INSPIRE educational requirements: Challenges for the vocational training community

1. INSPIRE educational requirements: Challenges for the vocational training community VESTA-GIS Workshop 1 July 2008, Salzburg Danny Vandenbroucke SADL/K.U.Leuven R&D

2. Outline • INSPIRE • What is INSPIRE about? • INSPIRE: the principles, the components, the Directive and the Process • INSPIRE: ongoing work • INSPIRE: Education Requirements • Is Education part of the INSPIRE process? • Requirements at three levels • INSPIRE seminars: offer through VESTA-GIS • Review of curricula and vocational training programmes? VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

3. Outline • INSPIRE • What is INSPIRE about? • INSPIRE: the principles, the components, the Directive and the Process • INSPIRE: ongoing work • INSPIRE: Education Requirements • Is Education part of the INSPIRE process? • Requirements at three levels • INSPIRE seminars: offer through VESTA-GIS • Review of curricula and vocational training programmes? VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

4. INSPIRE: what is it about? • Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe • It is a political initiative to make development of the European SDI possible • It will be based on the NSDI and RSDI in MS • It is driven by the Environmental Sector • It is limited to access to spatial data of/for Public Authorities • All relevant stakeholders are involved VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

5. INSPIRE: the principles • Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively • It should be possible to combine seamlessly spatial information from different sources across Europe and share it between many users and applications • It should be possible for information collected at one level to be shared between all the different levels, detailed for detailed investigations, general for strategic purposes • Geographic information needed for good governance at all levels should be abundant under conditions that do not refrain its extensive use • It should be easy to discover which geographic information is available, fits the needs for a particular use and under which conditions it can be acquired and used • Geographic data should become easy to understand and interpret because it is properly documented and can be visualised within the appropriate context selected in a user-friendly way VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

6. Meteo data Catchments INSPIRE: the components Technical Support to GI policy development Europe is moving 3cm/ year Different Policies and standards Standards implementation GI Institutional framework GI technical standards Different sea level in Europe Spatial Data Infrastructure Technical Support To data set creation GIS for Natura 2000 Spatial Information Services Fundamental and thematic GI data sets GIS to manage Natura2000 sites Needs to create european spatial data sets VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008 eEurope : eGovernement on line Land Cover

7. INSPIRE: the Directive • INSPIRE Directive • Published on 25 April 2007 • Entered into force on 15 May 2007 • To be transposed into national legislation by 15 May 2009 • INSPIRE Drafting Teams • Elaborate Implementing Rules defining how the Directive must be implemented • Metadata IR have been voted – onece published they enter into force immediately VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

8. INSPIRE: the process VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

9. INSPIRE: ongoing work • DT Data Specifications • Generic conceptual model and methodology to define data specs (DS) for various thematic comunities • Set up of thematic communities to define these DS, for the evaluation and use metadata • DT Network Services • Draft IR for Discovery and View Services are ready • Download, transformation and invoking services – work started • Common Architecture VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

10. INSPIRE: ongoing work • DT Data and Service Sharing • Focus on sharing between Member States and the EU • No explicit rules for sharing between Public Authorities within Member States • Draft IR are ready and almost ready for discussion within SDIC / LMO community • DT Monitoring and Reporting • Monitoring the implementation of the infrastructure and use of it • Reporting coordination & cooperation, sharing, use, C/B • Draft IR reviewed by SDIC / LMO community; vote in the Committee by November 2008 VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

11. Outline • INSPIRE • What is INSPIRE about? • INSPIRE: the principles, the components, the Directive and the Process • INSPIRE: ongoing work • INSPIRE: Education Requirements • Is Education part of the INSPIRE process? • Requirements at three levels • INSPIRE seminars: offer through VESTA-GIS • Review of curricula and vocational training programmes? VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

12. Is education part of the INSPIRE process? • It is not explicitely mentioned in the Directive • It is only mariginally mentioned in the Workplan for the implementation • Awareness raising • Capacity building and change of management practices • Support to education and training initiatives related to INSPIRE • Also in the NSDI’s very few cases where education is part of the SDI process VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

13. Is education part of the INSPIRE process? • There are no special Spatial Data Interest Communities related to education • There are very few people involved from the educational sector • Out of the > 200 proposed experts, 29 from universities • INSPIRE DT: 7 AGILE members, none from education • The educational GI sector is only limited involved in the INSPIRE process? VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

14. Requirements at three levels • Understand correctly the INSPIRE Directive and its Implementing Rules • (Wrong) interpretations are floating around • Training of the GI community • To implement (components of) INSPIRE • Train the end-users of spatial data and related information • Spatially enabling VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

15. Understanding the Directive • Training for Public Authorities, private sector • What is an obligation in INSPIRE and what not • Can I charge for spatial data • Do I need to harmonise the spatial data I have • Does a member state need to create all the data for the themes in the annexes • Do we need to publish our web services via a web portal • How do I know if my NSDI and its components are compliant with INSPIRE and its IR • Do I need to apply these rules also as a private company • What if we do not apply the IR • … VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

16. Training of GI Community • Training of experts, scientists, … • How to set-up services • How does mapping of data models happen • How to apply the data specifications for a specific thematic area • How can we test conformity with the IR • Which standards should be implemented and how • (many standards are relevant but only ISO 19115 is really known) • How can I establish data sharing agreements • … VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

17. Training of the GI Community • BoK – additions to units of some knowledge areas • DA1-DA7 design • GD12 metadata, standards, SDI • GS1-GS7 legal, economic, … • OI1-0I6 coordination, institutional aspects, … • … VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

18. Training of end users • Training policy makers, citizen, scolars, … • How can I find the spatial data I need • How can I know about the quality of the data (trustworthiness) • How can we contribute to the spatial data repositories • How can I use SDI components in my day-to-day business processes • How can I read and understand the spatial data • Turning data into information VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

19. Conclusions • The INSPIRE Directive and its IR are complex • Technically and as a process • Need for a comprehensive training course that explains the Directive and the IR • Review of (parts of) GI curricula is needed to host training of the GI community • Specific initiatives towards the end-user community are required • VESTA-GIS can help, starting with 1 VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008

20. Thank you … Questions … VESTA-GIS WS, Salzburg, July 2008