Danube Reference Data and Service

Infrastructure (DRDSI)Flagship Cluster

Alessandro AnnoniDigital Earth and Reference Data Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Develop information

infrastructures

Foster multi-disciplinary Interoperability

Engage the public

in scientific processes

Communicate science

to the Public

Vertical Priorities

key challenges for the Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy

..environmental phenomena and disasters do not stop at the border

70% of all fresh water bodies in Europe are part of a trans-boundary river basin !! Existing Legislation (e.g. Water Framework Directive) propose the river catchment as the territorial management Unit

Hence need to develop a shared data and service infrastructure

Data Infrastructure

Like a railways infrastructure …

A Data Infrastructure is as way to:•Support sound policy making•Increasing efficiency of various stakeholders by sharing information and processes•Contribute to open Public Sector Information increasing transparency in decision making, and new services, innovation, and jobs.

Framework of data, technology, policies, standards, and human resources, necessary to facilitate the sharing and using of information.

Country

Official and national Languages

Austria German, Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian and HungBelgium Dutch 60%, French 40%, German less than 1% Bulgaria Bulgarian Cyprus Greek, Turkish, English Czech Republic Czech (cestina) Denmark Danish (dansk) Estonia Estonian (eesti keel) Finland Finnish (suomi) 93.4%, Swedish 5.9% France French (français) Germany German (Deutsch) Greece Greek (elliniká, the Koine-Demotic version) Hungary Hungarian (magyar) Ireland Irish (Gaeilge), English (generally used), Italy Italian (italiano) Latvia Latvian (latviesu valoda) Lithuania Lithuanian (lietuviu kalba) Luxembourg Luxembourgish (LÎtzebuergesch), French and German Malta Maltese (Malti) Netherlands Dutch (Nederlands, official language), Frisian (official languPoland Polish (polski) Portugal Portuguese (português) Romania Romanian (romana) Slovakia Slovak (slovensky jazyk) Slovenia Slovenian (slovenski jezik) Spain Spanish (español - the Castilian version) 74%, Catalan 17%Sweden Swedish (svenska) Switzerland German 63.7%, French 19.2%, Italian 7.6%, Romansch 0.6United Kingdom English

23 official languages so far

Building a European Spatial Data Infrastructure is a complex exercise… Europe is a patchwork of several countries with different

traditions, cultures and socio-economic models…This is reflected in terms of their geo-spatial management choices

Different sea levels

16.08.2001

Various Map

projections

INSPIRE Directive 2007/02/ECThe INSPIRE Directive lays down general rules to establish an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe for the purposes of Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment

This infrastructure shall build upon infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States

Existing spatial data held by or on behalf of a public authorities

INSPIRE Components1. Metadata2. Interoperability of spatial data sets and

services3. Network services (discovery, view,

download, transformation and invoke)• made available through the European geo-

portal4. Data and Service sharing (policy)5. Coordination and measures for Monitoring

& Reporting

INSPIRE is a Framework DirectiveDetailed technical provisions for the issues above are laid down in Implementing Rules

Legally Mandated Organizations (LMOs)

Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDIC)

Drafting Teams (DT)

Citizens

Thematic Working Groups (TWG)

Public and Private Organizations

Policy Makers

Scientific Community

INSPIRE Stakeholders

Interoperability of data –... and what INSPIRE is aiming at

... ...

NetworkService

NetworkService

NetworkService

• Provide access to spatial data via network services and according to a harmonised data specification to achieve interoperability of data

! Datasets used in Member States may stay as they are

! Data or service providers have to provide a transformation between their internal data model and the harmonised data specificationdataset dataset dataset

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user user

Why common data specifications ?

• Member States should make available data within the scope of INSPIRE using• the same spatial object types (and definitions)• the same attributes (and definitions, types, code lists)

and relationships to other types, e.g. BuildingHeight, BuildingSize

• a common encoding • common portrayal rules

This facilitates pan-European/cross-border applications

Cross-border

20% of the EU citizens (115 million) live within 50 Km from a border.

Example of INSPIRE definitions

Hydrography

• Hydrographic elements, including marine areas and all other water bodies and items related to them, including river basins and sub-basins.

• Where appropriate, according to the definitions set out in Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (2) and in the form of networks.

Example INSPIRE data specification: Hydrography (HY) – The World

Basin

Catchment

SpringOrSeep

Rapids

DamOrWeir

Lock

Watercourse StandingWater

HydroPowerPlant

PumpingStation

Pipe

Embankment

Shore

LandWaterBoundary

Crossing

Wetland

OceanRegion

Example: HY – Mapping

WatercourseNode

WatercourseLink

Example: HY – Network

WFDCoastalWater

WFDLakeWFDTransitionalWater

WFDRiver

Example: HY – Reporting

WatercourseNode

WatercourseLink

Basin

Catchment

SpringOrSeep

Rapids

DamOrWeir

Lock

Watercourse StandingWater

HydroPowerPlant

PumpingStation

Pipe

Embankment

Shore

LandWaterBoundary

Crossing

Wetland

WFDCoastalWater

WFDLake

OceanRegion

WFDTransitionalWater

WFDRiver

Example: HY – complete Data Specification

Annex I1. Coordinate reference

systems2. Geographical grid

systems3. Geographical names4. Administrative units5. Addresses 6. Cadastral parcels7. Transport networks8. Hydrography9. Protected sites

Annex II1. Elevation2. Land cover3. Ortho-imagery4. Geology

INSPIRE data themes

Annex III

1. Statistical units2. Buildings3. Soil4. Land use5. Human health and

safety6. Utility and

governmental services

7. Environmental monitoring facilities

8. Production and industrial facilities

9. Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

10. Population distribution –demography

11. Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units

12. Natural risk zones13. Atmospheric conditions14. Meteorological

geographical features15. Oceanographic

geographical features16. Sea regions17. Bio-geographical

regions18. Habitats and biotopes19. Species distribution20. Energy Resources21. Mineral resources

Our idea !

• Maximise benefits from MS investments in INSPIRE implementation (data harmonization and interoperability efforts)

• Extend INSPIRE data models to other policy areas and/or applications to ensure multidisciplinary-interoperability

• Help non EU countries to be compliant with INSPIRE and/or facilitating interoperability through brokering services

• Make a better use of ICT technologies and support innovation and modernisation of Public Services and Policy Making

• Lead by example providing on line access to JRC data• Develop and operate a collaborative platform to connect

distributed facilities and people• ..and possibly engage society

Ingredients• Shared Governance and Ownership Involving all relevant stakeholders

• Building a community of stakeholders to share data, knowledge and ideas

• JRC Knowledge base (data, models,..) for the Danube Region• Close link with Digital Agenda for Europe (ICT standardisation,

OpenData, PSI, …) and Digital Science• Collaborative Platform and • Distributed Facilities

….. resulting in …

•Big data management and analysis•Simulation, sensors technologies

New Research methods

•Open access to publications and underlining data•Transparency of research methods and materials

New access to research

•Data sharing based collaboration•e-Infrastructures and ERA•Social network and media for research

Collaboration in research

•Engaging citizens into scientific processes•Society included in scientific discussions

Engagement of society

A relevant tool for innovation and new projects formulation

Danube RDSI – Development stages

Design and Development (1st release) • DRSDI Portal focussing on Data Discovery, View and Access

Inventory of JRC Data and setting up the DRDSI Data Catalogue• relevant JRC data fully documented

Access to JRC Data• through the DRDSI Portal

Inventory of external sources and collaboration agreements• New data ingestion (relevant data fully documented and accessible)

Design and Development (2nd release) - EVOLUTION• Link with other Danube Clusters• New data and functional requirements• Citizen Observatory

DRDSI : Background Not just another geoportal, but an innovative scientific platform fit to user

needs and providing a flexible solution for scientific support of informed decision

making

Frontend to scientific information (data, models, projects, documents, others)

with focus on the Danube Region

Aligned to the Priority areas of the Danube strategy

Based on lessons learned from the INSPIRE implementation process at JRC

Regional approach, i.e. platform reflecting actual needs of the users in the

Danube region

Architecture(s) Starting Point: Extensive use of existing

components developed buy JRC Reference Data and Service Infrastructure (RDSI) Access to trusted base of reference data Already operational at JRC

Community Image Data portal (CID) Access to online archive of satellite imagery

INSPIRE geoportal– Access to Member State data infrastructures

Evolution Point: Develop new functionalities to adapt to Danube Strategy needs

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Reference data as input to modelling andImpact Assessment 

JRC Reference Information productsModels

Why? •Comparability of results•Traceability of data and model results•Quality ensured inputs •…

Land CoverAdministrative boundariesPopulation, GDP, …

Forest Fire Risk Maps, Crop Yield Forecast,…

Qproduct = Qdata + Qmodel

JRC Reference Data and Service Infrastructure (RDSI)

RDSIData flows

RDSI helps to optimize data flows 

RDSI STRUCTURE

Entry point to create and publish MD Inspire compliant of RD

Discovery tool for Reference data

Access  point to link data and models through modelling workflows 

Collaborative platform to comment and trace resources

Community Image Data portal (CID) -online archive of satellite imagery

Contains satellite imagery• Central catalogue to search data• Web services to access data • File based access for internal use

Currently: approx. 55 TB of data• LR/MR images (km, 100’s m) 150.000 • HR images (5 - 50 m) 20.000• VHR (< 5 m) 7.6 M km²

Licensing:• use of INSPIRE GEO/GEOSS definitions• EULA released and being implemented

The Community Image Data portal (CID):

http://cidportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/imagearchive

DRDSI portal

Prototype running with initial functionalities•Discover data•View data•Access and download data

Iterative Development based on mock-up simulating user experience

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2nd Release of the Danube DRDSI

Interconnected Collaborative platformfor all

Citizen observatory Frontend for Sensor networks in the

Danube region Utilization and scientific use of data from

social media (Big Data) Support INSPIRE implementation in the

Region

Next Steps

• Refine requirements and architectural choices

• Identify relevant stakeholders (organisations, projects and services) and build a connected community

• Agree on data sharing (incl. licensing) conditions

• Adjust the vision/ambition to the right balance between user needs, contributions and feasibility

• Turn proposed contributions into concrete projects

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• Which data to be considered• Academic / Public / Private / all ?

• Which users• Scientific community only / Public Authorities / SMEs / Citizens / all?

• Funding possibilities• Multiple sources

• Interlinkages with on going initiatives (EU and National Level)• Copernicus, SEIS, …• OpenData (Policies and OpenDataPortal(s))• Research Data Alliance• VGI initiatives: e.g. Wikidata and Openstreetmaps interlinkage• ….

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Open issues