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ESDIN - the geospatial reference data and services for INSPIRE
David Overton – Project Coordinator
EuroGeographics Project Manager
www.esdin.eu
This presentation argues that;
• INSPIRE remains a dream with national INSPIRE compliance
alone
• Creating an “E” SDI from an “n”SDI needs standards
• The resultant common reference unlocks PSI re-use
• ESDIN has provided tools and best practice for you
Content
• Introduction
• Overview of the Project
• From requirements gathering
• Via proposed processes
• To a new architecture
• Demonstration
• Conclusions
Introduction
• Collaboration of 20 partners plus non-beneficiaries
– Data providers
– Developers
– Academia
– Software companies
• Best Practice
– Processes
– Services
– Specifications
• Meeting INSPIRE obligations & extending specifications for pan-
European use
ESDIN outcomes
Key Benefits
• Improve process efficiencies
• Enable interoperability
• Support users processes
with consistent, reliable
reference data
Important Results
• User requirements
• Harmonised data specifications
• Transformation rules & services
• A quality assurance approach
• Generalisation rules and services
• Modular pricing & licensing & Geo Product
Finder
• Federations authenticated by Shibboleth
• Tools for testing infrastructure
• Proposals and tools for maintenance
• Solution to technical architecture.
• On-line demonstrator of Download and
View services
Understanding the Requirements of Users
• Desk based
• Primary research: Design principles
• Value propositions;
– Flexibility to pricing and licensing
– Harmonization for multinational work
– Consistency
– Trustworthy data
We already have national INSPIRE serivces,
why bother?
Using data that
does not join-up
Data Provider
Service Integrator
Re-Use?
Forget it!
Throughout the workflow...
Schema/CRS
Transformation
Data
Integration
& Conflation
Edge
Matching
Geometric
Generalisation
Maintain
Data
Users
Harmonised Specifications for Data
• A history of
Harmonisation
• INSPIRE data
specification profiles
• Extended specification
• Meet INSPIRE
requirements
• Enable harmonisation
Transformation Rules and Services
• A process that accounts for
diversity
• A standardised template
• Used with positive results with
7 NMCAs
A Comprehensive Quality Approach
Generalisation Rules and Services
A Modular approach to Pricing and licensing – The Geo
Product Finder
• License and access policy of
European NMCAs
• Break-down of license models
into modules
• One-stop-shop License
wizard prototype: "Geo
Product Finder"
Gaining Access to Data
• Single-sign-on
solution
• Development with
OGC and
communicated to
INSPIRE.
Testing the Infrastructure
Reusable automated test components for:
• spatial data
• network services
• data production
processes
Tools are available under the BSD Open
Source License.
The management of Maintenance and Update
• Edge-matching rule sets
improve cross border quality
• Stable Unique-Identifier
logic address INSPIRE
requirements
• Incremental change
management allows
flexibility in life-cycle and
update management
Proposed Integrated Architecture
EuroGeographics
Architecture
integrated
with INSPIRE
conceptual
model
What about the future?
An example of viewing and downloading Hydrography
• Looks at Hydrography
theme
• INSPIRE compliance
• Does a number of Name
searches
• Uses E.L.F./INSPIRE
demonstrator to view
and download data
• Interoperates data with
relevant environmental
data.
<<See our video on
Hydrography>>
There’s also...
• Software:BSD license
• Deliverables
• INSPIRE demonstrator
• Tools for consistent data
• A task force
• Rules on quality processes
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Mapping / Cadastral agency adopted
• NMCA decided to implement
specifications
• Joined the Federation
• Used the code; created INSPIRE services
• Adopted the E.L.F. extensions
• Quality process
• Made their data accessible via the
EuroGeographics architecture
• Boosted usage of their data
When a European Agency used data
• Trusted quality data
• Used the INSPIRE compliant
services with their partner data
• Realised benefits
• Spent less time validating
• More time analysing
• Boosted their usage
ESDIN becoming real now!
• EuroGeoNames
• A test federation of NMCAs
provide an access for
INSPIRE data & services
• EuroGlobalMap: creating
from mid-scale data
holdings
Conclusion –Prospects for the European Location
Framework (E.L.F.)
• INSPIRE dream will not be realised,
unless;
• ESDIN best practices are adopted for
pan-European, Cross border data and
services
• An emergent community supports the
E.L.F.
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