WORKSHOP on

INSPIRE Data Specifications and Reporting

JRC Ispra, 26 March 2012

Reportnet, Reporting Data Flows and

INSPIRE

Darja Lihteneger, European Environment Agency

Outlines

•Reportnet

• What is it?

• ... As it is now

•General characteristics of the reporting data flows

•Links between INSPIRE and reporting data flows

• Example: CDDA Reporting

• Example: END Reporting

•Challenges to be answered

Reportnet: What is it?

• Reportnet is a system of

integrated IT tools and

processes; based on the

active use of the WWW;

• supports the European

environmental reporting;

• aims to improve the harmonisation and

standardisation of all Eionet data flows (from

detailed definition of the requested data to the

generation of the final information products);

•has been developed since 2000 and has been in

operational use since 2002.

Reportnet: As It is Now

Uploads, downloads,

versioning, official data

sets, metadata

Defines datasets, definitions of data

elements, attributes, data types,

value domains and relationships

Storing, publishing

reported

deliveries

General characteristics of the

reporting data flows

•Main stakeholders: data requesters (report to) and

data provider (reporting data)

•Processes involved: • Delivery (delivery envelopes)

• Quality Analysis (automatic and manual)

• Aggregation (individual deliverables into common

dataset)

• Analysis

•Confirmation - correctness of the delivered data

•Regular repetitions: frequency of reporting

•Reporting = snapshot of data in certain time period

•Keeping history of reporting data

Example: Common Database on

Designated Areas (CDDA) - 1 ROD - Reporting obligation:

• Countries to EEA to UNEP-WCMC

• Frequency: Annually

• Geographic: Europe wide

Data Dictionary Specification:

Data Model

Value domains

INSPIRE Protected Sites:

Conceptual

level

High matching!

Details to be

proven in

implementation!

Example: Common Database on

Designated Areas (CDDA) - 2

Data delivery by countries:

Technical and

infrastructure

level

Reportnet

CDR

EEA Data Service –

published data

+

INSPIRE Metadata

Regulation compliant

metadata

Aggregated and

published data

(EEA):

EEA Metadata Catalogue

National SDI,

geoportals?

Web services: WMS,

WFS, WCS?

Reportnet CDR?

Example: Environmental Noise

Directive (END) Reporting - 1

Objectives:

• Determine exposure through noise mapping

• Adopt action plans to prevent and reduce environmental noise and to preserve noise quality where it is good

Objectives

and practice

Current use of spatial data:

• Noise modelling, mapping, assessments, planning

• Provided in reporting: not on harmonised, standardised ways: very detailed in some cases; generalised (simplified) in other cases; provided as maps only or in diverse data formats (pdf, images, …)

Example: Environmental Noise

Directive (END) Reporting - 2

• Expectations from INSPIRE – improvement in reporting:

• Harmonised, timely and high-quality spatial data

Expectations

Noise contour data/maps

Agglomerations and quite areas

– detailed data/maps

Example: Environmental Noise

Directive (END) Reporting - 3

Reporting obligation:

• European Union Members States

• 7 reporting obligations

• Diverse time frame:

• Noise maps II in 2012

• Action plans II in 2013

Conceptual

level

Reporting Obligation Database

• Transport networks

• Buildings

• Environmental monitoring facilities

• Population distribution

• Area management

• others

Several INSPIRE themes:

Complexity – several

INSPIRE data

specifications;

INSPIRE - generic;

END – specific,

extensions and data

integration!

Challenges to be answered

•GOVERNANCE • Harmonising time frames: INSPIRE <> thematic reporting

• Legal confirmation - data has been reported

• Responsibility for maintaining “old reporting versions”

• SEIS principles

•CONTENT • Conceptual: INSPIRE data models extensions & changes

• Generic & spatial (INSPIRE) <> details (reporting)

• Spatial data (INSPIRE) and non-spatial data in reporting

•TECHNICAL • Re-using INSPIRE components in reporting data flows

(metadata, services, registers: UML models, code lists)

• Interoperability INSPIRE <> Reportnet (concepts, tools)

• INSPIRE infrastructure availability

Thank you

Reportnet

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/reportnet

EEA Metadata Catalogue

http://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/eea/search/?hl

=en&extent=-12,3,37,72

More information: Stefan Jensen: SEIS, SENSE, INSPIRE

Søren Roug: Reportent, semantic web

Darja Lihteneger: SDI, INSPIRE

Paul Hasenohr: SDI, Metadata catalogue

Colin Nugent: END, Noise