INSPIRE In The UK - Are You Ready For Annex III?

INSPIRE in the UKVirtual Conference

5 February 2013

Agenda• INSPIRE & the UK Location

Programme– Tim Ashelford– Senior Engagement Officer

• The UK Location Infrastructure– Ian James– Technical Architect

• 5 Steps to INSPIRE Success– Andrew Newman– Engagement Manager

• Please types questions in to the chat box as we go through the presentations.

• The line will be muted during presentations

• The conference will be recorded

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INSPIRE & the UK Location Programme

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INSPIRE

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Improving environmental policy making and delivery

• Environmental impacts do not

respect borders

• A macro view is required to

understand Climate Change

• environmental policy needs to

be based on robust evidence

• Understanding and protecting

environmental assets will

boost the economy

INSPIRE

• Data collected once and used/ shared many times..

• Combine data easily from different sources. Harmonised data.

• Common standards for data & clear licensing.

• Easy to discover what geographic information is available, view & download it.

• Statutory obligations on public bodies.

• No requirement to create any new data.

• Publication milestones

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User

Current situation in the UKSituation before INSPIRE

Impact of INSPIRE

OS

EA

MAGIC

GeoPlace

CLG

Landmark

LandRegistry

SEPA

User

OS

EA

MAGIC

GeoPlace

CLG

Landmark

LandRegistry

SEPA

INSPIRE

User

Before INSPIRE (2009)

Future (2019)

Integration, Interoperability, Efficiency

Time, Resources

Impact of INSPIRE

The Coalition Government has made a number achievements

on transparency and Open Data

Built the largest data.gov resource in the world, with over 8,400 datasets available

Over 1000 location datasets published

Published unprecedented data including transport, health, justice and education

Over £188bn of spending transactions now published by central government

UNCLASSIFIED

• Publish spatial datasets that are within scope of 34 legally defined themes

• INSPIRE does not require us to collect any new data

INSPIRE Requirements - Data

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INSPIRE Requirements - DeadlinesNov 2011 Discovery & view Services for Annex I and II data compliant

Dec 2012 Download and transformation services available for existing Annex I and II datasets Initial Operating Capability

Dec 2012 Any new or extensively restructured Annex I datasets must be available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)

Dec 2013 Full Discovery Metadata, View Services made available for INSPIRE Annex III datasets

Dec 2015 Any new or extensively restructured Annex II & III datasets must be available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)

By 2017 Publish INSPIRE Annex I compliant Data

By 2020 Publish INSPIRE Annex II & III compliant Data10

The UK Location Infrastructure

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The UK Location Infrastructure

12data.gov.uk/location

A Service Based Infrastructure

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Discovery

View

Visualise data in client applications

Find data quickly and easily

Download

Consume and analyse data

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1. Find

2. Preview

3. Consume

Search over 1000 location datasets and services

Preview location datasets in a simple web viewer

Integrate location data in to your applications

4. HelpUK Location guidance, helpdesk.

INSPIRE Annex I &II Data

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INSPIRE Annex III Data

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The UK Location Strategy

– We know what data we have and avoid duplicating it

1.We know what data we have and avoid duplicating it

2.We use common reference data so we know we are talking about the same

places

3.We share location-related information through a common infrastructure of

standards technology and business relationships

4.We have appropriate skills, both among geographic professionals and amongst

other professional groups who use location info or support its use

5.We have strong leadership and governance to drive through change including

the implementation of this strategy and INSPIRE

UK Location Strategy – Deliver better public services using location

The UK Location Programme• UKLP is a partnership programme

– Lead by Defra

– Working across central and local govt.

– Engaged with circa 35 INSPIRE annex I & II data providers

– User Group circa 20 members

– OS and CO main delivery partners

• Successful joint working with devolved administrations

– Scottish, Welsh and NI SDI’s integrated into data.gov.uk

• Offering UK solution with benefits...

– Common standards for metadata, data and services

– Single point of access for users

– Reuse of systems and services reducing costs

– Common approaches too Identification of datao Licensing & chargingo Application of standards

– Communities of practice to share knowledge and drive innovation

Engagement - Supporting data providers and users

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Data usersData providers

• Communications

• Help desk

• Guidance

• Business case support

• Interventions to drive change

• Assurance process

• Publishing software

• Supplier engagement

• Promoting best practice& new technology, e.g. linked data

• Integrated UK approach

• Joint planning on environmental data initiatives

• Communications

• Help desk

• Guidance

• Business case support

• Interventions to demonstrate benefits

• Case studies and pilots

• Making data accessible, e.g. data.gov.uk, licensing

• Responding to User Group and user community, e.g. new data, enhancements

• Supporting developers

Conclusions

INSPIRE places legal obligations on public bodies

Good fit with other transparency initiatives

Support available

Will enable much easier discovery, sharing and reuse of location data.

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Questions

THE UK LOCATION INFRASTRUCTURE

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What we’re going to look at

• What is the UK Location Information Infrastructure (UKLII)?• How does it work?

• Metadata– Why?– Creating and Publishing

• View Services– What they are?– How they are used?

• Download Services– What they are?

• Discovering data – the data consumer experience

What is the UK Location Information Infrastructure?

• The technical infrastructure that enables the publishing, discovery and use of UK Location data

• Metadata driven

• A “distributed” infrastructure

• Standards-based services published and accessed over the internet

UK Location Information Infrastructure

Data Provider

Data Publisher

UK Location

Data Provider contributions

Three key components for providing access to data:

– Structured information about datasets and services (metadata)

– Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View Service)

– Services that provide access to data content (Download Service)



–Structured information about datasets and services (metadata)



Metadata• UKLII requires that metadata is published for all datasets and

services• All metadata is captured to a defined UK standard (GEMINI2) -

see http://www.agi.org.uk/uk-gemini/• UK Location has also published guidance on implementing

GEMINI2• UK Location provides an

on-line tool for creating GEMINI2 metadata (the “Metadata Editor”)

[“Other metadata tools are available”]

http://location.defra.gov.uk/resources/discovery-metadata-service/metadata-editor/

Metadata resources• As well as the Metadata Editor, UKL also provides:

– A user guide– Online tutorials (YouTube)– Metadata Editor available as a download




–Services that allow datasets to be visualised (View Service)


What it is• A publically-accessible* network service• Provides an image of part of a spatial data set in response to

user-defined requests• A Web Map Service (WMS)

What it isn’t• A web mapping application (although they may use a View Service)

• A GIS (although a GIS may use a View Service)

• Does not provide access to the data itself (only an image)

View Services

What support does UKL provide?• Operational Guidance for setting up a WMS

• An INSPIRE-conformant open-source WMS (GeoServer)

• Guidance on setting up GeoServer





–Services that provide access to data content (Download Service)

What is a Download Service?

• Simplistically, INSPIRE is about implementing:– Standard data specifications, to enable interoperability– Standard network services, to allow access to that data

• A View Service is a Network Service that provides an image of a dataset for a user-defined area

•A Download Service is a Network Service that provides access to the underlying data;

– data, rather than a picture of data

What is a Download Service?

Or, in INSPIRE terms:

…enabling copies of spatial data sets, or parts of such sets, to be downloaded and, where practicable, accessed directly

[INSPIRE Directive]

Download Service Implementation Options

• Guidance provides three implementation options

• …two providing pre-defined datasets…

1. Atom feed delivering pre-defined datasets(Atom is an XML-based subscription pointing to pre-packaged data files – e.g. Shape files)

2. Web Feature Service (WFS) delivering pre-defined datasets

• …and one providing direct access download…

3. WFS providing direct access to features

Download Service Implementation Options

• Implementation of any option would provide conformance with the regulation

• However, option 3 (direct access WFS) is preferred:– it supports full interoperability– should be implemented “where practicable” (the definition

of which is up to the data provider)

Putting it all together Create metadata

Putting it all together Publish metadata

Putting it all together Publish metadata to EU

Putting it all together Discover datasets

Putting it all together Preview datasets

Putting it all together Consume datasets

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1. Search

2. Preview

3. Consume

Search over 1000 location datasets and services•Text search•Map based search•Filter by publisher, tag, type and more•Machine to machine services - Permanent URI’s; RESTful API, CSW service

Preview location datasets in our simple web viewer•Overlay layers from up to 10 web map services•Change layer orders and transparency•Click to get feature information where available

Integrate location data in to your applications•Web Map Services available for over 200•Download Services

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Questions

5 Steps to INSPIRE Success*

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1. Understand your data

• You need to:

• Understand what location data your organisation maintains

• Identify data that is in-scope of INSPIRE

• Look at how your data is published (if it is)

• Consider issues such as licensing, IP, charging

• Discuss issues emerging with data owners/custodians

• Decisions:

• Agree priorities for data publication particularly for INSPIRE

• Agree publication approaches for datasets

• Agree data sharing policies if you don’t have them (licensing etc)

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• Publish spatial datasets that are within scope of 34 legally defined themes

• INSPIRE does not require us to collect any new data

INSPIRE Requirements - Data

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2. Options Analysis

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PublisherProvider

P1

Publisher

P2 P3 P...

• You need to consider how you will:

• Provide view, download services

• Transform your data

• Create metadata for your data and services and register it with data.gov.uk

• Decisions

• Phasing of delivery

• How will I create my metadata?

• How will I deliver my services?

1. Direct 2. Agent 3. Shared Service/Portal

INSPIRE Requirements - DeadlinesNov 2011 Discovery & view Services for Annex I and II data compliant

Dec 2012 Download and transformation services available for existing Annex I and II datasets Initial Operating Capability

Dec 2012 Any new or extensively restructured Annex I datasets must be available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)

Dec 2013 Full Discovery Metadata, View Services made available for INSPIRE Annex III datasets

Dec 2015 Any new or extensively restructured Annex II & III datasets must be available in accordance with the data specifications set out in the Implementing Rules (common formats to achieve consistency)

By 2017 Publish INSPIRE Annex I compliant Data

By 2020 Publish INSPIRE Annex II & III compliant Data63

3. Make a business case

• You need to convince your budget holders that they should invest in

sharing location data.

• Your business case should set out:

• Why you need to act

• What the benefits are for your organisation and others

• The options you have considered

• What the implications of not acting are

• A recommendation

• If taking a phased approach make this clear in the business case

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4. Develop and Implement Services• Define the business requirements and functional requirements

• Ensure you are applying the relevant standards and guidance

• Develop the solution

• Load the data

• Launch the services

• Create metadata for the datasets and services

• Register the metadata with data.gov.uk

• If taking a phased approach ensure your solution is “future proof”

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INSPIRE Requirements - Technical

66C. Ansorge, Umweltbundesamt, 2012, http://www.inspiration-westernbalkans.eu/5/9/1/4/7/6/Beyond_INSPIRE_-_GMES_and_SEIS.pdf.

• Standards based infrastructure

• Catalogues allow users to identify what information is available

• Online services to consume data

• EU data specifications to make data interoperable

5. Maintain, Improve, Benefit

Maintain

• Keep your data and metadata up-to-date

Improve

• Regularly check you are publishing all the required data

• Work to publish more data

• Respond to user feedback and priorities

• Consider the requirements of INSPIRE when defining new data products

Benefit

• Start consuming data as a service to reduce data processing costs and ensure

you are using current data

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