Introduction to INSPIRE

European Commission Joint Research Centre

Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit

www.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Serving society

Stimulating innovation

Supporting legislation

Jean Dusart, Alexander Kotsev

2

Context of our training

• 24 official languages

• 3 official alphabets

• Different institutional setups

• Diverse data governance

• Celebrated diversity

3

INSPIRE – an introduction

EU-wide SDI perspective on data

Ultimate goal is to unlock spatial data and lay down

foundations of European SDI

INSPIRE is a Framework Directive

• Into force since 15th of May 2007

Detailed technical provisions are laid down in:

Implementing Rules on

Metadata

Spatial Data

Network services

Data and Service sharing (policy)

4

INSPIRE Legislative Acts published in the Official Journal

Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) 14.03.2007

INSPIRE Metadata Regulation 03.12.2008

Commission Decision regarding INSPIRE monitoring and reporting 05.06.2009

Regulation on INSPIRE Network Services 19.10.2009 (View and discovery)

Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation 15.12.2009

Regulation on INSPIRE Data and Service Sharing 29.03.2010

Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards download services and transformation services 10.12.2010

COMMISSION REGULATION implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 10.12.2010 (Annex I)

COMMISSION REGULATION amending Regulation 1089/2010 as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 05.02.2011 (code list)

European law affecting 30+ countries, 24 languages

5

INSPIRE implementation roadmap

We a

re

here

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/44

6

INSPIRE principles

Data should be collected once

Distributed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Possible to combine data from different sources

Focus on information relevant for governance

Focus on reusability

GI should be easily discoverable, together with

its metadata

7

Value added of INSPIRE

Platform for establishment of partnerships Fully synchronized with other EU policies • Re-use of public sector information (Revised PSI) • Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) principles • Domain specific EU legislation (AQ directive, END directive,

etc.)

Built around: • Consensus of all stakeholders from: Domains Member States

International standards • CEN • ISO • Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

8

Value added of INSPIRE

Building blocks for interoperable SDI in the following context

• Cross-country

• Cross-domain

• Combination of the above

Harmonization and standardization of environmental data across Europe (and beyond)

Legally binding for public administrations with data in scope

Business aspects of INSPIRE

• Rapidly growing geospatial sector

• Powered by INSPIRE….

9

INSPIRE Thematic Scope Annex I

Coordinate reference systems

Geographical grid systems

Geographical names

Administrative units

Addresses

Cadastral parcels

Transport networks

Hydrography

Protected sites

Annex II

Elevation

Land cover

Ortho-imagery

Geology

Annex III

Statistical units Area management/restriction/ regulation zones & reporting units

Buildings Natural risk zones

Soil Atmospheric conditions & Meteorological geographical features

Land use Oceanographic geographical features

Human health and safety Sea regions

Utility and governmental services

Bio-geographical regions

Environmental monitoring facilities

Habitats and biotopes

Production and industrial facilities

Species distribution

Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

Energy resources

Population distribution – demography

Mineral resources

Also Generic Conceptual Model, Observations & Measures

10

11

INSPIRE architecture

12

INSPIRE Geoportal

Central access point to the INSPIRE infrastructure and resources (>250.000 datasets)

“The face” of INSPIRE

• Connection to all MS network services

cross-border data discovery and visualisation

support to European policy making

13

Implementing Rules vs. Technical Guidelines

14

Relevant components

15

INSPIRE Implementing Rules (IRs)

+

No 1253/2013 21 Oct 2013

No 102/2011 (code values Annex I)

No 1089/2010 (Annex I)

16

INSPIRE Implementing Rules (IRs) - ISDSS

defines the requirements of

•spatial object types,

•their attributes,

•association roles

•code lists,

•code list values,

•layers for the spatial data theme

for all EU Member States (MS) public

sector (PS) organisations

17

Technical Guidelines (TG-Data Specification)

Framework Documents

TG Annex I, Annex II & III

Metadata & services

…

… Interoperability of spatial data sets & services

18

Code lists

4 types of INSPIRE code lists

according to extensibility

a) not extensible – only values included in IRs are allowed

b) narrower extensible – values included in IRs and narrower

values are allowed

c) freely extensible – values included in IRs and any other values

are allowed

d) empty – any values are allowed

For code lists of types (b), (c) and (d), additional values have to be

published in a register

TG-DS may include additional proposed values that will be published in

the INSPIRE code list register

19

UML models, application schemas, registers, that what JRC delivers & maintains

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels

20

Relevant components

Consolidated data model

(extensible)

• Encoding into GML

• Coordinate and temporal reference

systems

• UML model

INSPIRE Metadata

• Enable the discovery of Data and

Services in a SOA

21

Relevant components INSPIRE Registry

Online service for common

identifiers and definitions

for data encoding purposes

• registers: code lists, themes,

application schemas, fcd

• browsing and accessing

register content

• Formats: HTML, XML, Atom,

JSON and RDF/SKOS

• Multilingual content (based

on IR content)

Open to external contributions

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/registry/

22

Relevant components

INSPIRE Network services

In INSPIRE data should be made available where best managed 1. Discover

Expose metadata through INSPIRE compliant discovery service

2. View

Interactive view of data through an INSPIRE compliant data service

Unified portrayal through OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)

3. Download

Web Feature Service

Atom feeds

4. Transform

ETL

23

Relevant components

INSPIRE Geoportal • Central access point to the INSPIRE

infrastructure and resources (250000+)

• Connection to all MS network services

cross-border data discovery and visualisation

support to

policy making

24

Network Services

25

INSPIRE Metadata

Distinguish between

• Spatial object metadata

• Dataset-level metadata

Tools available at JRC site

• INSPIRE Metadata editor

• INSPIRE metadata validator

26

Discovery services

„discovery services making it possible to search for spatial data sets

and services on the basis of the content of the corresponding

metadata and to display the content of the metadata“

http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/

27

View services

„view services making it possible, as a minimum, to display, navigate,

zoom in/out, pan, or overlay viewable spatial data sets and to display

legend information and any relevant content of metadata“

28

View and discovery services at INSPIRE Geoportal

29

Download services

„download services, enabling copies of spatial data sets, or parts of such

sets, to be downloaded and, where practicable, accessed directly“

30

INSPIRE Download services

Available options (now)

• Atom feeds (RSS)

• WFS (Web Feature Service)

Work ongoing for

• INSPIRE compliant download service based on OGC Sensor

Observation Service (SOS)

• Web Coverage Service (WCS)

31

Download services

• Predefined

• Direct access

Service implementation

Predefined dataset download service

Direct access download service

SOS X X

WFS Х Х

Atom Х

32

Relevant components

INSPIRE Geoportal • Central access point to the INSPIRE

infrastructure and resources (250 000+)

• Connection to all MS network services

cross-border data discovery and visualisation

support to

policy making

33

Thanks