1. Agenda item 6 - INSPIRE Marine Pilot Progress & your feedback
12th meeting of the WG DIKE
12/10/2015 DG Environment, Brussels

2. Outline Highlights to-date Next steps
Including first results from the “data exercise”
Next steps

3. Marine Pilot Work Packages
Work Package 0- Management and communication
Work Package 1- Overview of MSFD requirements in relation of INSPIRE
Work Package 2- INSPIRE-based MSFD spatial data modelling
Work Package 3- Development of the data flow
Work Package 4- EMODnet and INSPIRE
Work Package 5- Document and analyse the cost and benefit
Work Package 6- Training and capacity building
Not consequent work packages

4. WP1- Overview of MSFD requirements in relation of INSPIRE
Link between INSPIRE & MSFD legal requirements:
MSFD & INSPIRE directives
COM 2010/477/EU on criteria and methodological standards on GES (MSFD)
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services amendments documents (INSPIRE)
Status:
Comments and questions received from SE, SL, ENV on DIKE – Thank you!
Update (REV 3) scheduled for December 2015

5. WP2- INSPIRE-based MSFD spatial data modelling
Spatial data modeling:
Document and share data coming from the MSFD monitoring programmes
Introduction to the use of INSPIRE data standards
Data models for further use in the marine pilot
Status:
Tabled today as DIKE a, for comments and questions by end of November 2015
Update (REV 3) scheduled for December 2015

6. WP3- Development of the data flow
Sandbox – development of technical solutions and tools – including free and open source software – that can be used required data flow

7. First results from the data exercise
MSFD Descriptor D5: Human-induced eutrophication is minimised, especially adverse effects thereof, such as losses in biodiversity, ecosystem degradation, harmful algal blooms and oxygen deficiency in bottom waters
Including following indicators:
Nutrients concentration and ratio
Chlorophyll concentration
Water transparency related to increase in suspended algae, where relevant
Abundance of opportunistic macroalgae
Species shift in floristic composition such as diatom to flagellate ratio, benthic to pelagic shifts, as well as bloom events of nuisance/toxic algal blooms (e.g. cyanobacteria) caused by human activities
Abundance of perennial seaweeds and seagrasses (e.g. fucoids, eelgrass and Neptune grass) adversely impacted by decrease in water transparency
Dissolved oxygen, i.e. changes due to increased organic matter decomposition and size of the area concerned

8. Metadata Languages search “MSFD” or “Marine” : no results
DE geoportal expects German keywords
search “MSFD” or “Marine” : no results
Search: “MSRL”=German acronym of “MSFD” or “Meeresstrategie”=“Marine strategy” found metadata

9. Metadata Keywords Geoserver data services
The data and services published on geoportal include datasets about some parameters (for example Chlorophyll)
Geoserver data services
Using some keywords to find Chlorophill data on geoportal have no result (tested keywords: CHLS, Chlorophyll)
Metadata geoportal data services

10. Metadata: operational suggestions
Keywords
Insert the most important keywords related to the collected data
Select keywords from thematic thesauri 
Client able to exploit thesauri can recover metadata from:
term ID (language independent)
Exploiting narrower/relatives terms
Semantic interoperability
Language
For cross-countries search, use at least also English translation of each keyword

11. Data Language: DE (English): field names and values
Field description and field value in NL
FID
Monster.identificatie
Meetpunt.identificatie
Parameter.omschrijving
Biotaxon.naam
Eenheid.code
Hoedanigheid.code
Waardebewerkingsmethode.code
Inspire_Marine.fid-7034c7f7_ b_3e3
318
chlorofyl-a
ug/l
NVT
P90
Inspire_Marine.fid-7034c7f7_ b_3e4
317
Inspire_Marine.fid-7034c7f7_ b_3e5
316
Inspire_Marine.fid-7034c7f7_ b_3e6
315
Inspire_Marine.fid-7034c7f7_ b_3e7
314
DE (English): field names and values
FID ID
STATION_NAME
DATETIME
PARAMETER
BESCHREIBUNG
DESCRIPTION
SIGN
VALUE
UNIT
ORIGIN
STATIONID
LAT
CPHL.fid-1e767396_1504c465719_-2d07
NI_NLWKN_1
Nney_W_2
T23:59:00
CPHL
Chlorophyll-a
30,79
µg/L
ni_nlwkn 79
53,69866
CPHL.fid-1e767396_1504c465719_-2d06
T23:59:00
0,71
CPHL.fid-1e767396_1504c465719_-2d05
T23:59:00
4,03
CPHL.fid-1e767396_1504c465719_-2d04
T23:59:00
6,55

12. Data Methodology applied to measure the collected observation DE NL
Example of chlorophyll-a different measures at the same time in the same place with different methodology DE NL
1° dataset: DE - method undeclared
2° dataset: DE - method declared
3° dataset: NL – method undeclared

13. Data Unit of measures DE NL
The analysed datasets have information about the unit of measurement. The same parameters are not always expressed using the same unit of measurement DE
In some datasets, the chlorophyll-a is expressed in μg/l and in others in mg/l. NL
the chlorophyll-a is expressed in μg/l

14. What INSPIRE offers? Common approach to:
Language
Field description
About field value, some of them are solved with the use of codelists stored in reference multi-languages registries
Definition of field value
Codelists colected in registry/thesauri solves also the meaning of the field value (semantic interoperability)
Indication of methodology applied to compute parameters
On Metadata information
On data model (EMF)

15. What INSPIRE doesn’t solve
Scale of geospatial element
The scale of exposed data are stored in metadata for interoperability
No mandate of exposing specific dataset in a pre-defined scale
Unit of measures
INSPIRE manages the parameters value and the related unit of measures used for them.
No mandate of exposing specific parameter values in a pre-defined unit of measure
These aspects need to be agreed in reporting requirements

16. WP4- EMODnet and INSPIRE
Overview of legal, organizational, semantic and technical relations
Based on outcomes of EMODNET & INPSPIRE workshop 30/06/2015
Proposes different roles for EMODnet in support of INSPIRE implementation in MS
Status:
Tabled today as DIKE b, for comments and questions by end of November 2015
Update (REV 3) scheduled for December 2015
Concrete action plan to be discussed with EMODnet projects in week of 20 October 2015
Possible use of EMODnet products in marine pilot

17. WP6- Training and capacity building
Developed three training modules:
On line training modules for the basic INSPIRE understanding
Web conferences (recorded and available on line) – related to the interoperability and INSPIRE data models related to the MSFD implementation
“Hands on” – training module – capacity building for the transformation of data sets into INSPIRE data model; development of the INSPIRE compliant metadata, use of sandbox tools, etc…
We want to share with other MSFD implementers

18. Next steps
Project progressing well with good discussions among the expanding partners
France, Spain, and Italy indicated interest to participate in second phase
HELCOM and OSPAR
Written comments from WG DIKE members on D2.0 and D4.2 – first cut-off date for comments 27/11/2015
Inclusion of other interested MS in the pilot welcomed

19. Inspire-info@jrc.ec.europa.eu http://inspire.ec.europa.eu
Thank you for your attention!