Michael Lutz
INSPIRE Team Member
Joint Research Centre
Italy

Biography
Michael Lutz holds a MSc degree in landscape ecology and a PhD in geoinformatics from the University of Münster, Germany. He has 15 years of experience in the areas of semantic modelling of data and processes to support the discovery, access, (re-)use and integration of geographic information. Michael is the technical coordinator of the implementation and maintenance of the "Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE)". In the framework of Action 1.17 ARE3NA (“A reusable INSPIRE reference platform”) of the EU ISA (“Interoperability Solutions for European public administrations”) programme, he is also working on how INSPIRE principles, tools and guidelines can be used in other sectors, in particular e-government.

Abstract
Setting the Scene

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. The presentation will give an overview of the INSPIRE maintenance and implementation framework and work programme as an introduction to the session.