1. WISE and INSPIRE By Albrecht Wirthmann, GISCO, Eurostat

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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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