26 June 2012

The Missing Layer –what we need to make INSPIRE actually work

Clare Hadley

Chair, UK Location Business Interoperability Working Group

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What’s the problem?

Call to Action

What can we do?

The Missing Layer

Why?

Your menu today

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Services which

are interoperable

INSPIRE has aspirations*..

Seamless data across

Member State

borders

A better world for

data users and

environmental policy

Harmonised

conditions of access

and use

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*of guidance

We have already been very busy and achieved lots*

*of legislation* metadata records

*of view services

*of discussions

*of activity

*of questions

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But *

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There’s a bit of a problem *

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Why?

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Did we forget something?

No, we didn’t

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RegistersService

Metadata

Data Set

Metadata

Registry Service Discovery Service

DT MD

DT NS

GeoRM layers

Application and Geoportals

Service Bus

InvokeSD

Service

Transf.

Service

Spatial Data Set

TWG TWG TWG

Thematic DS

Framework for

harmonized DS

DT DS

View

Service

Download

Service

INSPIRE Technical Architecture - Overview

Data

Layer

Serv

ice

Layer

Appl.

Layer

Rightsmanagementlayers

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But that layer has not been built*

Rights Management

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Why not?

“ Not seen as a priority ”

“ Coming later ”

“ A problem which will 'go away’

with open data ”

“ Too difficult ”

“ No technical solution ”

“ Too many technical solutions ”

“ The Commission does not have

power to take action ”

“ Not a 'geo' problem ”

“ The lawyers won’t, or can’t, talk to

the techies ”

“ We need a paradigm shift to

make it happen ”

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Is it really so important?

We need it for several reasons:

To protect personal data

To protect secure data

To manage licensed rights

To prevent unlicensed use

To assist performance

management

To allow publishers and users to

communicate

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What can we do? Option 1: Nothing

Ignore and exclude protected

datasets and services from

INSPIRE?

Allow point solutions to continue

to develop which leads to less

interoperability?

Continue to ignore

developments in the non-geo

world and isolate ourselves?

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What can we do? Option 2: Something

Focus on the important things

Separate the issue into access and use.

Access management – lots of activity in the non-geo world. Tied into role and identity.

Use management – some activity but further off. Most relates to harmonising licences and rights expression languages – passive rights management.

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What can we do? Option 2: Something

Look around at what we can use

With all this going on why is the layer still missing??

SAML 2

OpenIDGeoXACML

IDMaaS

ESDIN Project

Results

GeoREL

Identity

Federations

SSO

OGC

GeoDRM

Testbed

SaaS

IDABC,

EIF, ISA

Licence

frameworks

Proprietary

solutions

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What can we do? Option 2: Something

Get leadership to take this forward to a solution

Commission questionnaire on

authentication and e-commerce F a

hopeful sign of increasing interest?

In the non-Geo Euro world - IDABC is

setting the wider context

Standards bodies seem to have a low

level of activity at present.

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What can we do? Option 2: Something

Move from talking and be-moaning to doing

In the UK we have set up a Business Interoperability Working Group and commissioned started work to look at the state of play and practical options

In other Member States, trials are in progress.. A forum needed where we can come together to share experience and knowledge and to determine our best way forward

At the Commission – survey of authentication and e-commerce – we are looking for action following this.

Get involved in related work e.g. current OGC/EuroSDR/AGILE call and build our knowledge base.

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Which way do you want INSPIRE to go?

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A call to action!

• Acceptance that this is an issue which will notgo away and needs solving if we are going tobenefit from INSPIRE

• This is only the start – it is going to get a lot worse with Download Services

• We need Leadership – Commission, INSPIRE Committee, Member States, Standards bodies

• Continue to harmonise licences where possible – lots ofinitiatives - not a pretty tune yet but some chords comingtogether

• Explore and decide how we want to manage access and ID and get on with it

• Watchwords: Standards - Not geo-specific – Flexible

26 June 2012

Thank you!