Mulltilateral meeting Re³gistry Requirements Clarification Group
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 EC (JRC) and attended by experts from AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR , DE, EL, HU, IE, IT, LV, LI , LT, LU, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, ES and SE, the European Commission services (DG ENV, EUROSTAT and JRC), the European Environment Agency (EEA), and several invited experts.
Welcome and approval of the agenda
The agenda of the 80th MIG-T meeting was approved without changes.
Actions from the previous meeting (for discussion and agreement)
Actions from the 79th MIG-T meeting were reviewed and their current status is reflected in the dedicated wiki page. Several actions for MIG-T members are remain open.
MIWP Actions
Extension of the INSPIRE MIWP (2025-2026)
Actions 1.1 and Action 2.5. HVD and INSPIRE
HVD and INSPIRE alignment - ISO & GeoDCAT-AP Pilot
Action 2.3.1. Governance of artefacts
Updates and news on INSPIRE artefacts
Overview and voting of TGs and schemas change proposals: #192 (TGs), #131 (schemas)
INSPIRE Registry content update
Presentation, discussion and voting of INSPIRE Registry change proposals: #28, #98, #99, #103
Extension of the INSPIRE MIWP
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Actions 1.1 and Action 2.5. HVD and INSPIRE
HVD and INSPIRE alignment
The JRC provided a quick summary about the status of the work in the ISO & GeoDCAT-AP Pilot. The main agreements between participants where taken at the kick-off meeting (), including a timeline finishing by he end of February 2025. A first evaluation of participant's progress was permormed during the Second Meeting of the pilot ().
All participants started the testing of the XSLT transformation, some of them also revising the GeoDCAT-AP v3 specification. Some participants already obtained the first preliminary results, and several highlights were shared with the MIG-T audience. As part of the work, several methods and tools for running the XSLT transformation, and examples of High-Value Datasets tagging in ISO metadata, were identified.
Synergies with the 'DCAT-AP schema plug-in integration in GeoNetwork' working group, led by Metadata Vlaanderen (BE), were established. In particular, an active collaboration on the identification and agreement of a High-Value Datasets tagging good practice candidate in ISO metadata. A final candidate good practice was shared by the Metadata Vlaanderen representive with the MIG-T, with the aim to initiate a potential endorsement process.
A poll to schedule the Third Meeting of the pilot in January will be send by .
MIG-T to initiate the process for a potential endorsement of the High-Value Datasets tagging good practice candidate in ISO metadata.
Action 2.3.1. Governance of artefacts
INSPIRE artefacts (Updates and news / Overview of change proposals to TGs, schemas, UML models and INSPIRE Registry content)
The next release of artefacts (v2025.1) will take place on and will include changes to TGs, schemas, UML models and INSPIRE Registry content endorsed by the MIG-T and MIG until this meeting. All of them were briefly presented before proceeding with their voting:
MIG-T and MIG voted on the above-mentioned change proposals, approving them unanimously (see the poll results).
Change proposal #175 on TGs was discussed and rejected by the MIG-T Sub group 2.3.1.
MIG-T members to share feedback on change proposal #172 for TGs (action still open from the 79th MIG-T Meeting).
MIWP Actions
Action 2.4 Central INSPIRE Components
Preparation for M&R 2024 (15')
ETF and Reference Validator (10')
Latest and upcoming releases
Re3gistry software and INSPIRE registry (10')
Latest and upcoming releases
INSPIRE registry migration to cloud
INSPIRE Geoportal (25')
Geoportal bug fixes
Link-checker updates
Harvesting environment for M&R 2025
Catalogue administrators registration
Action 2.4 Central INSPIRE Components
Preparation for M&R 2024
The process for running the Monitoring & Reporting 2024 was presented to the Member States and EFTA countries, including a description of the workflow, the indicators to be obtained and the tools used to calculate them.
After the Linck-Checker updates performed in November-December 2024, the GeoNetwork-based INSPIRE Geoportal will be used for evaluating the indicator on accessibility. Details on these updates were fully described in the INSPIRE Geoportal presentation. These updates have been tested and deployed in the Sandbox and Production harvesting consoles. Few refinements may still take place for getting more accurate results.
The SQL Monitoring and Reporting Tools will be use to calculate the data set and service conformity indicators.
The INSPIRE Reference Validator v.2024.3 released on , and the Bulk Validation Tool v.2024.1.0 released on , will be used to metadata conformity indicators.
As every year, it was reminded to Member States to not focus on the numbers, but on improving data accessibility (especially for High-Value Datasets), and the actual usability of their infrastructures.
ETF and Reference Validator
The INSPIRE Reference Validator v.2024.3 released on is the version to be used in the Monitoring and Reporting 2024.
This release is the first including all tests implementing the Good Practice on data-service linking simplification; it also removed the tests for MD Technical Guidelines v.1.3 and incorporates minor changes to the UI derived from the adoption of the Europa Component Library (ECL) v4.
MIG-T members were also reminded/informed about recent/upcoming URL changes:
Production instance: API, still accessible through a Gateway (under finalisation, will be ready as of January 2025);
Statistics on the use of the INSPIRE Reference Validator obtained from the dashboard were shared with the MIG-T.
Re3gistry software and INSPIRE Registry
Re3gistry software
The latest releases are v2.6.0 (June 2024) and v2.6.1 (September 2024).
The latest release (v2.6.1) included solutions to the issues listed here. These include changes to improve reliability and other specific improvements and bug fixes to increase robustness.
In 2025 and 2026, one release per year will take place. The release strategy will be accordingly adapted in January 2025.
INSPIRE Registry content
The INSPIRE Registry was migarted to the cloud in mid-November 2024, as the rest of INSPIRE components. This will provide an eased maintenance, portability and scalability.
The latest INSPIRE Registry content releases was delivered in v2024.2 (end of July 2024), which took place together with the release of the rest of INSPIRE artefacts.
The next release (v2025.1) is expected at the end of January 2025. It will include the corresponding change proposals endorsed in this meeting (details here).
INSPIRE Geoportal
The JRC shared the latest news on the INSPIRE Geoportal.
Moldova and EUROSTAT where added to the frontend on .
Regarding the backend, three updates of the GeoNetwork Link-Checker have been delivered during November and December, incoporating (i) the resolution of bugs processing of the protocol field (from the Online Resource), (ii) the implementation of relaxed checks for matching INSPIRE identifiers between the service and dataset/series metadata files, and (iii) a complete implementation of Data-Service Linking Simplification good practice.
As a result, several issues have been resolved in the geoportal helpdesk (e.g. #173, #178, #184).
Several refinements of the system are still taking place to run a smooth Monitoring and Reporting 2024.
The details to access the Sandbox harvesting console were shared again with the Member States / Countries.
Few Member States were reminded to duly update their list of National Catalogue Administrators (including both the Primary and Deputy roles), as discussed in the 78 MIG-T Meeting and the 79 MIG-T Meeting. At the moment, the updated information is missing for 3 Member States (LV, PL and SI). Some Member States (BR-Geo, BE-GeoBru, BG, CY, DE, IS and SE) were reminded to clarify the role (Primary or Deputy) for their catalogue administrators. The tool for communicating the updates was explained again to the audience.
Member States explicitly referred above to provide their list of National Catalogue Administrators, including all the necessary details, thorugh the ad-hoc survey tool.
Topics proposed by MIG-T members
DE/AT call of interest for Re³gistry Requirements Clarification Group
Topics proposed by MIG-T members
DE/ AT, also in agreement with some othre Member States, presented a proposal to create a new working group to discuss and solve common issues and challenges faced in the context of the Re³gistry software and the maintenance of national registries.
A multilateral meeting will be hold in the afternoon. All Member States / countries interested in this activity may join this effort.