Lucie Kondrova
GIS Specialist
Czech Geological Survey
Czech Republic

Biography
She?s been working at the Czech Geological Survey since September 2006 as a GIS specialist. During the years 2008-2010 she was member of the core team for developing the geological metadata profile and catalogue for the OneGeology-Europe project and nowadays is responsible for its maintenance. In 2011 she was appointed head of the Section of processing and management of applied data of the CGS Department of Information systems. She works as a GIS specialist (mainly in the field of development and management of enterprise GIS) and is also responsible for the implementation of INSPIRE requirements at the Czech Geological Survey.

Abstract
Mente et Maleo et INSPIRE - 95 Years with Geological Data, 7 years with INSPIRE at the Czech Geological Survey

Co-Authors:
Olga Moravcova, Czech Geological Survey
Petr Coupek, Czech Geological Survey
Zuzana Krejci, Czech Geological Survey

Czech Geological Survey (CGS) has been gathering, administering and providing data on geological structure of the Czech Republic for 95 years. As data are the most valuable component of every information system (IS), the formation of this system at CGS started as early as in the 1950s, when also Geofond (Geological fund) was established in the Central Geological Institute. Its principal task was the administration of the national base of geological data. In the 1990s, Raw Materials Information System (SurIS) was formed, which nowadays represents the base for provision of data on Czech mineral resources according to INSPIRE in the framework of the Minerals4EU knowledge base. CGS focused mainly on field work, geological documentation, building of library and archive databases and making geological collections accessible. In the early 1990s there were around 40 databases of national importance but access to those data was not easy as there was no standardized approach to storing and processing of data. In the mid 1990s, vectorization of the 1:50k geological maps began, and between 1994 and 1998 the first national map database (semantically and geometrically harmonized) was built in the form of a GIS - GEOR50. A unified concept of the CGS GeoIS was drafted in the following years and laid the foundations for establishing the Division of Informatics in 2001. CGS has operated its map server since 2003, when its first version was integrated in the CGS information portal. Metainformation system was created to facilitate orientation in the databases. In 2007, this system was revised to be compliant with the INSPIRE and ISO requirements. Within the OneGeology-Europe project (2008-2010), CGS and other European geological surveys tested the provision of data and metadata in accordance with INSPIRE, which provided a valuable knowledge level for commenting of the INSPIRE documents as well as for the implementation of the rules in the CGS infrastructure since 2011. Just as a hammer, also working with digital data is an indispensable tool for every geologist, and harmonization of data across political boundaries according to INSPIRE contributes strongly to their applicability.