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2. Registry developments and plans Involved organisations / governance  EEA and Reportnet stakeholders Scope  Primarily for Reportnet dataflows  Maintenance of EEA code lists (countries, biogeo regions, CDDA sites, pollutants, air quality stations etc.)  Also for analysis of data received from other organisations (Eurostat, FAO, UNEP, World Bank, WHO) Content  Migrating the lookup tables from the existing dataflows to the data dictionary

3. Technical overview Technologies / software used Java / Tomcat / Mysql Software LicenceMozilla Public License Access & re-use conditions ? Almost all vocabularies publically available at http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabularies http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabularies Standards usedW3C RDF Formats and APIs supported RDF format, CSV No API

5. Connecting registries Existing connections to other registries  Eurostat: We synchronise their CSV dictionaries weekly  INSPIRE: Manual synchronisation  World Bank: Manual synchronisation Requirements for connections to the INSPIRE registry?  Persistent, resolvable URLs for codes  We would like a REST API with XML output that can be queried from XSL-T and XQuery via the document() function  Alternatively a SPARQL endpoint  Alternatively an XML export for synchronisation with EEA systems

6. Future development of INSPIRE registry How are you using / planning to use the INSPIRE registry (software or service)?  Checking the validity of codes used in Reportnet deliveries Which additional features would you like to see?  Broader/narrower relationships?  Start/end-dates for concepts (to check old data) Which additional content would you like to see?  Codes, labels and definitions of concepts in one central place

7. Pointers and additional information Please include any additional information or pointers to support the discussion (this will not be presented, but could be shared with the participants)