Speakers Bio & Abstract

BiographyIn 2001 Erwin joined TNO, and became senior scientist on the topic of interoperability and standards. From 2009 he part-time joined the University of Twente to start a PhD research on the standardization topic, while continuing his work for TNO. In 2012 received his PhD based on the "Quality of Semantic Standards" thesis. In 2013-2014 Erwin was visiting researcher at ERCIS/University of Munster. From 2015 onwards Erwin joined Kadaster.Abstract The Geospatial Data Platform of the FutureCurrently the geospatial world is using its own standards, techniques and tools for sharing spatial data. This works perfectly well within the geospatial world, but it is blocking the use of spatial data outside its boundaries by for instance web developers. A lot of activities have taken place recently, including the OGC/W3C spatial data on the web workgroup. The Dutch cadastre has taken the lead by developing the geospatial data platform of the future and releasing it as beta in July 2016, on data.pdok.nl. This platform offers a semi-automated transformation from geospatial data (such as WFS, GML) to Linked Data (RDF), and on top of that APIs, including a SPARQL endpoint, view, test & documentation environment. This platform is open for Dutch governments, and has been used to make the first two official key registers of the Dutch governments as Linked Open Data & APIs, the first registers as so called 5 star open data, the desired format for all open data. The platform is continuously improving itself offering new functionalities in upcoming releases including a quality dashboard, a feedback function and datasets to be continuously added.