1. CDDA alignment with INSPIRE
Mette Lund
EEA Biodiversity group
MSFD Technical Group on Marine Data, 7 June 2017

2. The inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA)
CDDA is an annual Eionet core data flow
Geographical coverage: 39 countries
The inventory is collected since 1995
The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA)

3. CDDA reporting from 2018 onwards
Motivation for a new CDDA data model and reporting approach for 2018 reporting
Protected sites are among the INSPIRE Annex I themes
The existing CDDA data model has redundant information and outdated reporting approaches
Motivation for using the ”Linked approach” for environmental reporting
To avoid double reporting
To avoid maintenance of overlapping but different thematic data models
Generic and re-usable approach in different data flows
Current reporting obligations
Type 1 Geospatial reference data
Type 2 Environmental data
Type 3 Textual or contextual data and information

4. Linked Approach and CDDA 2018
Linked Approach schema
CDDA reporting obligation
Type 1
Type 2
Dataset level
Protected Site 1
Designation A
Object level
Protected Site 2
Designation B
Designation C
Separate datasets

5. Linked Approach and CDDA 2018
Type 1 data
Type 2 data
Link – Dataset level (file or WFS)
INSPIRE Protected Sites
Linked Dataset table has information about the connection between Type 1 and Type 2 parts of the CDDA reporting
Designated Area table has three new INSPIRE elements: The components of the InspireID will be used to link the spatial and the tabular data
Link – Record level (InspireID)

6. Current reporting approach in CDDA
Reportnet CDR
Geometry (Shapefiles)
Tabular data
(XML/MS Access files)
Upload as package
common identifier
CDDA 2018 approach re-using INSPIRE Protected Sites
INSPIRE model
Protected Sites
(GML file)
Geometry and core elements
Tabular data (XML/XLS files)
Elements NOT included in the INSPIRE data models
Reportnet CDR
Upload as package
common identifier
CDDA Designated Area
Various IDs
Designated information
IUCN management category
Official area (ha)
Major ecosystem type
Various metadata fields
CDDA match
Geometry of site
Site name
Designation date
Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel

7. Two ways of re-using INSPIRE models (general application)
Alternative A via (INSPIRE compliant)
file
INSPIRE model
Geometry and core elements
GML file
Tabular data (no elements identical to the INSPIRE data models)
common identifier
Upload as package
Reportnet CDR
INSPIRE model
Geometry and core elements
Web feature service link
Tabular data (no elements identical to those of the INSPIRE data models)
common identifier
Alternative B via INSPIRE download service (WFS)
Step 1 - Upload
Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel
Step 2 – Harvest gml file from INSPIRE web service

8. Future web feature service harvesting for reporting?
EEA currently not ready to accept data from web services for obligatory reporting
EEA Reportnet undergoes major update project ( Reportnet 2.0, )
Reporting via web-services is legally/procedurally challenging
Within CDDA ‘18 we will ask countries to provides us with WFS nodes (in parallel) if available for testing
During 2018 EEA will analyse the web-service reporting together with EIONET
Technical and legal challenges needs to be addressed
2020 as target to be ready for web service based reporting for agreed data flows

9. Next steps for CDDA reporting
Consultation on draft reporting guidelines, June 2017
NRC workshop, June 2017
Testing phase with interested countries, July-September 2017
Final reporting guidelines, October 2017
Call for 2018 data collection, December 2017
Reporting deadline, March 2018

10. Thank you contribution to this presenation also from Christian Ansorge EEA Data governance group

11. Relational data base representation of the UML model
- all elements for the DesignatedArea table are listed incl the containedBy element
The UML model
of the Type 2 data

12. Current CDDA data model