• GEOSS, INSPIRE, GMES, and SEIS
• 1st GIGAS Stakeholder Workshop
• 2nd GIGAS Stakeholder Workshop
• GIGAS Open Networking Event
• INSPIRE, GEOSS, GMES, SEIS, SISE Interoperability
• CEN/TC 287 Workshop

CEN/TC 287 workshop on European projects and good practice in interoperability

Time and Place

14 September 2010, 09:00 - 17:30
St George's Bay, Malta, STJ 02 St. Julian's, Malta

Rationale

With INSPIRE, GEOSS, and GMES now well established, numerous projects and activities that are (co-) funded by EU programmes are being asked to use or build upon standards and specifications in the domain of geographic information. Design methodologies, reference models, good practices in UML data model design and data model transformation, as well as standards for various services are examples of topics that are or have been addressed by dozens of EU-funded projects. The paymasters and the consortia that developed these products have made investments that should be protected.

The GIGAS project (GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES, an Action in Support), financed by the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission, has made concrete recommendations on how this could be done. In the GIGAS Business Model and Exploitation Plan, a role is proposed for CEN/TC 287 Geographic Information to maintain relevant deliverables or parts thereof, not only of the GIGAS project, but also of other EU funded projects. This is to lead to a formal EU-level repository of reference material on interoperability, where future projects can find state-of-the-art information on interoperability. At the same token, these projects could then add new reference material as they progress in their work programmes.

In their meeting in Paris in March 2010, CEN/TC 287 agreed to the proposed role of CEN/TC 287 in the GIGAS recommendations. The aim this workshop is to take concrete steps, by soliciting contributions from EU-funded activities, and to identify and prioritize key deliverables and good practices that CEN/TC 287 shall consider.

Expected Outcome

The expected outcome is threefold:

• To have a common understanding of the mechanics of the role that CEN/TC 287 wants to play in maintaining a repository of key findings by EU-funded projects;
• To establish an initial list of deliverables (or parts thereof) of EU-funded projects that could become part of the CEN/TC 287 activities;
• To identify projects that are interested in actively contributing to the maintenance of the repository.

Advance Agenda

Session 1: setting the scene

09:00	Welcome from the Malta Standards Agency
09:15	Introduction and objectives Rob Walker, Chair, CEN/TC 287
09:30	Achieving more with less effort: framework for the re-use and maintenance of results of EU-funded projects Paul Smits, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
09:45	The importance of EU-funded projects for the Global Earth Observations Systems of Systems Rob Koopman, Group on Earth Observations Secretariat
10:00	Addressing sustainability of efforts in FP7 calls Krister Olsen, European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media (tentative)

Session 2: getting to grips with interoperability

10:30	HUMBOLDT, a framework for data integration Anders Ostman, HUMBOLDT project, EuroSDR
10:50	INSPIRE Schema transformation services Michael Sanderson, 1 SPATIAL
11:10	Best practices on schema transformation Stefania Dezorzi, GIS4EU project, CORILA
11:30	Focus on education and training Anders Ostman, VESTA-GIS project, EuroSDR
11:50	Bridging services, information and data for Europe Raffaele De Amicis and Giuseppe Conti, BRISEIDE project
12:10	Protected sites Giacomo Matriano, Nature SDI project
14:00	Building SDIs – experiences from the private sector Roberto Lucchi, ESRI
14:20	Modelling Geographic information Andrew Watson, OMG
14:50	ISO/TC 211 Modelling experience John Herring, Oracle
15:10	The importance of standards bodies in EU funded projects Athina Trakas, OGC

Session 3: Maintaining the state of the art – way forward

15:40	Standards and Interoperability Forum Stefano Nativi, GIGAS, CNR Italy
16:00	Re-use and maintenance: making the process work disucssion, moderator: Paul Smits
17:00	Wrap-up, conclusions and next steps

Session 4: Closing session

17:15	Closing remarks Hon. Dr. Chris Said, Office of the Prime Minister, Parliamentary Secretary for Public Dialogue and Information.
17:30	Adjourn

Background Information

CEN/TC 287: http://www.gistandards.eu
GIGAS: http://www.thegigasforum.eu

Hotel reservation form

The link for the hotel booking form is http://www.gistandards.eu/MWS/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81&Itemid=94. You can find this on http://www.gistandards.eu, by going to the side bar and clicking Future Events, followed by Malta. Above the second picture there is a hyperlink.

Contact

For further information please contact M. Ford, CEN/TC 287 Secretariat, at martin@gistandards.eu.

Acronyms

CEN

Comité Européen de Normalisation

FP

Framework Programme

GEOSS

Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GIGAS

GEOSS INSPIRE and GMES Action in Support

GMES

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

INSPIRE

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

ISO

International Organisation for Standardization

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

OMG

Object Maintenance Group

SDI

Spatial Data Infrastructure

TC

Technical Committee