How to find, evaluate, select, and use the existing

heterogeneous spatial data and metadata?Karel Charvat

How to discover data and metadata

• With the acronym of “INSPIRE” we refer to the Directive 2007/2/EC of the European parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. The Directive entered into force on the 15th May 2007 and will be fully implemented by 2019.

How to discover data and metadata

• Metadata are not only obligation, but also useful tool for discover and validate spatial (not only data)

• Metadata are available trough catalogues supporting discovery and validation of data and services

How to discover data and metadata

• Metadata: the Directive requirements on metadata are the most urgent, as is asked to Member States to ensure that metadata for datasets corresponding to the themes listed in Annex I and II are created no later than two years after the date of adoption of the Metadata Regulation and no later than five years in case of dataset corresponding to the themes listed in annex III

Discovery services

• Search for:– Data

– Services (like WMS, WFS, WCS, WMC, etc.)

Discovery services

• The discovery tools support– Simple search (like GOOGLE)

– Full search with more parameters

• Some catalogues could also support multiearch, it is parallel search trough more catalogues

Simple Search

Full Search

Multisearch

Search results – list with graphical extend

Search results – list with detail graphical extend

Metadata detail for selected recorf