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European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government: from

EULF and ARE3NA to ELISE

Maria Teresa Borzacchiello, Robin S. Smith, Francesco Pignatelli, Ray Boguslawski, Giacomo Martirano,

Carmelo Attardo and Simon Vrečar

Barcelona, 29 September 2016INSPIRE Conference

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Workshop objectives

• to understand current and future EC INSPIRE-related activities in the e-Government arena

• to exchange ideas on the use and fitness for purpose of the outputs of EULF and ARE3NA

• sharing any experience of the application of these outputs in Member States so far

• Give an overview of ELISE project

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Colored Hat Category Detailed Description

Public sector data providers

Private sector product/ service

providers

e-Government service

providers

Policy MakersEU or MS government representatives responsible for preparing, adopting, overseeing implementation, or assessing the impact of policy or legislation

Public sector staff with responsibilities to collect, assemble, publish and share data with other public sector stakeholders, businesses and citizens

Private sector entrepreneurs or developers of products and services using public sector data

Public sector stakeholders responsible for design, implementation and operation ICT-enabled public services for citizens, businesses and other parts of government

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Three questions

• What are your needs, related to the location information interoperability?

• Have these needs been met (or not) by EULF and ARE3NA

• What can be done to fill the existing gaps?

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Time schedule

10 min Workshop – Welcome and introduction to the workshop (Ray Boguslawski)

15 min EULF and ARE3NA: ambitions and outputs (Francesco Pignatelli, Robin Smith)

40 min Interactive session 12 min Discussion wrap-up from groups (1 facilitator and 1 participant)

13 min Conclusions and outline of ELISE Roadmap (Ray Boguslawski)

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Business as unusual: the European Union Location Framework

Removes obstacles for the free flow of data in support of the Digital Single Market Promotes INSPIRE as a multi-purpose infrastructure for a range of policy areas, including e-government, transport, marine, and energyIdentifies and promotes opportunities for the private sector

Working together withMS to address priorities

Practical problems solvedthrough pilot studies

Strategic frameworkbased on EU survey

Recommendations andguidance in 5 focus areas

Part of the ISA Programme Linking INSPIRE and e-Government

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How has the EULF evolved?

VisionSurvey & Assessment

Benefits approach Blueprint Pilots

Detailed Guidance

Case Study Factsheets

Process Improvement

Approach

Solutions Inventory Approach

References FeasibilityStudies

Strategic Framework

Guidance Framework

Methodologies

Landscape Analysis Applications

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EULF Guidance Framework: Detailed Guidance

EULF Policy Alignment Guidelines

EULF Location Privacy Guidelines

Public Procurement of Geospatial Technologies

Design of Location Enabled e-Government Services

Architectures and Standards for SDIs and e-Government

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EULF: provides the strategic framework, turning its recommendations into action and learning from the results

JRC

DG MOVE

ITS Directive

INSPIRE Directive

EnvironmentalSector

TransportSector

DG ENVDG MARE

MSFD DirectiveMarine Knowledge 2020

MarineSector

DG ENER

COM SEAPs,EPBD and EEDDirectives

EnergySector

INSPIRE… and beyond: EULF Pilots

INSPIREd energy30/09/2016 - 11:00 Room: A

Better resource managing oceans27/09/2016 - 15:30 Room: J

G2G

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Pilots for Better Regulation

Monitoring marine environment is needed for multiple EU & international lawsData can be re-used easier in cross-border applications if: harmonised up to date exposed via

servicesThe Marine Pilotimplements INSPIRE standards to support marine data re-use

Marine Pilot Energy Pilot

Energy efficiency policy landscape includes several Directives requiring data with different scales and accuracyLocation data can help scale-up methodologies from building to local to regional to national levelINSPIRE can facilitate the collection, harmonization, elaboration, access to and sharing of reliable data INSPIREd energy - 30/09/2016 - 11:00 Room: A

Better resource managing: oceans27/09/2016 - 15:30 Room: J

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Pilots for Business opportunities

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Commercial map providers like HERE and TomTom need roadnetwork data that are consistent accurate up to date

In the Transportation Pilot, INSPIRE standards are used to get geospatial data from public administrationsSignificant reduced error rates in maps of from 25% to 7%, and Road Authorities (SE, NO) upgraded from Quarterly to Daily updates to map providersCommercial map providers able to move from disparate national processes to more standardisedprocesses in different EU countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnny5ATwTYE

Transportation Pilot

Up-to-date flow of road safety data between Road Authorities and private map providers

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EULF Feasibility Studies: EU Gazetteer

• Common gazetteer services can ‘fuel’ multiple applications• Scope may include, e.g. geonames, administrative units,

addresses• Challenge in pan-European implementation, with different

licensing and supply models• Opportunity to build on existing solutions• Will take some time but worth it!

ObjectIdentifier

Name or Notation

Look up the name or notation of a feature

Disambiguate a name or notation by associating it with the right feature, which has a unique identifier

Link: join datasets by means of identifiers

Example: Chaussée de Bruxelles 1351310 La Hulpe

Example:http://location.testproject.eu/so/ad/AddressRepresentation/SPW/248565

Geometry

Example:

4.45605,50.74412

Reverse geocode: find a feature based on a location

Geocode: retrieve the location of feature, expressed as a geometry.

Locate: compare the relative geometric position of features Generic gazetteer use cases

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EULF lessons learned• The demand for location-related information is growing• It plays an important role supporting in many EU and national policies

and in applications used by public authorities, businesses, citizens• Collaboration involving thematic communities is essential/a challenge• The private sector is increasingly supplying location-related data to

government or using government data: better partnering is essential• Recent policy evaluations (e.g. PSI, INSPIRE, DSM) show that public

authorities need to improve (geo)data management and reuse• Public sector data is seen as an engine for job creation, especially

geospatial data• The links between location and statistics need to be better exploited• EULF and ARE3NA have created complementary frameworks, tools

and pilot applications ready for enhancement through ISA2

• Common solutions/services are needed in, for example: EU gazetteer, address registries, open EU mapping

• Technological impacts of big data, linked open data, cloud infrastructures and Internet of Things need to be widely understood

ARE3NA

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Interoperability

Collaboration

Establish a collaborative

platform to share tools and best practices in

context

Openness

Implementation software inventory,

including Open Source tools

Reuse

Examine policies & platforms dealing with spatial data

exchange

Identify missing items and tools

that would aid its reuse in other

sectors

Develop Open Source solutions and guidelines to

address these missing elements

Mapping INSPIRE and ISA through solutions on Joinup

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ARE3NA Solutions

EIF Interoperability levels INSPIRE Components

Legal

Org

anisation

al

Sem

antic

Techn

ical

Data

Services

Metadata

Data &

Service

Sharing

Monitoring &

Reporting

ARE3NA study and testbed on AAA for Data and Services

0 0 X X X

The Re3gistry

(and Registry Federation)

0 X X X

Sensor Observation Service

0 0 X X

Conformance and Interoperability Testing

0 0 X X X

Reusing INSPIRE

(GeoDCAT-AP and INSPIRE RDF)

0 0 X X

Re3ference Platform 0 0 0 0 X X X X X

Re3ference

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/are3na/description

Examples of ARE3NA reusable solutions in Joinup

• Reusable FOSS for managing and publishing reference codes in any sector. Interoperability experiments for a federation of INSPIRE Registries (software reused in Member States)

• Helping the free flow of data by exploring the extent of access control in INSPIRE and the interoperability of an INSPIRE AMF with CEF/DSI

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Examples of ARE3NA reusable solutions in Joinup

• Reusing INSPIRE’s data specifications to create INSPIRE in Linked Data for e-government applications. Creating a specific form of DCAT-AP to allow INSPIRE metadata to be reused in other data portals

• (On Github) updated ABS, ETS and reference INSPIRE validator as a service and reusable tools (demo at lunchtime)

• INSPIRE in Practice (formerly ARE3NA Reference Platform): collaborative platform to share details about tools, applications and implementation approaches related to INSPIRE

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ISA2 Programme

INSPIRE Directive

INSPIRE contribution to EU Policies and initiatives: selected cases

Digital Single Market Strategy

Better Regulation for Better Results Strategy

ELISE action

Energy Efficiency Directive

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive

Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Intelligent Transport Systems Directive

EU-wide real-time traffic information services Delegated Regulation

European Intelligent Transport Systems Platform

Connecting Europe Facility Regulation

Public Sector Information Directive

EULF/ARE3NA and ELISA

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Red hat - Policy makers

EU or MS government representatives responsible for preparing, adopting, overseeing implementation, or assessing the impact of policy or legislation

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Black hat: Public sector data providers

Public sector staff with responsibilities to collect, assemble, publish and share data with other public sector stakeholders, businesses and citizens

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Blue hat: e-Government service providers

Public sector stakeholders responsible for design, implementation and operation ICT-enabled public services for citizens, businesses and other parts of government

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Green hat: Private sector product/service providers

Private sector entrepreneurs or developers of products and services using public sector data

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