Nature-GIS kick-off meeting JRC, Ispra April 15th-16th GISIG

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Nature-GIS kick-off meetingJRC, IspraApril
15th-16thGISIG
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Agenda of the meeting

• April 15th, morning - Introductory session
• JRC introduction and preliminary info
• GISIG welcome to the partners
• Partnership mutual presentation
• JRC/Annoni The GIGIS project and the INSPIRE
  initiative
• JRC/Peedell The JRC activity to supportDG ENV
  within Natura 2000 activities
• Ionic/(Mr MARGOULIES / Mr SONNET) Technical
  presentation about OGC services, distributed
  services, metadata ISO and catalog

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April 15th, afternoon

• Sharing the objectives session
• Expected results
• Deliverables
• Link with other projects
• Technical issues
• Management issues
• Technical implementation session
• IONIC team technical architecture, vision of the
  prototype
• (Technical workshop WP2/3/4 and WP5 on the
  architecture of the web prototype)

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April 16th, morning

• Project management session
• Project plan, milestones, project meeting dates
• Communications document server, discussion list
• Contract signature
• Consortium agreement
• Possible commercial partnership during the
  project
• IP rights/ licences
• AOB
• The Barcelona concertation meeting

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Participants

• JRC
• University Aberdeen
• Ionic software
• University Evora
• Cemagref
• Regione Piemonte
• GISIG

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Nature-GIS

• A European thematic network for Protected
  Areas/Nature Preservation and Geographical
  Information

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• Thematic network
• IST Programme, code IST-2001-34641
• Start April 2002
• Duration 36 months

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Partnership

• Contractors
• GISIG - Geographical Information Systems
  International Group
• JRC - IES
• University of Aberdeen
• Ionic Software
• Universidade de Evora
• Cemagref - Centre National du machinisme
  agricole, du genie rural, des eaux et des forets
• Regione Piemonte

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Partnership

• Network members
• Tarnium
• University of Grenoble Joseph Fourier
• Stiftung Europaisches Naturerbe
• University of Girona
• Lulea University of Technology
• Ursit
• University of Cyprus
• VUGTK - Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography
  and Cartography
• Estonian Environment Information Centre
• University of West Hungary
• Jagellonian University
• University of Zilina

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Partnership

• Subcontractors are foreseen
• Priority Action Programme/Regional Activity
  Centre (PAP/RAC)
• Duna-Ipoly National Park
• Slovak Environment Agency
• Catholic University

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Main objectives

• Improving reporting related to the implementation
  of the EU Nature Protection and Biodiversity
  Policy area
• To raise awareness regarding the use of GI-GIS in
  this field
• To support public access to data and information
  in the EU and in the new accession countries

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First project phase

• Assessment of
• user needs
• data requirements
• functional requirements

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• to define and realise a web access to information
  on protected areas
• to produce Technical Guidelines for data
  infrastructures for protected areas
• to disseminate project results to the European
  GIS and Nature communities

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Expected results

• use of the Guidelines to implement GIS in
  protected areas
• demonstration of how is applicable web access to
  information in the field
• European awareness for a supra-national approach
  in GI management in protected areas
• establishment of a pan-European Nature-GIS group

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Project WPs

• (Network management)
• User needs assessment
• Data requirements and policy
• Functional requirements
• Access to information and GI technology
• Technical guidelines for data infrastructures for
  protected areas
• Assessment and evaluation
• Dissemination
• Nature-GIS towards a pan-European network for
  protected areas

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Hints for discussion expected results

• How the different wps will contribute to the
  expected results ?
• Web access to
• what it means ?
• what the different wp leaders think about this
  sentence ?
• can we agree on a common concept ?
• How the following questions should be answered
• For whom ?
• Why ?
• To do what ?
• Which technology ?
• ....

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Hints for discussion expected results

• Technical guidelines
• To do what ?
• Link with INSPIRE ?
• Link with ESPON ?
• Link with PSI ?
• Link with NATURA2000 ?
• How the different wps will contribute to the
  development of the technical guidelines?
• How to develop a common vision statement ? who
  should validate it ?

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Hints for discussion expected results

• The thematic network
• Why a new network ?
• Which is the difference between NATURE-GIS and
  other similar networks ?
• Link with EIONET ?
• Link with ETC-NC ?
• Link with Habitat Committee ?
• What about EU enlargement ?

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Hints for discussion deliverables

• DELIVERABLES
• How the different wps will contribute to the
  expected results ?
• Which are the main deliverables of the project?
• Link between deliverables?
• Aim of the WP5 white paper ?
• Differences between report and white paper ?

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Hints for discussion

• link with other projects (and possible clustering)

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Hints for discussion technical issues

• Users
• Who are the users that will be considered by the
  project ?
• Typologies ?
• What about web users ?
• Differences/overlapping between user need
  assessment and functional requirement assessment
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• Who is Responsible of the Questionnaire
  (integrating contribution from different WPs ?
• How to do the Survey ?
• How to contact the users ?
• Data access
• Who will share the data ?
• How to migrate to OGC technology ?
• How to integrate other potential orgs ?
• Link to GISxNATURA2000

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Hints for discussion management issues

• Roles and responsibilities
• Project Coordinator
• Steering Committee
• WP Leaders
• Other Partners
• Hints for discussion FP6
• Concertation meeting in Barcelona