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EnvEurope & INSPIRE – use case for

collaboration within the EU projects and

legislation driven initiatives

T. Kliment

A. Oggioni, M. Tuchyňa, P. Carrara, J. Peterseil

INSPIRE Conference 2011

Edinburgh International Conference Centre

30/06/2011 Edinburgh, Scotland - UK

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (UK) INSPIRE Conference 2011 27/6 - 1/7/2011

Outlines

• An EnvEurope project short intro

• Action 1 – Data collection and Management

• EnvEurope & INSPIRE – discovered data themes synergies

• Data exchange system user requirements

• Metadata and its relation with INSPIRE

• Spatial data and its relation with INSPIRE

• Summary of the status & open issues for future work

• Outlook


EnvEurope project short intro• Proposes a design for environmental high

quality monitoring and long-term research sites(LTER)

• Define harmonized parameters and methods, proposed and shared by the whole LTER community

• Based on existing infrastructures = lot of valuable long-term ecological date series

• SDI components are proposed to be created (Action1)

• Focuses on 3 types of ecosystems (terrestrial, marine and freshwater)


EnvEurope project short intro

• A conceptual test case extent

– 67 sites from approximately 400 LTER sites

within 11 countries of Europe

45 terrestrial sites

15 freshwater site

7 marine sites


Action 1 – Data collection and

Management• EnvEurope data exchange system design

and implementation

– Current data management situation

– User requirements definition

– Metadata related to both sites and datasets model definition and collection

– Collection of available data from LTER sites in Europe

– Data model development

– Conceptual test case for SEIS


Action 1 – Data collection and

Management

• Challenges

– Metadata models in ECO-BIO domain

– Distributed information system

– Heterogeneous data models

– Heterogeneous data management (flow)

– Complex domain ecosystem monitoring

• Starting points and related works

– US LTER, ILTER,LifeWatch, NaturaSDI, GBIF, INSPIRE, GEOSS


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themes synergies


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Metadata in EnvEurope

• 2 metadata models

– Site-level metadata model

– Dataset-level metadata model

• Site level metadata model

– Descriptive info about sites (platform, bioregion, climate, coordinates, data management, contact, research Q, etc.)

– Implemented online centralized catalogue to inventory this info

– LTER InfoBase



• Dataset-level metadata

– Ecological Metadata Language – EML

– Domain specific metadata profile derived

from EML and based on user requirement

– Draft specification being developed



• Metadata component of EnvEurope data

exchange system


Metadata in EnvEurope versus INSPIRE

• MD elements proposed to INSPIRE

– 18. Dataset method description

– 19. Dataset instrumentation description

– 20. Dataset sampling description

• MD element proposed to EnvEurope

– Legal obligation (Conformity)

• MD Examples for data specification

• MD crosswalk EML2INSPIRE

• INSPIRE meta/data services

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• Crosswalk EML2INSPIRE – 4 steps

methodology (Nogueras-Iso et all)

– Harmonization

conceptual level

application level





– Semantic mapping



• Crosswalk EML2INSPIRE – 4 steps methodology (Nogueras-Iso et all)

– Additional rules

• Concatenate

• Grouping

• Constant definition

• String joining

• Data type definition

• Combination of them

• others





– Implementation

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Spatial data in EnvEurope

• High level of heterogeneity

• Mainly raw observation data

• No data models

• Different data flows

ESRI Geodatabase

PostGIS, SHP

XLS,TXT,

XML (SOS)


EnvEurope data versus INSPIRE DS

• CNR – ISE data sources – sample data


Summary & open issues for future • Work performed so far brought lot of valuable

info about ELTER data management

• Similar activities may quite effectively be on mutual contribution

• EnvEurope MD specification – draft

• Data providers still do not recognize importance of data documentation

• Practical MD use cases are important to let them understand importance to document their data – to make data immortal


Summary & open issues for future • Important metadata has been proposed to

INSPIRE TWG BR-HB-SD and vice versa

• Initial effort on data mapping to relevant

INSPIRE themes has been initiated

• Efforts to map species data to INSPIRE SD data

model has been done

• Aim is to find the way how to define a bridge

between observation and aggregated data for

distribution

• Links to other INSPIRE themes (PS, HB, EF)


Outlook• Outcomes – project completes 2013

• Data exchange system implementation– Metadata component

• EML2IS0 crosswalk extension

• Get ‘dirty’ with metadata and users feedback

• EnvEurope data mapping to INSPIRE related schemas– Participation on INSPIRE Annex II+III DS testing

• Activities on the finalization of DS ver. 03 within TWG BR-HB-SD

• Linkages to another parallel ongoing activities (SEIS, GMES)


Thank you very much for your attention!

Italian National Research Council

Institute for Marine Sciences – [email protected]

Institute for Ecosystem Study – [email protected]

Institute for electromagnetic sensing of environment – [email protected]

Joint Research Centre

Institute for environment and sustainability – [email protected]

Environment Agency Austria

Ecosystem Research & Monitoring - [email protected]

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