INSPIREGINIE Workshop Objectives

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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

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Workshop Participants

• 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

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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 agencys
  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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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