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Welcome and approval of the agenda 

The agenda of the 77th MIG-T meeting was approved without changes.

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 yearly INSPIRE monitoring Monitoring indicators 2023 were presenteddescribed, followed by the announcement presentation of the monitoring results. Indicators were calculated using the new The process has been performed with the revamped INSPIRE Geoportal infrastructure based on GeoNetwork and some ad hoc SQL and Python scripts developed by the JRC. In particular, the Python scripts allow the calculation of accessibility indicators based on the INSPIRE Good Practice on for a 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 good practice), and the declared conformity of the harvested reseources.
• The Monitoring and Reporting 2023 dashboard, showing the values of indicators with supporting materials, is available for all Member States and EFTA countries. The results from 2022 are available here to allow for comparison.
• With regards to the monitoring indicators, overallOverall, a slight improvement of the results is observed in the conformity of metadata, and availability and accessibility of INSPIRE data when compared to the 2022 exercise. The improvement is significantly evident , increased when compared to the 2021 , and 2020 and 2019 baselines. Accessibility is 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).
• A discrepancy is identified between the Geoportal Frontend and the Monitoring approach with the latter providing higher results.
• 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 Presence of metadata records with indexing indexation errors, and non-INSPIRE metadata records in national catalogues;
  • common practices breaking functionality of infrastructure tools, like the way used to declare the GEMET INSPIRE themes keywords that prevents a correct filtering of datasets;
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  • Several several cases of conformity of datasets network services non properly declared and/or declared without the previous use of the INSPIRE Reference Validator as a compliance checking tool;.
  • 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

    services not meeting the quality requirements (timeout issues) and/or returning SSL errors

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• Good practices were also highlighted, showing the good performance of several countries in specific monitoring indicators.

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•  JRC to add timestamps to the checks for the accessibility of INSPIRE view and download services in the new monitoring and reporting GitHub repository.
•  JRC to investigate and fix the discrepancy between the Geoportal frontend and the M&R results regarding viewable and downloadable datasets.
  
•  JRC to organise a bilateral meeting with Luxembourg to discuss an anomaly observed for downloadable datasets.

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

JRC Digital Building Stock Model (DBSM)

• 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'
• Italian operational guidelines for high-value datasets (IT) 5'

IT representatives presented: 

• A proposal to include the Technical Guidelines for Discoverability and Interoperability of IACS (LPIS and GSAA) agricultural data, and the associated Application Schemas, as part of the resources offered in the INSPIRE Artifacts GitHub repository. This will help in their promotion and will improve their accessibility.
• The Italian Operational Guidelines for High-Value Datasets, an action aimed at supporting public authorities in aligning INSPIRE implementation and the publication of High-Value Datasets. This interesting initiative may serve as inspiration for other MS / EFTA countries in dealing with this alignment at national level.

•  IACS and GSAA models and TGs to be migrated to a dedicated GitHub repository for long-term governance.
  

Update on relevant EC initiatives (I)

• GreenData4All (ENV)
• MIG-T meetings in 2024 (JRC)
• New mailing lists (JRC)

• Wrap-up and next steps

Bilateral meetings with MIG-T members (upon request)

• FI
• DE