INSPIRE Implementation - State of Play


Monday, 25 May 2015, 1500 – 1730 hrs

SESSION DESCRIPTION

All infrastructures, and INSPIRE is no exception, require maintenance and evolution if they want to remain relevant for serving the purposes for which they have been put in place. Lessons learned by implementing the infrastructure need also to be taken into account to further optimise its performance in order to meeting its policy objectives.

The Commission, in agreement with the Member States, has therefore set up in 2013 the INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation Framework (MIF), with the INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation Group, MIG (representatives of the INSPIRE national contact points) and a pool of experts (drawn from the stakeholder community) as its two main pillars.

In 2014, the INSPIRE mid-term evaluation investigated the progress made on the implementation of INSPIRE and suggested a number of areas, where further efforts are needed to reach the objectives underpinning INSPIRE.

The session will give an overview of the status of INSPIRE implementation in the Member States and the on-going work of the MIG and its sub-groups and explain how the maintenance and implementation work programme is being set up and how stakeholder organisations and experts can get involved.

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Organisations implementing INSPIRE
  • Technical and thematic INSPIRE experts

SESSION AGENDA

Presentations will include:

  • Setting the scene (Michael Lutz, JRC) 10’
    - The INSPIRE maintenance and implementation framework and work programme
  • Where do we stand? (Vanda Nunes de Lima, JRC) 20’
    - Different implementation strategies
    - Progress of INSPIRE implementation in the Member States
  • Supporting the implementation of INSPIRE (Michael Lutz, JRC) 20’
    - Selected issues addressed in the maintenance and implementation work programme, e.g. metadata , download services based on SOS & WCS, validation and conformity testing, XML schema maintenance
  • Building a community to support INSPIRE implementation (Robert Tomas, JRC) 20’
    - “Thematic Clusters” platform
    - Process for discussing domain-specific implementation issues and proposing change requests
  • INSPIRE pilots (Alexander Kotsev, JRC) 20’
    - Overview of pilot activities in the context of the INSPIRE maintenance and implementation work programme
    - Results from the workshop on INSPIRE for e-Reporting
  • Evolution of INSPIRE – interoperability solutions for e-government (Robin Smith, JRC) 20’
    - Interoperability solutions for European public administrations (ISA) programme
    - Selected areas for the technical evolution of INSPIRE, e.g. registries and register federations, persistent ids & linked data

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Moderator
Joeri Robbrecht
DG Environment
European
Commission
Michael Lutz INSPIRE Team Member
Joint Research Centre
Italy
Setting the Scene

Vanda Nunes de Lima INSPIRE Team Member
Joint Research Centre
Italy
Where do we stand?

Michael Lutz Inspire Team Member
Joint Research Center
Italy
Supporting the implementation of INSPIRE

Robert Tomas INSPIRE Team Member
Joint Research Centre
Italy
Building a community to support INSPIRE implementation

Alexander Kotsev INSPIRE Team Member
Joint Research Centre
Italy
One infrastructure, many applications

Robin S. Smith INSPIRE Team Member
Joint Research Centre
Italy
Evolution of INSPIRE – interoperability solutions for e-government