1. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ESPON ETMS STOCKHOLM TPG MEETING OCTOBER 7&8 TH 2013 jacques.michelet@unige.ch Erik.gloersen@unige.ch

2. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of geography and environment Objectives Starting point of the ETMS ≠ collection of new data = but rather to : 1.Elaborate procedures for implementing a robust DB 2.Build on ESPON Database, ESPON datanavigator, GEOSPECS and other ESPON tools 3.Elaborate robust methodology for future data collection/update

3. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of geography and environment Database structuring

4. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of geography and environment Time related challenges for territorial monitoring

5. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of geography and environment Updating datasets 1.Gathering the information needed to convert data between different territorial nomenclatures; 2.Compiling the most recent data, i.e. as soon as they are published by national statistical institutes and other primary data sources; 3.Gathering data at LAU2-level (check Eurostat micro-data access);

7. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of geography and environment Compiling and managing metadata on datasets Special attention must be given to: Data updates Methodological coherence of time series Changes in the boundaries of statistical units  Building on the metadata infrastructure already established by the ESPON Metadata and Data Navigator projects  Developing further aspects of metadata when needed

8. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of geography and environment The fundamental role of metadata Metadata = centrepiece in the setup of the ETMS to construct coherent and comparable results over time  Starting point of the ETMS ≠ collection of new data = but rather to : 1.Elaborate procedures for implementing a robust DB 2.Build on ESPON Database, ESPON datanavigator, GEOSPECS and other ESPON tools 3.Elaborate robust methodology for future data collection/update

10. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION jacques.michelet@unige.ch Erik.gloersen@unige.ch