1. Progress report on M&R 2018, priority dataset list deliveries, feasibility study
On behalf of the EEA/EC INSPIRE team
Stefan Jensen, Darja Lihteneger, Jose Rubio
INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation Group 8th Meeting, , Brussels, Belgium

2. INSPIRE 2018 Monitoring Exercise (ref year 2017)
Deadline 15/05 for yearly monitoring obligation (ref. year 2017)
All EU countries but two had already submitted their monitoring file by 19/06/18
Many countries have used the INSPIRE sandbox dashboard to harvest their national catalogues and generate the monitoring file.
A reporting guidance has been provided by the EEA to national reporters to facilitate the reporting process.
Upgraded dashboards based on Kibana in place since early February (better performance, more stable).
Official dashboard already updated with the monitoring results: *
*Please note the slight change in the URL

3. INSPIRE 2018 Monitoring Exercise (ref year 2017)
Total number of spatial data sets per country
Steady increase of total number of reported datasets (12% more with respect to last year)
95% of datasets are reported by 5 countries (FR, DE, IT, PL, UK) PL UK FR IT DE
- 19/06/2018

4. INSPIRE 2018 Monitoring Exercise (ref year 2017)
Number of spatial data sets per Annex
Total number of spatial data services DE
Annex III FR
Annex II
Annex I
15% of SD for Annex I (increase – 6%)*
10% of SD for Annex II (increase – 28%)*
75% of SD for Annex III increase – 13%)*
Very significant increase of total number of reported services (more than double)*
FR reported 10 times more services*
- 19/06/2018
* With respect to previous monitoring exercise (2017)

5. INSPIRE 2018 Monitoring Exercise (ref year 2017)
Number of spatial data services by service type
Percentage of spatial datasets for which view, download or both exists
View
SD with view service
SD with download service
SD with view and
download services
Download
Percentages slightly decrease (but absolute number has significantly increased!)
47% of SD have view services
40% of SD have download services
37% of SD have view and download services
Significant increase in view services (65%)*
VERY significant increase in download services (230%)*
- 19/06/2018
* With respect to previous monitoring exercise (2017)

6. INSPIRE 2018 Monitoring Exercise (ref year 2017)
Metadata conformity of spatial dataset and services
Percentage of all conformant network services
Conformity increases in all services types and stays around 60% (last year 55%)
Given the huge increase in absolute number, this means a big effort towards conformity in network services by MS
93% of spatial datasets and services have conformant metadata
- 19/06/2018

7. INSPIRE 2018 Monitoring Exercise (ref year 2017)
Number of conformant spatial data sets per Annex
Good increase of absolute number of conformant spatial data sets
In comparison with the total number of datasets, around 17% of total datasets are conformant with Data Specifications:
Very slight increase for Annex I* (now around 51% conformance ratio)
Very slight increase for Annex II* (now around 8% conformance ratio)
Steady increase for Annex III* (now around 11% conformance ratio)
Annex III
Annex II
Annex I
- 19/06/2018
* With respect to previous monitoring exercise (2017)

8. Priority datasets ”as-is” - draft results from EU geoportal by late May 2018
By legislation
By country (15) and service
Row Labels
Dataset or Series
Downloadable Service
Grand Total
Luxembourg
240
234
474
Belgium
213
146
359
Portugal
223 5
228
Malta 55 57
112
Austria 61 48
109
Spain 93 12
105
Estonia 78 1 79
Romania 38 6 44
Netherlands 28
Sweden 27
Slovakia 23 4
Denmark 26
Czech Republic 24 25
Finland
Norway 2

9. Priority datasets ”as-is” - draft results from EU geoportal by late May 2018
Key observations:
Overall lack of download services
(possible due to lack of reference between services and data sets)
Different approaches regarding spatial data extent (local, regional, national)
„As-is“ data provided in diverse formats (as downloadable data sets or WFS)
Identification of the official source often difficult

10. Reportnet 3.0 feasibilty study on data harvesting using INSPIRE infrastructure
Purpose:
To explore data harvesting from national or local sources to create the pan-European (geo)spatial data sets for the new Reportnet 3.0 architecture
Scope:
Spatial data under environmental reporting obligations, proposed Natura 2000 sites spatial data sets (included in priority dataset list)
Explore aspects:
Technical: access, performance, repeatability
Content: extent, data structures, harmonisation, referencing spatial objects
Governance: procedural, legal
Gains and opportunities
Approach:
Use INSPIRE Thematic Viewer for Nature and Biodiversity as starting point to find downloadable data
Deliverables:
Prototype demonstrating data harvesting
Report with minimum criteria for operational data harvesting

11. Basic data harvesting requirements
Feasibility study scope
INSPIRE Geoportal Thematic Viewer for Priority Data Sets for eReporting
(filtering on specific metadata keywords)
Data collection – data harvesting
Focused entry point
FIND
CONNECT AND GET
CHECK
EU / Europe
STORE
Metadata catalogues in countries
Downloadable geospatial data through services
Repeat
Geospatial data in the countries
MS / Countries

12. Preliminary analysis of downloadable spatial data – example
Finland
Source: compressed Shapefile
Coverage: full country
Several files by theme
Austria
Source: compressed GML
Coverage: partial country (Tirol)
Several files by theme
Romania
Source: WFS
Coverage: full country
Limitation on feature number (40)