1. Common interoperability, best practices and strategic approach
Stefano Nativi
Head, Florence Division of CNR-IIA

2. ERA-Planet specific objectives

3. Data and Information Infrastructure: the Key Enabling Technologies
ERA-Planet Application Strands
Strand #1
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
Strand #2
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
Strand #3
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
Strand #N
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
… .
ERA-Planet KET
GCI
European Contribution to GCI
APIs and Internet interfaces
Harmonization & Interoperability (space, in-situ, non-EO, …)
MoU with ESA
Data Management (Data Policy, Quality, Preservation, Access, etc.)
National programmes & (EO, in-situ) Data Infrastructures
Copernicus Services and GSs, ESA TEPs
ESFRI, Prace, Helix Nebula, INSPIRE ..
IT, Principles, BPs, Guidelines
Data, Services, Models, Document, Workflows, Knowledge bodies

4. Data and Information Infrastructure: the Key Enabling Technologies
ERA-Planet Application Strands
Strand #1
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
Strand #2
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
Strand #3
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
Strand #N
(Information, Knowledge, Services)
… .
ERA-Planet KET
National programmes & (EO, in-situ) Data Infrastructures
Copernicus Services and GSs, ESA TEPs
ESFRI, Prace, Helix Nebula, INSPIRE ..
Data, Services, Models, Document, Workflows, Knowledge bodies

5. Data and Information Infrastructure: the Key Enabling Technologies
GEOSS APIs for Application Developers (see the DAB APIs and Interfaces)
GEOSS Community Portals white paper
Copernicus Market place and Dissemination strategy
H2020 Guidelines on Open Access to Research Data
INSPIRE GeoPortal and Communities engagement
Belmont Forum Data Policy and Principles
RDA Outputs & Recommendations
GEOSS GCI Brokering approach (see the DAB)
GEOSS Knowledge Base (GD-09)
GEOSS Architecture principles (GD-07)
Copernicus Core Services and Dissemination interoperability Platform
H2020 Guidelines on Open Access to Research Data
INSPIRE Interoperability Services
Belmont Forum Data Policy and Principles
RDA Outputs & Recommendations
GEOSS Data Sharing Principles
GEOSS Data Management Principles
CEOS QA4EO initiative
Copernicus Core Services QA/QC and SLA
H2020 Guidelines on Open Access to Research Data
INSPIRE Data Quality Expert Group guidelines
Belmont Forum Data Policy and Principles
RDA Outputs & Recommendations
APIs and Internet interfaces
Harmonization & Interoperability (space, in-situ, non-EO, …)
Data Management (Data Policy, Quality, Preservation, Access, etc.)

6. Short/Medium-term Objectives
Improve interoperability amongst observational, modelling, data assimilation and prediction systems to maximize value and benefits of EO investments.
Assure and coordinate the interoperability of the enabling technologies developed/utilized/advanced by the specific projects that will be funded by the ERA-PLANET.
Provide a useful guidance on and good practice for the enabling technology, at the European and National levels, to the specific projects that will be funded by the ERA-PLANET.

7. Short/Medium-term Objectives
To promote a synergetic and complementary advancement of the enabling technologies for the access and re-use of EO resources (e.g., data, knowledge, services, models)
Enable cross and inter-disciplinary research at the ERA-PLANET level, through EO resources interoperability

8. Long-term Objectives
Improve interoperability among the existing and next coming digital infrastructures at the National and European level
Reinforce the European role in GEOSS as to interoperability with the GCI and other relevant Global programmes
Re-use and advance the European capacities, improving the European competitiveness in the IT and Data Science sectors
Support Open Science, GEOSS Data Sharing principles, and GEOSS Data Management principles
Support the need to share more information and less data (e.g. the GEOSS Essential Variables)
Develop integrated sets of semantic and terminological resources covering all the knowledge sub-domains (i.e., thesauri, taxonomies, lexicons and ontologies)

9. Reinforce the European role in GEOSS: Horizontal Topics
System Capacity Building:
Building on existing (national) systems
Leveraging Copernicus services
Using mediation and Brokering patterns
Use available tools and capacities (e.g. Regional centres)
Activities included in the European Network of Earth Observation Network (ENEON)
Participation in the relevant GEO tasks and in the GEOSS work plan symposium
Systems Interoperability:
Contributing to GCI
Synergies and interoperability with other European e-infrastructures (e.g. ESFRI)
GEOSS Data Management Principles

10. Reinforce the European role in GEOSS: Horizontal Topics
Data/services characterization (across the national systems):
Data/services policy
GEOSS Data Sharing principles appliance
Contribution to GEOSS Data Core
Data/services Quality
QA/QC and QoS (Data Management Principles, QA4EO)
Fit for purpose indicators using GeoViQua models and QualityML,
Annotations and geospatial user feedback capability
PID and data citation
Data/services re(use)
semantic description
"how" metadata in addition to "what" ones

11. Actions Implementation: Short-term
Adopt in all the programs supported by ERA-PLANET the GCI brokering approach and its innovative technologies and principles
GEOSS Data Management and Data Sharing Principles
QA4EO and the Documentation and Data Quality recommendations
GEO DAB (see later)
Provide ERA-PLANET supported programs with a specific guidelines document about the use of the GEOSS DAB capabilities and the appliance of the GEOSS Data Management and Data Sharing Principles
Require all the programs supported by the ERA-PLANET to contribute to GEOSS via the GCI and collaborate in the experimentation of new GEOSS requirements/components within the AIP editions

12. Actions Implementation: Short-term
Advocate the utilization of the GEOSS DAB technology (e.g. via its APIs) to all the ERA-PLANET supported systems/infrastructures for:
contributing data and information to GEOSS
using the GEOSS data/information for building new applications and products
Prioritize and coordinate the acquisition of Essential Variables (EVs), both by remote sensing and in-situ networks
Contribute Knowledge bodies to the GEOSS Knowledge Base (GD-09)
Encourage the coordination and contribution of the supporting programs in the GEO tasks and in the GEOSS Work Plan symposium

13. Actions Implementation: Medium-term
Advocate and support the concept of a European Data Hub to overcome the fragmentation of the European infrastructures and maximize their combined exploitation for contributing to the existing and next coming EO global initiatives
Leverage the innovative technologies developed by the EC-funded programs in the GEOSS and Copernicus frameworks to realize the European Data Hub
Ensure that supporting programs are actively participating to the European Network of Earth Observation Network ENEON activities that ConnectinGEO project is currently promoting, to better coordinate in-situ data campaigns

14. Thank you!
Questions?

16. Actions by Scope
To significantly advance Open Data and Open Science and to maximize value and benefits of EO investments:
Advocate the use of and advance the brokering pattern and developed technologies (see the GEOSS DAB) to build complex and multidisciplinary System-of-Systems (towards a European EO Data Hub)
Support and apply a series of global trends related to open data policies, big data technologies, documentation and data quality and the raising of digital economy
Support and apply the GEO Model Web pattern: to share environmental and socio-economic models as services

17. Actions by Scope
To significantly improve the use of the GEO resources in decision making:
Advocate the use of the European EO Data Hub services for generating information and knowledge for decision making (coordinating a set of actions with the ERA-PLANET partners for promoting the pattern: Data-Information-Knowledge-Decision)
Provide the European community of software developers with a unique service layer to discover and access, in a harmonized way, the many heterogeneous resources provided by GEOSS and Copernicus
Facilitate the discoverability and access of existing workflows for generating information and knowledge from EO datasets –see the GEO Model Web.