OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – European IT Water strategy discussion BRGM, CEH, BAFG

EU layer > Inspire : Hydrography, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Geology-Hydrogeology … themes We’ll see what comes up out of it. No coordination specific to the water domain the 3 themes above are in different maintenance cluster and I don’t speak about Biodiv related themes!  Surely end up with having mapping agencies providing the “River Network”, many agencies/labs providing the MonitoringFacilities (thus the observations), … OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – > 2

EU layer > Environmental mandatory reportings : WFD, Nitrates, … : None of them require to report actual observations on the field For now, none is based on Inspire specs. Most of them are isolated in independent silos “pseudo-static”’ data transfert (reporting) as done by putting a reportingEnveloppe on reportNet  not webservice oriented (ex : OGC)  not really linked to Membser States (MS) national/regional information system Reported information to the EU level is not dynamically reusable by MemberStates (ex : OGC web services). OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – > 3

EU layer > WISE State Of the Environment (SoE) voluntary reporting : Includes observations, Another silo from the ones mentioned above. Not based on Inspire specs. “pseudo-static”’ data transfert (reporting) as done by putting a reportingEnveloppe on reportNet  not webservice oriented (ex : OGC)  not really linked to Membser States (MS) national/regional information system Reported information to the EU level is not dynamically reusable by MemberStates (ex : OGC web services). OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – > 4

National level > Water Information systems I don’t know one that really embraced the OGC approach : correct me if I’m wrong Most of them re-invent their own wheel. Or invented it before some OGC standards but did not push it to the OGC process  Tiny interoperability And it seems hard to change things in each country (some may be running for decades). Q° : do they actually meet their public nationally ? – Feedback from the French WIS users OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – > 5

River basin level > International Commissions for the protection of a given River Ex : ICPR – Rhin, ICPDR – Danube, … Another system, another set of rules, Tiny interoperability with national water information systems OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – > 6

The 2 € question > What can we do to steer all this into a common IT direction so that our domain expert can really do their work ? OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – > 7 Inspire-Hy Inspire-GE Inspire-EF EU-WFD EU-Nitrates EU-Waste Water Treatment National Water Information Systems International Commissions

And associated sub-questions > What hinders success Lack of standards, or dynamic toward more standards ?  Should we standardise the mediation ? Lack of « plug & play » tools implementing those standards. Either Server or Client Side. Not enough involvment of software vendors/open source communities ? Lack of accessibility of those standards ? Should we lower the barrier &/or train people ? Lack of incentive/coordination at ministries levels ? A « my standard is better than yours » issue ? Others ? OGC HydroDWG Orléans Workshop – > 8