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Danube_Net (D1)

State-of-play and organisational context of data

infrastructure in Slovakia

Martin Tuchyňa

November 2014

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Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 3

1.1 Outline of the task .............................................................................................................................. 3

1.2 Outline of the document ..................................................................................................................... 3

1.3 Context of the country and the main players ..................................................................................... 3

1.3.1 Wider context ............................................................................................................................. 3 1.3.2 SK data and service infrastructure in nutshell .......................................................................... 4

2. Data providers ........................................................................................................................................... 5

3. Policy-making organisations ................................................................................................................... 14

4. Support for the national data infrastructure ............................................................................................ 17

5. Research organisations .......................................................................................................................... 19

6. Stakeholder engagement organisations and networks ........................................................................... 22

7. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................. 24

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1. Introduction

1.1 Outline of the task The main purpose of this document is to provide the initial overview of the data and service infrastructure ecosystem in Slovakia in connection to the establishment of the Danube Reference Data and Services Infra-structure (DRDSI)1. This aim is to cover activities focused on the description of the overall scene from national and wider perspectives, including the overview of the organizational setup, relevant data content, influencing policy framework, supporting initiatives as well as research and development environment and, last but not least, stakeholder engagement organisations and networks.

1.2 Outline of the document In order to address the main goal of the DRDSI to “unlock”, and possibly harmonize data with relevance for the macro-regional development of the Danube region, this document aims to provide a brief introduction to the Danube strategy and role of the DRDSI. In connection to this, the document aims to provide the most up-to-date state-of-play in the Slovak Republic, taking into consideration specific aspects of the national context and ongoing societal and technological changes. Information for this document was collected based on publicly available information and resources, individual email exchange and interviews, as well as via results from a public consultation. The activity described within this document aims to depict the state-of-play of the national data infrastructure in Slovakia with respect to the (DRDSI) including:

List of the key data providers, policy-making organisations, research organisations and organisations, who can aid stakeholders engagement working within a country, in a cross-border context, or at the regional level;

The current legal context and funding of initiatives aiming at building a national data infrastructure;

A list of completed and current projects (either for data production or providing tools to support data sharing).

1.3 Context of the country and the main players

1.3.1 Wider context

In terms of the current structure of the country, Slovakia emerged in 1993 after dissolution of Czechoslovakia. After 11 years, in May 2004, the Slovak Republic joined European Union. From 2010, Slovakia actively joined the preparatory phase of the Danube strategy framework. The European Union Strategy for Danube Region (Danube strategy / EUSDR) is a macro-regional strategy2, contributing to the development and strengthening of the Danube region. The national contact point for Danube Strategy in Slovakia is the Government Office of the Slovak Republic3. In the context of the 11 priority areas of the Danube Region Strategy4, Slovakia is coor-dinating the following priority areas (PAs):

PA 04 | Water Quality: "To restore and maintain the quality of waters" together with Hungary;

PA 07 | Knowledge Society: "To develop the Knowledge Society (research, education and Information and communication technologies (ICT))" jointly with Serbia.

Figure 1: Danube strategy pillars and priority areas

1 http://drdsi.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ 2 http://www.danube-region.eu/about 3 http://www.dunajskastrategia.gov.sk/kontakt-ds/# 4 http://www.danube-region.eu/about/priorities

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In 2013, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) expressed scientific support to the Danube Strategy. The main motivation was driven by the effort to bridge the problematic gaps between data and their relevant utilisation and interpretation for decision-making processes. In order to meet this goal, JRC has focused on the main natural resource areas of water, soil, air and bioenergy and established four thematic flagship clusters:

Danube Water Nexus (DWN)

Danube Land and Soil Nexus (DLSN)

Danube Air Nexus (DAN)

Danube Bio-energy Nexus (DBN) and 3 horizontal activities:

Danube Reference Data and Service Infrastructure (DRDSI)

Smart Specialisation in the Danube Region

Danube Innovation Partnership (DIP)

To support the above mentioned clusters and activities, Slovakia is providing support with relevant information and knowledge (e.g. Air nexus5, DRDSI activity6). DRDSI is also the project and the framework aiming to cover the objectives delineated with this report. Con-sidering its main goal to ‘unlock’, and possibly harmonise data which are relevant for the macro-regional development of the Danube region, the DRDSI is of particular interested in the Slovakian data and service infrastructure.

The DRDSI as an initiative is addressing the support of the Danube Strategy by supporting access to, and exchange of, harmonised data and services with described level of quality within four vertical priorities of the 'Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy’ encompassing data related to each priority:

Environment protection (e.g. data on landscape and biodiversity, flood and droughts risks)

Navigability (e.g. data on river morphology and flood risks)

Irrigation and agricultural development (e.g. data on soils and crops)

Energy production (e.g. data on available energy resources and energy potential)

1.3.2 Slovakian data and service infrastructure in a nutshell

As in many other EU countries there are various aspects influencing the collection, processing, distribution and further reuse of digital content and related functionality in Slovakia. There are various players and initia-tives driving the Slovakian digital ecosystem, which are often significantly interlinked:

Players:

Public sector

Private sector

Academic, Research and Development sector

Professional associations

Third sector (Non governmental organizations (NGO))

Citizens

Further details about these and related players and initiatives are provided within the following chapters.

5 http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/remea/sites/remea/files/files/documents/events/gribaldo-highleveleventwien.pdf 6 http://redmine.sazp.sk/projects/drdsi-sk/wiki

Initiatives:

Policy drivers

eGovernment

INSPIRE

Public Sector Information (PSI)

Open Government Partnership (OGP) including OpenData

Technological drivers

Standardisation

Semantic technologies (Linked Data)

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2. Data providers The DRDSI, like any other infrastructures, relies on two important aspects: content and those creating and providing this content for use and further re-use. The following table provides list of the data providers and typical data relevant to the DRDSI objectives. This list provides an indicative picture and is not exhaustive. In cases, where complex organisational structures are in place (mainly public sector bodies) the top hierarchical body is reported in order to provide an initial overview. Based on this list, a more detailed data inventory will take place in the near future. Table 1: List of data providers and users

N. Name of the organisation

Org.type List of typical types of data provided

1 Government office of the Slovak Republic

(Úrad vlády Slov-enskej republiky)7

Public sector

Danube strategy related resources8

Open Government partnership9

Sk Open Data Portal10

Public sector datasets11

eDemocracy project12

2 National council of the Slovak Republic

(Národná rada Slov-enskej republiky)13

Public sector

Legislation (EN translations)

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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Develop-ment of the Slovak

Republic (Ministerstvo pôdohospodárstva a rozvoja vidieka SR)14

Public sector

Register of ecological production (Ekologické regis-tre)15

Central Register of feedstuff-producing business op-erators

Forestry features (Centrálny register krmivárskych podnikov)

List of registered plant varieties (Listina registro-vaných odrôd)

Fruit orchards register (Register ovocných sadov)

Estimation of fruit crops and fruit production (Odhad úrody ovocia a produkcia ovocia)

Vineyard register (Vinohradnícky register)

Central registry of livestock (Centrálna evidencia hospodárskych zvierat (CEHZ))

Beekeeping register (Centrálny register včelstiev)

RASFF – the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed

Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS)

Bioenergy (biomass)16

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Soil, Agricultural and aquaculture facilities)17

4 Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo kultúry

SR)18

Public sector

Register museums and galleries of the Slovak Re-public (Register múzeí a galérií Slovenskej repub-liky)19

List of Slovak Libraries (Zoznam knižníc Slovenskej republiky)

7 http://www.government.gov.sk/ 8 http://www.dunajskastrategia.gov.sk/ 9 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/co-je-otvorene-vladnutie/ 10 http://www.data.gov.sk/ 11 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 12 http://www.itapa.sk/5042-sk/open-data-v-projekte-edov/ 13 http://www.nrsr.sk/web/default.aspx?lang=en 14 http://www.mpsr.sk/en/ 15 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 16 http://www.nlcsk.sk/nlc_sk/ustavy/ulpav/publikacie/vb.aspx 17 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 18 http://www.culture.gov.sk/ 19 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/

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N. Name of the organisation

Org.type List of typical types of data provided

National cultural monuments20

Europeana21 contributions

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Pro-tected sites) 22

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Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Repub-lic (Ministerstvo hos-

podárstva SR)23

Public sector

Various subsidies and grants lists24

Overview of business entities that have been ap-proved for investment aid

List of certificates issued under the investment plan with a long-term energy policy concept

Economic register

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. En-ergy, Mineral resources, Production and industrial fa-cilities) 25

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Ministry of Environ-ment of the Slovak

Republic (Ministerstvo životného prostredia

SR)

Public sector

Various subsidies and grants lists26

Corine land cover27

EIA, SEA28

SEVESO29

E-PRTR30

Environmental burdens31

Bathing water32

Drinking water33

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Pro-tected sites, Hydrography, Geology, Atmospheric conditions - Meteorological geographic al features) 34

7 Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo financií

SR)35

Public sector

Codelist of Public sector departments and agenda36

Public sector information systems metadata37

8 Ministry of Health of Slovak Republic (Min-isterstvo zdravotnic-

tva SR)38

Public sector

Database of mineral water resources39

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Hu-man health and safety) 40

9 Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic

Public sector

Various subsidies and grants lists42

Register of natural persons43

20 http://www.pamiatky.sk/en 21 http://www.europeana.eu/ 22 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 23 http://www.mhsr.sk/aboutus-tzz/129946s 24 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 25 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 26 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 27 http://www.sazp.sk/public/index/go.php?id=1143 28 http://www.enviroportal.sk/sk/eia 29 http://www.sazp.sk/seveso/ 30 http://www.sazp.sk/public/index/go.php?id=655&idl=655&idf=797&lang=sk 31 http://www.enviroportal.sk/environmentalne-temy/environmentalne-zataze 32 http://vodanakupanie.sazp.sk/ 33 http://pitnavoda.sazp.sk/ 34 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 35 http://www.finance.gov.sk/En/Default.aspx 36 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 37 http://www.informatizacia.sk/centralny-metainformacny-system-verejnej-spravy/10346s 38 http://www.health.gov.sk/Index.aspx 39 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 40 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 42 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 43 http://www.minv.sk/?RFO_MV

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N. Name of the organisation

Org.type List of typical types of data provided

(Ministerstvo vnútra SR)41

Address Register44

Register of Parties45

Register of Foundations46

Evidence of organisations with the International Ele-ment47

Evidence of Civil Associations48

Register of non-profit organisations49

State borders50

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Ad-ministrative units, Addresses) 51

10 Ministry of the Justice of the Slovak Repub-lic (Ministerstvo spra-

vodlivosti SR)52

Public sector

The Business Register53

11 The Ministry of Edu-cation, Science, Re-search and Sport of the Slovak Republic

(Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a

športu SR)54

Public sector

Overview of the application of graduates in the labor market55

Digital school map56

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The Ministry of Transport, Construc-tion and Regional De-velopment of the Slo-vak Republic (Minis-

terstvo dopravy, výstavby a re-

gionálneho rozvoja SR)57

Public sector

List of heliports58

List of aviation ground facilities

List of airports

Aircrafts register

ERRU-European Register of Road Transport Under-takings

The data for water level gauges Devin, Bratislava, bears, Komarno, Štúrovo

Register of vessels

Register of small vessels

Waterways evidence

Evidence of small vessels rentals

Evidence of arrival, departure and transit of vessels on the Danube

Register of railway vehicles

Postal codes

Post office codelist

Address points register

Statistics of air accidents

Various subsidies and grants lists

Statistics on air accidents

41 http://www.minv.sk/?ministry-of-interior 44 http://www.minv.sk/?RA_MV 45 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startps.do 46 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startrnd.do 47 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startomp.do 48 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startoz.do 49 http://www.ives.sk/registre/startrno.do 50 http://www.minv.sk/?sprava-statnych-hranic 51 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 52 http://www.justice.gov.sk/Stranky/default.aspx 53 http://www.orsr.sk/Default.asp?lan=en 54 https://www.minedu.sk/about-the-ministry/ 55 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 56 http://mapaskol.iedu.sk/ 57 http://www.telecom.gov.sk/index/?lang=en 58 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/

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N. Name of the organisation

Org.type List of typical types of data provided

Vehicle emission and originality control

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Road Transportation Network of the Slovak Republic) 59

13 Geodesy, Cartog-raphy and Cadastre Authority of Slovak

Republic (Úrad geo-dézie, kartografie a katastra Slovenskej

republiky)60

Public sector

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Co-ordinate reference systems, Cadastral parcels, Ele-vation) 61

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Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic

(Štatistický úrad Slov-enskej republiky)62

Public sector

Register and identifier of legal entities and entrepre-neurs63

Indicators of Economic Development

National and regional socio-economic development statistics

Catalogue of statistic codelists

INSPIRE related spatial data and services (e.g. Sta-tistical units, Popul ation distribution - demography) 64

15 Bratislava Self-Gov-erning Region (Brati-slavský samosprávny

kraj)65

Public sector

Land use and planning

Social service facilities

Municipal authorities,cultural facilities, bike routes

Agicultural areas

Danube public transport plans

16 Košice Self-Govern-ing Region (Košický samosprávny kraj)66

Public sector

Functional utilisation of the built-up area

17 Žilina Self-Governing Region (Žilinský sa-mosprávny kraj)67

Public sector

Land use and planning

Social service facilities

18 ArcGEO Information Systems68

Private sector

Continuous digital vector map 1:50,500 000

19 CORA GEO, spol. s r.o69

Private sector

Local, self government, industrial and infrastructure fa-cilities

20 ErasData-Pro spol. s r.o70

Private sector

Basic map 1:50 000, orthoimagery

21 Esprit spol. s r.o71

Private sector

Geography, geo-ecology and hydrology,Geology and geophysics

22 EUROSENSE spol. s

r.o72 Private sector

Geographical information, derived from three remote sensing sources, being spaceborne, airborne and sea-borne

23 G-BASE spol. s r.o73

Private sector

Remote sensing, photogrammetry, local, self govern-ment, industrial and infrastructure facilities

59 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 60 http://www.skgeodesy.sk/en/ 61 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 62 http://goo.gl/jlvhLj / http://slovak.statistics.sk/ 63 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/datasety-statnej-spravy/ 64 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/ 65 http://www.region-bsk.sk/EN/default.aspx 66 http://web.vucke.sk/en/ 67 http://www.regionzilina.sk/en/ 68 http://www.arcgeo.sk/ 69 http://www.corageo.sk/ 70 http://www.erasdatapro.sk/ 71 http://www.esprit-bs.sk/en/index.html 72 http://www.eurosense.com/documents/about-us/contact/slovakia.xml?lang=en-gb 73 http://www.g-base.com/

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N. Name of the organisation

Org.type List of typical types of data provided

24 GeoCommunity spol. s r.o.74

Private sector

International Geo community portal. Community and networks related data

25 Geomodel solar spol. s r.o75

Private sector

Solar and meteorological data

26 GIS Services, spol. s

r.o Private sector

Local, self government facility management, cadaster, land use plans, infrastructure facilities, telecomunica-tions

27 GISTA spol. s r.o76

Private sector

Local, self government

28 Jazzarchitetcure77

Private sector

Land use,planning

29 MK18, spol. s r.o.78

Private sector

Geodetic and cartography data and services

30 SGS Holding a.s.79

Private sector

Surveying, agriculture, contractions, photogrammetry, aerial mapping

31 Skeyemap80

Private sector

Data and services based on Google map

32 Softplan Slovakia spol. s r.o.81

Private sector

Environment, local, self government, surveying, spatial planning, the distribution network, sewerage

33 T-MAPY spol. s r.o82

Private sector

Local, self government, crisis management, transport

34 YMS, a.s.83

Private sector

Environment,forestry, remote sensing, industrial and infrastructure facilities

35 Zymestic Solutions, spol. s r.o 84

Private sector

Planimetric, elevation plans and orthophotomaps , models of buildings, statues, and other similar objects

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Comenius university Bratislava85

Aca-demic,

Research and De-velop-

ment sec-tor

Health, environment, demography, remote sensing

37

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice86

Aca-demic,

Research and De-velop-

ment sec-tor

3D models

38

Slovak Academy of Sciences87

demic, Research and De-velop-

ment sec-tor

Ecology, ecosystems, remote sensing

74 http://www.geoinformatika.sk/profil-geocommunity 75 http://geomodelsolar.eu/ 76 http://www.gista.sk/ 77 http://www.jazzarchitecture.sk/ 78 http://www.mk18sro.sk/index_kontakt.html 79 http://www.sgs-holding.com/en/ 80 http://www.skeyemap.com/en/ 81 http://www.ingrada.sk/en/index.htm 82 http://www.tmapy.cz/ 83 http://www.yms.sk/en/ 84 http://www.zymestic.sk/en/ 85 http://uniba.sk/ 86 http://www.upjs.sk/en/ 87 http://www.sav.sk/?lang=en

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N. Name of the organisation

Org.type List of typical types of data provided

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Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra88

Aca-demic,

Research and De-velop-

ment sec-tor

Agriculture, surveying,

40

Slovak University of Technology Brati-

slava89

Aca-demic,

Research and De-velop-

ment sec-tor

GNSS measurements

41

Technical University in Zvolen90

Aca-demic,

Research and De-velop-

ment sec-tor

Historical orthoimagery

42

University of Žilina91

Aca-demic,

Research and De-velop-

ment sec-tor

LiDAR, 3D models

43 DataNest

(Aliancia Fair Play)92 Third sec-tor (NGO)

Information on money in politics, government procure-ment, subsidies, and other types of information on the management of Slovakia

44 Freemap.sk93

Third sec-tor (NGO)

SK Open Street Map94

45 INEKO95

Third sec-tor (NGO)

Economy of municipalities, cities and regions96 Evaluation health facilities97 Evaluation of the schools98

46 Association of Towns and Municipalities of Slovakia (ZMOS)99

Third sec-tor (NGO)

Municipality and towns related data

Table 1: List of data providers

The majority of data/details that are potentially relevant to the DRDSI come from the public sector domain, followed by the Academic, Research and Development sector and then the private sector. Except in a few cases, where NGOs can possibly contribute, third sector contributions are likely to be of limited potential. From the content point of view, among the most populated domains belong to the environment and irrigation/ agri-cultural development topics. Data resources can be seen to be in highly heterogeneous structures and in many

88 http://www.uniag.sk/en/ 89 http://www.stuba.sk/english.html?page_id=132 90 http://www.tuzvo.sk/en/ 91 https://www.uniza.sk/menu/inc.php?ver=en 92 http://datanest.fair-play.sk/en/pages/index 93 http://www.freemap.sk/#u=c 94 http://www.freemap.sk/ 95 http://www.ineko.sk/about/about-us 96 http://www.obce.ineko.sk/ 97 http://nemocnice.ineko.sk/ 98 http://skoly.ineko.sk/ 99 http://www.zmos.sk/

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cases with very limited detailed documentation, often with unclear licensing conditions. Such issues are likely to impact on the readiness of organisations to share data or offer ready access to existing online data re-sources. Initiatives like INSPIRE100, Open Data101 have, however, recently stimulated more open and transparent pub-lication of data. At the same time, there are still difficulties to exchange digital data among public bodies and with both private sector actors and citizens. INSPIRE INSPIRE is influencing the subdomain of spatial data and related infrastructures. The underlying legal frame-work and stakeholders’ involvement and coordination mechanisms are helping data to become documented with standardised metadata102, harmonised via interoperable data specifications and published through net-work services under the licensing conditions for sharing. In order to provide a central access point to the national spatial data infrastructure the Slovak National Geoportal has been made created, although data pro-viders can also establish their own (domain/application specific) geoportals.

Figure 2: SK National Geoportal

To support coordination processes and provide the related information, a national INSPIRE website103 has been established. The website also provides access to the List of Liable Entities104 foreseen to be the bodies responsible for the content under the scope of the INSPIRE themes. Some of these entities are likely to be organisations who could potentially contribute metadata/data to the DRDSI.

100 http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reports/country_reports_mr2012/SK-INSPIRE-Report-2013_ENV-2013-00450-00-00-

EN-TRA-00.pdf 101 http://www.opengovpartnership.org/files/slovakia-ogp-irm-public-comment-engpdf-0/download 102 http://geoportal.gov.sk/sk/cat-client 103 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/ 104 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/povinne_osoby/

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Figure 3: SK INSPIRE Website & List of Liable Entities

OpenData The initial impact of the Open Data movement in Slovakia can be seen from the signing of a participation agreement in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in September 2011. The OGP action plan in Slovakia is a legally binding document. After initial changes in the governance of the OGP, the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic is currently the leading, implementing and coordinating body for the OGP activities in Slovakia. Although commitments are owned by a variety of agencies, the biggest successes are in the area of Open Data105. In cooperation with the Government Office of the Slovak Republic, the Open Government Initiative dedicated website has been established to provide a central point for related information106.

Figure 4: Website for Open Government Partnership in Slovakia

Initial interaction with public sector bodies took place during the period 2012-2013 with the collection of baseline inventory of open data, which were collected by the new Open Data Portal (Portál Otvorených Dát)107. Based on Global Open Data Index 2014108 Slovakia is in 64th position out of 184 countries.

105

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/sites/default/files/Slovakia%20OGP%20IRM%20Public%20Comment%20%28Eng

%29_0.pdf 106 http://www.otvorenavlada.gov.sk/ogp-home/ 107 http://www.data.gov.sk/ 108 http://global.census.okfn.org/place/sk

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Figure 5: Open Data Portal in Slovakia

Except for some individual cases, further work will be needed for the identification, willingness and readiness of organisations to provide and use data made available via the DRDSI. From a technical point of view, the majority of the players, however, should be ready to share their content. Among the most absent, or difficult to access datasets were identified as cadastral parcels, general reference data, flood areas, landslides, environ-mental burdens, air quality, soils, addresses, elevation, orthoimagery, buildings, land use, human health and safety, meteorological and energy related data. The possibility to include records, such as statistics, from the Slovak open data portal could be explored further.

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3. Policy-making organisations The legal framework is significantly influencing the environment where data and infrastructures can be estab-lished and successfully operated. Slovakia's highest legislative body is the 150-seat unicameral National Coun-cil of the Slovak Republic (Národná rada Slovenskej republiky). The following table provides an overview of the main policy making players, including an indication of the policy areas they are involved in and related projects.

Table 2: List of policy-making organisations

N. Name of policy-making organisa-

tion

Organisa-tion type

(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-

ment)

Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,

energy)

List of key legal acts responsible

for relating to data

Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube

Region

1 National council of the Slovak Republic

(Národná rada Slovenskej repub-

liky)

Central gov-ernment

Sole constitu-tional and leg-islative body of the Slovak Re-public

Regulation no. 460/1992 Coll., Constitution of the Slovak Republic

Electronic services of National council of the Slovak Re-public

2

Government office of the Slovak Re-public (Úrad vlády Slovenskej repub-

liky)

Central gov-ernment

State admin-istration

Regulation no. 575/2001 Coll., Act on the Organisation of Government and central government ORDER OF THE SLOVAK REPUB-LIC no. 50 from February 22, 2012 to draft Action Plan initiatives for open governance in the Slovak Republic

eDemocracy109

3

Ministry of Agricul-ture and Rural De-velopment of the Slovak Republic

(Ministerstvo pôdohospodárstva a rozvoja vidieka

SR)

Central gov-ernment

Energy and in-dustry, For-estry, agricul-ture

Regulation no. 330/1991 Coll. The Slovak National Council on land consolidation, land ownership, land of-fices, land fund and land communities Regulation no. 326/2005 Coll., Act on Forests

Electronic Services of Agricultural Pay-ing Agency

4

Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Re-

public (Ministerstvo kultúry SR)

Central gov-ernment

Intellectual Property, cul-ture,

Regulation no. 618/2003 Coll., Act on copyright and rights related to copyright (Copy-right Act) Regulation no. 206/2009 Coll., Act on museums and galleries and the protection of cul-tural objects

Development of memory and fund repository institu-tions and the re-newal of the na-tional infrastructure

109 http://goo.gl/sFfxg6

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N. Name of policy-making organisa-

tion

Organisa-tion type

(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-

ment)

Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,

energy)

List of key legal acts responsible

for relating to data

Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube

Region

5 Ministry of Econ-omy of the Slovak Republic (Minister-stvo hospodárstva

SR)

Central gov-ernment

Economy, business

Regulation no. 251/2012 Coll., Act on Energy and amending some laws

Digitalization Ser-vices of the Ministry of Economy

6

Ministry of Environ-ment of the Slovak Republic (Minister-

stvo životného prostredia SR)

Central gov-ernment

Environment, Geol-ogy,waste, wa-ter manage-ment,

Regulation no. 3/2010 Coll., Act on national infrastruc-ture for spatial in-formation Regulation no. 223/2001 Regulation no. 543/2002 Coll., Act on nature and land-scape protection Coll., Act on waste and amending cer-tain laws Regulation no. 119/2010 Coll., Act on packages Regulation no. 364/2004 Coll. Wa-ter Act Regulation no. 261/2002 Coll., Act on the prevention of industrial accidents Regulation no. 205/2004 Coll., Act on the collection, storage and dis-semination of infor-mation on the envi-ronment Regulation no. 39/2013 Coll., Coll., Act on Envi-ronmental impact assessment

SmartOpenData110 SDI4Apps111 GI-N2K112 Spatial information register

7

Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Re-

public (Ministerstvo financií SR)

Central gov-ernment

Fiscal eGovernment Information and communi-cation technol-ogies, stand-ardisation

Act No. 305/2013 Coll. about The eGovernment Regulation no. 275/2006 Coll., Act on public admin-istration information systems and amending certain laws

Central meta-infor-mation system of public administra-tion

110 http://www.smartopendata.eu/ 111 http://sdi4apps.eu/ 112 http://www.gi-n2k.eu/

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N. Name of policy-making organisa-

tion

Organisa-tion type

(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-

ment)

Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,

energy)

List of key legal acts responsible

for relating to data

Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube

Region

8 Ministry of Health of

Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo zdra-

votnictva SR)

Central gov-ernment

Health, safety Regulation no. 153/2013 Coll., Act of the National Health Information System

Digitalization of Health Services 113

9 Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Re-

public (Ministerstvo vnútra SR)

Central gov-ernment

Administration Regulation no. 253/1998 Coll., Act on reporting of citi-zen of the Slovak Republic and the population register

COMSODE114 Register of physical persons Address Register

10

Ministry of the Jus-tice of the Slovak

Republic (Minister-stvo spravodlivosti

SR)

Central gov-ernment

Judiciary and Prosecution

Regulation no. 211/2000 Coll., Law on free access to information and amending certain acts (Freedom of Information Act) Regulation no. 530/2003 Coll., Act on Commercial Register

Electronic services of justice

11 The Ministry of Ed-ucation, Science,

Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (Minister-stvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu

SR)

Central gov-ernment

Research and education,

Regulation no. 245/2008 Coll., Act on education and training (Education Law)

Electronic services of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports

12

The Ministry of Transport, Con-

struction and Re-gional Development

of the Slovak Re-public (Ministerstvo dopravy, výstavby a

regionálneho rozvoja SR)

Central gov-ernment

Transport Regional de-velopment

Regulation no. 56/2012 Coll., Act on Road Transport Regulation no. 338/2000 Coll., Act on inland naviga-tion and amend-ments to certain laws Regulation no. 143/1998 Coll. Of the Civil Aviation (Aviation Act) and on amendments to certain Acts Regulation no. 514/2009 Coll., Act of railroad transport Regulation no. 45/2011 Coll., Act

The Operational Programme Transport pro-jects115 Electronic services in Transport

113 http://www.ezdravotnictvo.sk/en/Pages/default.aspx 114 http://www.comsode.eu/ 115 http://www.opd.sk/en/projects_opd

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N. Name of policy-making organisa-

tion

Organisa-tion type

(central gov-ernment or regional/lo-cal govern-

ment)

Responsibil-ity for policy areas (e.g. agriculture,

energy)

List of key legal acts responsible

for relating to data

Completed and current projects creating data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube

Region

on Critical Infra-structure

13 Geodesy, Cartog-raphy and Cadastre Authority of Slovak Republic (Úrad ge-odézie, kartografie

a katastra Slov-enskej republiky)

Central gov-ernment

Geodesy, car-tography

Regulation no. 215/1995 Coll., Act of the National Council of the Slo-vak Republic on Geodesy and Car-tography

Electronic services UGKK SR-ZBGIS

14 Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic

(Štatistický úrad Slovenskej repub-

liky)

Central gov-ernment

Polulation, de-mography,

Regulation no. 540/2001 Coll., Act on State Statistics

Digitalization Ser-vices of the Slovak Statistical Office Register and identi-fier of legal entities and entrepreneurs

15 Regional and local

governments Regional and

local

Cross domain areas

Electronic services for self-government Data center of towns and villages

16 Anyone Any

Whole legisla-tion framework

Although most of the DRDSI-related priorities are delineated in the existing legislative framework in Slovakia, there are some specific aspects that deserve attention. In many cases, topics to be addressed are fragmented among various pieces of the legislation. In some areas (such as water) there are plans to consolidate and revise existing regulations. It would seem that in some cases legislation is following the outcomes of large ICT projects, rather than policy leading technical developments. Although there were some efforts to introduce “Participatory Policy Making” processes via the OGP initiative, the initial outcomes are somewhat questionable in terms of developing good collaboration between stakeholders. This is unfortunate as such an activity could help to readily promote, for example, the DRDSI. On the other hand, some examples in legislation have pro-vided very successful technical and technology-led developments (Law no. 431/2002 Coll. Accounting and Register of financial statements116, or Regulation no. 211/2000 Coll., Law on free access to information and the From Our taxes web app117). The legislative framework is also important from the data licencing point of view, creating an environment where simple and transparent licencing frameworks can be established. Al-ready, there are a few initiatives heading towards this ambition. The first one is driven by the requirements of the INSPIRE and PSI Directives in the area of spatial data and services under the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic 118. The second one is under Creative Commons Slovakia, where latest version of Creative Commons licences (Version 4.0) was recently translated. A final activity worth noting is related to the cultural heritage under the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, where data in this context may be more readily available in the future.

4. Support for the national data infrastructure

Systematic development and further support in the area of a national data infrastructure is mainly driven by the three initiatives described in the following table, together with key legislation and related funding.

Table 3: Support for the national data infrastructure

116 http://www.registeruz.sk/cruz-public/static/api.html 117 http://znasichdani.sk/l/?l=en 118 http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/koordinacia/rove-sk/es-nipi/tpvss

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N. Name of or-

ganisation List of key legal acts respon-sible for relating to data

List of key initia-tives they are in-volved in

List of key funding sources being used to develop the infra-structure (also clas-sified as regional/na-tional and external funding)

1 Government of-fice of the Slo-vak Republic (Úrad vlády

Slovenskej re-publiky)

ORDER OF THE SLOVAK RE-PUBLIC no. 50 from February 22, 2012 to draft Action Plan ini-tiatives for open governance in the Slovak Republic

Open Government Partnership (includ-ing OpenData)

State budget ERDF

2 Ministry of Envi-ronment of the

Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo

životného pros-tredia SR)

Regulation no. 3/2010 Coll., Act on national infrastructure for spatial information

INSPIRE State budget FP7

3 Ministry of Fi-nance of the

Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo fi-

nancií SR)

Act No. 305/2013 Coll. about The eGovernment Regulation no. 275/2006 Coll., Act on public administration in-formation systems and amend-ing certain laws

eGovernment State budget ERDF

Each of the above mentioned main infrastructure frameworks is at different stages of development, including in terms of providing certain types of dataset and service, although there is still significant effort needed to have them fully operational. The overall policy framework supporting data provision for the DRDSI is in place, although still some activities are to be undertaken in the near future (such as the transposition of the new PSI Directive). This context helps to highlight the potential issues that would support an approach to have data producers sharing their data within the DRDSI.

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5. Research organisations

As indicated in the Table1, Slovak research organisations represent significant potential for the DRDSI’s de-velopment. The main responsible authority for research and development in Slovakia is the Ministry of Educa-tion, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. The following table provides information about the main organisations involved in the research and development (R&D) activities with relevance to the DRDSI.

Table 4: List of research organisations

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N. Name of organi-sation

Type of or-ganisation (universities, public re-search cen-tres and pri-vate research firms)

Completed and current projects creat-ing data or tools to support the EU Strategy for the Danube Region

Lists of relevant research net-works they be-long to

1 Ministry of Educa-tion, Science, Re-search and Sport

of the SR

Public re-search centre

Management of R&D projects from na-tional and international funding schemes

2 Slovak Academy of

Sciences Public re-

search centre

European Biodiversity Observation Net-work: Design of a Plane for an Integrated Biodiversity Observing System in Space and Time (EBONE)119

LTER Europe120

3 Slovak Water Man-agement Enter-

prise

Public re-search centre

Danube Flood Risk121 South East Eu-rope Programme Area122

4 Water Research

Institute Public re-

search centre

WANDA (Waste Management for Inland Navigation on the Danube)123

South East Eu-rope Programme Area124

5 Slovak Environ-ment agency

Public re-search centre

CENTROPE Map125

6 State Geological

Institute of Dionýz Štúr

Public re-search centre

OneGeology Europe126 Transenergy127 Minerals4EU128

7 State nature con-

servancy Public re-

search centre

Conservation and management of Dan-ube floodplain forests129 DANUBEPARKS130

The Danube River Network of Pro-tected Areas

8 Slovak Hydromete-orological Institute

Public re-search centre

CEFrame131 SEERisk132 SEE RIVER133

Comenius univer-

sity Bratislava,Fac-ulty od natural sci-

ences

University

Evaluation of geographic information quality for environmental decision mak-ing134 Environmental Medicine for twenty-first century - Geographical Information Sys-tem and Environmental Health135

9 Technical Univer-sity in Zvolen, Fac-

ulty of forestry University

Geographic information on forest and fores landscape - creation and utilization specificness136

10 Slovak University of Technology Bra-tislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering

University

Standardization and Inter-Operability of Geographical Information137

11 Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice, Faculty of science

University Semantic enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development.138

COST

12 Slovak University of Agriculture in Ni-

tra, Horticulture and Landscape

Engineering Fac-ulty

University

Creation of a data foundation/base for the implementation of an information system on land consolidations139 Green infrastructure and urban agricul-ture140

13 Trnava University in Trnava, Faculty

of Education University

Diachronic and synchronic hydronymia of Žitný ostrov141

119 http://www.uke.sav.sk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134&Itemid=72&lang=en

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14 University of Žilina, Faculty of Civil En-

gineering Letisková

spoločnosť Žilina, a.s.

YMS, a.s. Technical Univer-

sity of Košice

University, public research centre and pri-vate research

firm

Brokerage center of aviation technology transfer and knowledge in transport and transport infrastructure

15 National Forest Centre

Public re-search centre

ARANGE Project142

Despite the relatively high growth of the Slovak economy, research and development (R&D) and innovation lags behind the European average. The reason is not only lower than average funding of R&D processes, but still a strong focus on basic research, the relative isolation of Slovak Research and relatively low impact on the innovative capacity of the Slovak economy (SK R&D report 2012)143. From the DRDSI perspective, there are already examples of projects and cooperation activities in the Danube region. In addition, other players and activities with potential impact on the DRDSI have been identified. The majority of the R&D activities are undertaken by public research bodies, whilst a slow uptake by private sector actors to support the development of research and innovation activities can be found. From the data content point of view, many R&D organisations are creating and maintaining highly relevant data and services. Further details about their accessibility will have to be closely examined should the DRDSI aim to include such data as content in the platform.

120 http://www.lter-europe.net/ 121 http://enviroiforum.sazp.sk/uploads/2013/05/page/prezentacie-4/04%20-%20Dobias_Enviroiforum_2013.ppsx 122 http://www.southeast-europe.net/ 123 http://www.vuvh.sk/index.php/en_US/rozne/projekty 124 http://www.southeast-europe.net/ 125 http://www.centropemap.org/ 126 http://onegeology.org/ 127 http://transenergy-eu.geologie.ac.at/ 128 http://www.minerals4eu.eu/ 129 http://www.dunaj.broz.sk/lesy/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=66 130 http://www.danubeparks.org/ 131 http://www.ceframe.eu/ 132 http://www.seeriskproject.eu/seerisk/#main 133 http://www.see-river.net/ 134http://goo.gl/IoXOJB 135 https://uvp.geonika.sk/map/ 136 http://goo.gl/J4dT8W 137 http://www.svf.stuba.sk/en/departments/department-of-theoretical-geodesy/science-and-research/inland-

projects.html?page_id=3505#kapitola1 138 http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/tud/Actions/TU0801 139

http://is.uniag.sk/vv/projekty.pl?projekt=6764;podrobnosti=1;zpet=http://is.uniag.sk/pracoviste/projekty.pl?id=134,lan

g=en;lang=en 140

http://is.uniag.sk/vv/projekty.pl?projekt=6686;podrobnosti=1;zpet=http://is.uniag.sk/pracoviste/projekty.pl?id=74,lang

=en;lang=en 141 http://goo.gl/iMKdxF 142 http://www.arange-project.eu/ 143 https://www.minedu.sk/data/att/6990.rtf

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6. Stakeholder engagement organisations and networks In addition to the previously mentioned players, there is another society segment with a specific role in the data infrastructure, particularly linked to coordination, networking and social validation aspects. The following table provides an overview about such stakeholders, including their scope and area of activity.

Table 5: Stakeholder engagement organisations and networks

N. Name of organisation Type of organisation (na-tional, cross-border or whole Danube Region)

Main area of interest

1 Association of Slovak Geomor-phologists

National Geomorphology and related disci-plines

2 CentropeMap Crossborder

Cross border cooperation for AT-CZ-SK-HU

3 Commission for the standardiza-tion of information systems in

public administration National eGov + Open Data standards

4 Danube Environmental Forum +

Daphne International

Support for sustainable development of Danube region in biodiversity, land use and environmental education

5 DEUS - eGov DataCenter for self-Government of the Slovak

Republic National

eGovernment support forl self-gov-ernment

6 EIONET International

Development and dissemination of information concerning Europe’s en-vironment

7 Employer Union of Geodesy and

Cartography National

Geodesy, cartography, cadastre, land consolidation, photogrammetry and geographic information systems

8 EUROGI International

European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information

9

Geoinformatika.sk International

CZ+SK Geo community portal for users of geographic information systems and technolo-gies

10 GI N2K International Academia and SMEs in GeoICT

11 INSPIRE Maintenance and Im-plementation Group

International Support in spatial data infrastructures depoyment and maintenance

12 Microregions alliance Danube - Vah - Moravia

Regional Cross border cooperation for AT-CZ-SK-HU

13 ReŠtart Slovensko (Center for Philanthropy)

National Ideas and use cases

14 Slovak Association for Geoinfor-matics

National Geographic information systems, Re-mote sensing

15 Slovak Geographical Society National Geography and related disciplines

16 SmeSpire International SMEs in GeoICT

17 StartUpSlovakia (Various organisers)

National, Regional Ideas and use cases

18 The Society for Open Information Technologies

National Open information technologies

19 TPVSS National

Licencing framework for geospatial data and services

The majority of the stakeholder engagement organisations and networks identified with potential for the DRDSI objectives are operating at the national level. There are also some projects and associations with the potential to stimulate various networks and communities. From the domain point of view, the strongest representation comes from the GeoICT sector accompanied by the environment and regional/local government related or-ganisations and activities. Last but not least, some players can be represented by the various initiatives that focus on supporting innovative activities and start-up companies, acting as important incubators for interesting

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projects, business ideas and use cases. An important role is also played by standardization activities aiming to deliver national and cross-domain ICT standards mainly in the area of eGovernment and Linked/Open Data. From the initial input received, the main expectations from the DRDSI are the possibility to access useful and attractive data and the expectation to communicate the goals, progress and outcomes of the DRDSI for the wider public.

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7. Conclusions The investigations collected with this report should serve as starting point for further activities focused on supporting the Slovakian contribution to the DRDSI, as well as for shaping and ensuring relevant benefits come from having this platform for both Slovakian stakeholders and the whole Danube region. These activities should include the creation of a data inventory, the assessment of data access conditions and a series of related outreach efforts to help raise awareness and promote the DRDSI. In addition, activities related to identification of the gaps in important data resources and pilots can demonstrate the value of the DRDSI and further support of organisational engagement from different sectors. From the situation depicted in this report, Slovakia comes with high potential to effectively participate in the shaping, implementation and reuse of the DRDSI. At the same time, it is important to point out some chal-lenges, deserving relevant attention:

The involvement of the stakeholders is difficult to stimulate based on the currently high/abstract level of DRDSI benefits;

Stakeholders were often indicated their limited infrastructure, capacities and resources to be committed for specific DRDSI activities;

There are heterogeneous data and licensing policies impacting on ready data-sharing;

There is insufficient information and awareness about existing data resources and their quality With this in mind, further steps and actions will have to be jointly done to ensure the DRDSI can meet its potential via the engagement of stakeholders. These stakeholders from EU to local level will need to be moti-vated to contribute metadata, data and infrastructure assets. More emphasis should be placed on the co-creation of a shared knowledge base that can help to prove the meaning and justification of the effort to be invested.