1. Titolo evento Luogo, data Seminario INSPIRE Bologna, 11-12 luglio 2012 FOCUS: European Inspire Geoportal Mauro Casaburi – Planetek Italia http://www.planetek.it

2. 2 System Highlights: Scope (EC’s expectations) o Design and implement a web-based geo-portal Providing a specific entry point to and offering client access functionality to INSPIRE network services from the EU Member States with a focus on discovery and view services; That goes beyond the traditional SDI portal concept (as e.g. implemented in the current geo-portal prototype) and provides users with a user friendly interface for an enhanced experience allowing them to easily find and access spatial data and services; That is modular, scalable and based on open standards and taking into account the benefits of an Open Source solution; That interfaces through open standards with additional services such as registries and thesauri needed for its operation or for enhancing its operation. That relies on the Institutional and scientific background, is compliant with the technical requirements given in the INSPIRE Directive and Implementing Rules (IR) and Technical guidance documents and complies with all the system requirements outlined in this tender; Define the processes for updating (in particular to deploy new network services) and maintaining of the geo- portal, once the contract is finished. o The implementation of GEMET thesaurus and INSPIRE registries. Examples of these services are registries (e.g. code list registries, Coordinate Reference System registries), thesauri (GEMET) and gazetteers. o That’s much detail. And there are even more requirements…

3. 3 System Highlights Scope (consortium’s summary) o Provide the operational version of the INSPIRE geo-portal at European Union level complete of integration interfaces for discovery and view services from MS portals. o Foster the harmonization of MS national geo-portal implementations through adoption of open standards and open source products. o Nice words, but to short to be technically exhaustive and – not clear why we should do this.

4. 4 System Highlights: Scope (user perspective) o Access INSPIRE spatial datasets and services through a unique entry point, with seamless integration of member states’ services, enabling multi-lingual searches, iterative refinement of result sets and cross-border combination of datasets in customized user maps. o Put the three together and we kind of surrounded the beast.

5. 5 Architecture: Overall picture

6. 6 Introduction:stakeholders

7. 7 Introduction: Stakeholders (Implementers) o JRC (System Owner during development) o EUROSTAT (System Owner for operations) o DIGIT (hosting institution) o IOC-TF (MS contributions to operational pilot) o MS national contact points (operational services)

8. 8 Introduction: Stakeholders (Users) o Commission Institutions and Bodies o MS institutional Users o Scientists o Citizens

9. 9 Architecture: Interactive Discovery o Simple access (less is more), all on one page o Not only results, but also search hints are partly based on metadata

10. 10 Architecture: MS Network Services o The system must integrate discovery (catalogue) and view (map) services of 27 member states o The services are expected to follow OGC standards and hopefully the INSPIRE Technical Guidance 3.0 o The network services are aggregated through appropriate proxy services

11. 11 Architecture: MS Network Services Caching o The proxy services are highly specialized for this purpose (it’s not just an http cache) and differ for Discovery and View Services o The proxy services have a local cache o The proxy services must be able to access the MS network services (firewall rules)

12. 12 System Highlights: Home Page At the first sight, the user is invited to explore the data in different ways: through the "tabs menu" through the thematically approach of INSPIRE Data Themes through the clickable "hot topics" (tag-cloud) through the geographical aspect represented by the clickable map Moreover there is a visible login area and the latest news (RSS feed) from INSPIRE portal

13. 13 System Highlights: Browse Catalogue The user can browse the INSPIRE catalogue as a tree folder and view the result list. The depth levels are: at the first level there is the “Inspire Themes” folder at the second level there is the “Member States” folder at third level there is the “Resource Type” folder

14. 14 System Highlights: Interactive Discovery o Simple access (less is more), all on one page o Not only results, but also search hints are partly based on meta-data

15. 15 System Highlights: Discover Data The discovery interface gives the user the ability to search for resources using the following various inquiring criteria: the self-explaining text fields the date sessions chart the geographical bounds of the map viewer the interactive icons in the result viewer

16. 16 UI Design Details: Autocompletion o The portal will lookup keywords in the (multilingual) thesaurus during typing and in case they appear in more than one category (field type), offer the user in the suggestions box the different options and relations. Once selected an option, the keyword is fixed together with its related search field. o This keeps synchronized the free text search with many of the options available in the advanced search and avoids ambiguities. Furthermore one offered option is a full-text search over all fields, as a bail out solution.

17. 17 UI Design Details: Multilanguage autocompletion o Viewing the web portal in different languages the autocompletion guides the user in the correct language in order to ease the definition of structured queries.

18. 18 Multilanguage does not limit results The UI language has non influence on the result set itself, that is keywords provided in any language will find the same records (but free text searches remain language sensitive, of course).

19. 19 Guide User to use structured queries This section, hidden by default to the user, provides access to advanced features of the query builder. This interface is composed by a set of select boxes and text boxes with which it is possible to build advanced query. This select shown also the number of results (count) you would get if you chose the filter.

20. 20 Interactive refinement of result sets

21. 21 Outlook: Predictive count Present the number of results to be expected upon the current query settings Background: Functional extension to the portal's internal CSW

22. 22 System Highlights: Combine Maps The user sees in the list the physical layers described by the dataset (and dataset series) metadata records he selected during "Discover data" that are accessible through online view services. The user can also navigate the selected geographic layer through the map viewer, moving up or down the layers and handling its transparency.

23. 23 System Highlights: My Inspire This page collects user preferences for different parts of the site such as language, default search filters, layout preferences.

24. 24 System Highlights: Data flow summary o The dataflow has been optimized in order to support: - Fast caching - Responsive UI - Low admin burden

25. 25 Architecture: Modular Design

26. 26 Architecture: Deployment Scenarios

27. 27 Architecture: SW products o Proxy Services: deegree (JEE) o (Spatial) Registry: deegree + Jackrabbit (JEE) o CMS + Portal: Zope + Plone (python) o Discovery & View clients: new code, based on Openlayers (HTML, Javascript)

28. 28 FINE