GINIE – Geographic Information Network In Europe

GINIE Registries and e–Services Workshop

Date and Venue	Rationale	Target Audience	Purpose and Desired Outcome
Agenda	Participants	Conclusions and Recommendations

Date and Venue

January 21 (noon) through January 23, 2003 (noon)
Arabella Sheraton Bogenhausen Hotel Arabellastrasse 5, D–81925 Munich, Germany

Rationale

Sharing spatial information and services among different user communities is the challenge that producers and users of geographic information and software products are facing. The key–word is interoperability, understood as the ability of two or more autonomous, heterogeneous, distributed digital entities (e.g. systems, applications, procedures, directories, inventories or data sets) to communicate and cooperate among themselves despite differences in language, context, or content. These entities should be able to interact with one another in meaningful ways without special effort by the user – the data producer or consumer – be it human or machine.

Registries, catalogues and catalogue services are at the core of finding and sharing information, and paramount to the geographic information interoperability.

Target Audience

The target audience is people having an interest or responsibility related to the sharing of geographic information and geographic information services among communities.

Purpose and Desired Outcome

To make known latest information and status about GI registries, catalogues, catalogue services and metadata and their use in geographic content–based contexts for collaborators (government agencies), value added suppliers, and citizens to discover, access, retrieve and publish spatial information,
Summarise European market developments and trends for building distributed interoperable e–Services warehouses for government agencies and citizens and
To provide workshop participants a forum to
- Define the state of play over near and mid term timeframes (2003–2007) from National and European perspectives
- Review and discuss current policies and approaches for e–Services distribution of GI and non spatial information and assess policy and practice changes required
- To develop a set of recommendations for national and European stakeholders.

The GINIE Consortium will produce a Workshop Report including meeting minutes and presentations along with the participant recommendations according to established GINIE protocol. In addition, an Executive Summary will be produced, translated into 5 languages for wide dissemination.

Agenda Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Day 1	Tuesday, 21st January 2003
Time	Chairperson
12:30 – 12:40	G. Pichler	Welcome from the Event Organizer & GINIE Consortium
12:40 – 12:50	M. Craglia	Introduction on the GINIE project
12:50 – 13:10	G. Pichler	Setting the Stage and State of Play: Part I Definitions & Considerations What are registries, catalogues and catalogue services? What are metadata and metadata profiles? What are e–Services in the spatial context?
13:10 – 13:30	G. Pichler for P. Smits	Setting the Stage and State of Play: Part II The European Public Sector Information Directive and INSPIRE Initiative Requirements for Registries and e–Services Connecting the architectures
13:30 – 14:00	L. Hecht	Setting the Stage and State of Play: Part III Technology Aspects Using Registries and e–Services with map servers, feature servers and coverage servers Development requirements for producers, suppliers and users European market conditions and trends
14:00 – 15:00	Invited Experts	Setting the Stage and State of Play: Part IV Reaching beyond the GI Community: Registries & e–Services in a non–spatial Context
14:00 – 14:30 14:30 – 15:00	J. Borras D. Reem	UK, Office of the e–Envoy UK, homecheck.co.uk
15:15 – 15:45		Coffee & Tea Break
15:45 – 17:45	Invited Experts	Presentations from European, national and local organizations that discuss the following points: State of development for Registries and e–Services View of current plans and strategies concerning PSI Directive & INSPIRE Initiative National and local policies for information distribution
15:45 – 16:05 16:05 – 16:25 16:25 – 16:45 16:45 – 17:05 17:05 – 17:25 17:25 – 17:45	D. Rase G. Buziek et al. R. Wagner G. Schennach H. Dufourmont H. Scholten H. Scholten	EC Eurostat Germany, GDI NRW Germany, Web Pricing and Ordering Austria Flanders Netherlands Background to Dutch NSDI
17:45 – 18:15		Coffee & Tea Break
18:15 – 18:45	Invited Experts	Continuation of Presentations from European, national and local organizations
18:15 – 18:30 18:30 – 18:45	K. Wiegel K. Charvat et al.	Germany, on–geo Czech Republic
19:30		Meet At Lobby / Departure for Dinner
20:00		Dinner

Day 2	Wednesday, 22nd January 2003
Time	Chairperson
09:00 – 09:20 09:20 – 09:40 09:40 – 10:00 10:00 – 10:20	J. Guimet O. Ostensen M. Müller A. Donaubauer	Catalunya Norway Germany, Hamburg Germany, Bavaria
10:20 – 10:30	G. Pichler	Introduction, purpose and goals of the Breakout Sessions Define the key issues for the Breakout Sessions regarding, purpose and requirements for Registries & e–Services on a local, national and European level
10:30 – 11:00		Coffee & Tea Break
11:00 – 12:00	L. Hecht C. Corbin	Breakout Sessions 1: Issues surrounding Registries and E–Services BO1–1: Semantics combined with BO1–2: Metadata profiles and data modelling BO1–3: E–Services: What kind?
12:00 – 12:45		Group presentation of Breakout Sessions BO1 findings and discussion
12:45 – 14:00		Lunch
14:00 – 15:15	M. Craglia G. Pichler	Breakout Sessions 2: Organizational Contexts BO2–1: Self–governance and security issues combined with BO2–2: Cross sector cooperation and partnerships > Regulations BO2–3: Cross–border situations and multi–lingual aspects
15:15 – 15:45		Coffee & Tea Break
15:45 – 16:15		Group presentation of Breakout Sessions BO2 findings and discussion
16:15 – 17:20	L. Hecht	Plenary Session: Cost Sharing and Revenue Sharing Connecting organisations with Registries & e–Services models: structure; resources and funding Managing distributed catalogue environments Economic and Fiscal Implications
17:20 – 17:30	G. Pichler	Wrap–up and Adjourn
17:30 – 19:00		Break
19:00		Meet At Lobby / Departure for Dinner
19:30		Informal Dinner

Day 3	Thursday Jan 23rd 2003
Time	Chairperson
09:00 – 09:30	L. Hecht	Presentation of draft conclusions of the workshop
09:30 – 10:30	L. Hecht / G. Pichler	Discussion of draft conclusions Defining common issues and major differences between EU, national and local requirements for Registries & e–Services Discussion about conclusions in terms of policy issues and recommendations
10:30 – 11:00		Coffee & Tea Break
11:00 – 12:00	L. Hecht / G. Pichler	Define and agree on the workshop report format Define and agree on policy issues that need to be addressed Define and agree on recommendations for further action, research and study
12:00		Close of Workshop

Participants

The participants represent a broad cross section of government, research and industry on pan–European, national and regional levels. They represented both the spatial and non–spatial communities.

Conclusions and Recommendations