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WISE perspective towards standards and interoperability

OGC meeting, Athens, 31 March 2009

Stefan Jensen

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Introductionthe WISE system

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Key WISE working agreements Agreed and implemented in cooperation with DG

Environment, JRC, Eurostat and EEA Developing a distributed system by 2010 linking to the

member states Implementation plan until 2010 Bringing together SoE and compliance reporting Using Reportnet as tool for all this reporting Merging water related directives and the needed data

work (WFD, UWWT, Bathing, Nitrates, water statistics ...) Provide data and information to the public

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…linking water-related information in Europe

WISE…

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Flows of information

EU-WISE

Reporting

Indicators

Compliance

Analysis

Various WISE users

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Twenty-six interactive thematic maps across subthemes available online

New themes

MarineUrban waste waterMonitoring networks

http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/mapviewers

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WISE distributed system

https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/projects/Reportnet/wiki/WiseDS)

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Standardisation around WISE

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WISE GIS guidance

Appendix 01: Elements of the WFD relevant to GISAppendix 02: WISE reporting arrangementsAppendix 03: Overview of maps available in the WISE map viewerAppendix 04: Status of ISO / CEN standards relevant for WISEAppendix 05: Table of GIS datasets and layers in WISEAppendix 06: Data dictionaryAppendix 07: Proposal for a European coding system for hydrological featuresAppendix 08: Testing the European coding system for hydrological features at selected rivers in the Danube River Basin District (available from March 2009)Appendix 09: Management of identifiers and codes – proposals and examplesAppendix 10: SDIGER proposal for detailed specifications for metadataAppendix 11: Implementation of the WISE metadata profile Appendix 12: Example of GML structure and encodingAppendix 13: Template for short GIS guidance for specific reportingAppendix 14: Glossary of terms

The main text of the document is available on EEA CIRCA at:http://eea.eionet.europa.eu/Public/irc/eionet-circle/eionet-telematics/library?l=/technical_developments/wise_technical_group/updated_2nd-edition/2nd-edition-25112008doc/_EN_1.0_&a=d

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WISE data input process (all steps involve QA/QC)

Submission

Analysis/Scenarios

Acceptance

Data definition/requirements Step 1: WG D reporting sheets:

Compliance or SoE, voluntary (or through comitology)

Step 2: End-user tool, schema/DEM, XML/shape/GML, other tools (DD, glossary), help desk

Step 3: central holding area (CDR: MS individual submissions), management of access rights

Step 4: Automatic QA/QC checks in CDR + standardised manual checks if needed, feedback to data submitters

Step 5: Final data storage: EU-wide, quality-checked databases (e.g. Art.3, 5, 8 – WFD, BWD, SoE, NiD, UWWTD, etc) after EEA acceptance

Step 7a: Public or restricted viewing, map service, aggregation, statistics

Step 7c: Tools for SoE assessment, CCM2, management scenarios

Legal, political, Assessment, compliance

Step 7b: Tools for compliance assessment

QA

/QC

fee

db

ack

mec

han

ism

Production databases

EU Databases(Spatial) reference datasets

WISE viewer, GIS visualisation

Delivery database

Compliance-check databases DG ENV

Analytical databases JRC, EEA

Step 6: Purpose-oriented databases

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WISE spatial reference elements

Large rivers>5000 km2

Main rivers>500 km2

MS working scale(or CCM2)

>10 to >100 km2

Hydrologicallevel

(object)

Aggregationlevel

(polygon)

EU level

National

RBD

Sub-unitsS

cale

-

+

Water

Bodies

Monitoring

StationsRBD/ Sub Unit

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WISE conceptual model

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Published WISE / WFD reporting schemas

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e.g. future data exchange specification

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Integrating WISE with INSPIRE

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WISE data specification

• WISE data specifation for Member States on how data should be held together

• Inspire compliant

• WISE Technical WG – Inspire Hydrography TWG Ispra January 2009

• Joint position

• WISE would extend the INSPIRE model

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Approach

• Analyse the INSPIRE model• Collate and analyse relevant WISE documentation• Find common objects and identify areas for

extension• INSPIRE Hydrography Annex 1 of the Directive• Reporting Units Annex 3 – follow Inspire approach• Develop a final product of an INSPIRE-compliant

WISE logical model in UML• Comments to INSPIRE process

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WISE-Inspire extension

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Conceptual model

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WFD Reporting schemas

• Administrative arrangements• Surface Water Bodies• Groundwater Bodies• Register of Protected areas• Surface Water and Groundwater

Methodologies which is divided into Surface Water Bodies and Groundwater Bodies

• River Basin Management Plans and Programmes of Measures

• There is a WFDCommon schema which provides common elements to the other schemas

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Cross-schema linkages

... and more when relating other water related areas

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INSPIRE WISE joint development approach

WISE GIS Guidance

Water Framework Reporting

Marine Stragegy Reporting

…

Reporting

+

ISO 191xx

Inspire Main body of IR

Annex Annex Annex Hydrography Sea regions …

ISO 191xx

Inspire Main body of IR

Annex Annex Annex Hydrography Sea regions …

Water Framework Reporting

Marine Stragegy Reporting

…

Reporting

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Possibilities for integrating WISE with Hydrology DWG

WHY- Identify role for WaterML (technically)- Support standardisation with and towards the outside of INSPIRE and WISE reporting arrangements- Link other distributed water resources

HOW- WaterML vs. GML?- For which data (monitoring only?)- Explore role of metadata in approaches? - Do a mapping similar to the INSPIRE / WISE one ?

- Find a simple way for cooperation

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Thank you for your attention!

data viewer e.g. bathing water:http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/status-and-monitoring/bathing-water-data-viewer

map viewer:http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/mapviewers

Operational links into the WISE systemportal pages:http://water.europa.eu data centre:http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water

schemas:http://water.eionet.europa.eu/schemas/dr200060ec