1. Maria Vanda Nunes de Lima Edinburgh 28 June- 1st July 2011
INSPIRE Data Specifications Annex II & III Themes Collaboration with projects: LC & LU
Maria Vanda Nunes de Lima
Edinburgh
28 June- 1st July 2011

2. Outline INSPIRE Directive
Data Specifications- Interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Methodology
Where we are
Next steps
INSPIRE progress

3. What is INSPIRE? European legislation
“Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community”
Distributed infrastructure
General rules for establishment
Environment
INSPIRE - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community - is a Legal framework in place (Directive 2007/2/EC) establishing a spatial data infrastructure built on those of the 27 Member States.
INSPIRE is a Distributed infrastructure, building on infrastructures for spatial information that are being set-up and maintained by the member states of the European Union. INSPIRE is an environmental legislation, as it was conceived for the purposes of Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
34 Spatial Data Themes
Entry into force 15/5/2007
27 countries
21 languages
European legislation

4. Scope INSPIRE Directive
Spatial data held by or on behalf of a public authority operating down to the lowest level of government when laws or regulations require their collection or dissemination
INSPIRE covers 34 Spatial Data Themes laid down in 3 Annexes
required to successfully build environmental information systems
INSPIRE only addresses data held by public authorities (or by a third party on behalf of a public authority)
INSPIRE will only affect public authorities which are the custodian of relevant data that needs to be reported, collected or disseminated to a higher level of administration. Data collected for local purposes only falls not under INSPIRE.
INSPIRE covers in its scope 34 themes of data, which, as you will recognise, are used for developing information systems for a wide variety of applications.

5. INSPIRE Legal Acts published in the Official Journal
Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)
INSPIRE Metadata Regulation
Commission Decision regarding INSPIRE monitoring and reporting
Regulation on INSPIRE Network Services (View and discovery)
Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation
Regulation on INSPIRE Data and Service Sharing
Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards download services and transformation services
COMMISSION REGULATION implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services (Annex I)
COMMISSION REGULATION amending Regulation 1089/2010 as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services (code list)
The INSPIRE Directive is of paramount importance for the harmonized access to geospatial information in Europe.
The INSPIRE Directive was published in 2007 and is a European Law telling member states to set-up and operate a national spatial data infrastructure.
The INSPIRE components are further detailed in so-called Implementing Rules that harmonize the documentation, access, and use of data in the scope of INSPIRE.
Also these Implementing Rules are European Legal acts that Member States have to implement.
European law affecting 30+ countries, 21+ languages

6. INSPIRE’s participatory approach
To-date, over 650 organizations are registered as INSPIRE stakeholders
Providing experts, reference material, projects
Participate in user requirements survey
Participate in reviewing and testing of specifications
And learn from each other
INSPIRE contributes to global solutions
INSPIRE is EU contribution to Global Earth Observation System of Systems
Stakeholders participating in INSPIRE are international
Group on Earth Observations
United Nations Geospatial Information Working Group
Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) of the United Nations
EuroGeographics
World Meteorological Organisation Region VI grouping (RAVI)
WMO Global Runoff Data Centre
Stakeholders participating in INSPIRE are National
Stakeholders participating in INSPIRE are Projects
Interested? Register!

7. Development of data specification - step wise process
Directive
(2007)
Modelling Framework for INSPIRE data specifications
(2008)
Data specifications for the 9 Annex I
data themes
(2009)
Data specifications for the 25 Annex II/III data themes
(2012)
Part of the legal framework  Implementation mandatory for European Member States
Interoperability of spatial data sets and services (Implementing Rule)
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8. “Fitness for purpose testing”...
Steps 1+6: *Use Case Development
* Implementation, Test and Validation, Cost-Benefit Analysis
Use case development
As-is analysis
Identification of user requirements and spatial object types
Driver of the process...
...helps understand user requirements, and justify the current model structure
Validation of use cases in:
“Fitness for purpose testing”...
Gap analysis
Data specification development
D 2.6
The use cases and application scenarios for the environmental policies to be supported by the INSPIRE data specifications in this development cycle are identified.
The use cases are described in sufficient detail to clarify the requirements regarding the data from the spatial data themes.
Implementation, testing and validation
Implementation, testing and validation
Cost/benefit
analysis

9. Data Specifications Regulation published in Official Journal
COMMISSION REGULATION implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services (Annex I)
COMMISSION REGULATION amending Regulation 1089/2010 as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services (code list)
9Technical Guidelines published
Annex I
Coordinate reference systems
Geographical grid systems
Geographical names
Administrative units
Addresses
Cadastral parcels
Transport networks
Hydrography
Protected sites
INSPIRE progress

10. Grouping of Themes Annex II Elevation Land cover Ortho-imagery Geology
21. Mineral resources (Annex III)
Annex III
Statistical units
10. Population distribution – demography
Buildings
Soil
Land use
Human health and safety
Utility and governmental services
Environmental monitoring facilities
Production and industrial facilities
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Area management/restriction /regulation zones & reporting units
Natural risk zones
Atmospheric conditions
Meteorological geographical features
Oceanographic geographical features
Sea regions
Bio-geographical regions
Habitats and biotopes
Species distribution
Energy Resources
INSPIRE progress

11. Who is involved Thematic working groups -19 TWGs for Annex II&III
TWG Facilitators
TWG Editors
Domain experts
EC INSPIRE Team (INSPIRE CT = DG ENV, DG JRC, DG Eurostat)
Technical coordination = JRC INSPIRE team
Data Specifications Drafting Team (DS DT)
Stakeholders
Legally mandated organisations (LMOs)
Spatial data interest communities (SDICs)

12. Data Specification v3 (04.2012)
Annex II/III Roadmap
Kick-off:
Data Specification v1 ( )
Data Specification v2 ( )
Testing/Consultation ( )
Data Specification v3 ( )
Draft IR ( )
II III IV
I II III IV
I II III
2010
2011
2012

13. Now: Consultation & Testing
22 June- 21 October 2011
Two separate, but closely related activities:
Main aim of consultation:
Comment the data specification documents (V.2.0)
Domain-specific aspects and Cross-thematic aspects (overlaps and gaps, inconsistencies)
Main aims of testing:
To test data specifications (V2.0) against real spatial data
To report back to the INSPIRE CT and TWGs gained experience
will be used to improve the data specifications for v3.0
the basis for amendment of the Regulation on Interoperability of spatial data sets
Testing Kick off meeting done (22 June2011
Exchange testing releated information

14. Consultation & Testing 22 June- 21 October 2011
Documents for Consultation & Testing
D2.8.I.x Data Specification on <Theme Name> – Draft Guidelines: 24 PDF documents
D2.5 Generic Conceptual Model updates
D2.9 Guidelines for the use of Observations & Measurements and Sensor Web Enablement-related standards in INSPIRE Annex II and III data specification For Reference
GML Application Schemas: 1 ZIP archive
UML Model (XMI, EAP, HTML)
The “INSPIRE Data Specifications Cost-benefit considerations” document
INSPIRE Annex I testing summary report

15. Testing – Overview Feasibility testing  main focus of testing
measure technical feasibility and effort related to transforming existing data (e.g., from Member States’ organisations) into data compliant with the requirements and schemas proposed in the data specification documents
Fitness for purpose testing
assess the benefits of harmonised data specifications from an end-user or application point of view
Provide cost-benefit information
Related to the testing
Contextual / not directly related to testing

16. Outcomes From Testing SDICs/LMOs: Testing report via WebForm
Consultation
From Testing
SDICs/LMOs: Testing report via WebForm
SDICs/LMOs: Comments delivered via XLS spredsheet
INSPIRE CT: Import of XLS comments to JIRA
From Consultation
SDICs/LMOs: Comments delivered via XLS spreadsheet
INSPIRE CT:Import of XLS comments to JIRA
Call for Consultation
Published
Call for Testing
Out
Testing
Reports
(WebForm)
XLS template
for comments
XLS template
for comments
SDIC/LMO DB
Jira

17. Next steps: roadmap Comment resolution :
Comments resolution: 24 October-02 December 2011
Comment Resolution Workshop: December 2011
Comment resolution (cont.) 08 December to 27 January 2012
Delivery DS v2.9: 24 February 2012
Internal revision DS v2.9: 27 Febr.- 23 March 2012
Preparation DS v3.0 RC: 26 March – 20 April 2012
Preparing draft IR: 23 April- 29 June 2012
Done by JRC data specification team with support from TWGs
ISC: July 2012

18. Still time and need to participate at the development process
Next steps
Draft IR: September 2012
Done by JRC data specification team with support from TWGs
Until there:
Still time and need to participate at the development process
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