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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