| Name | Affiliation | Country | Expertise | Contribution | |
| Alejandra Sánchez | asmaganto@fomento.es | National Centre of Geographic Information | ES | Member of the team of development of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain (IDEE) in National Geographic Institute (IGN), and coordinator of production of metadata for dataset and services and catalogue clients in IGN. | Connecting national and European SDIs; Connecting IGN website and the Cartography National Register (ISO 19135 compliant) |
| Anders Foureaux | Anders.foureaux@naturvardsverket.se | Swedish Environmental Protection Agency | SE | Work as Process Manager concerning Datafeeds–Datahosting, focuse on environmental monitoring data, most of it within the EF-theme. | Test cases. Practical experiance to better understand the need e.g. a tool to create and manage a registry of codelists, an easy way to publish the registry, readable for both machines and humans etc. |
| Andreas von Dömming | vdoemming@bespire.de | bespire UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Köln, Germany | DE | Andreas has recently worked for the national INSPIRE contact point of Germany. There he coordinated the registry activities and designed conception of GDI-DE Registry. Development of an INSPIRE registry federation concept. | Contribution: develop Technical Guidelines and Best Practices for both registries and registers, proof of concept for the INSPIRE use cases, Integration into INSPIRE architecture. |
| Benoit DAVID | benoit.david@developpement-durable.gouv.fr | French Ministry of sustainable development, Spatial data unit | FR | general expertise in GIS and computer science, responsible for the French Inspire registry, test of the Inspire registry | practical tests on the Inspire registry, coordination with the national registry |
| Chris Schubert | chris.schubert@jrc.ec.europa.eu | Joint Research Centre | EU | In-depth knowledge about the architecture of INSPIRE Registry Software, excellent knowledge by managing the content of the INSPIRE Registers and the INSPIRE GML encoding rules. Strong experiences in the field of controlled vocabulary, semantic vocabulary mapping and method development by using similarity measurements as well as other vocabulary services in the geo-scientific domain. | Conceptual development of the INSPIRE Registry; extraction and collection of the INSPIRE vocabulary for Annex I, II, III, validation and managing. Sharing knowledge by presentations and trainings for using the INSPIRE Registry, ongoing support and creating reports; Contribution of vocabulary mapping. |
| Christian Ansorge | christian.ansorge@eea.europa.eu | European Environment Agency (EEA) | EU | Working with registries at the EEA, INSPIRE implementation experience | Provide expertise; liaison with registries and vocabularies at EEA; further contributions to be discussed |
| Christine Laaboudie | Christine.LAABOUDI@publications.europa.eu | European Union Publications Office | EU | Managers of the authority tables for the Publications Office's Metadata Registry (http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/index.html) | We are indeed very interested in following your work which is very relevant for similar activities on interinstitutional level. E.g. we have received a question how to deal with national extensions to the authority tables (our registers) in the context of the European Legislation Identifer (ELI). It is also relevant in the context of the IMMC. This will allow us reporting on your activities to the other IMMC members and create possible synergies. |
| Clément JAQUEMET | Clement.Jaquemet@developpement-durable.gouv.fr | Ministère de l'écologie, du développement durable, et de l'énergie | FR | general expertise in GIS and computer science, contributor to the French Inspire SDI (Géoportail, Géocatalogue, GéoSource...) | coordination with the national registry |
| Eliane Roos | eliane.roos@ign.fr | French Mapping Agency (IGN) | FR | Involvment in the IGN works to set up the registers and registries in use within the French Geoportail and Spatial Data Infrastructure (development of requirement paper, and technical study for IGN registry and registers). Good knowledge of ISO 19135 and OGC CSW ebRIM. | Review of documents and participation to the group works (but only from mid-may 2015 onwards). To be confirmed : participation of IGN to testing activities. |
| Esa Tiainen | esa.tiainen@nls.fi | National Land Survey Finland | FI | Versatile experience on data management and infrastructure implementation; currently chairing a WG on national recommendation on HTTP URI implementation for spatial data (and as a generic model); interoperability and harmonization; catalogue standards (ISO, OGC), ESDIN/ELF | Interaction of HTTP URI based resource management (national) and INSPIRE Registry services; registry federation; possible impact of HTTP URI implementation on registry architecture |
| Florian Esser | fe@bespire.eu | bespire UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Köln, Germany | DE | Florian has participated in the development of ISO 19135-compliant registry software in projects for DGIWG, BKG (German Federal Cartography Agency) and the ISO Geodetic Registry Network over the course of the last five years. His tasks included the development of web-based registry client software; REST and SOAP web services to access; registry content; XML serialization of registry content according to ISO 19135-2 (RegML); database schemas to store registry content; installation and operation of test-beds | Contribution to the goals of the sub-group based on experiences gathered in the course of the above-mentioned tasks, specifically to the following goals: 1.c. develop Technical Guidelines and Best Practices for both registries and registers 2.b. updating the central INSPIRE registry 2.c. development of of Technical Guidelines on how to set up registries and registers for INSPIRE 2.d. installation of a test-bed for connecting national registries to the central INSPIRE registry |
| Jeremy Tandy | jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk | Met Office | UK | previous experience in implementing registry systems (UKGovLD Registry and http://codes.wmo.int ) | input of preexisting registry design work, design review, potentially pilot implementation. |
| Jesus BARRERA FRANCES | jesusb@geoslab.com | GeoSpatiumLab S.L. (Spain) | ES | I have been involved in the study, design, testing, consulting and implementation of the National Cartographic Registry of Spain. It is an available online Registry, established itself as a Distributed Hierarchical Registry composed of a Central Cartography Registry and a set of electronically connected Regional Registries. It is based on the paradigm established for Spatial Data Infrastructures. I have participated in national working groups in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures: member of the Data Catalogue Working Team and Cartographic Heritage Working Team of the Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructure (IDEE) since 2009 and member of the Metadata Working Team since 2007. | I would be interested in the following topics: Test new releases of the central INSPIRE registry service and the underlying software and provide feedback. Contribute to develop Technical Guidelines and Best Practices for both registries and registers, including registry federations connecting the central INSPIRE registry and national registries. I am specially interested in contributing to define the architecture for a registry federation and operational procedures for exchanging information between the central and the national registers, as well as metadata for registries and registers. |
| Martin Tuchyna | martin.tuchyna@gmail.com | Slovak environment agency | SK | Establishment of INSPIRE related national/domain specific Registry instance. | Sharing experience with deployment of existing registry tools. |
| Michael Lutz | michael.lutz@jrc.ec.europa.eu | Joint Research Centre | EU | In-depth knowledge about the architecture of INSPIRE Registry Software and INSPIRE registry service; experience in the areas of data modelling and controlled vocabularies. | Overall coordination of the MIWP-6 work; link to other MIG activities; coordination of testbed; review of guidelines to be developed |
| Norbert Pfaffinger | Norbert.Pfaffinger@umweltbundesamt.at | Environment Agency Austria, IT Business Analysis | AT | Responsible for design and operation of a large and widely used Austrian eGovernment reference data and codelist registry; expert in INSPIRE TWG Utility and Government Services; experienced with data interchange, data formats and standardisation (UN/CEFACT, GS1, semic.eu, and others) | Registry requirements and design, temporality/validity aspects, interfaces for machine access to registry contents, devising practical registry administration |
| Tõnis Kärdi | tonis.kardi@kemit.ee | IT Centre of the Estonian Ministry of the Environment, GIS specialist. | EE | data transformations between different data models and registries, data-driven reclassification of datasets. Inspire implementation on the national level. | practical experience in synchronization of datasets. |
| Willem van Gemert | Willem.VAN-GEMERT@publications.europa.eu | European Union Publications Office | EU | Managers of the authority tables for the Publications Office's Metadata Registry (http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/index.html) | We are indeed very interested in following your work which is very relevant for similar activities on interinstitutional level. E.g. we have received a question how to deal with national extensions to the authority tables (our registers) in the context of the European Legislation Identifer (ELI). It is also relevant in the context of the IMMC. This will allow us reporting on your activities to the other IMMC members and create possible synergies. |
| Wolfgang Tinkl | tinkl@lfrz.at | Land-, forst- und wasserwirtschaftliches Rechenzentrum GmbH (LFRZ) | AT | is head of the now active Austrian workgroup on metadata, registries and validation, and is therefore deeply involved in the planning on Registries in Austria. Acts as central application provider for many authorities in Austria. | Can link directly the work of the above mentioned Austrian working Group on Registries (and Metadata) to the work in the MIWP, and can transfer the experiences and the knowledge build in this national Working Group into the MIWP-6. |
| Zhenya Valcheva | z.valcheva@info-logica.com | Infologica | BG | Implementation and deployment of software tools for INSPIRE related services and domains, establishment of national e-government services, MIG representative. | Sharing technical experience on registries and API services |
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