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INSPIRE/GINIE Workshop Objectives. To discuss directions for the construction of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) Share the current State of Play of member and invited nations on SDI Provide basis for recommendations and obligations in legislation that support ESDI. JRC
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INSPIRE/GINIE Workshop Objectives • To discuss directions for the construction of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) • Share the current State of Play of member and invited nations on SDI • Provide basis for recommendations and obligations in legislation that support ESDI
JRC OpenGIS Europe ESRI US FGDC/GSDI AGI EUROGI Euro Geographics Norway United Kingdom Greece Luxembourg Italy Belgium (Vlaanderen) Spain (Catalonia) Sweden Switzerland Germany France Czech Republic Netherlands Austria Poland Workshop Participants
WG1: Coordination & Organisation • Lessons form existing SDIs shows that: • Strong multi-sector coordination is important • Legislation is often helpful to build momentum • Must be sustained over time to overcome agency’s silos mentality • Must provide technical support as well as leadership • Must nurture sustained political support • Must help make the SDI relevant to other stakeholders, demonstrate benefits, help with seed funding • Must disseminate and enforce common standards.
For a European SDI…… • There is a need for a coordinating body at the European level to make it happen • The Coordinating body does not need to be big (~12-15 staff) • But also need for a broader reference group • Authoritative in the professional communities and national constituencies. • Own budget for coordination and implementation assistance
Who should be in it? • EC and other EU institutions • Private Sector • Member States • NSDIs and relevant pan-European orgs. • Citizen organisations (e.g. NGOs, Friends of the Earth, etc. ) • Relevant thematic applications and priorities, with strong link to e-government
WG2: Financial and political sustainability • Politicians must be involved to provide leadership and participate in committees • Financial support for ESDI should come from the government initially and that such investment is an integral part of modernization and e-government initiatives • Involvement of private industry, utilities, and non-governmental participation expected but is a newer concept
Legal Framework • Need legal framework to provide both an incentive and sustainability, requirement to understand how law applies to GI • Requirement for research into existing and future data access policies within a potential ESDI • Investigate and describe innovative models for financing the ESDI
WG3: Selling the benefits • Wide adoption of ESDI requires cultural change – decentralized, peer-to-peer • Need a communication strategy to address authorities and stakeholders at different administrative levels • Candidate use cases to drive pilot integration that relate to top priorities • Use cases need to be developed to reflect political, operational, cultural, and technical considerations
Use Case Candidates • Disaster response: Rhine flood, Toulouse explosion • Agricultural applications, fertilizer runoff • Water: Water Framework Directive, NatureGIS • Transport and Environment: pollution, traffic management • IMAGE 2000 and Land Cover 2000
WG4: Phased Implementation • Refine vision, definition, and technical terms of participation in ESDI • Define baseline services of initial ESDI within an architecture • Define European data content standards and encoding for reference layers • Integration of ESDI will require both horizontal and vertical considerations
WG4 Recommendations • ESDI principles to be followed in EU-funded projects • Identify candidate services and capabilities to construct a baseline ESDI • Establish core technical committee early to provide coordination of ESDI, as part of larger coordinating body • Driving applications should be identified and developed for early wins
Recommendations, continued • National and subnational obligation to construct baseline ESDI • Specifications for data content and encoding for reference and other layers • Focus on SME and application providers • Set up multilingual GeoPortal and measure the success of ESDI development to support e-government and related initiatives