INSPIRE Data, metadata and tools

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INSPIRE Data, metadata and tools
Mr Ekkehard Petri GIS project manager for
Geoportals and the GEOSTAT project Eurostat,
European Commission Unit E4, Regional Statistics
and GI BECH A3/031 L-2920 LUXEMBOURG Ekkehard.PETR
I_at_ec.europa.eu Tel [phone]
ESTP course on Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) Use of GIS for making statistics in a
production environment Statistics Norway, Oslo,
26th to 30th of March 2012
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Content

• Introduction
• What is INSPIRE? (15 min)
• Information sources on INSPIRE (Demo 5 min)
• INSPIRE for data producers
• INSPIRE metadata (15 min)
• Demo of tools to prepare metadata (5 min)
• Break (5 min)
• Exercise on INSPIRE metadata (20 min)
• INSPIRE data models (5 min)
• INSPIRE for data users
• Exercise on the INSPIRE geoportal (10 min)
• Wrap-up (5 min)

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Block I INSPIRE overview
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What is INSPIRE?

• INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe
• A framework directive of the European Parliament
  and of the Council of 14 March 2007 (Directive
  2007/2/EC) on the establishment of such a Spatial
  Data Infrastructure (SDI)

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INSPIRE is about improving accessto spatial
information

• The environment doesnt stop at borders
• Distributed infrastructure INSPIRE is to be
  based on the infrastructures for spatial
  information established and operated by the
  Member States
• Organisational and technical harmonisation
• Data held by or on behalf of public authorities
  (including Statistical Offices)
• Data falling under the themes listed in the
  Directive
• For Community environmental policies and policies
  or activities which may have an impact on the
  environment.

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What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)?
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Why INSPIRE?
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Why INSPIRE?
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Why INSPIRE?
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Why INSPIRE?
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A little INSPIRE history

• 2007 Adoption of INSPIRE directive
• 2008 First implementing rule on Metadata
• 2009 2013 Further Implementing Rules
• Since 2007 Transposition into national law
• Since 2011 INSPIRE geoportal
• Until 2020 Implementation phase in Member States

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INSPIRE principles

• Data should be collected once and maintained at
  the level where this can be done most effectively
  
• It should be possible to combine seamless spatial
  information from different sources across Europe
  and share it between many users and application
• It should be easy to discover which geographic
  information is available and under which
  conditions it can be acquired and used
• Geographic data should become easy to understand
  and interpret

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INSPIRE non-principles

• No requirement to create new spatial information
• No obligation to provide data for free
• No minimum level of quality

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INSPIRE Legislation

• INSPIRE Directive a framework directive
• Transposition into national legislation
• Detailed technical definition in Implementing
  Rules (Regulations)
• Implementing rules on Metadata, Network Services,
  Interoperability, Monitoring and Reporting and
  Data Sharing
• In addition non bindingTechnical
  Guidancedocuments

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Scope of INSPIRE

• Metadata
• Content fixed list of elements
• Format to treat it automatically (catalogues,
  search engines)
• Data specifications data from different sources
  is comparable
• Annex I, Annex II, Annex III (3 lists of spatial
  data themes)
• Network services (machine to machine
  communication)
• Discover service to be able to find the data in
  distributed catalogues
• View service to evaluate the data visually
• Download service to actually get the data
• Transformation service coordinate transformation
• Invoke service

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Scope of INSPIRE spatial information

1. Metadata
2. Spatial data sets
3. Spatial data services

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Scope of INSPIRE the technical network
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Scope of INSPIRE data themes

• Annex III
• Statistical units
• Buildings
• Soil
• Land use
• Human health and safety
• Utilities and government service
• Environmental monitoring facilities
• Production and industrial facilities
• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
• Population distribution - demography

• Area management/restriction/ regulation zones
  reporting units
• Natural risk zones
• Atmospheric conditions
• Meteorological geographical features
• Oceanographic geographical features
• Sea regions
• Bio-geographical regions
• Habitats and biotopes
• Species distribution
• Energy resources
• Mineral resources

• 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
• Orthoimagery
• Geology

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Sources of information on INSPIRE

• INSPIRE website
• INSPIRE forum

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Block 2 INSPIRE Metadata
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Metadata

• Metadata are data about data
• We distinguish between structural metadata and
  descriptive metadata
• SDMX for statistics covers both
• INSPIRE metadata for spatial data are descriptive
  metadata
• Metadata serve different purposes (data
  discovery, assessing fitness for use, data
  access, data transfer, use)
• INSPIRE metadata are for discovery, some elements
  on access and fitness for use
• Within the publish-find-bind pattern of a service
  oriented archtitecture MD are essential
• Metadata for data users (find) and for data
  producers (publish)

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Metadata for spatial information

• EN ISO standards for metadata on spatial data
  (ISO 19 115) and on spatial services (ISO 19 119)
• Lists almost 300 possible metadata elements
• MD elements can be mandatory, optional or
  conditional
• Contain a core profile mainly for use in
  catalogue services
• ISO core the starting point for INSPIRE metadata
• For specific communities profiles are recommended
  (selection of metadata elements in addtion to

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Metadata for spatial information

• Metadata are structured in packages

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• Metadata are usually encoded in XML (ISO standard
  19139)

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INSPIRE metadata

• INSPIRE metadata are regulated in COMMISSION
  REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008
  implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European
  Parliament and of the Council as regards
  metadata
• Contains in total 21 metadata elements (19 for
  data sets and 17 for spatial data services)
• Further implementation details in INSPIRE
  Metadata Implementing Rules Technical Guidelines
  based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119 (Version
  1.2)

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Obligations in Member States regarding Metadata

• 03-Dec-2010 Metadata available for spatial data
  sets and services corresponding to Annex I and II
• 09-Nov-2011 Discovery and view services
  operational
• 03-Dec-2013 Metadata available for spatial data
  sets and services corresponding to Annex III

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INSPIRE metadata what is inside?
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Technical Guidance document
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Problems with metadata

• Nobody likes to create metadata
• Structure well defined, content not
• Semantic interoperability not enforced
• Unclear titles
• Empty abstracts or other fields

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Tools for metadata work

• Metadata editor
• http//inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/
• Metadata validator
• http//inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/validator/

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Exercise

• Create Metadata on NUTS 2006
• Download the exercise sheet from the EFGS website
• http//www.efgs.info/projects/estp-2012/modul-a05-
  inspire/A05_Petri.ppt/view

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Recommendations

• Rather write too much than too little.
• Make the title speak for the full dataset.
• Begin the abstract with a short summary paragraph
  which is often shown in a geoportal.
• Put into the abstract information on the main
  attributes, the data sources and references to
  legal acts.
• Some information could be redundant (geographic
  coverage, dates) but help the user
• In the lineage field carefully document the way
  the data have been produced.

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Block 3 Spatial Data
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INSPIRE not only for geographers data themes
with direct relevance for statistics

• Annex III
• Statistical units
• Buildings
• Soil
• Land use
• Human health and safety
• Utilities and government service
• Environmental monitoring facilities
• Production and industrial facilities
• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
• Population distribution - demography

• Area management/restriction/ regulation zones
  reporting units
• Natural risk zones
• Atmospheric conditions
• Meteorological geographical features
• Oceanographic geographical features
• Sea regions
• Bio-geographical regions
• Habitats and biotopes
• Species distribution
• Energy resources
• Mineral resources

• 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
• Orthoimagery
• Geology

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Data models and transformations

• The INSPIRE data specifications prescribe a
  specific data structure.
• This should help users to immediately understand
  the data
• INSPIRE does not require the creation of new data
  -gt Transformation of data into the INSPIRE format
  will be common practice.

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Data transformation population grid
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Block 4 Geoportals
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How to search for dataPublish Find - Bind
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Search for data

• INSPIRE queryables in the Metadata e.g. title,
  abstract, resource type, keywords, topic category
• Thematic search and spatial search

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Tour of the INSPIRE geoportal

• Exercise I Search for all datasets on
  Hydrography with English metadata in Luxembourg
• Exercise II Add 2 View services from the same
  area on top of each other and change the
  transparency of the top one.

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Further reading on INSPIRE

• Spatial data from Eurostat http//epp.eurostat.ec
  .europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco_Geographical_i
  nformation_maps/geodata/reference
• INSPIRE website http//inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/i
  ndex.cfm
• INSPIRE geoportal http//http//inspire-geoportal
  .ec.europa.eu/