ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Implementing strategy for the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe - INSPIRE Paul Smits European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Ispra, Italy

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Mission: to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of European Union policies. The JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national. 7 institutes in 5 countries, 2400 people

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Increasing interest for the spatial dimension –GI-GIS needed to Assess needs Formulate the policy Monitor its implementation Evaluate its effectiveness, … –GI-GIS explicitly required in EU directives/regulations Water Framework directive, Habitat, … IACS, LPIS, Olive Trees registers, … ICZM, ESDP, Urban, Noise, … EU policies and Geographic Information

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 From sectoral to a more integrated approach –Increased complexity –Policy interaction (including cumulative impacts) –Environmental aspects integrated in sectoral policies, … Increasing needs for harmonisation and/or coordination (data/systems/approaches/… ) –Natural disasters (eg flooding) –Transports (eg European Transportation and Energy Networks), –Other trans-boundary activities (e.g., Agriculture, River Basin Mgt., ), Increasing transparency towards and attention to EU citizens/individuals –From top down approach to green papers (consensus based) –Increasing transparency –Europe on line, eGovernement, PSI, Ratification of the Arhus convention …. Significant shift in last decade

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Increasing demand of better GI –Quality, –Certification, –Authority, –Consistency, –Updating, –Harmonisation, –Interoperability, reference systems, data models, semantic,.,. D irect consequences on GI-GIS requirements EU has islands of data of different standards and quality...

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Examples of Problems Data policy restrictions –pricing, copyright, access rights, licensing policy Lack of co-ordination –across boarders –between levels of government Lack of standards and their use –incompatible information –incompatible information systems –fragmentation of information –redundancy Lack of data In summary: no infrastructure

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe Need for action ! Without a co-ordinated framework as “minimum common denominator for all Member States” the problems will persist. INSPIRE launched in September 2001.

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 European Spatial Data Infrastructure Catchments Meteo data Land Cover GI Institutional framework GI technical standards Spatial Information Services Fundamental and thematic GI data sets Spatial Data Infrastructure GIS to manage Natura2000 sites Different Policies and standards Europe is moving 3cm/ year Different sea levels in Europe Needs to create european spatial data sets eEurope : eGovernement on line

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE framework Objectives –Linked to legal basis, Protection of the environment, Sustainable development, Integration Scope –Existing spatial data (exception: essential datasets), Public sector, Electronic format, Corresponding to 17 themes, 60 data components, General principles –Policy measures, Require datasets, Require metadata, Require harmonisation, Require services Data policy –1) licensing framework for sharing between public bodies, 2) Publish, discover and view services free of charge, 3) no charging constraints on access Implementing provisions –Establishment of Committee, Monitoring and reporting

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE complements other key Information Directives... Exploitation of Public Sector Information Environmental Information INSPIRE Enabled Access Copyright Databases Data Protection Ratification of Aarhus WFD Habitats Noise

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 DG ENV COGI Main Commission DG’s (AGRI, TREN, REGIO, FISH, INFSO, …) INSPIRE Expert Group Member States Environmental and geographic information ministries, Accession countries, Regions, EFTA Countries, Umbrella organisations, ETC/TE, ESPON, UNEP The INSPIRE driving forces

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE objectives Make relevant, harmonised spatial data available for Community Environmental Policy (formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation) and for the citizen... … through the establishment of integrated spatial information services, based upon a distributed network of databases, linked by common standards and protocols to ensure compatibility.

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE principles a)spatial data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively b)it must be possible to combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources across the EU and share it between many users and applications c)it must be possible for spatial data collected at one level of government to be shared between all the different levels of government d)spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use e)it should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditions apply for its use.

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE Information Flow Harmonised Data policy Collaborative agreements CEN / ISO / OGC National and Sub- national SDI Commercial & Professional Users Citizens Utility & Public Services NGOs and not-for-profit orgs Government & Administrations Research European Data National and Sub- national SDI Local data European Data Discovery Service Technical Integration/ harmonisation Data resources INSPIRE specifications Users request for information services delivery of information services SDI – Spatial Data Infrastructure

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Towards an Infrastructure for Spatial Information StandardisationHarmonisationIntegration From discoveryto Full Interoperability Geodetic Framework Seamless data Quality insurance Certification Updating Data model … Metadata Discovery Service Data Policies Licensing Framework Coordinating structures … Catalog Services View Service Query Service Object Access Service Generalisation Services Geo-Processing services …

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Technical/Scientific service Standards & Technical Specifications Operational service Committee EU Policies Advice Adopted Specifications INSPIRE Organisation and workflow Policy Information Requirements Geospatial Interest Groups Advisory Group Participate User – Supplier Permanent Platform NSDI Participate EC Co-ordinate COGI Report/ Propose Report/ Propose Decide/ Adopt

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE Outlook Oct 2002 : final position papers May 2003 : Internet consultation June 2003 : Extended impact assessment End of 2003: Interservice consultation 2004: Adoption of proposal by EC 2006: Adoption of INSPIRE 2006+: Implementation of framework Pre-implementation phase

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Pre-implementation phase, Development of the “Technical Specifications” –Standards ISO, CEN, OGC,... –Architecture EU Portal, Catalog Services, WMS,.. –Application schema and data models Semantic Interoperability,.. –through harmonisation projects’ under FP6. INSPIRE Guidelines –harmonised documentation of existing datasets (metadata) –Implementation guidance –Cookbook for Spatial Interest Groups

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Project control INSPIRE oriented sub-projects Money Time Information Quality Organisation Risk This we can influence in the pre- implementation phase involving users, suppliers and technology developers. EU portal, with demonstration pilots linking to national and regional levels

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE Cookbooks A significant amount of stakeholders and geo-spatial interest groups will be linked to INSPIRE –Networked approach, as much as possible automated –Focal point will need to provide all information necessary The EU Portal will host two types of “cookbooks” –Technical Cookbook for INSPIRE (Technical guidelines) –Cookbook for Geo-spatial Interest Groups

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE EU Portal JRC ESDI Action The portal is a web site that acts as door to a collection of geospatial information resources, including data sets, services and cookbooks It is a web environment that allows an organization or a community of information users and providers to aggregate and share content and create consensus –It is also an organized, collection of links to many other sites usually through catalogs.

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 INSPIRE EU Portal User User Interface: Search (Coordinates/Map/ Gazetteer/…) EU Portal NSDI (DE) NSDI (FR) NSDI (IT) Forestry (Private) DTM/DEM (EU) RSDI Liguria RSDI Lombardia RSDI Sicilia LSDI Varese LSDI Como LSDI Bergamo RSDI LSDI EU data sets Regional SDI’s Local SDI’s National and Thematic SDI’s

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Publish metadata: Mechanisms will need to be in place that allow “GI search engines” to search the catalogues of producers and custodians. Display Metadata: Display of metadata for both discovery and evaluation/use Search Services: Catalogue services will have to support multi- lingual searches with a gazetteer, thesauri, data categories, key words, etc. Web Mapping Service: view maps of geo-referenced data WFeatureS, WCoverageS, WRegistryS, …. Delivery of data: FTP, or WFS, WCS. off-line media such as DVD/tape for large volumes of data. EU Geo-Portal Functionality (1)

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 SIG Portal View on Geo-objects SIG Portal View on Geo-objects INSPIRE EU Portal Metadata catalogue EU Portal View on metadata Registries of geospatial objects EU Portal View on Geo-objects ISO 19115:2003 ISO series of standards on GI OpenGIS specifications Current situationFuture

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003

The Value of Standards Benefits of use of standards: –Improve Sustainability of Investments –Enable full-scale IT Integration –Gain Vendor Independence –Improve Process Efficiency –Increase Liquidity

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 The Value of Standards 800+ Organisations responded to a Delphi Group survey in June 2003 There is a clear and sudden shift in attitudes towards software standards. The climate of economic constraint and risk aversion along with the mandate to integrate systems on both sides of the firewall has created a sea change in the sense of imperative to adopt software standards Standards = Liquidity

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 The Value of Standards

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/2003 Thank you for your attention !

ISO/TC211 - Standards in Action, Berlin - 29/10/ … and see you in Italy, 4-8 October 2004!