Jari Reini
Head of Department
National Land Survey of Finland
Finland

Biography
Mr. Jari Reini holds a M.Sc. in Software Engineering. He has a wide experience in database design, web/mobile application development, web services and project management. Mr. Reini is currently a Head of Department at National Land Survey of Finland, SDI Services. He is the member of INSPIRE MIG-T and is actively involved in geospatial standardization (OGC, ISO/TC211 and CEN/TC287) as well as in research projects to monitor and identify new technological & market developments. He is leading the group if INSPIRE secretary in Finland, which is responsible of sharing the knowledge of SDI creation and utilization.

Abstract
Licensing for the European Location Framework (E.L.F.)

Co-Author: Rudiger Gartmann, Senior Consultant, con terra GmbH

The E.L.F. project is aiming at providing a pan-European coverage of harmonised cross-border geospatial data. Besides the technical challenge to harmonise data from different national and sub-national data providers, this project also has to solve legal and business aspects, due to different data sharing policies among the data providers. While there is a separate work package dealing with the legal aspects of data sharing, there is also the need for implanting a system for licensing, charging and access control into the E.L.F. platform. Since the diversity of sharing policies spans from Open Data to paid content, with a variety of terms and conditions applied, the licensing solution needs to cover the full range of requirements being imposed by the existing data sharing policies, starting with simple click-through licences up to configurable and paid licences. Users of the E.L.F. platform shall start with a search tool, GeoProdcutFinder implemented in E.L.F project, helping them to find the content they are looking for. Once the users have found the desired content, they need to be informed about available licence models. They shall be able to configure and conclude licences, and finally either load the content into the E.L.F. viewer, or providing a download link. GeoProductFinder is connected to license.manager, a COTS product from con terra, which is responsible for the management of licences, licence models and for accounting. These tools are integrated into the OSKARI Open Source platform, which serves as the foundation for the E.L.F. platform. This presentation will introduce the E.L.F. platform as a state-of-the-art licensing solution and discusses the challenges and solutions of integrating the mentioned software components, providing a unified user management, single-sign-on experience and a federated user management, being able to connect to distributed user repositories all across Europe. This platform will serve as a market place for European data providers as well as a template for other commercial data platforms.