1. Towards WISE as a distributed system
Water Directors meeting, Paris, 24 November 2008
Stefan Jensen

2. Scope of the Shared Environmental Information System SEIS
Improve
Modernise
Streamline
the present
information
systems

3. How ? better integration and sharing online information services
distributed information management
Local, national, European, global
serving policy makers and public
e-reporting
using existing e-infrastructure

4. WISE principles are SEIS principles
cooperation of EU institutions and Member States
Information is managed as close as possible to its source Distributed WISE nodes
Information is provided once and used for many purposes
As of 2007 Reportnet is the WFD reporting tool
Information accessible for clients to make comparisons at the appropriate geographical scale and information available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, - (WISE map viewer displays of countries, river basins, catchment areas)
European funding mechanisms should focus on delivering cost-effective analytical tools and services e.g. HarmoiCA (

5. INSPIRE Components Metadata
Interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Network services (discovery, view, download, transform, invoke)
Policy for data and service sharing
Coordination and measures for Monitoring & Reporting
Detailed technical provisions for the issues above will be laid down in Implementing Rules (IR)

6. From Reporting to Online Services
The current data flows
Live Information Systems
Member states
Organisations
Member states
Organisations

7. Linking to National water information systems
Often related to National SDI and
eGovernment initiatives

8. Available agreements - context
WISE implementation plan 2010
WISE as a distributed system
Automated data transfer
...
INSPIRE
Roadmap up to 2019
SEIS
Building blocks
WISE, INSPIRE

9. Enhanced WISE services
Reportnet
On-line Reporting
Consolidated
Database
Map viewing
Enhanced Map viewing
Data access and viewing
NEW

10. Future WISE system architectureB

11. WISE implemented as a INSPIRE compliant distributed network architecture

12. Summary: Next steps of WISE towards a SEIS showcase
Partnership agreements
Moving from application centric to network centric
Preparing for distributed data exchange
Strong involvement in INSPIRE process

13. Available products Full WISE architecture document
WISE architecture draft summary
Draft implementation plan 2009 – 2013 (to be released)
Pilot developments to be carried out

14. Phase I – by mid 2009 INPUT side: Pilot on-line exchange of Art 8 data
guided by WISE technical group
Developments through DG Environment consultants with EEA management and implementation
Includes candidate MS (AT, DE, ES, PL, SE …)
OUTPUT side: First WISE Web Mapping Services
Beta of WMS service for art3, art8 data

15. Further phases (simplified)
Phase 2 (mid 2009 – 2011)
Stabilise pilot online data flow, add high priority ones, work with voluntary countries
Phase 3 (2011 – 2013)
Increase number of reporting areas (priority medium) and participating countries
Phase 4 (2014 – 2018)
Consolidate operational online data exchange for countries across reporting areas

16. Water Directors to agree on pilot exercise
with WFD Article 8 reporting as a showcase
Thank you very much for your attention!