1. 1 Joint Drafting Group on State of the Environment and Eionet Workshop — Overview task 4 and 5 — 13/14 November 2006 EEA Copenhagen

2. 2 Integration into WISE, task 4 and 5 Define requirements for the WISE development arising from the set of parameter agreed under 3 Data processing, handling and reporting is part of the integration into WISE WISE goes beyond the SOE data set – common logical data structure

3. 3WISE

4. 4 Task 4 - Guidance on data processing, handling and reporting Ensuring interoperability (semantic, conceptual and referential aspects) Meta data, use of reportnet tools Quality Assurance/Quality Control Statistical aspects Use of models Business rules on data handling, presentation and dissemination incl. data policy Aggregation procedures (see reporting sheets) Schedule for regular updating

5. 5 Ensuring interoperability (semantic, conceptual and referential aspects) Conceptual Conceptual aspects in reporting sheets (sites/subsites; relation sites/waterbodies/ typ characteristic; representativity, size of WB, comparable sub-units) Semantic and referential Update and development of data dictionary/reporting schemas Coding between national and EU level Tabular data Georeferenced data (GIS guidance)

6. 6 Ensuring interoperability - Meta data Update of data dictionary according to new reporting sheets Integration between Art. 8 reporting and SOE-reporting Reportnet registry of uploading (who and what) Registry of completness of data Quality, fitness for purpose

7. 7 Ensuring interoperability What is needed to ensure interoperability from perspective ?

8. 8 Quality control/quality assurance 1.National level – MS reponsebility 2.EU level: aggregated info via data quality index 3.EU level: Validation of reported data for EU level purposes; feedback on outliers, (see recent work at EEA) 4.Comparability of data arising from different methodologies

9. 9 Quality control / Quality assurance How to establish/what are „good bussiness rules“ to ensure a efficient quality control of data used in EEA assessments ?

10. 10 Statistical aspects Closely linked to questions on representativity Requirerments to detects time trends for larger data sets (country or type specific groupings) Which common agreements are needed ?

11. 11 Use of models Agreement needed for procedures for filling gaps in time series Hindcasting, forcasting where data does not exist Estimation of diffuse sources Development of aggregated indices (cooperation with other CIS groups e.g. intercalibration

12. 12 Statistical aspects and using models Which common agreements are needed ? (see also activities under "Harmoni-Ca") Your experiences in this areas ?

13. 13 Business rules Wider aspects of products and services under WISE Needs and interlinkages between different customers and data suppliers (e.g. reporting under regional conventions) Data policy aspects

14. 14 WISE data flow (all steps involve QA/QC) Submission Analysis Development Database Acceptance Viewing, GIS visualisation Production Databases (WISE nodes) Data definition/ requirements Step 1: Compliance or SoE, voluntary (or through comitology) Step 2: End-user tool, schema/DEM, XML/shape/GML, other tools (DD, glossary), help desk Step 3: central holding area (CDR), management of access rights Step 4: Standardised manual or automatic tests, feedback to data submitters Step 5: Final data storage Step 6a: Public or restricted viewing, map service, aggregation, statistics, GIS reference dataset Step 6b: Tools for compliance or SoE assessment, CCM2

15. 15 Schedule for regular updating - again from 2008 onwards Annual schedule of the Eionet water priority data flow Request to member countries for data delivery: 1. August Deadline for member countries for data delivery: 31. October Deadline for ETC-water to have quality assured, validated data: 20 December what would be available for "test reporting runs" in 2007 ?