The agenda of the 77th MIG-T meeting was approved without changes.
Actions from the previous meeting (for discussion and agreement)
Actions from the 76th MIG-T meeting were reviewed and their current status is reflected in the dedicated wiki page.
INSPIRE Monitoring and Reporting
Context and overall approach to monitoring 2023
Monitoring results
Lessons learned
Discussion
The process and components used for the calculation of the INSPIRE Monitoring indicators 2023 were described, followed by the presentation of the monitoring results. The process has been performed with the revamped INSPIRE Geoportal infrastructure based on GeoNetwork for second consecutive year, complemented by a new set of Monitoring and Reporting Tools for evaluating the accessibility (implementing Part 1. of data-service linking simplification) and the declared conformity of the harvested reseources.
With regards to the monitoring indicators, overall, a slight improvement of results is observed compared to the 2022 exercise, increased when compared to the 2021 and 2020 baselines. Accessibility significantly improved in 2023. However, heterogeneity in the performance of the different countries still remains and, similar to M&R 2022, there are concerns about the reliability of indicators on the conformity of datasets and services (both being self-declared).
Several issues were identified in the Member States implementations during the M&R process and reported during the meeting, which may turn into opportunities for future improvement:
Presence of metadata records with indexation errors, and non-INSPIRE metadata records in national catalogues.
Several cases of conformity of network services non properly declared.
Declaration of GEMET INSPIRE Theme keywords is often not following all the applicable recommendations.
Existence of service timeouts and misconfiguration of services (SSL certificate errors), preventing dataset accessibility through network services.
Good practices were also highlighted, showing the good performance of several countries in specific monitoring indicators.
MIWP Actions
Action 1.1 10'
GeoJSON Good practice - legal scrutiny outcome
GPKG Soil example
GeoDCAT-AP GP update & high-value datasets (DIGIT, JRC, MIG-T)
Action 2.3.1 Governance of artefacts 15'
Schemas and TG updates after the IR amendment
INSPIRE Registry content update
Action 2.4 Central INSPIRE Components 15'
ETF and Reference Validator
Re3gistry software
INSPIRE Geoportal
Action 1.1
The GeoJSON INSPIRE Good practice successfully passed the legal scrutiny step foreseen in the good practice procedure. As a result, it is considered officially endorsed. The INSPIRE good practice webste will be updated accordingly.
Examples of encoding according the GeoPackage Good practice are available here. They do not comply to any official encoding rule (not yet available) but may serve as illustration.
The SEMIC Group from DIGIT, who is leading the update of the GeoDCAT-AP Good practice with the support of ENV and the JRC, delivered a presentation explaining the objectives of this working group and its work plan. The work aims to establish a bridge / transformation between ISO and DCAT metadata, taking into account the alignment with DCAT 3.0 update and the requirements specific for high-value datasets. The MIG-T members are encouraged to actively participate in the working group and provide feedback on the work.
Action 2.3.1 Governance of artefacts
Version v2024.1 was released for:
INSPIRE TGs, including the integration of the data-service linking simplification approach, the changes deriving from the IR amendments and 8 new TGs in AsciiDoc format;
INSPIRE schemas, including the changes deriving from the IR amendments; this release was then updated with three hotfix releases: v2024.1.1, v2024.1.2 and v2024.1.3 (the latter was in preparation at the time of the MIG-T meeting); GitHub Actions were introduced to automatically validate schemas after any pull request;
INSPIRE UML models, including changes derived from the TG/schema changes.
The latest release of the INSPIRE Registry (v.2024.1) happened on 5 February 2024, including the changes listed here. The next release (v.2024.2) is scheduled on.
As a next step, changes deriving from the IR amendments will be propagated to the Validator and the Registry.
Action 2.4 Central INSPIRE Components
ETF and Reference Validator
v.2024.0 of the INSPIRE Reference Validator was released on . It includes validation against the newly released schemas and it adds a new Conformace Class testing Part A of the data-service linking simplification approach.
Updates ATS/ETS for view services implementing Part B of the data-service linking simplification approach are planned for the next versions v.2024.1 or v.2024.2. Version v.2024.1 will also include a redesigned architecture with several upgraded components.
Re3gistry software
Latest releases of the Re3gistry software were v2.5.1 (September 2023) and v2.5.2 (December 2023).
The next release (v2.5.3) is expected in March 2024 and will include solutions to the issues listed here.
INSPIRE Geoportal
The revamped INSPIRE Geoportal, based on the open source GeoNetwork software (v.4.2.6), was released on 24 November 2023. It provides access to high-value datasets in the scope of INSPIRE. Fir the second consecutive year, it has been used for the INSPIRE Monitoring and Reporting 2023.
Procurement options are currently being explored to fine tune the backend, implementing the OGC API-Features and Data-service Linking Simplification INSPIRE good practices, as well as incorporating some missing functionalities from the Classic INSPIRE Geoportal. Member States’ feedback and experience from the Monitoring and Reporting 2023 will be also taken into account.
The harvest console will be re-opened as soon as possible.
The Digital Building Stock Model (DBSM) is an openly-licensed (under the Open Database License - ODbL), pan-European building footprint datasets produced by the JRC for energy-related policy needs.
The first version (available here) derives from the hierarchical conflation of OpenStreetMap, Microsoft Building Footprints and the (vectorised) European Settlement Map. A second version is in preparation, which also includes other input data sources and richer semantic information.
The dataset is currently downloadable as one file per country; an API may be made available in the future.
Topics proposed by MIG-T (tbc)
LPIS and GSAA Technical Specifications and schemas (IT) 5'
The Call for Evidence for the GreenData4All initiative will be launched at the end of February 2024 in the “Have your say” website. The public consultation will remain open until end of March 2024 (Call for Evidence - Published and open for feedback till 25 March 2024).
The next MIG-T Meeting will take place on .
A new mailing list system is ready for the MIG-T, which will replace the current one with an updated technology. MS / EFTA countries will soon receive information on this regard.
Wrap-up and next steps
Bilateral meetings with MIG-T members (upon request)