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INSPIRE Spatial Data Infrastructure Solution Architecture – Basic Solution Profile

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Date: 06/09/2013

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Malta Information Technology Agency

■Gate 1 Solution Architecture Submission for INSPIRE Spatial Data Infrastructure

Solution Architecture Document Template Version: 7.0 Page 2

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01. Submission Details

Project

Name INSPIRE Spatial Data Infrastructure

Target Completion Date Not yet established.

Submission

Name and Surname Jennifer Busuttil

Ministry / Department / Organisation TSG - MITA

Title (CTO / CIO / Officer / IMU / Supplier) Solutions Architect

Email [email protected]

Telephone 25992046

Supplier

Name and Surname Godwin Caruana

Organisation CTO - TSG - MITA


Telephone 25992004

Client

Name and Surname Gatt Matthew

Ministry / Department / Organisation Head of EU Fund Prog & Digital Outreach - MITA


Telephone 25992203

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02. Basic Solution Profile Change Log

Any moderate or significant changes to the solution design must be resubmitted to TSG for review and approval prior to making any actual implementation change(s). In most cases, the review

and approval of any changes would be performed internally within TSG. Notes:

Use of a word processing automated change tracking feature is required when resubmitting this document in order to simplify the review and approval process. Once a version of the document has been approved, then that version of the document should be saved for archival purposes. Prior to submitting a new version of the document, all prior tracked changes should be

accepted. This process for resubmission can then be repeated as many times as necessary until the final approval has been issued.

Failure to resubmit changes for review and approval could result in a recommendation by

TSG that the project approval status be reconsidered. If there are any questions as to whether or not a change is substantive enough to warrant review and approval, please send an email on [email protected] for clarification.

Maintain a summary of changes in the table below.

2.1 Change Log Summary – Description Version Date

Initial version 1.0 23/10/2012

Revision of the initial version to update any changes made to the technology stack

2.0 06/09/2013

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03. Basic Solution Profile

The Basic Solution Profile Section has been designed to capture only the most essential information required for the Initial Project Approval.

03.1 High Level Business Scope of Solution

Business Context Checklist

3.1.1 Business Description:

A European Spatial Data Infrastructure will assist in policy -making across boundaries which may have an impact on the environment. Therefore the spatial information considered under

the directive is extensive and includes a great variety of topical and technical themes. The purpose of this project is to abide with the INSPIRE directive which came into force on 15

May 2007 and will be implemented in various stages, with full implementation required by 2019. INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the 27 Member States of the European Union. The Directive addresses 34 spatial

data themes needed for environmental applications, with key components specified through technical implementing rules.

This will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe.

INSPIRE should be based on the infrastructures for spatial information that are created by the Member States. The components of those infrastructures include:

metadata,

spatial data themes (as described in Annexes I, II, III of the Directive),

spatial data services,

network services and technologies,

agreements on sharing, access and use,

coordination, monitoring mechanisms, processes and procedures.

The text of the INSPIRE Directive is available from the INSPIRE web site ( http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire). INSPIRE is based on a number of common principles:

Data should be collected only once and kept where it can be maintained most effectively.

It should be possible to combine seamless spatial information from different sources

across Europe and share it with many users and applications.

It should be possible for information collected at one level/scale to be shared with all levels/scales; detailed for thorough investigations, general for strategic purposes.

Geographic information needed for good governance at all levels should be readily

and transparently available.

Easy to find what geographic information is available, how it can be used to meet a particular need, and under which conditions it can be acquired and used.

http://www.ec-gis.org/inspirehttp://www.ec-gis.org/inspire



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3.1.2 EU Initiative/Obligations:

Is the creation of the solution mandated by EU laws/directives/initiatives?

Yes

o Which EU laws/directives/initiatives mandate the creation of the solution?

Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament.

3.1.3

Mission Criticality (in the context of Government’s business):

Is the creation of the solution mandated by local laws/directives?

Yes

o Which local laws/directives mandate the creation of the solution?

Given that the implementation is enforced via an EU Directive, it is

automatically enforced via the local transposition.

What are the repercussions of not implementing the solution?

Failure to fulfil the obligations under that directive the Government is to pay penalties.

Example: Penalties, disruption to Government’s ICT/Business strategy. Clearly provide the necessary documentation to substantiate your case.

By when does the solution need to be live / available for use?

The current work focuses on the initial operating capability for discovery, view and download services. The INSPIRE Directive stipulates the following timeline:

09-Nov-2011 Discovery and view services operational

28-Jun-2012 Member States shall provide the Download Services with

initial operating capability

28-Jun-2012 Member States shall provide the Transformation Services

with initial operating capability

23-Nov-2012 Implementation of Commission Regulation (EU) No

1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and

services for Newly collected and extensively restructured Annex I spatial data sets available

28-Dec-2012 Download services operational

28-Dec-2012 Transformation services operational

Provide reason why the solution is required to be live / available for use by this date:

Deadlines are stipulated by the EU Directive 2007/2/EC and regulations resulting from

the commitology process.

3.1.4 Monetary Value/Budget Allocated:

NOTE: If breakdown of the below values is available, kindly attach with the submission.

Capital Expenditure (CAPEX):

N/A

Such as: procurement, deployment, etc.

Operational Expenditure (OPEX):

N/A

Such as: maintenance and support, recurring license costs, etc.



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o Specify the number of years on which OPEX was calculated:

N/A

Kindly also highlight the budget sources funding the solution:

N/A

MITA has been assigned the legal obligation to provide this infrastructure and will resource this from its own funds.

N.B. Budget sources can also be referred to a pre-defined contract. In this case kindly highlight the number of hours being utilised.

3.1.5 Solution Scope:

International:

Yes

Inter-governmental: Solution which will be shared or is common amongst governments; implemented across EU member states.

Government Wide:

Yes

Interdepartmental: Solution which will be shared or is common amongst local Government departments.

Local:

No

Departmental: Solution which will be only used by the specific Government department.

3.1.6 Solution Delivery:

Solution is to be delivered all at once:

No

Solution is to be delivered over time:

Yes. There are three different Annexes which include different spatial data themes

that need to be implemented. Details on the phases still have to be defined.

3.1.7 Solution Major Milestones:

Specify the solution major milestones together with their respective target delivery date within the table below:

The INSPIRE Directive stipulates the following timeline:

09-Nov-2011 Discovery and view services operational

28-Jun-2012 Member States shall provide the Download Services with initial operating capability

28-Jun-2012 Member States shall provide the Transformation Services with initial operating capability

23-Nov-2012 Implementation of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive

2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services for Newly collected and extensively restructured

Annex I spatial data sets available

28-Dec-2012 Download services operational

28-Dec-2012 Transformation services operational



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03.2 Basic Solution Checklist

Disclaimer: Any technologies listed below have been provided solely for convenience, the information provided is not intended to be exhaustive nor does it indicate product endorsement by TSG.

Conceptual Solution Checklist - Select all that apply

3.2.1 Project Type:

New Solution:

Yes

Upgrade Solution:

No

Solution Migration:

No

Either migration of solution from one hosting environment to another OR migration of server from one data centre to another.

3.2.2 Solution Interactions:

Government to Citizen (G2C):

Yes

Services offered to the public.

Government to Business (G2B):

Yes

Services offered to the third party organizations which are not controlled by the Government.

Government to Government (G2G):

Yes

Services intended to be used by ministries, Government departments and/or entities.

Government to Other Government (G2OG):

Yes

Services that will be used by other Governments, such as other EU member states.



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3.2.3 Business Domain Information Classification:

What is the classification of the information which will be retained by the solution:

The solution can have more than one applicable classification.

Confidential – Significant impact if information is disclosed to unauthorised recipients.

In this regard the following is recommended:

• Data should be encrypted at rest,

• All point-to-point communication channels should be encrypted,

• 2-factor Authentication should be used,

• Should not be published publicly over the internet,

• Preferably hosted on infrastructures which are governed by ISO 27001 (or similar) certifications

Restricted – Undesirab le consequences if information is disclosed to unauthorized recipients

In this regard the following is recommended:

• If data is stored on shared tenancy storage then it should be encrypted at rest,

• Outside MAGNET communication should be encrypted.

Unclassified – Negligible impact if information is disclosed to unauthorised recipients.

Public – This information is availab le to the general public.

Security Classification Select Indicate which information is classified under the respective category including the respective key business scenarios

Yes / No Insert

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

Public Yes

Data is public subject to appropriate license restrictions on download and reuse as stipulated by the respective data owner.

Is the solution going to process / store personal information?

Example: use of credit card details during a payment process, processing/storing of health related information, etc.

No



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3.2.4 ICT Policies/Directives:

Highlight any deviations (providing detailed description) to the Policies /Directives

found in the following URL: http://ictpolicies.gov.mt/

Part of the technology being used to provide the spatial infrastructure consists of

two open source portals which do not fully abide with the branding obligations as defined in CIMU S0051 Website Standard.

Furthermore the stack uses spatial data standards which are not listed in the Adopted Specifications Policy.

Such as:

GMICT X 0071:2010 Adopted Specifications,

CIMU S0051 Website Standard,

CIMU P 0012:2003 Third party Web hosting services Policy.

3.2.5 Estimated Total Number of Consumers that will be using the solution:

Total number of consumers:

By Audience:

Total Number

Citizen

Government Employees

Businesses (Private Sector)

Other:

1. Data owners will need to provide the metadata

pertaining to a specific data theme and enter the respective data through the portal. Data Owners involve different government and public entities.

2. 27 Member States of the European Union.

3. Given that this setup will be public facing it shall be accessible by the general public

Not defined

NOTE: For solutions were functionality will be delivered overtime specify amounts by implementation phase.

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3.2.6 Estimated Total Number of Concurrent Consumers that will be making use of the solution:

Total number of concurrent consumers:

By Audience:

Total Number

Citizen



Other:

The number of requests processed in parallel for the view,

download and discovery services is limited to 50. While the minimum number of simultaneous requests to a transformation service to be served in accordance with the quality of service

performance criteria shall be 5 requests per second.

(Source: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32010R10

88:EN:NOT)

Not defined

NOTE: For solutions were functionality will be delivered over time specify amounts by implementation phase.

3.2.7 Estimated Annual Consumer Growth Rate:

Percentage consumer growth rate:

By Audience:

Percentage

Citizen Not defined



Other:

NOTE: For modular delivery specify amounts by implementation phase.

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3.2.8 Solution Availability:

Specify the required uptime for the solution:

Availability % Unscheduled Downtime (Over a non–leap Year) Yes / No

99% (Two Nines) 3.65 Days Yes

99.9% (Three Nines) 8.76 Hours

99.99% (Four Nines) 52.56 Minutes

99.999% (Five Nines) 5.26 Minutes

Specify other (if any) Specify other (if any)

NOTES:

- The specified downtime is the exact yearly period whereby the solution is allowed to be unavailable based on the respective availab ility percentage.

- Any solution being hosted within Government’s data centres requiring an availability of 99.9% or more per annum should be implemented in a redundant fashion across both data centres.

- Please indicate how the SLA shall be monitored.

You may make use of the following Service Availability Calculator for a quick calculation in terms of un-scheduled downtime and guaranteed uptime. In addition, this tool features actual availab ility representation when introducing scheduled downtime.

TEC-TPL-Service Availability Calculator-v1.0.xls

Recovery Time Objectives (RTO): What is the maximum acceptable length of time from the occurrence of a downtime, that may elapse before the lack of business

functionality severely impacts its beneficiary/beneficiaries:

Such information is not being defined.

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure): What is the minimum acceptable length of time between two consecutive failures, that is acceptable to the business?

Such information is not being defined.

IMPORTANT: When compiling the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for solutions, It is recommended

that the above values are clearly identified, i.e.: (a) Availability, (b) Recovery time objectives and (c) MTBF. By having these specified and articulated in the service contract, the business owner may ensure minimal impact from possible failures.

For example: 99% availability with a maximum RTO of five hours and having an MTBF of 2 days.

What are the repercussions if the solution fails?

Consumers will not be able to view, download, or discover spatial data.

For example the above must gauge whether the solution has financial, health, political, etc. repercussions.

Highlight any peaks and troughs of the service being rendered?

The performance in normal situation represents periods out of peak load. It is set at 90 % of the time.



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3.2.9 Production Hours of Operation:

Audience 24 X 7

Normal Business Hours

(e.g. 8:00 to 17:00)

Extended Business Hours

Yes / No Yes / No Specify the hours / N/A

Citizen Yes


Yes


Yes

EU Member State Users

Yes

3.2.10 Solution Delivery Model/Business Model:

Traditional:

Yes

As a Service:

Subscription based.

No

NOTE: Prior to considering cloud based offerings it is appropriate that the following considerations are evaluated: Please refer to Cloud Considerations check list: https://www.mita.gov.mt/MediaCenter/PDFs/1_TSG-REP-Cloud-Common-Assessment-and-Considerations-v2%200.pdf.



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3.2.11 Target Hosting Environment:

Shared eGovernment Web Hosting Environment managed and supported by MITA:

No

This applies for existing solutions only i.e. solution updates/upgrades.

Segregated Environment at the Government Data Centres managed by MITA:

No

This applies for existing solutions only i.e. solution updates/upgrades.

Service Hosting Catalogue TYPE 2 - refer to service hosting catalogue: https://www.mita.gov.mt/MediaCenter/PDFs/1_IMS-GDL-ServiceHostingCatalogue-v3%200.pdf.

Segregated Environment at the Government Data Centres managed by 3rd

parties:

o Computing resources provided by MITA: Yes

Service Hosting Catalogue TYPE 1B - refer to service hosting catalogue: https://www.mita.gov.mt/MediaCenter/PDFs/1_IMS-GDL-ServiceHostingCatalogue-v3%200.pdf.

o Computing resources not provided by MITA: No

Service Hosting Catalogue TYPE 1A - refer to service hosting catalogue: https://www.mita.gov.mt/MediaCenter/PDFs/1_IMS-GDL-ServiceHostingCatalogue-v3%200.pdf.

o 3rd Party Supplier Organization: No

NOTE: This is subject to approval i.e. involving business negotiations and appropriate discussions with the respective stakeholders.

Hosting managed and supported at 3rd

parties:

Shared: No

Dedicated: No

The organization providing:

o Hosting: N/A

o Management and support: N/A

The country:

o Where the data shall be residing: N/A

o From where the service shall be rendered: N/A

NOTE: All options above are governed by OPM Circular No 29/2005 - 23 June 2005 - Reviewing the ICT Operations of Government.

NOTE: If more than one hosting mode is selected please supply more information about the role of each hosting layer.



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3.2.12 Solution Usage of Government Shared Services:

myBills:

No

Shared Service handling online government payments.

myForms:

No

Shared Service for creating electronic forms and the respective workflows for the delivery of citizen centric eServices.

mGov:

No

Shared alerting services used to deliver Short Message Services (SMS) and email

notifications.

eID:

No

A shared service which allows citizens and businesses to identify themselves via the government’s Web portal or telephone contact centre to securely access any number of availab le e-Services, regardless of which organization provides the service.

CDR:

No

Shared Service providing access to Corporate Data.

Corporate Identity:

No

A Shared Service for the provision of Identity to the Public Administration.

Additional information can be found at the following URL: https://www.mita.gov.mt/page.aspx?pageid=230.

Kindly highlight any usage peaks of the service/s being consumed.

3.2.13 Solution Usage of External Services:

Identify and specify any interactions required with external services:

Service Name Service Provider

N/A N/A

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3.2.14 Shareable characteristics of the Solution:

Is the solution going to share resources (data, processes, etc.) with other external

services/solutions?

No

o What resources will be shareable?

N/A

o Which external services/solutions are going or already make use of these

sharable resources (if already known)?

Service Name Service Provider

N/A N/A

o How do you plan to share these resources (if already known)?

N/A

Principles:

- Any shareable resources should be exposed through appropriate machine readable mechanisms in an industry standard fashion, using open standards and interoperable engineering principle/practices.

- Specifically in the context of domain data, ownership is considered to rest within the respective legally empowered authority/authorities, unless explicitly otherwise indicated . As a matter of preference, any machine to machine (solution to solution) interaction between data consumers and providers must happen directly between the consumer and the specific information system storing and processing such domain data



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03.3 Functional Solution Description

The Spatial Infrastructure solution will provide the following functionality; a) Discovery services search for spatial data sets and spatial data services on the basis of the content of corresponding metadata, and display the metadata content;

b) View services as a minimum, display, navigate, zoom in/out, pan, or overlay spatial data sets and display legend information and any relevant content of metadata; c) Download services enabling copies of complete spatial data sets, or of parts of such sets,

to be downloaded The INSPIRE View Services allow users and computer programs to view spatial datasets;

1. Get View Services Metadata: Get metadata about a specific view service; 2. Get Map: Returns a map for a specified area; 3. Link View Service: Allows the linking of view services together.

(Source: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/TechnicalGuidance_ViewServices_v3.1.pdf)

The INSPIRE Discovery Services allow users and computer programs to search for spatial datasets and services based on their metadata records;

1. Get Discovery Service Metadata: Provides all necessary information about the Discovery Service and describes service capabilities;

2. Discover Metadata: Allows requesting INSPIRE metadata elements of spatial data sets

and services from a Discovery Service; 3. Publish Metadata: Allows editing of INSPIRE metadata elements of resources in the

Discovery Service (push or pull metadata mechanisms). Editing meaning insert, update

and delete; 4. Link Discovery Service: Allows the declaration of the availability of a Discovery Service

for the discovery of resources through the Member State Discovery Service while

maintaining the resource metadata at the owner’s location. (Source: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/TechnicalGuidance_DiscoveryServices_v

3.1.pdf) The INSPIRE Download Services describes the following four download operations that must be

implemented; 1. Get Download Service Metadata 2. Get Spatial Dataset

3. Describe Spatial Dataset 4. Link Download Service

(Source:

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/Technical_Guidance_Download_Services_3.0.pdf)

Note: Narrative describing the functional design of the solution must be provided immediately

following the diagram(s).

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03.4 Conceptual Solution Design Description

Provide a diagram (or diagrams) with corresponding narrative that depicts an accurate description of the conceptual design for the entire solution. The design must document how each of the requirements specified in the functional design will be conceptually accomplished. The conceptual

design must align with the Principles, Practices, and Standards that are published in the http://ictpolicies.gov.mt and https://www.mita.gov.mt/edev portals respectively.

Note: The diagram below has been provided for illustrative purposes only. PSOs should delete the diagram provided and supply information specific to the solution requesting approval.

Note: Narrative describing the conceptual design of the solution must be provided immediately following the diagram(s).

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