environmental datacentres current status in go4 and eea discussions stefan jensen
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Environmental datacentres Current status in Go4 and EEA discussions Stefan Jensen. Go4 acitivities on data centres. Historic. ”Political” agreement on DC’s by Go4 based on shared responsibilities (2005) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Environmental datacentres
Current status in Go4 and EEA discussions
Stefan Jensen
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Go4 acitivities on data centres
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HistoricHistoric
”Political” agreement on DC’s by Go4 based on shared responsibilities (2005)
Establishment of a common architecture team (CADT) > prepare an Enterprise architecture report (draft) (2007-08)
Reporting on annual DC progress (2007-08) in DIMESA meetings
Shaping of DC acitivities as key SEIS actions on EU level amongst Go4 partner (2009)
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• Different progress on indivdual DCs
• MDIAK reflection • Common elements template• ...
State of discussionState of discussion
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EEA activities related to data centres
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Building EnvironmentalBuilding Environmentaldata centresdata centres
History:• Ongoing, growing data work in thematic areas since the
start of EEA• Go4 technical agreement on responsibilities in late 2005• Participation in Go4 DC architecture group since 2006• Limited, scattered internal EEA discussion• Launch of first version of water data centre March 2007• First reporting sheets on DC progress in 2007• Initial effort to prepare implementation plans 2008
(Land)• Intensified discussion along the June 2008 visit of ESTAT
consultants tasked to do a common architecture proposal
• Horizontal papers produced by „SEIS team“ • DC team announced in fall 2008• Formally established early 2009
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Data Centre concept –Data Centre concept –a Go4 technical definition a Go4 technical definition
• Environmental data centres are institutionally supported facilities providing convenient access to, manipulation of, and/or distribution of data sets relating to a specific thematic area (including supporting information and expertise) to users. They are intended to have a long lifespan, as they are not tied to a specific project
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Data Centre concept –Data Centre concept –EEA adaptation/refinement EEA adaptation/refinement
• The focus of the Data Centre is on the data handling. All other tasks are defined to lie outside the EDC. A Data Centre at the EEA is a data custodian of European data and data service provider to other EU-organisations, the MS and the general public. It lies within the task to provide a quantitative analysis of the data and provide the data part of the presentation of an indicator or a spatial presentation but not to provide the assessment.
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Each data centre shallEach data centre shall
• Collect, store, maintain, update and make available any kind of data within their thematic area that is necessary for both creating the indicators that have been specified as well as other specified assessments to support EU policies relevant for the European level
Actions:• Frame scope by defining indicator/data
relationship (thematic groups)
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Each data centre shallEach data centre shall
• Collect, store, maintain, update and make available data based on EU reporting obligations (Directives, Systems, SoE voluntary arrangements) and other agreed tasks within the thematic area
Actions:• Define other agreed tasks (thematic groups)
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Each data centre shallEach data centre shall
• Provide a link and set up agreements on storage and/or access to data hosted by other data centres / institutions (“foreign” datasets) and create (?) and maintain these data in order to produce a quantitative analysis of the data for the presentation of all indicators at the European level within the thematic area
Actions:• Identify necessary partnerships and set up
agreements where needed (DC contacts with SES3/SES1)
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Each data centre shallEach data centre shall• Work in close contact with data providers at both the
national, European and global level
• Take an active part in implementing SEIS - the EDC’s are the data custodians for their specified thematic area at the European level
• Use a common European spatial data infrastructure based on the implementation rules set out by the INSPIRE directive
Actions:• Engage in the INSPIRE process (DC contacts with SES3)
(ongoing for water and nature/biodiversity) and derive development needs
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Each data centre shallEach data centre shall
• Follow the work on e-government to ensure interoperability for environmental data within their theme
Action:• SES to follow and advise
• Follow the development of GMES in order to meet the upcoming in situ data requirements for related services
Action:• SES1 to identify (DC contacts with SES1)
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Each data centre shallEach data centre shall• Be responsible for the QA/QC procedures at the European
level and maintain metadata descriptions both for the data and for the indicators as well as data flowcharts for each indicator relevant for the thematic area
Action:• SES2 to stepwise organise
• Provide and maintain web pages as part of the EEA website and provide links to interoperable web based applications for metadata, discovery, view and download services.
Action: • Organise links and services (DC contacts with SES3 and
OSE)
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Next steps / priority tasksNext steps / priority taskstowards DC interoperabilitytowards DC interoperability
• Review/establish implementation plans• Identify/review indicator/data relations per
DC (SES2 END lead?)• Identify service developments needs in line
with INSPIRE (e.g. metadata related) • Plan common DC web pages (as part of EEA
website re-design)• Identify additional QA/QC tasks• Set up roadmap for GMES implementation• Identify and encourage common technical
elements
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Expert services
Applications
System-to-system services
Data hosting
European data centreEuropean data centretechnical functions technical functions (OSE/SES view)(OSE/SES view)
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Area Function General comments Individual data centre content (some thoughts/notes)
Data (service) Display of available data and download
Pretty much as the current data service(Could also link to key datasets provided by partners)
available
Data viewer As current
Map viewer As current
Indicators Indicators linked to the theme
by keyword/theme tag CSI + (SEBI etc)
Reporting Listing of obligations (ROD);Access to CDR
Pre selection based on area (let’s see what is possible there)
As available
Web services Link to machine to machine data exchange e.g. through discomap
Future other INSPIRE network services, only available for LUDC for now
On protectd areas?tbd
Links ETC, key partner URL’s, document libraries (CIRCA et.al.), Clearinghouses,other Data Centres
Could also link to key datasets provided by partners
Network aspects especially important for BiodIvSpecial role for clearinghouse
Explanation Allows each DC to provide some own story about status/plans etc. evt.logos of partnerships
...
Thematic Simple link to stories/reports/assessments etc.
Switches to the theme site of the website(the theme site would consequently need a data link)
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Review of present data centre webpresences across Go4 websites
DC priority setting
Suggested common elements of datacentres
Boundary discussions / limitations (EEA websiteintegration)
Revisit common aspectsRevisit common aspects
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Key ideas from the BISE discussion
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Constructing a systemConstructing a system
Indicators and assessments
Viewing of information
Other data, e.g. spatial layers of direct interest
Data on sites, species & habitats
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Lead roles in MDIAK chain for Lead roles in MDIAK chain for biodiversitybiodiversity
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Things to achieve ...
DiscussionBiodiversity ”profile”Needed adjustments
Thank you!