Bilateral meetings with MIG-T members (upon request)
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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 xxx
Welcome and approval of the agenda
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 yearly INSPIRE monitoring indicators were presented, followed by the announcement of the monitoring results. Indicators were calculated using the new INSPIRE Geoportal 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 data-service linking simplification.
The Monitoring and Reporting 2023 dashboard, showing the values of indicators with supporting materials, is available for all Member States and EFTA countries.
Overall, a slight improvement 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 when compared to the 2021, 2020 and 2019 baselines. 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 indexing 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;
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;
services not meeting the quality requirements (timeout issues) and/or returning SSL errors.
Good practices were also highlighted, showing the good performance of several countries in specific monitoring indicators.
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
Action 2.3.1 Governance of artefacts
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.
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'