The European Commission has put out a call inviting metadata experts who directly or indirectly work on data portals hosting spatial data to participate in a new Working Group to develop the GeoDCAT-AP specification. GeoDCAT-AP will make it easier to …
The Commission has today launched an INSPIRE thematic clusters platform which is aimed at data providers, implementers and users. The aim is to support INSPIRE implementation and maintenance by sharing experiences and best practices, raising questions and resolving issues. The 34 INSPIRE …
The INSPIRE Conference and Geospatial World Forum 2015 will be jointly organised on 25-29 May 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. The joint conference will carry the theme Convergence: Policies + Practices + Processes via PPP, which aim to address the need …
The Commission has called for experts from Member States to participate on a temporary sub group on registers and registries. Full details are here. An initial kick off meeting was held on Wednesday 19 November, but national experts are still …
The Commission has called for experts from Member States to participate in a temporary sub-group on download services for observation data. Full details are here. Please contact the Commission directly if you wish to volunteer but please also let me know …
In line with the monitoring and reporting requirements of the INSPIRE Directive the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs has recently submitted the UK’s annual INSPIRE Monitoring Indicators Report to the Commission. The 2014 report (http://data.gov.uk/dataset/uk-2013-inspire-monitoring-indicators-report) covers the calendar year …
There are more than 4 000 INSPIRE datasets now published on data.gov.uk. This provides a huge opportunity for spatial data users to start reaping the benefits of INSPIRE. However benefits are not solely enjoyed by data users. Publishers of INSPIRE data, …
In spring we will be launching a new online UK Location Metadata Editor making it easier for location data publishers to create, edit and validate INSPIRE compliant GEMINI 2 metadata records. The new editor is being delivered by EDINA and will be …
The European Commission is asking questions about INSPIRE and wants your answers… Do you think the benefits of INSPIRE will be greater than the costs? Has INSPIRE improved access to the information needed for environmental policies and decisions? What are …
INSPIRE years seem to be much shorter than normal human years, well at least that is how it feels having been Northern Ireland’s INSPIRE co-ordinator for the last 5 years. With the next deadline of the EU INSPIRE (Infrastructure for …
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