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August 14, 2008

The Call for Participation for testing INSPIRE Data Specifications for Annex I data themes invites all interested stakeholders to participate, and provides the necessary details.

The formal registration for the testing is open for registered SDICs/LMOS from 15 August and will close on 15 September 2008.

If your organisation, project or network is interested to participate but not registered as an INSPIRE "Spatial Data Interest Community" or "Legally Mandated Organisation", please register as such through the INSPIRE website, or, even better if possible, consider teaming up with an existing SDIC. Participation will help to understand how existing data can be made available according to the common data specifications, to demonstrate the usefulness of harmonised specifications, and to determine the readiness of relevant methods and software tools. All contributions to the testing are in-kind.

July 2, 2008

The Guidelines for the encoding of spatial data (D 2.7) of the INSPIRE Drafting Team "Data Specifications" is now available for public view and for comments from SDICs and LMOs. Comments are restricted to registered SDICs and LMOs only, through their contact person and should be provided on the established way through the INSPIRE web site.

June 30, 2008

The INSPIRE Metadata Editor has been made available

The INSPIRE Metadata Editor is currently a prototype allowing users to create metadata that are compliant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules, as approved by the INSPIRE Regulatory Committee and the European Parliament. Users of the Editor can moreover validate the metadata created and save the metadata record as an .xml file on a local machine. More information.

June 5, 2008

On May 14th, the INSPIRE Regulatory Committee unanimously expressed its favorable opinion on the INSPIRE Implementing Rules on Metadata proposed by the Commission. The proposal has been uploaded on the Comitology Register.

The proposal is still subject to comments from the European Parliament, formal adoption procedure, and publication in the Official Journal (expected some time in August).

Non-binding guidelines allowing the implementation of the proposed Implementing Rules on Metadata using EN ISO 19115/19119 have been prepared by the INSPIRE Drafting Team for Metadata and are available here.

A note summarizing the process that has lead to the formulation of the proposal for Implementing Rules on Metadata is available here.

A document summarizing the state of progress in developing guidelines to express the INSPIRE metadata elements using ISO 15836 (Dublin Core) is available here.

May 14, 2008

It is with pleasure that we can inform you that the INSPIRE Implementing Rules on Metadata have been approved by the INSPIRE Committee. The IRs will now be sent to the European Parliament which will have one month time to comment, after which the adoption procedure will start.

May 9th, 2008

Apr 1, 2008

Following the recent adoption of the Commission Communication on the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS), the first Europa web site of the Shared Environmental Information System is now available at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/index.htm.

March 14, 2008

Dec 19, 2007

The INSPIRE Team envisages technical support from a maximum of 16 experts for tasks that are outlined below, in the field of the Annex I spatial data themes (in particular, for Coordinate reference systems, Geographical grid systems, Geographical names, Administrative units, Addresses, Cadastral parcels, Transport networks, Hydrography, and Protected sites).

For each expert the work will cover a maximum of 30 days over a period of 12 months; this maximum of 30 days will be implemented with contracts of shorter duration. It is anticipated that the work will start in early February 2008. The fee paid to selected experts is 450 Euro per day. Any travel or accommodation expenses made for meetings in the framework of the tasks will be reimbursed separately according to the applicable rules and conditions.

More information is available at http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/reports/INSPIRE-Request-for-Interested-Experts.pdf

Experts can register in the database at the following website:

https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/

Experts are encouraged to indicate that they are available as a reviewer, to use as freestyle keywords the term "INSPIRE spatial data harmonisation", and to send to inspire-info@jrc.it the registration number that they receive.

The INSPIRE Team will be selecting the experts on 15th January 2008.

Dec 17, 2007

INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Discovery and View Services is now available for public view and for comments from SDICs and LMOs. With the Implementing Rules, comes the first draft of the INSPIRE Network Services Architecture defining the overall technical framework for each of the Network Service Implementing Rules. Comments on these drafts are restricted to registered Spatial Data Interest Communities and Legally Mandated Organisations ONLY. Their contact persons have been notified following the agreed upon procedure.

Based on all the comments received, the Network Services Drafting Team will issue a new version of the Implementing Rule and of the architecture to be then publicly reviewed for a submission of the final draft of the implementing rules to the INSPIRE regulatory committee before the end of 2008.

All the documentation can be found in the INSPIRE Document Archive

The deadline for submission of comments is 18 February 2008 24:00 CET.

Oct 26, 2007

INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata open for public consultation.

The INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata are now available for public view and comments. The call for comments is open for a period of eight weeks, until 21 December 2007. Only comments received by the deadline using the template provided will be considered. At the end of this phase of public consultation, the Commission will elaborate a revised proposal and submit it to the Regulatory Committee as required by the Directive.

Oct 12, 2007

Call to SDICs and LMO for candidate specifications and experts

The main concept regarding the specification development scenarios was published in the Work Programme (WP)for 2007-2009. Now we complete it with the Terms of Reference (TOR) of the actors involved in the data specification process. As explained in the WP and in the TOR, we face a huge and complex process, where all the communities are encouraged to participate.

The Call for Expression of Interest for Development of Data Specifications:

• to submit candidate Specifications (scenario 1)
• to participate in Specification Development process (scenario 2)

The submission of candidate specifications and proposing experts is continuous. However for Annex I themes the last opportunity to do so is 30th September 2007.