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“The NESIS Network and its Outcomes for the ICT

Implementation of SEIS”

Giorgio Saio - GISIG

INSPIRE Conference 2011

ICT PSP Grant AgreementNo. 225062

why NESIS

• To provide a coherent ICT roadmap for the SEIS implementation, with the consolidation of existing best practice.

• To promote the uptake of ICT solutions to address the fundamental problems faced by public authorities in providing information related to monitoring and reporting environmental data.

• To support a shared vision for streamlining current information and reporting systems and to promote the adoption of an interoperable information infrastructure


Criteria Awareness that there is not a single model to

organise data flow, to be developed upon diverse needs in the topic areas exploit the lessons of Good Practices

From local to global and vice-versa, i.e. to improve data sharing at and among all levels promote the mutual exchange between different

level authorities (Local-Regional-National-European) rather than a one-way flow

A top down and bottom-up approach Top down requirements, from the SEIS

communication Bottom-up requirements, from existing Good

Practices


Objectives vs. Outcomes Analysis of the SoP in Environmental

Information Systems and services for monitoring and reporting (from national to a European synthesis)

Creation of an inventory of Good Practices and analysis of them

ICT Roadmap for implementing SEIS, that focuses on what to do for evolving towards a distributed, standards-based infrastructure for spatial and non-spatial environmental information, based on the principles of shared access

Guidelines on ICT supporting environmental monitoring and reporting, that focus on how to do it

Communication forum and network of stakeholders


NESIS Results Analysis of the State of Play in the Countries

participating in the Network, about the ICT components that will contribute to the development of SEIS 12 coutries contributed

Synthesis of the State of Play at European level of environmental information systems for monitoring and reporting

Good Practices in environmental data management and methodologies for their analysis NESIS GP Catalogue (44 GP available)

A contribution for the SEIS implementation: a proposal for a SEIS ICT roadmap and technical Guidelines Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS

The NESIS Network (43 Members, 24 Countries, starting from 16 Partners, 14 Countries) INSPIRE Conference 2011

I. NESIS approach and SEIS requirementsA combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up approach for the identification of the requirements for the ICT component of SEIS

II.SEIS ICT Component Envisions an overall network architecture for SEIS

III.Guidelines for technical implementationContains the discussion of potential technologicalapproaches to implement SEIS ICT services and components.

IV.SEIS specific ICT aspectsOther SEIS issues not directly target by INSPIRE

V.Towards SEIS implementationIt proposes a possible action plan for the SEIS implementation

MAIN NESIS OUTREACH“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Structure

Roadmap: what to do

Guidelines:how to do it


“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – UsersWho should read this document? This document intends to be a “handbook” suitable for

understanding, commenting and amending, and in perspective implementing, the NESIS proposal for SEIS

According to a criterion of role and profile, the following categories of potential users can be identified:

decision makers and managers, for the Parts I, II, IV and V of the document

ICT technicians and operators for all Part, with Part III and IV being the most technical


“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – ICT focus

SEIS envisioned as a network of distributed services Under focus on service provider side:

service interface technologymetadata elements and encodingdata exchange models and formats

Under focus on service consumer side:data processing and information synthesisdata semantics and linked data

Also discussed:handling reference data (e.g. thesauri, global

identifiers, etc)


“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – general remarks

The Roadmap section defines services on a high level, allowing to consider different technology options for implementing them (e.g. SOAP, REST, …)

Potential technology bindings discussed in Guidelines.

The document is generally dealing with environmental reporting issues, but also briefly addressed are:voluntarily collected and provided datasensor monitoring

SEIS policy options (under discussion) affect the choice of technologies and overall implementation approach


“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – ICT direction (1) The possibilities for using INSPIRE interfaces and

formats for discovering, viewing and downloading non-GIS data (e.g. SOER, statistical data, …) were assessed.

INSPIRE’s OGC services and ISO standards provide indeed extensibility points for doing that, but things to consider: it is not trivial; OGC clients unlikely to request non-GIS data from

OGC services, so different client-side tools still required;

overhead for organisations with only tabular data to offer;

EEA’s experience: GML and XML Schema based formats in general are not effective for data analysis and processing.


“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – ICT direction (2) Complementary approach: data and metadata

exchanged over RDF syntax and model, based on previously developed ontologies and taxonomies (RDF Schema, OWL, SKOS, etc).

Linked Data principles for linking diverse data. Semantic Web features for automated data

understanding. Why?

universal model: well suited for analysis and processing, same client-side tools for diverse data

expressibility of relations between different taxonomies and thesauri: less streamlining efforts

easy to link with data from INSPIRE doesn’t suffer from constantly changing reporting

specs


II. SEIS ICT COMPONENTS

4. Metadata 5. Data Specifications 6. Service Oriented Architecture

Definition of SOA and services, Network Services Architecture

7. Proposed ICT ServicesDiscovery, View, Download, Data Quality, Feedback, Sensor Observation, Notification, Registry, Service Chaining

8. Service Security9. Summary, conclusions, open issues

“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Contents (1)I. NESIS APPROACH TOWARDS SEIS

REQUIREMENTS

1. Definitions2. Top- down and bottom-up, two complementary vision3. SEIS Requirements

III. Guidelines for technical implementation:

10 . GUIDELINES ON SEIS METADATAExisting standards, The choices for SEIS, SEIS metadata

encoding

11. GUIDELINES ON SEIS DATA SPECIFICATIONS

Modeling approaches and data encodings, XML Schema and XML, OWL, RDF Schema and RDF

12 . GUIDELINES ON SEIS NETWORK SERVICES

Discovery Services, View Services, Download Services, Data Quality Services, Feedback Services, Sensor Observation Services, Notification Services, Registry Services, Services Chaining

13 . Summary, conclusions, open issues


“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Contents (2)

IV. SEIS Specific ICT aspects

14.Voluntarily provided dataGuidelines on voluntarily provided data,Acquiring voluntary provided data

15.Documents and information products16.Reporting support 17.Data processing and semantics

Problem background, What SEIS could do?, Potential issues, Potential solutions

18.Linking spatial and environmental domains 19.Streamlining thesauri and other reference

data

20.Conclusions INSPIRE Conference 2011


V.Towards SEIS implementation

21. PROPOSED ACTION PLAN FOR SEIS IMPLEMENTATION

21.1 General remarks and assumptions21.2 Legislation’s impact on SEIS implementation21.3 Implementing Rules and Guidance Documents21.4 Groups and responsibilities21.5 SEIS components to be specified21.6 Reusing INSPIRE IR & DT21.7 Action plan illustrated21.8 Action plan

22. SUMMARY AND NEXT STEPS22.1 Next steps towards SEIS implementation



Network exploitation and follow- up initiativesThe NESIS Network is still operational to support the ICT

implementationof a Shared Environment Information System for Europe and the SEISinitiative, through:

a NESIS Secretariat supported by GISIG to guarantee the operativeness of the Network

a strict link with INSPIRE (NESIS has been registered as a Thematic SDIC and with EEA, supporting the EEA ICT strategy

the further development of the NESIS Good Practice Catalogue, to share experiences on environmental data and information management

actions devoted to the training and awareness activities promotion of new projects and initiatives, such as an

Environmental Thesaurus Framework

the Network development and enlargement INSPIRE Conference 2011

NESIS: a line of activity within the GISIG Association

NESIS

NESIS as SDIC INSPIRE

Linkage with INSPIRE: NESIS as a Thematic SDIC

I. Collect and describe user requirements related to Environmental policies

II. Submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams (D6.2, Good Practices, etc)

III.Contribute to awareness raising and training

IV.Contribute, with reference to environmental information management, into the review process and the release of the INSPIRE Implementing Rules


44 Good Practices registered so far


A Training Framework

I. NESIS approach and SEIS requirements A combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up approach for the identification of

the requirements for the ICT component of SEIS

II. SEIS ICT COMPONENTS NESIS proposal for a technological Roadmap for the SEIS implementation

III. Guidelines for technical implementationAbout “how” SEIS could be developed

IV. SEIS specific ICT aspects

V. Towards SEIS implementation It propose a possible action plan for the SEIS implementation

NESIS main outcomes -> Training Courses

A - “Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS”

B - “NESIS Good Practices for SEIS” – about ICT aspects of environmental data management (methods, technology, procedures)


The NESIS network is intended to continue its original objective to support the ICT implementation o SEIS, starting from D6.2 “Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS”, involving other interested stakeholders

May 2008, 16 Members – 14 Countries

Now, 43 Members – 24 Countries

The NESIS Network


NESIS Members by Institution type

(77% of them EIONET NFPs)


NESIS and SEIS potential stakeholders

(source EEA)NESIS is an open Network


Next NESIS event: a NESIS Workshop at

You are all invited! INSPIRE Conference 2011

NESIS kick-off meeting Copenhagen 22-23 May

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Thanks to all the NESIS Members for the support during the Project and for the future of the Network

Giorgio [email protected]


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“the nesis network and its outcomes for the ict implementation of seis” giorgio saio - gisig...

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