• INSPIRE lays down general rules to establish an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe

• It should not require collection of new data

• It does not affect intellectual property rights

• It is written into EU law

• Phased implementing rules 2008+

• Legislation 2009

• Compliance 2010 and 2019

• Infrastructure in place by 2019

Drivers?

• Driver sharing data: environmental policies• 1998-2002: 43% of disaster events in Europe were floods

• Population on coasts doubled in last 50 years

• Assets within 500 mt of coast = 500-1000 bn euros.

• Migration of wildlife

• Conservation

• Risk Assesment

• Future UK GI Strategy will have to meet needs

July 2007 Floods

49,000 Households & 7,000 business’ flooded

140,000 homes in Gloucestershire without water

300 Schools in Yorkshire and Humberside damaged

Flood risk management up from £600 million a year to £800 million a year by 2010/11

• Source: Environment Agency

Data

“……collected once……………..”

“………….combine seamlessly……………”

“collected at one level…………………………..

“not restricting its extensive use…………”

“…………………..easy to discover”

• 1. Metadata Audit

• 2. Metadata Capture

• 3. Sharing metadata internally

• 4. Sharing metadata externally

• 5. Sharing source data externally

Steps to INSPIRE

Gallery?

“A web application designed to capture and distribute metadata. It is based on INSPIRE standards, and allows organisations to

share access to large data catalogues.”

Stratus Gallery Components

• Web Based Tool Discover & Create • (Based on ISO standards)

• Web Based Administration Console

• Import/Export Tool

• Launch API

• Secure Web Services for Integration

Demo

Benefits and USP’s

• Web Based• Out of the Box• Security Model + Administration• Opportunities for Integration• Open and non propriety• Vendor Neutral• Customisation of Schema

• …Roadmap Integration all of Stratus Suite

The INSPIRE Solution

FIREWALL

Gallery – For use on a public website

WMS Server

Other Clients

MapInfo Pro tool

Gallery Web Services

Gallery Web Services

Gallery Web Services

Gallery Web Application

Oracle XE(Embedded within

Metadata Manager)

Core Web Services

Envinsa – Metadata Web Services – CDQP - Gazetteer

Web Application

Metadata Schema

Spatial Data

Oracle

Geostore Oracle Administration

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