1. Eionet NRC Information Systems Workshop
Standards and Interoperability
November 2008

2. Scope of the workshop
To discuss the needs and use of open standards for current and future Eionet dataflows
To inform Eionet about OGC and EEA’s membership
To share experiences with open standards and interoperability
To discuss potential role of EEA/Eionet in the standardisation process
Context:
SEIS - Shared Environmental Information System
INSPIRE – European Spatial Data Infrastructure
GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
EEA new strategy

3. Scope of SEIS improve modernise streamline connect environmental
information
systems

4. Evolution of environmental data and information flows
Snail mail
Fax
Tapes
CD-ROM
Floppy disks
with
attachments
Web-based
data
sharing
First few years, no technical infrastructure in place
Requests and deliveries were sent by post on paper and copied for distribtuion
These working methods were replaced by . To begin with there were many problems with file formats
Data deliveries were put in data bases, mostly maintained by the ETCs
For the past few years, data have been delivered from most countries directly into the central data repository of Reportnet where they can be retrieved by many users
80‘s
90‘s
21st century
Paper based reporting >> Electronic data reporting

5. Evolution of the demand for environmental information
Acquis
Env./Sector
Policy
6th Env.
Action Plan -
Sustainable
Developement
Strategy
1970s
2020
Compliance
assessments
Indicator
assessments
Integrated
assessments

6. Building blocks SEIS

7. Inspire and GI standards

8. Athina Trakas - OGC
Marin Koska - SAZP
Athina Trakas - OGC