Presentation given at the Collaborative by Nature event (#gecoenv) in Cardiff on 11th November 2011.

1. 134 Days Later –
an INSPIRE survivor’s story
Bill Oates, Simon Agass
Welsh Government

3. INSPIRE Timeline
2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Metadata Annex I & II Compliant
Metadata Annex III Compliant
Develop Full Discovery & View
Develop Full Download & Transformation
Invoke Invoke
Annex I themes New data
Annex I themes Existing data
Annex II & III themes New data
Annex II & III themes
2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Legal adoption

4. INSPIRE – Annex I, II and III on
data.gov.uk
British Geological Survey 331
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 249
Scottish Government Spatial Data Infrastructure 89
Barrow Borough Council 57
Land & Property Services 42
Environment Agency 31
Welsh Government Spatial Data Infrastructure 30
Ordnance Survey 23
Geography and Technology 18
British Waterways 12
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 10
English Heritage 10
Geoplace 2
HM Land Registry 2
Welsh Assembly Government 2
Marine Environmental Data & Information Network 1
Worcestershire County Council 1

5. Geoplace, 2 HM Land
Department for Registry, 2
Environment, Food and Rural English Welsh Assembly
Affairs, 10 Heritage, 10 Government, 2
Geography and British Marine Environmental Data &
Technology, 18 Waterways, 12 Information Network, 1 Worcestershire County Council, 1
Ordnance Survey, 23
Welsh Government Spatial
Data Infrastructure, 30
Annex I, II, III
Environment Agency, 31 on
Land & Property Services, 42 data.gov.uk
British Geological Survey, 331
Barrow Borough Council, 57
Scottish Government Spatial Data
Infrastructure, 89
Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology, 249

6. Annex I & II
• Datasets
–35 providers
–241 datasets

7. Annex I, II
datasets on
data.gov.uk

8. Annex I, II
datasets on
data.gov.uk

9. Annex I & II View Services
• 19 providers
• 131 services

11. Key Questions
• How has delivery been achieved?
• What is the user experience?

12. Welsh Government –
Software Used
Software stack
View Service Catalogue Service
WMS 1.3.0 CSW 2.0.2

13. Elsewhere……

14. Some Design Issues –
Data Organisation
Datasets
Layers
Themes
Services

15. Welsh Government INSPIRE
36 Non INSPIRE
2 1 1
Administrative units Protected Sites Natural risk zones Transport Networks
View Service View Service View Service View Service
2 Datasets 36 Datasets 1 Dataset 1 Dataset
View Server Catalogue Service
WMS 1.3.0 CSW 2.0.2
Database

16. INSPIRE
British Geological Survey
Non INSPIRE
5
4
3 3
1 1 1
Surface Detailed Detailed Onshore GeoSure Surface Bedrock
Geology Bedrock Bedrock Borehole geology and
and and Index Superficial
Superficial Superficial geology
geology geology
View Server
Geology

17. INSPIR
E
Non INSPIRE
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Land Cover
Administrative Units
Protected Sites
Transport Networks
1:10 000
Scale 1:25 000
MasterMap MasterMap OS Raster – Scale 1:50 000
Topo ITN Theme VectorMap Black and Colour Scale Colour
Raster Raster Local Strategii® White Raster Raster
This represents a sample of
OS Data services.
View Server
OS on Demand

18. Design Issues - DRM

19. DRM - Resolutions
• Exemptions to the need to protect services
from 3rd party rights holders
• Use of simple watermarks in the services
• DRM wrapper around services
– Username and password in service request
– IP address restrictions
– End-to-end identity management and services
protection

20. Does it work?

21. Yes!

22. Remaining Issues
• Making it possible for those not yet published
to publish
– Technical support – provision of software
– Contractual, procurement and business support

23. Remaining Issues
• Performance characteristics and testing
– Currently somewhat uncertain
• Harmonising of publication practices
– Datasets, layers, themes in logical groupings
• Styling of services
– Supporting their use in the UK portal
• Digital Rights Management
– More investigation needed

24. Remaining Issues
• Preparing for the next round of services………..