Accompanying measure to support European Territorial Management Information Infrastructure

Yves ReginsterGI consultant - GERE SA

ETeMII:

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Why ETeMIISupport IST programme

focus on content: KA 3Support EC policy for GI, especially EGIIAddressing pan-European needs/aspects

EC needs to support EU policiesenvironment, transport, regional policy, space

policy (EO, GNSS), agriculture, fishery Eurostat - GISCO contribution in user’s

requirement assessment

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Why ETeMII (2)

Breaking the barriers for the GI-GIS interoperability to address trans-national applications

To establish European guidelines / standards / best practice

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Main aims of ETeMII (1)

To build consensus on technical issues: reference data, data access policy

(metadata, thesauri) interoperability, standards implementation Integration with EO, GNSS and telecom participation to global initiatives: OGC,

ISO, GSDI, …Awareness activity

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Main aims of ETeMII (2)

To organise a network of excellence stakeholders of territorial management:

users and providers Targeting also FP4 & FP5 projects

dealing with GISupport to future GI action line in

FP5 - IST (cross-programme)

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ETeMII Partnership: National GI associations:

GISFORM, AFIGEO, CNIG European associations:

EUROGI, AGILE, MEGRIN, European Commission

JRC/SAI Consulting companies, University

GERE, GEOBASE Consulting, TUV Industry, users

SIEMENS - SICAD, OGC Europe

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7 Workpackages

1 - Project management - GISFORM2 - User’s requirements - GERE3 - Reference data - GISFORM4 - Metadata - GERE5 - Standards, interoperability - GEOBASE6 - Dissemination - JRC / SAI7 - Assessment and evaluation -

GISFORM

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User’s requirements (1)

Needs for: reference data metadata and semantics standards, interoperability

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User’s requirements (2)Differents ways to assess user’s

requirements Inventory of FP 4 and FP 5 projects,

dealing with GI User’s workshops

National workshopsEuropean workshopsInternational workshops

Desk study - Case studies

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FP projects survey

290 GI projects identified up to nowContribution to main ETeMII themes

Contribution to

27%

14%

59%

Reference Data

Metadata

Interoperability in GIS

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FP projects survey

Clustered Thematics

45%

2%19%

7%

24%

3%

Environment Technological supportPublic sectorMulti-mediaGISother

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FP projects survey – some conclusionsOnly 27 projects dealing with interoperabilityProjects are not synchronised with market

I.e. mobile location base services is hot today, not next year

Only 2 projects on mobile information servicesGood balance between research and

development projectsVery few go up to exploitation of information

services

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Reference data (1)

Main aim: To reach a technical consensus on the

definition of reference dataat European levelat global level (GSDI)

To address data policy issues, to make data available at an affordable cost

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Reference data (2)

Focus on minimum level of reference data, but pan-European

Focus on main users: medium to large scales

Public / Private relationships: to understand GI economy

Assessment of existing situation

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National workshops

France: link with Lengagne and Mandelkern mission Data policy for public services Re-definition of IGN role and organisation Notion of universal public service for GI

Everybody has the right to be mapped Need for better coordination between

topo and cadastre

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French workshopConfirmed by second workshop at MARI

Presentation of situations in 5 European countriesFranceNetherlandsBelgium GermanyHungary

Need for better European coordination and harmonisation

Italian workshop last weekGeerman speakers workshop at AGIT

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The organisation of national workshops (1)Learn from French oneFocus more on technical issuesCommunication about objectives:

Exploit the opportunities of e-business and e-governance

To understand interaction between public and private sector

Pay attention to updating

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The organisation of national workshops (2)Consensus about basic data definitionNeed for EC commitment

To lead EGII To provide funding for the European component

Need for national, regional and local commitment Procurement Contribution to the infrastructure

To target widest possible user’s community

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The reference schema for the workshops (1)

To identify main usersTo assess main needs

Compare the weight of the different usages, at different scalesWay of representing the realityAccuracy

Express needs for data and updating To identify current and potential needs

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The reference schema for the workshops (2)Based on needs:

To define basic data, in term of objects, modelsFocus on major landmarks

The main targets of ETeMII: to create the basic data infrastructure

within 5-6 years To agree on rules: data access, policy,

public/private relationship, etc.

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The main elements of the basic data infrastructure

Major landmarks, equivalent to 1/10.000

Cadastral data / land registryStandardisation of postal addresses,

enabling geo-referencing

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Metadata: a key to data access (1)

Build upon existing work: CEO, ESMI, GDDD, GEIXS, ETC/CDS,

GISEDI, LaClef, etc.Main aim:

to reach some consensus on the way to meet user’s needs

link with international initiatives: ISO and JTC 1, SC 32

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Metadata: a key to data access (2)

The semantic part is important work on thesauri interoperability

to record multi-cultural characteristic of Europe

to deal with multi-lingual issues

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The first metadata workshop (1)

Four sessions The state of the art The European GI common core Semantics User’s needs and conclusions

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The first metadata workshop

Presentation of major metadata projects MADAME Dublin Core SCHEMAS FASTER CLEAR Hungarian METATER La Clef ESMI The Global Change project ETC/CDS

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Main findings (1)

Three levels of metadata Discovery Exploitation Data model

First focus on discovery metadataLack of awareness in main trends for

international standards

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Main findings (2)Need for more user friendly standardsNeed for better advertising on and

access to standards Need for metadata on standardsNeed for mapping between existing

discovery metadata standardsFocus on modelling interoperability is

important

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Main findings (3)

Need for implementation guidelinesNeed for co-ordination with other

disciplinesThesaurus / semantic is important

Need for additional research on thesaurus interoperability

ETeMII should collect user’s requirements to feed ISO/OGC

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Main findings (4)Need to raise awareness

On standardsOn the benefits of metadata and standardsOn implementation guidelines

Organisation of a second workshop13-14 July 2000 – AmsterdamSpeakers = standard makersTo inform usersTo enable to take strategic decision

Dublin Core vs ISO/IEC discovery metadatahttp://www.ec-gis.org/etemii

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Standards, interoperability and research organisation

Main aim: To raise awareness Target FP 4 and FP 5 projects and GI

stakeholdersFocus more on implementation

strategiesHow to improve standards to make

them more user friendly?

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Dissemination (1)

Web site: http://www.ec-gis.org/etemii

White papers publicationDiscussion lists

GI2000 continuation?CD-ROM publication

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Dissemination (2)

“All public” leaflets targeted to decision makers, politicians

Many workshops, with all experts invited

Plan for future actions, input to HLWP (GI2000)

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International co-operation

Strong link with OGCContribution to ISO and GSDI

activitiesAGILE has equivalent in US, links

with international research community

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Links with other projectspreANVIL, a GIS interoperability

observatory - JRC GERE, Geobase, OGCE, Universities of

Jaumes I, Muenster and Vienna, IDELUXGETISCITUISCHEMAS, Diffuse, EPIFOCALothers ?