Knowledge base Continue internal discussion on integrated Helpdesk function

INSPIRE Thematic Clusters Common issues Fear to publish an issue, question, even a best practice on the EC managed platform. Interoperability is better achieved …sharing solutions in a collaborative way Full encouragement to publish imperfect solutions

Thank you for your attention. robert.tomas@ec.europa.eu https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/