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Marc LeobetFor the French Point of contact

French monitoring, process and issues

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The processus

• The French SDI could have thousand of autonomous public authorities

• So the monitoring is set on the French SDI to minimize the cost

• Since 2010, all indicators are produced from the national catalog, the Géocatalogue www.geocatalogue.fr

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The processus

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First feedbacks

High rate of datasets with metadata (> 90%) About half of spatial datasets has no view

services But most are about themes of Annexe III;

The indicators about network services are going down;

Association to themes and titles are problematics;

Metadata of network services are very low.

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Themes are not well understood

56% of spatial datasets are well affected to the main theme.

30% of spatial datasets are affected to a wrong theme, or under suspicion.

8% of spatial datasets should be, in fact, not in the field of the directive.

6% of spatial datasets can not be analysed easily from theme point of view.

•Are we alone or do you meet these difficulties too?

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Monitoring of the geographical coverageof spatial data sets

We do not know how to calculate this indicator at an acceptable cost.

The tools (bounding box) are not appropriate;

Because of the French institutionnal context,

Annuality & autonomy we can not have an idea of what will be

coveredHow do you fill this indicator ?

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Conclusions

• We will manage that before the end of 2013 BUT

• Even a regulation which looks as « simple » as Metadata shows the huge gap between experts and public authorities

• And will take much more time, ressources and money that we thought before

• That ought to be a strong warning for the future