1. SmartOpenData, & SDI4Apps Dr. John J O’Flaherty, The National Microelectronics Applications Centre Ltd, john@mac.ie SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

2. SmartOpenData Linked Open Data for environment protection in Smart Regions FP7 ENVIR Grant no. 603824 - [Exploiting the European Open Data Strategy to mobilise the use of environmental data & information] SmartOpenData is creating a Linked Open Data platform of tools to make public & voluntary GeoSpatial data resources on rural areas - such as national parks. available to SMEs in a way that will enable them to create new services & products. Based on the practical needs & experience of 5 Demonstration Pilots SmartOpenData aims to help bridge the gap between 1. GeoSpatial Data - from the SDI/INSPIRE “world” OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) – standards setting 2. Linked Open Data (LOD) - from the Semantic Web “world” W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) – collaborative movement SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

3. SmartOpenData Linked Open Data for environment protection in Smart Regions Involves 16 partners from 9 countries Public Bodies, Academic Researchers, Industry SMEs Some common partners with SDI4Apps Project started in November 2013 & will run for 2 years. See www.smartopendata.euwww.smartopendata.eu 21 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

4. SmartOpenData Consortium Industry Academic Public Body SMEs Started:November 2013 Duration: 24 Month EU Contribution: €2.4M SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

5. 1.Environmental Conservation – Ireland Focused on biodiversity & habitats data for researchers & decision makers in management & conservation of the Burren & other National Parks. 2.Water monitoring – Italy Will explore the role of aggregating information from different Open Data sources to provide up to date monitoring of water quality in Sicily. 3.Forest sustainability – Czech Republic Forest site classification, sustainable management & utilisation of forest roads using the National Forest Inventory & Regional Plans for Development datasets. 4.Environmental data reuse – Slovakia Will deploy two types of web applications to achieve reuse of environmental data & information in line with the European Open Data Strategy. 5.Agroforestry Management – Spain & Portugal Will focus on building a web based collaborative Spatial Data Infrastructure to promote sustainable agroforestry management, environment protection, rural economic development, water management & drinking water protection. SmareOpenData Demonstration Pilots SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

6. SmartOpenData Irish Pilot Environmental Conservation, Biodiversity 6 The Irish pilot will access & aggregate sources to impact on biodiversity, by allowing them to seamlessly bridge the gap between the “worlds” of open data & INSPIRE geo-spatial sources for Environmental Conservation. Focusing on European protected areas & its National Parks, Starting with the Burren National Park in Ireland. To demonstrate the value of SmartOpenData in helping Researchers & Decision Makers to better manage, preserve, sustain & use this unique ecosystem. Pilot will explore: Discovery, seamless use & mashing together of sources to address immediate biodiversity research issues. Overcoming the barriers (cultural, political, administrative) to opening up the data Overcoming technical incompatibilities of datasets in terms of technical standards, semantic structuring etc. Validation of the SmartOpenData platform in the aggregation, analysis & visualisation to support decision making of the various research & other stakeholders requirements, & the value-add/impact on their work SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

7. SmartOpen Data Irish Pilot Burren National Park, Co. Clare, Ireland 7 1,500 hectares on the west coast of Ireland Managed by the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service An unique area of high conservation value containing many habitats of international importance including limestone pavement, calcareous grassland, oligotrophic lakes, turloughs, hazel scrub & ash/hazel woodland. Involves many Communities & Europe-wide environmental issues SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

8. SmartOpenData Irish Pilot User Scenarios 8 Meetings & Discussions with the stakeholder groups have identified the following four User Scenarios 1.SmartOpenData enabled European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) Webservice for the Burren & European GeoParks Network. 2.SmartOpenData enabled Farming for Conservation webservice 3.SmartOpenData enabled App to Ground-Truth potential Protected Monument sites 4.SmartOpenData Platform input to the Irish Open Government Partnership (OGP) process SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

9. SmartOpenData Technical Architecture SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

10. SmartOpenData Services The SmartOpenData platform will be an integration of previously developed & available open components, then iteratively improved based on user operational feedback, to provide the following services: 1.Discovery Metadata harvesting & Publishing. 2.Data services Distributed open data services WMC Registry services GeoSPARQL tools RSS/GeoRSS KML/KMZ 3.Transformation Workflow management 4.Monitoring 5.External services 6.Applications 7.CMS 8.Social Networks & Media SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014

11. 11 Thank You SDI4Apps Kickoff Meeting, Sicily, 15-16 Apr 014