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Social Validation of INSPIRE

Annex III Data Structures in

EU Habitats

HABITATS – Cross-border data

harmonization of protected areas

for tourism purposes

Karel Charvat, Jachym Cepicky,

Premysl Vohnout

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INSPIRE outcomes• Harmonization of the relevant data structures in INSPIRE Annex III is a

complex process

• habitats-related information involves a group of data themes that need to

be developed in concert:

• data theme 18. “Habitats & Biotopes” is in practice strongly related to

• 16. “Sea regions”,

• 17. “Bio-geographical regions” &

• 19. “Species distribution”.

• Data is normally managed by different & distinct entities responsible

for planning, environment, coastal management, natural reserves, marine

reserves, cultural & landscape heritage, etc. even within a region

• HABITATS uses a participatory process of social validation to address this

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Key question for Habitats

• Key question is not How

• Key question is not What

• Key question is “Why?”

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Key question for Habitats

• We need to ask, Why we need harmonize

concrete data, what will be purpose of

sharing this data across Europe, for which

purpose is important to know in Czech

about Spanish data for example.

• If we will be able to answer on this

questions, we can easy agreed about

common data model, services,

architecture etc.

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• HABITATS uses a participatory process to

• “co-design” & validate proposed standards

• with real citizens & businesses

• in a range of usage scenarios,

• demonstrating their added value in real-world environments.

• Motivating content providers to comply with agreed standards

• from their demonstrated usefulness in addition to normative requirements.

• Shifts the INSPIRE standards development & adoption process

• from a “policy push”

• to a “demand pull” perspective,

• Introducing a “co-creation” approach from

• Living Lab movement

• Social Spaces for Research & Innovation.

• A Social Validation model to be used in further INSPIRE work

Added value of social validation

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Social validation of INSPIRE

• HABITATS proposes a demand-pull

approach to INSPIRE standards adoption

– HABITATS Communities play a central role

for scenarios, requirements, and validation

– HABITATS pilot projects involve real

situations of usage

• A central task for HABITATS is therefore:

how to engage communities?

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HABITATS pilots

WILD

SALMON

MONITORING

LA PALMA

MARINE

RESERVE

NATURAL RESOURCE MGMT.

SHEEP & GOAT

HERD

MANAGEMENT

COASTAL

ECONOMIC

ACTIVITIES

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

HIKING

PATH

PLANNER

SORIA

NATURAL

RESERVE

ECO-

TOURISM

CZECH NAT’L

FORESTRY

PROGRAMME

NATIONAL

POLICIES

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Three ways of engage

communities• In situ workshops

• Social Network

• Reference laboratory

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In situ workshops

• Organized in all pilot regions – in situ

communication help to overcome social

and language bariers

• Local stakeholders are not able to use

directly such tools like social network.

Language barrier is also real problem

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Habitats social network

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Habitats social network

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Expansion of information into

social networks

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Reference laboratory

• Reference laboratory allows to deploy

current state of the art of technological

solution, which will be tested and adopted

by Habitats partners and users partners. It

allows to test current existing technology

and allow to generate further research

tasks driven by users.

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Reference laboratory

• Reference laboratory will also collected

information conning from other projects,

which will be important input for Habitats

analysis and Habitats public discussion.

Method of social assessment will be

important part of reference laboratory.

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Reference laboratory

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Reference laboratory

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Current status

• First round of metadata standards, data

models and networking architecture were

released. Results are available on Social

Network and Project Web pages. There

exist also possibility testing of results on

Reference Laboratory.

• We would like invite you to our Social

network discuss with us.

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Main networking challenges

• To move from standard INSPIRE related

architecture to user oriented Infrastructure

1. To move from application oriented solution to service

oriented architecture (SOA)

2. To build network of interconnected nodes, where every

node could be server (supplier) of information or client

(receiver)

3. Overcome classical portal paradigm, where portals are

final products

4. To be able to build new generation of an application on

the base of SDI services

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Five layers architecture

• data layers – management data and files on storage,

eventually guarantee access to external sensors

• Server (engine layer) – define tools, which guarantee

basic services on the server side – supplying service

• Client layer – is client side of Web services, which

guarantee access of users to services

• Application layer is some form of wrapping elementary

client services into application or into such form, which

could be used by other Web tools

• Presentation layer contain such web tools, which

allow to combine and publish single objects from

application level as part of Web presentation

•

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Join as and share your ideas

with us• Project Web pages

– http://www.inspiredhabitats.eu/

• Social Network

– http://inspiredhabitats.ning.com/

• Reference Laboratory

– http://www.habitats.cz

• LinkedIn

• http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Habitats-Social-

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