WISE and INSPIRE By Albrecht Wirthmann, GISCO, Eurostat e-mail: Albrecht.Wirthmann@cec.eu.int

Aims of INSPIRE and WISE Creation of a European Spatial Information / Data Infrastructure Deliver integrated spatial information services WISE Efficient management of all water-related information on EU level Coherence between various reporting mechanisms and needs Access to information / data for various purposes and needs

WISE and INSPIRE topics Cover all water related information arisng from EU policy Integration of water related datasets, e.g. EIONET water Integration of spatial and non-spatial data INSPIRE addresses spatial data

INSPIRE principles Data should be collected once, maintained at the most appropriate level and shared with all other levels Geo-Information needed for good governance should be abundant under acceptable conditions It should be possible to combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources and share it between many users and applications It should be easy to discover, to evaluate its fitness for use and to know which conditions for use do apply

INSPIRE timeline 2005-06: co-decision procedure ongoing December 2005: Council 1st reading January-June 2006: 2nd reading end 2006: adoption 2005-06: Work Programme activities Preparatory Phase 2007: expected entry into force of the Framework legislation 2007-09: Transposition Phase 2009-2013: Implementation Phase

INSPIRE implementation Preparatory phase (2005-2006) Co-decision procedure Preparation of Implementing Rules Transposition phase (2007-2008) Directive enters into force Transposition into national legislation INSPIRE Committee starts activities Adoption of first set of implementation rules Implementation phase (2009-2013) implementation and monitoring of measures Adoption of second set of Implementing Rules

INSPIRE implementing rules Drafting teams on Metadata Interoperable network services Discovery, view, download, transformation Data Harmonisation Data and service sharing

INSPIRE organisation SDICs User User User Consolidation Team Assure usage of standards and the flow back to the standardizing committees EC, MS ISO, CEN, .. Drafting Teams Convert specifications into implementing rules and draft guidelines SDICs SDICs provide reference material for Drafting Teams and participate in validation process Spatial Data Interest Communities User User User

Possible Links WISE SDIC Provision of reference material Participation in validation process Input from national systems Prototype testing Topics Metadata Data model, Data exchange format

Possible Links Cooperation with MS for integrating national and European water information systems Metadata, metadata services Data exchange (GML based formats) Definition of map services (WMS, WFS) Definition and implementation of use cases (e.g. reporting)

Possible Links European level Integration of different European servers Provision of access to European data and information Definition of European map services (WMS, WFS) Integration of metadata service into EU Geo-Portal Automatic validation of geographic data (requires GML based formats) Prototyping (see http://sdiger.unizar.es)

Possible Actions Review of data model and/or definition of reporting schema for geographic data Guidelines for data harmonisation Definition and implementation of metadata profile Implementation of catalogue service Define common map services based on MS/EU water data (Visualisation group) Use map services of reference data Feasibility studies, creation of prototypes Definition of dissemination policy

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