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Marine Overlays on Topography for Annex
II Valuation and Exploitation
The Objective of MOTIIVE is to examine
the cost benefit of using non-proprietary data standards while addressing
data harmonisation requirements between the INSPIRE data component
"elevation" (terrestrial, bathymetric and coastal) and
INSPIRE marine thematic data for "sea regions", "oceanic
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COASTGIS’07 hosted final MOTIIVE project
workshop
At the recent COASTGIS conference held in Santander, Spain, between
7th -10th October, the final workshop of the MOTIIVE project took
place. Particular attention has been given to issues dealing with
data & information harmonisation and its relevance for coastal
planners and managers and the findings of the cost benefit analysis,
among others. EUCC’s role has been actively communicating
about the importance of INSPIRE application in the coastal and marine
environment and to facilitate stakeholder involvement in the process.
We will seek to continue this role by keeping the coastal community
informed and engaged in the process of INSPIRE.
In this sense, we would like to inform about the INSPIRE
Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata open for public consultation.
The Rules for Metadata are now available for public view and comments.
The call for comments is open until 21 December 2007.
For more details please visit the INSPIRE website at http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/
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Data Harmonisation – Why it matters to
coastal managers?
We are sure this has happened to you more than once: You or your staff
needed to combine geographical data sets from different sources, but
they did not match, because they were based e.g. on different standards,
time scales, or geographical units. The data sets were not “interoperable”,
they were not harmonised. In order to counteract this phenomenon,
the European Commission has initiated INSPIRE (INfrastructure for
SPatial InfoRmation in Europe). If you want to refresh your memory
about what INSPIRE exactly wants to achieve, please have a look at
summary
information online. On 12th February, the Directive text was approved
by the European Parliament and has been officially publish on the
Official Journal of the European Union on 25th April 2007, so things
are moving ahead.
EUCC – The Coastal Union, representing coastal stakeholders,
lead the production of a position paper to shape the implementation
of this legislation and to ensure the aspirations of coastal managers
are met. The first results of this exercise have been presented and
discussed at the recent ICCCM’07
Conference, Hammamet –Tunisia (final paper to be publish in
proceedings).
We believe harmonisation offers great benefits in terms of cost-savings
and efficiency. We have captured key coastal and marine stakeholders
practices and aspirations and would like to share with you. We also
would like to learn if these are the same as yours and would like
to receive your comments on our Executive
Summary paper "Data Harmonisation - why does it matter to coastal
managers".
Your professional experiences and are welcome! We are glad to receive
your comments, please mail to Maria Ferreira at m.ferreira@eucc.net
INSPIRE Directive moves ahead
The European Parliament and Council have reached agreement on the
text of the proposed INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial InfoRmation
in Europe) Directive, which aims to harmonise spatial information
across Europe. The Directive was approved on 12th February by the
European Parliament and has been officially publish on the Official
Journal of the European Union on 25th April 2007. It will oblige
EU member states to improve the administration of their map services
and other spatial data services according to common principles.
This will give Europe's citizens better opportunities to find useful
information about the environment on the Internet. It will also
enable the authorities to benefit more from information compiled
by other official organisations. Data search services designed for
the public will generally have to be free of charge, although the
Directive allows fees to be charged for access to data that has
to be updated frequently, such as weather reports.
The Directive has been designed to control various aspects of managing
spatial data in the possession of authorities around Europe, such
as the creation of metadata, technical developments promoting interoperability,
the use of data services, the principles of access to data, and
a the establishment of national co-ordination mechanisms. The implementation
of the Directive will be a considerable challenge for authorities
at national, regional and local levels, that maintain electronic
maps and spatial data bases on the themes specified in the annexes
to the Directive – many of them related to coastal and marine
management.
The full text of the Directive can be found at http://inspire.jrc.it/proposal/EN.pdf
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MOTIIVE project participation, subscribe
to the moderated e-mail list
All those who wish to follow or participate in the on-going work
of the MOTIIVE project (Marine Overlays on Topography) are cordially
invited to sign up to the new moderated e-mail list of the project.
The MOTIIVE membership list will provide a one-stop-shop for relevant
news specifically regarding developments on geospatial data harmonisation
and interoperability technology and access; use and re-use policy
across Europe, especially dealing with the expected adoption of
the INSPIRE directive early in 2007. Furthermore, the list is opened
up to membership in the newly created SeaDataNet Project list -SeaVoX
- which will be discussing semantics, controlled vocabularies, marine
metadata profiles, etc. It will also provide news announcements
on other technical output from the project, results of the projects
Cost-Benefit Analysis methodologies research and recommendations,
and discussion of the first reports coming from the INSPIRE Drafting
Teams on data specifications and metadata.
The list can be joined either by visiting the Web at http://iodeweb2.vliz.be/wws/info/motiive
and choosing the "Subscribe" button from the menu, or
by sending an e-mail to sympa@sympa.iode.org
with the phrase "subscribe motiive" in the body of the
message.
More information can be found in the PDF “MOTIIVE –
Why participate?” that can be downloaded on the right.
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MOTIIVE: Inspiring coastal & marine
stakeholders
The MOTIIVE (Marine Overlays on Topography)project, funded under
the 6th Framework programme, is one of the pilot projects of INSPIRE,
the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe, which is the
latest initiative from the European Commission to create a pan-European
Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI). The project MOTIIVE is preparing
a documented and tested methodology for implementing data harmonisation
activities between INSPIRE elevation and marine/coastal datasets
being used by GMES Service Element projects. The project is working
closely with the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) and ISO TC 211
and has proposed the creation of a new OGC Working Group for Domain
Modelling recently at the event OGC Technical Committee meeting
in Edinburgh, 26-30 June. As a result of this meeting, MOTIIVE will
be collaborating with the UK Met Office, WIN/Marcoast/Orchestra
and OWS 4 projects to ensure a common implementation of Feature
Type Catalogue. MOTIIVE is currently producing a cost-benefit assessment
model for harmonisation applications that use INSPIRE core and thematic
datasets via OGC-compliant standards and tools.
The engagement of the marine & coastal community is a key feature
for this project and to learn more about the project and its latest
developments a workshop was held in the September LITTORAL 2006
Conference in Gdansk, Poland.
For more information please see http://www.littoral2006.gda.pl/motiive.pdf
EU news
Coastal zone management and INSPIRE
Europe's unique coastal environment is under increasing threat
from its own popularity, according to a new report from the European
Environment Agency (EEA), released in Copenhagen on the 3rd of July.
'The changing face of Europe's coastal areas', warns that a rapid
acceleration in the use of coastal space, mostly driven by the recreation
and tourism industries, threatens to destroy the delicate balance
of coastal ecosystems.
Work on this report has also led to review the availability of data
for such assessment and data needs for the future. In addition,
it has allowed the construction of a GIS database for the European
coast to begin. Advancing data concept for coastal assessment lays
a corner stone for building a data model for coastal zones, and
contributes to establishing the infrastructure for spatial information
in the Community (INSPIRE) and its implementing guidelines.
The report states that action should be taken to ensure a good data
model for the coast. The model should link land and sea, and integrate
all regional and national databases into a European coastal platform.
This would serve the implementation of INSPIRE principles (e.g.
The establishment of Spatial Data Interest Community for coasts).
It also mentions that new additional data for the coast are expected,
as the results of a number of projects become available in late
2006 and 2007. They will be of key benefit for the whole coastal
community. The projects are highlighted in the INSPIRE implementation
work programme published in July 2004, and include RISE, MOTIIVE
(Marine overlays on topography), ORQUESTRA, Eurospec, EU-FLOOD-GIS
and INSPIRE pilot projects. In addition, the on-going development
of the EEA's own elements of ESDI (European Spatial Data Infrastructure)
will offer updates of the Corine land cover database. Reports from
Member States and Interreg (DEDUCE, COREPOINT) will also be available
by that time for indicator development.
The report is available at: http://reports.eea.europa.eu/eea_report_2006_6/en
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