leveraging smes’ strength for inspire
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Leveraging SMEs’ Strength for INSPIRE. Richard Rombouts Snowflake Software. Snowflake Software. The Data eXchange Company. Off-the-Shelf Products. Software Development. Training and Support. INSPIRE at Snowflake. Software GO Publisher Create INSPIRE data Share INSPIRE data GO Loader - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Leveraging SMEs’ Strength for INSPIRE
Richard Rombouts
Snowflake Software
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Software Development Off-the-Shelf Products Training and Support
Snowflake Software
The Data eXchange Company
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INSPIRE at SnowflakeSoftware
GO Publisher• Create INSPIRE data• Share INSPIRE data
GO Loader• Load INSPIRE data
INSPIRE-as-a-Service• Let us do it for you
Training
• INSPIRE Essentials• GML• XML • Data Modelling
Consultancy
• Implementing INSPIRE• Transforming data• Implementing enterprise-sized data publication systems
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What I want to talk about...• Experiences
• Opportunities
• Barriers
• New initiatives
• Innovation
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Experiences• INSPIRE puts data sharing and open
standards on agenda with data providers
• Growing realisation that data is an asset
• INSPIRE is actually being implemented across Europe; no more paper tiger
• INSPIRE is often perceived as technological problem, not as an opportunity for innovation.
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Opportunities• SMEs are agile by nature and are close to
their customers making them ideal to cooperate with
• Training and knowledge sharing on technical and management level still required
• Other domains adopting INSPIRE-like initiatives, eg. Single European Sky and OneGeology.
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Barriers• Long implementation timescales causing
– Data providers to wait with implementation– Upfront investment and uncertain long-term
revenues for SMEs
• Current tendering procedures not beneficial for SMEs
• Governments competing with businesses• Perceived complexness by data providers• EU not leading by example...yet
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Leading by example
96% of open datasets from just a single organisation
(<2% from EEA)
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Leading by example
Wide variety of data providers
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New Initiatives• European Location Framework
(E.L.F.)– Technical infrastructure which delivers
authoratative, interoperable, cross-border geospatial reference data.
• CITI-SENSE– Development of sensor-based Citizens'
Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities.
• UK Open Data Institute– Catalyst for the evolution of an open data culture
in the UK.
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Innovation
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
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Innovation requires...• Innovative data providers
– More than just opening up datasets
• Innovative technology providers– More than just selling software licences
• Inspiration– More than just ticking the INSPIRE-box
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Final Thoughts• INSPIRE can be a driver for open data
innovation
• INSPIRE is not a technological problem requiring a single software solution
• SMEs have an intimate understanding of their customers and their culture. Use it!
• SMEs are agile and innovative, because it is in their DNA.
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Richard [email protected]
@RichRombouts
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