Bilateral meetings with MIG-T members (upon request)
Minutes
The minutes summarise the main conclusions and actions from the meeting. Actions are indicated by using check boxes and are tracked in the dedicated "Actions" section below.
The meeting was chaired by the JRC and attended by experts from AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, NO, PL, RO, SE and SK, the European Commission (ENV, AGRI, ESTAT, JRC), and the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Welcome and approval of the agenda
The agenda of the meeting was approved without modifications.
Actions from the previous meeting (for discussion and agreement)
The status of actions from the previous 73rd MIG-T meeting are updated and available as part of the minutes.
MIWP Action updates
1.1 Towards a Digital Ecosystem for the Environment and Sustainability (I/D)
GeoJSON as data encoding format
UML to GeoJSON encoding
TG on interoperability of IACS data
2.3.1. Governance of INSPIRE artefacts (I/D)
Discussion and possible endorsement of change proposals:
Evidence provided by FI for several data themes is already available on GitHub for the implementation of the GeoJSON encoding of INSPIRE data. The proposed Good practice will be submitted to the autumn MIG meeting for possible endorsement.
MIG-T members are encouraged to continue to provide evidence on GitHub for the implementation of the GeoJSON encoding rule through dedicated issues.
JRC to propose the inclusion of a slot on the GeoJSON GP for possible endorsement by the 18th MIG meeting in the autumn of 2023.
Interoperability of IACS data
JRC D.5 presented the work done on the interoperability of agricultural IACS data. Draft application schemas are made available online.
MIG-T members are encouraged to test the draft LPIS and GSAA schemas and provide feedback to the JRC by
Action 2.3.1
The three change proposals to application schemas and TGs were presented. Afterwards, MIG-T members voted and unanimously accepted all of them (see poll results). A comment was raised by FR on the TG change proposal #72: when referring to web forms.
JRC to investigate whether a more specific alternative to onlineResource exists with regards to the TG proposal for web forms.
MIG-T members were asked to provide feedback on the TG change proposal #84, on which the sub-group required additional feedback. No feedback was given by MIG-T members during the meeting.
MIG-T members to provide feedback on change proposal #84 on GitHub.
The next round of TGs converted to the AsciiDoc format will be published in the release v.2023.2, scheduled for 31 July (see the TG conversion plan). Some of these draft TGs are already available in the 2023.2 branch of the TG repository for those who would like to check and provide feedback.
Coffee break ☕️
MIWP Action updates (continued)
2.4. Central INSPIRE Components (I/D)
ETF and INSPIRE Reference Validator
Re3gistry software & INSPIRE Registry
INSPIRE Registry governance - Proposal (JRC)
Discussion
Discussion and possible endorsement of change proposals: #34, #32, #23, #33, #16
INSPIRE Geoportal
Action 2.4
ETF and INSPIRE Reference Validator
v.2023.1 of the INSPIRE Reference Validator was released on (see the changelog). It includes: i) a number of bug fixes, and ii) a package including all the resources of the INSPIRE Registry used by the Validator. The latter was requested by DE in 2022 and may be useful for any organisation deploying a local instance of the INSPIRE Reference Validator with no access to external resources.
The INSPIRE Reference Validator dashboard shows that about 33k tests were run in the production instance for the past 14 months. After a peak of tests corresponding to the INSPIRE Monitoring and Reporting 2022 cycle, the daily number of tests has decreased on average, with peaks of around 150 tests per day.
In 2023, the plan is to upgrade the INSPIRE Reference Validator to v.2.1 of the ETF. This release will fix the long-standing issue in the validation of geometry orientation and will throw a security exception when validating WMS 1.1.1 services. A beta instance is already available for testing.
MIG-T members are reminded that the production instance of the Validator should not be used for testing large datasets and services serving large datasets. For such needs, organisations should consider deploying a local instance of the Validator. The JRC has some limited support available for organisations that are in need of support with this activity.
Re3gistry software & INSPIRE Registry
A new release of the Re3gistry software - version v2.4.2 - was delivered on and is ready for user testing. It includes new features / enhancements and bug-fixes.
According to the release strategy of the Re3gistry software, the next release (version v2.5.0) will take place at the end of June 2023.
As part of the recent community building activities around the Re3gistry software and the Registry Federation tool, a demonstration and a presentation (also recorded in video) were offered in the ENDORSE Conference 2023, from to (See conference programme).
New surveys on the Re3gistry software and the INSPIRE Registry will be launched soon.
The call for participation in the Control body launched in the 73 MIG-T meeting was unable to be completed due to the limited number of volunteers.
MIG-T members to update the details for their Submitting organisations representatives(if not done yet) - See this page for further information.
INSPIRE Registry change proposals
As a result of this endorsement, the MIG-T proceeded with voting on a first bunch of five change proposals to the INSPIRE Registry content. Afterwards, MIG-T members voted and unanimously accepted four of them (see poll results). A comment was raised by DK on INS-REG change proposal #34: further investigation should be done on the use of two-letters or 2-letters country-codes.
MIG-T members to provide feedback on INSPIRE Registry change proposal #34 on GitHub.
According to the newly approved governance workflow, the next voting of change proposals will be starting before the MIG-T meeting, by MIG-T Sub-Group 2.3.1 or an additional ad-hoc sub-group.
INSPIRE Geoportal
The status and on-going work for rolling out the revamped INSPIRE Geoportal based on GeoNetwork, including additional testing and security assessments, was explained to the participants.
The next steps for preparing a new service contract for the maintenance and further evolution of the Geoportal, including fine tunings, completion of the data-service linking simplification and missing functionalities from the Classic Geoportal, was also briefly introduced.
Interoperability issue about metadata publication and specifications set up by the European ITS platform (BE)
Geonovum OGC API-Features testbed
Geonovum presented the testbed with several open source implementations of the OGC API-Features standard. The results are promising and MS are encouraged to leverage on the results obtained.
Metadata and ITS
BE representatives informed the MIG-T of an inconsistency between the approaches put forward by the CEF ITS Platform project and the well-established practices for metadata sharing in INSPIRE.
JRC and BE to communicate to relevant stakeholders on the European level (JRC) and national level (BE) on those inconsistencies and to argue that the mature and operationalised approaches in INSPIRE are to be favoured by the mobility community in order to avoid duplications.
Update on relevant EC initiatives (I)
Summary information was provided by DG ENV on the progress in the work of the GreenData4all initiative and the INSPIRE Conference in 2023. More details are available in the presentation.