Joan Maso
Researcher
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry
Spain

Biography
Researcher at CREAF. Co-creator of the MiraMon packaged maps and the GIS MiraMon Map Reader. Teacher in a RS and GIS master in the UAB. Creator of Remote Sensing imagery visualization and download web data software. Active member of Open Geospatial Consortium(OGC) (editor of WMTS and GMLJP2 standards and co-chair of the Iberian and Latin American Forum). Spanish representative in the ISO TC211. Coordinator of GeoViQua FP7 project (Visualization of quality information in GEOSS).Currently Coordinator of ConnectinGEO and WaterInnEU Horizon 2020 projects. President of the Earth and Space Science Informatics division in the European Geosciences Union. Member of some GEO committees.

Abstract
After Populating INSPIRE with Datasets, How to Ensure Geospatial Digital Preservation

Co-Authors:
Ester Prat, CREAF
Carme Montaner, ICGC
Josep Lluís Colomer, ICGC

INSPIRE is creating a pan-European collection of datasets. The process of enabling these datasets has required many years of efforts and it is still ongoing. These datasets will be reviewed and maintained continuously and there is the risk of losing the temporal series that could be crucial to analyze the continuous human impact on the planet and to monitor the effects of the European Union policies. There is a need to ensure the preservation of these data. Digital data preservation is more challenging than paper preservation and has been previously considered in several domains but has not been widely discussed for the geospatial data and there is no standardized model globally accepted. This abstract presents the work done by the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC) to define a preservation metadata model as a first step to deal with geospatial data preservation. To do this, we have considered the ISO19115-1 metadata model, the Open Archival Information System (OAIS), the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, the Archival Metadata Elements for the Preservation of Geospatial Datasets (GeoMAPP), and the Catalan Library Methodology for considering proposals for document evaluation and access (PAAD),and well as some scientific literature on the subject. The model has been elaborated in UML and an XML encoding has been generated using ShapeChange and the draft ISO19115-3 XSD schemas as a baseline. The main topics included are data identifiers, technical document links, preservation actions, packaging information, context information and value-justification-strategy information. Fortunately, a new working group in the TC211 is starting to work on this matter and we hope our work can contribute to it.