Serving society Stimulating innovation Supporting legislation INSPIRE Thematic Cluster on Earth Science Highlights of the activities Dr. Tim Duffy – facilitator

Introduction to Thematic cluster scope  5 INSPIRE Annex Themes or sub-groups – Geology, Soil, Natural Risk Zones, Mineral resources, Energy resources  85 members currently drawn from active INSPIRE thematic initiatives such as Minerals4U but in particular (each) sub-group collaborators are nominated by the 33 member geological surveys of EGS – numbers could grow to circa 150 each collaborator with specific EGS remit to attempt to populate INSPIRE data themes in 2015 – leading to issues and interaction with the timely availability of the cluster collaboration platform.

Thematic cluster/sub-group best practices European Geological Data Infrastructure – Bridging project Aligned to GNEISS - Geoscience e-Infrastructure for Science and Society H2020 proposal to convert 20+ existing OneGeology-Europe View and download services from prototype-INSPIRE to Valid INSPIRE WMS and WFS’ using standards and cookbooks Prepared by the OneGeology initiatives. Minerals4U, BRO (Netherlands Key register of sub-surface data), Life+Imagine, eENVplus, PICRIT – all actively populating data that Should be INSPIRE compliant.

Thematic sub-group example discussions Suggest check the imminent (January 23rd 2015) final publication of the INSPIRE recommended codelist URI values – to be published now by JRC end March 2015 – when for first time fully compliant INSPIRE web services can be published by anybody Suggest check the imminent (January 23rd 2015) final publication of the INSPIRE recommended codelist URI values The German federal state geological surveys are working on a common approach to provide INSPIRE data and services about soil. The final version of the paper is expected for February It is planned to set up a registry service with necessary codelists for the theme soil with GDI-DE, the national INSPIRE contact point. Only then data compliant with the data specification soil TG can be published Layer naming issues – this discussion may shortly be concluded and documented and it may be of use wider than a theme or cluster and may be generic for all INSPIRE Data Specifications. Such issues are often concluded from community interpretation consensus and need not lead necessarily to suggestions to changes to data models but more likely for improving the relevant TG’s – some of which are now found to say ‘TBD’ in the later chapters is the time to decide these issues.

Thematic cluster/sub-group proposals for gaps filling, improvements related to the technical work of MIG MIWP (working plan) Concrete proposals related to the technical work of the MIG (MIWP) – gaps, improvements 1). Earth Science cluster research data links to Research Institute data and services: EGU session around SDI’S 17/3/2015 Leading IT of one Research Infrastructure (=EPOS) Leading WP of cross-environmental RI (ENVRIplus funded) 2). Will contribute significantly to the technical work of proto-MIWP- 7b WCS for coverages (FP7 Earthserver project technical leads) 3). Will work with and benefit from significantly already working MIWP-5 = Validation and conformity

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