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“The NESIS Network and its Outcomes for the ICT
Implementation of SEIS”
Giorgio Saio - GISIG
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ICT PSP Grant AgreementNo. 225062
why NESIS
• To provide a coherent ICT roadmap for the SEIS implementation, with the consolidation of existing best practice.
• To promote the uptake of ICT solutions to address the fundamental problems faced by public authorities in providing information related to monitoring and reporting environmental data.
• To support a shared vision for streamlining current information and reporting systems and to promote the adoption of an interoperable information infrastructure
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Criteria Awareness that there is not a single model to
organise data flow, to be developed upon diverse needs in the topic areas exploit the lessons of Good Practices
From local to global and vice-versa, i.e. to improve data sharing at and among all levels promote the mutual exchange between different
level authorities (Local-Regional-National-European) rather than a one-way flow
A top down and bottom-up approach Top down requirements, from the SEIS
communication Bottom-up requirements, from existing Good
Practices
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Objectives vs. Outcomes Analysis of the SoP in Environmental
Information Systems and services for monitoring and reporting (from national to a European synthesis)
Creation of an inventory of Good Practices and analysis of them
ICT Roadmap for implementing SEIS, that focuses on what to do for evolving towards a distributed, standards-based infrastructure for spatial and non-spatial environmental information, based on the principles of shared access
Guidelines on ICT supporting environmental monitoring and reporting, that focus on how to do it
Communication forum and network of stakeholders
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NESIS Results Analysis of the State of Play in the Countries
participating in the Network, about the ICT components that will contribute to the development of SEIS 12 coutries contributed
Synthesis of the State of Play at European level of environmental information systems for monitoring and reporting
Good Practices in environmental data management and methodologies for their analysis NESIS GP Catalogue (44 GP available)
A contribution for the SEIS implementation: a proposal for a SEIS ICT roadmap and technical Guidelines Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS
The NESIS Network (43 Members, 24 Countries, starting from 16 Partners, 14 Countries) INSPIRE Conference 2011
I. NESIS approach and SEIS requirementsA combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up approach for the identification of the requirements for the ICT component of SEIS
II.SEIS ICT Component Envisions an overall network architecture for SEIS
III.Guidelines for technical implementationContains the discussion of potential technologicalapproaches to implement SEIS ICT services and components.
IV.SEIS specific ICT aspectsOther SEIS issues not directly target by INSPIRE
V.Towards SEIS implementationIt proposes a possible action plan for the SEIS implementation
MAIN NESIS OUTREACH“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Structure
Roadmap: what to do
Guidelines:how to do it
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“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – UsersWho should read this document? This document intends to be a “handbook” suitable for
understanding, commenting and amending, and in perspective implementing, the NESIS proposal for SEIS
According to a criterion of role and profile, the following categories of potential users can be identified:
decision makers and managers, for the Parts I, II, IV and V of the document
ICT technicians and operators for all Part, with Part III and IV being the most technical
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“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – ICT focus
SEIS envisioned as a network of distributed services Under focus on service provider side:
service interface technologymetadata elements and encodingdata exchange models and formats
Under focus on service consumer side:data processing and information synthesisdata semantics and linked data
Also discussed:handling reference data (e.g. thesauri, global
identifiers, etc)
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“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – general remarks
The Roadmap section defines services on a high level, allowing to consider different technology options for implementing them (e.g. SOAP, REST, …)
Potential technology bindings discussed in Guidelines.
The document is generally dealing with environmental reporting issues, but also briefly addressed are:voluntarily collected and provided datasensor monitoring
SEIS policy options (under discussion) affect the choice of technologies and overall implementation approach
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“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – ICT direction (1) The possibilities for using INSPIRE interfaces and
formats for discovering, viewing and downloading non-GIS data (e.g. SOER, statistical data, …) were assessed.
INSPIRE’s OGC services and ISO standards provide indeed extensibility points for doing that, but things to consider: it is not trivial; OGC clients unlikely to request non-GIS data from
OGC services, so different client-side tools still required;
overhead for organisations with only tabular data to offer;
EEA’s experience: GML and XML Schema based formats in general are not effective for data analysis and processing.
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“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – ICT direction (2) Complementary approach: data and metadata
exchanged over RDF syntax and model, based on previously developed ontologies and taxonomies (RDF Schema, OWL, SKOS, etc).
Linked Data principles for linking diverse data. Semantic Web features for automated data
understanding. Why?
universal model: well suited for analysis and processing, same client-side tools for diverse data
expressibility of relations between different taxonomies and thesauri: less streamlining efforts
easy to link with data from INSPIRE doesn’t suffer from constantly changing reporting
specs
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II. SEIS ICT COMPONENTS
4. Metadata 5. Data Specifications 6. Service Oriented Architecture
Definition of SOA and services, Network Services Architecture
7. Proposed ICT ServicesDiscovery, View, Download, Data Quality, Feedback, Sensor Observation, Notification, Registry, Service Chaining
8. Service Security9. Summary, conclusions, open issues
“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Contents (1)I. NESIS APPROACH TOWARDS SEIS
REQUIREMENTS
1. Definitions2. Top- down and bottom-up, two complementary vision3. SEIS Requirements
III. Guidelines for technical implementation:
10 . GUIDELINES ON SEIS METADATAExisting standards, The choices for SEIS, SEIS metadata
encoding
11. GUIDELINES ON SEIS DATA SPECIFICATIONS
Modeling approaches and data encodings, XML Schema and XML, OWL, RDF Schema and RDF
12 . GUIDELINES ON SEIS NETWORK SERVICES
Discovery Services, View Services, Download Services, Data Quality Services, Feedback Services, Sensor Observation Services, Notification Services, Registry Services, Services Chaining
13 . Summary, conclusions, open issues
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“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Contents (2)
IV. SEIS Specific ICT aspects
14.Voluntarily provided dataGuidelines on voluntarily provided data,Acquiring voluntary provided data
15.Documents and information products16.Reporting support 17.Data processing and semantics
Problem background, What SEIS could do?, Potential issues, Potential solutions
18.Linking spatial and environmental domains 19.Streamlining thesauri and other reference
data
20.Conclusions INSPIRE Conference 2011
“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Contents (3)
V.Towards SEIS implementation
21. PROPOSED ACTION PLAN FOR SEIS IMPLEMENTATION
21.1 General remarks and assumptions21.2 Legislation’s impact on SEIS implementation21.3 Implementing Rules and Guidance Documents21.4 Groups and responsibilities21.5 SEIS components to be specified21.6 Reusing INSPIRE IR & DT21.7 Action plan illustrated21.8 Action plan
22. SUMMARY AND NEXT STEPS22.1 Next steps towards SEIS implementation
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“Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS” – Contents (4)
Network exploitation and follow- up initiativesThe NESIS Network is still operational to support the ICT
implementationof a Shared Environment Information System for Europe and the SEISinitiative, through:
a NESIS Secretariat supported by GISIG to guarantee the operativeness of the Network
a strict link with INSPIRE (NESIS has been registered as a Thematic SDIC and with EEA, supporting the EEA ICT strategy
the further development of the NESIS Good Practice Catalogue, to share experiences on environmental data and information management
actions devoted to the training and awareness activities promotion of new projects and initiatives, such as an
Environmental Thesaurus Framework
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NESIS as SDIC INSPIRE
Linkage with INSPIRE: NESIS as a Thematic SDIC
I. Collect and describe user requirements related to Environmental policies
II. Submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams (D6.2, Good Practices, etc)
III.Contribute to awareness raising and training
IV.Contribute, with reference to environmental information management, into the review process and the release of the INSPIRE Implementing Rules
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I. NESIS approach and SEIS requirements A combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up approach for the identification of
the requirements for the ICT component of SEIS
II. SEIS ICT COMPONENTS NESIS proposal for a technological Roadmap for the SEIS implementation
III. Guidelines for technical implementationAbout “how” SEIS could be developed
IV. SEIS specific ICT aspects
V. Towards SEIS implementation It propose a possible action plan for the SEIS implementation
NESIS main outcomes -> Training Courses
A - “Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS”
B - “NESIS Good Practices for SEIS” – about ICT aspects of environmental data management (methods, technology, procedures)
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The NESIS network is intended to continue its original objective to support the ICT implementation o SEIS, starting from D6.2 “Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS”, involving other interested stakeholders
May 2008, 16 Members – 14 Countries
Now, 43 Members – 24 Countries
The NESIS Network
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NESIS kick-off meeting Copenhagen 22-23 May
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Thanks to all the NESIS Members for the support during the Project and for the future of the Network
Giorgio [email protected]
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