1. 0 © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Data Harmonisation Put into Practice by the HUMBOLDT Project

2. 1 © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Contents Overview of the HUMBOLDT project HUMBOLDT Framework for data harmonisation HUMBOLD products INSPIRE and HUMBOLDT Application of HUMBOLDT Framework in scenarios Training platform HUMBOLDT results for the community

3. 2 HUMBOLDT Facts Full title: Development of a framework for data harmonisation and service integration Term : 48 months (01/10/2006 – 30/09/2010) Effort :~ 13.5 mill. € ~ 110 person years Contracting authority: Commission of the European Community FP6 – Aeronautics and Space (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) Consortium: 27 partners (coordinator Fraunhofer IGD)

4. 3 © 2010 Humboldt Consortium The HUMBOLDT Project Duration: 10/2006 – 09/2010 Objectives  Overcome barriers in multidisciplinary and cross-border usage of spatial information  Development of tools and services to support transformation needs  Integration of these tools and services into existing Spatial Data Infrastructures  Support for INSPIRE (tools for data harmonisation) and GMES (theme-specific services in scenarios) 27 partners from 14 countries

5. 4 © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Data Harmonisation Issues in HUMBOLDT Scenarios Data formats Spatial reference systems Conceptual schemas (data models) Classification schemes (e.g. different ways to classify land cover) Scales / resolutions of vector or raster datasets respectively Levels-of-detail of data content Metadata (e.g. different metadata profiles or lack of standardised metadata) Terminology (e.g. different application domains and natural languages) Portrayal (e.g. different styles in map symbology) Multiple representation of the ‘same’ spatial objects Spatial consistency at borders (e.g. edge-matching) Processing functions (parameters and computational functions / algorithms, e.g. to compute land cover classification )

6. 5 Functionalities for covering the data harmonisation process as a whole Analysis of sources Creation of target Input for transformation (mapping rules) SourceTarget Schema Transf. Edge Matching … Executed technical processes User knowledge

7. 6 © 2010 Humboldt Consortium HUMBOLDT Framework for Data Harmonisation

8. 7 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu HUMBOLDT Open Source Software (released under the LGPL 3.0 license) http://www.community.esdi-humboldt.eu/ HUMBOLDT Model Editor  For the creation of UML application schemas HUMBOLDT Alignment Editor  Definition of conceptual schema transformation Workflow Service  Service Composition for handling transformation needs Mediator Service  Execution of transformation chains Transformation Services  Exposed as Web Processing Services (e.g. Schema Transformation, Coordinate Transformation, Edge Matching) We invite developers to test the design and expandability of the framework. We invite users to test the framework with its functionality in their user environment. Suggestions and contributions are highly welcome.

9. 8 HUMBOLDT products There are three levels of software products defined and implemented: 1. The HUMBOLDT Framework: A set of software components that can be used by themselves or all together to create geodata harmonisation applications and that are re-useable in multiple toolset applications and scenario applications DEVELOPERS 2. The HUMBOLDT Toolset: A set of applications that support data modelling experts with all activities surrounding data harmonisation processes DATA CUSTODIANS, DATA INTEGRATORS, (end-users of geodata) 3. The HUMBOLDT Scenario Applications: Concrete End-User applications using the framework components and (adopted) versions of toolset applications END-USERS OF GEODATA / SPATIAL INFO.

10. 9 HUMBOLDT products (contd.) Further, supporting products are also important from the user perspective: 1. HUMBOLDT Documentation: Reports, deliverables and other documentary output Software documentation, „cookbooks” HUMBOLDT Wiki (currently used internally, can be made available to the wide public in the future) 2. Training products: HUMBOLDT Training Platform Overall training on data harmonization, specific trainings on the HUMBOLDT project tailored to user needs

11. 10 The key role of Humboldt scenarios Develop harmonised specification (for given theme(s)) Identify data harmonisation issues Harmonisation tools to be developed Test the harmonisation capabilities that have been developed by Humboldt

12. 11 The Data Harmonisation Process © 2010 Humboldt Consortium real-world use cases analysis of data sources identification of data harmonisation requirements HUMBOLDT Scenarios usage and evaluation in scenarios state-of-the-art analysis requirements from scenarios development of HUMBOLDT Framework: tools and services covering data harmonisation process HUMBOLDT Framework source data specification source data data from different sources (countries, domains, etc.) processing target data design of common data model for each scenario target data specification

13. 12 © 2010 HUMBOLDT Consortium Fraunhoferstraße 5 64283 Darmstadt http://www.esdi-humboldt.org User-driven Approach: Scenarios List of Scenarios Border Security  ERiskA Urban Planning  Forest Ocean  Galileo Protected Areas  Transboundary Catchment Urban Atlas Applies to each scenario : -Implementation of an end user application using harmonised data in a specific GMES domain -Evaluation against user requirements -Demonstrator for the framework -National, regional and local (end-) users are involved in the development

14. 13 List of Scenarios BorderSecurity – revolves around supporting border police on the outer border of Europe, the focus is on the use of highly sensitive data, real- time sensor input and high availability of geodata from trans-border sources. Urban Planning – addresses environmental, architectural, and social needs of stakeholders in urban planning by offering them integrated access and visualization of such different data as sociodemographic information and city models, which makes this Scenario a perfect test for data integration from different application domains. Recently,Urban Atlas related activities were also incorporated.

15. 14 List of Scenarios Forest – centres on the management of forests in Czech Republic both also between countries on both sides of the Czech-German border, metadata harmonisation, geometric and semantic harmonisation and different sources of geodata are the aims. Protected Areas – highly different data sets to be used together, from biodiversity, land cover information to data for planning, management and promotion of protected Areas.These geo-information flows are identified at all management levels (EU, national;regional and local). ERiskA – aims at developing a cross-border risk management application for floods in the Lake Constance region (Austria, Germany and Switzerland).

16. 15 List of Scenarios Transboundary Catchment – applications to manage transboundary catchments and to evaluate effects of water consumption or contamination in the context of the Water Framework Directive using the HUMBOLDT framework. Ocean – the largest Scenario in HUMBOLDT, focuses on cross-border, multi-language data, with high amounts of satellite data playing an important role. Distributed processing and 4D visualizations are used for the simulation of oil spills and other disasters.Includes 3 sub-scenarios. Galileo – makes use of the new GNSS Galileo to collect and distribute Atmosphericdata. These are required from several domains, use cases concentrate on healthcare

17. 16 Anders Östman University of Gävle, SWEDEN Anders.Ostman@hig.se Alexander v HumboldtWilhelm v Humboldt The HUMBOLDT Training Platform. Anders Östman © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Fraunhoferstraße 5 64283 Darmstadt http://www.esdi-humboldt.org

18. 17 To increase the impact and efficacy of the project outcomes by providing training tools and actions Why training? For the user communities of the HUMBOLDT tools, as well as for the communities of GMES and INSPIRE. Addressed both to users and software developers as target audiences. Training for who? © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Fraunhoferstraße 5 64283 Darmstadt http://www.esdi-humboldt.org

19. 18 Training material prepared during the project (with the contribution of project partners) Training material developed in other contexts and made available for the project Training by whom? Project results (The use of the HUMBOLDT tools) Data harmonisation, data modelling and IT standards INSPIRE and GMES Application of the HUMBOLDT tools (H. Scenarios) Training about what? © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Fraunhoferstraße 5 64283 Darmstadt http://www.esdi-humboldt.org

20. 19 2 - The HUMBOLDT Training Platform Constitutes the infrastructure hosting the training modules and training material. Established by widely diffused open source e-Learning tools. Once subscribed to the Module (or Modules), the user is redirected to an e- Learning platform with personalized access. Decentralised: Training Material is hosted in different platforms in Italy and Sweden. Training material developed on a variety of formats: Presentations with voice, screencasts, plain text lectures, exercises, etc. Allows monitoring the user progress and students/teachers interaction Link with Vesta-GIS (all HUMBOLDT courses listed in the Vesta-GIS catalogue) © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Fraunhoferstraße 5 64283 Darmstadt http://www.esdi-humboldt.org

21. 20 © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Fraunhoferstraße 5 64283 Darmstadt http://www.esdi-humboldt.org

22. 21 Entrance test: Finished and integrated to the eLearning content Creation of the HUMBOLDT curricula system Level 1 “Preliminary Knowledge”: Overview of GMES (concepts and services): Finished Web Services: Finished Metadata (concepts and standards): Finished INSPIRE (Directive and the Specifications): Finished. Work in progress to add voice Introduction to Data Harmonisation: Finished. Other training courses could be added (also with links to others platforms/projects) Level 2 “The HUMBOLDT Framework“: The Data harmonisation within HUMBOLDT“ Training on the HUMBOLDT Tools: Level 3 “The HUMBOLDT Scenarios“: 3 - The HUMBOLDT Training Modules © 2010 Humboldt Consortium Fraunhoferstraße 5 64283 Darmstadt http://www.esdi-humboldt.org

23. 22 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu INSPIRE A Spatial Data Infrastructure Directive

24. 23 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu What is the aim of the Directive? - To establish a European SDI on the basis of SDIs created by Member States What does INSPIRE stand for? - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe Why is it needed? - To better enable the Commission and Member States to prepare, implement and monitor environmental policies - However, the infrastructure will create a ‘platform’ (infrastructure) which can be used for many other purposes

25. 24 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu Who will be affected? - Data producers - A number of government departments - Certain state agencies - All local authorities - Users - Public sector - General public - Academics and researchers - Professionals - Business - Potentially everyone

26. 25 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu What does the Directive deliver? - At its core it will provide two main ‘things’ - Various types of spatial data - Network services

27. 26 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu What are the types of spatial data involved in INSPIRE? - Coordinate reference systems (height, latitude and longitude etc) - Geographical grid systems (a standardised sized grid laid across Europe) - Geographical names (eg areas, regions, localities, cities, suburbs, towns and settlements, and geographical or topographical features) - Administrative units (areas for local, regional and national boundaries and administrative areas) - Addresses (road name, house number, postcode) - Cadastral parcels (ie registered land properties) - Transport networks (road, rail, air and water networks and related infrastructure; the links between these networks) - Hydrography (marine areas, river basins and sub-basins, rivers, coastline. lakes etc) - Protected sites (areas designated by international, European Community, and national legislation aimed at achieving conservation objectives eg national monuments, Special Areas of Conservation etc)

28. 27 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu What are the types of spatial data involved in INSPIRE? (continued) -Elevation (land, ice and ocean surfaces, shoreline etc) - Land cover (physical and biological surfaces, including built-up areas, agriculture, forests, wetlands, water bodies etc) - Orthoimagery (images of the earth’s surface from satellites and airborne sensors) - Geology (characterised according to composition and structure, including bedrock, aquifers and geomorphology)

29. 28 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu What types of ‘network services’ will be provided? - Data discovery (based on metadata and catalogue) - Viewing - Downloading - Transforming - Invoking - Licensing (click licenses most likely) - Payment - Multilingual thesauri - System usage monitoring - Update facilities - etc - The above services will be accessible through a European INSPIRE portal and probably through Member State (or other) portals

30. 29 © 2009 Humboldt Consortium http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu Where can I find out more about? http://inspire.jrc.it/

31. 30 INSPIRE and HUMBOLDT Harmonising data from European countries, e.g. Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom HUMBOLDT participates in review of documents and testing of Data Specifications INSPIRE Data Specifications used in HUMBOLDT  Administrative Units  Geographical Names  Hydrography  Natural Risk Zones (draft)  Protected Sites  Transport Networks  Land Cover (currently used: CORINE Land Cover) INSPIRE Methodology for the development of data specifications used for HUMBOLDT application scenarios © 2010 Humboldt Consortium

32. 31 Humboldt users -Classification of Humboldt users: data providers / data custodians developers data users -Involvement of users within the project survey about user requirements involvement of users through 8 scenarios -without the project will to involve key users to ensure sustainability of the project will to create a community of Humboldt developers

33. 32 HUMBOLDT Results for the Community Sharing experiences in data harmonisation and testing of INSPIRE data specifications Open Source HUMBOLDT Framework → www.community.esdi-humboldt.eu → tools and services for data harmonisation → cover data harmonisation process as a whole → flexible, can be integrated with existing SDIs HUMBOLDT Scenarios → www.esdi-humboldt.eu/scenarios.html → end-user application demonstrators for different domains HUMBOLDT Training Plattform → www.gisig.it/humboldt/training → Basics Knowledge (e.g.web services, metadata) → HUMBOLDT Framework (e.g. data harmonisation concepts and tools) → HUMBOLDT Scenarios (e.g. data harmonisation examples using the Framework) © 2010 Humboldt Consortium