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Second Pilot Meeting (20 November 2024)

Agenda

  • Introduction (JRC)
    • Meeting objectives & Timeline recap
  • Pilot progress (participants: BE-Flanders, DK, IT, FI, NL, ES, SK-presented by JRC, OP, JRC)
    • Testing focus (Specification and/or Transformation)
    • Progress achieved / Issues
    • Expectations / Proposals
  • Specific pilot bits.
    • ISO metadata High-Value Datasets tagging practices (JRC)
    • Approaches to run the XSLT transformation (TBD)
    • Discussion
  • Pilot progress report (80th MIG-T Meeting) (All)
  • Management of pilot materials. Next meeting & Wrap up (JRC)
  • AoB (All)

Participants

  • Member States: Belgium (BE-Flanders), Denmark (DK), Italy (IT), Finland (FI), the Netherlands (NL), Spain (ES).
  • European Commission: Publications Office of the European union (OP), Directorate-General for Digital Services SEMIC Group (DIGIT-SEMIC), Directorate-General for Environment (ENV), Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (JRC).
  • Contractors: conterra.

NOTE: CZ and SK excused their attendance to this metting due to its overlap with the Czech–Slovak INSPIRE Conference.

Presentations and recording

Presentations can be downloaded here.

Recording: Available on request.

Meeting summary

The objective of the meeting was to have the first working exchange between pilot participants, with the following plan:

Pilot progress reports

Each participant presented a short report on the their progress, including a description of their main testing focus (specification and/or XSLT transformation), the progress achieved and the issues identified until the date. They also raised specific highlights, expectations on the pilot and related proposals (if any). Check the pilot progress presentations for more details.

Relevant discussion

The participants discussed about the specific pilot bits summarised below:

  • ISO metadata High-Value Datasets (HVDs) tagging practices

    • Several encoding examples for tagging High-Value Datasets (from BE-Flanders, DE, DK, ES and NL) were shared across participants. They use different types of encodings (CharacterString vs. Anchor approaches). The input examples are available here.
    • The SEMIC XSLT transformation needs to be updated based on an harmonised way for tagging HVDs. This will be the basis for applying the specific (additional) requirements stemming from the HVD Implementing Regulation, further specified within the DCAT-AP High Value Datasets usage guidelines.

  • Parallel ‘DCAT-AP schema plugin integration in GeoNetwork’ Working Group

    • A joint effort to integrate a DCAT-AP / GeoDCAT-AP schema plugin in GeoNetwork is ongoing.
    • This working group, organised by BE-Flanders and the GeoNetwork community, has already implemented a DCAT-AP (v2) plugin for the GeoNetwork Core, and the plan is to extend it to GeoDCAT-AP and the v3 of the standards.
    • The ad-hoc repository for this work is available here.
    • Next sprints are scheduled on 25-27 November 2024 (Sprint 3), and 9-11 December (Sprint 4).
    • The ISO & GeoDCAT-AP pilot participants are invited to join.

  • data.europa.eu (DEU) Geo-harvester

    • The Geo-harvester currently maps ISO 19139 geospatial metadata to GeoDCAT-AP 2.
    • The plan is to update this mapping to GeoDCAT-AP 3 approximately by January 2025. conterra (contractor operating DEU) offers the possibility to any interested stakeholder for testing this new mapping when available.
    • The OP is currently discussing with conterra the specific mappings for appropriately identifyng HVDs and the HVD Categories. These mappings will determine the basis for HVDs filtering in DEU.

  • Potential integration of pilot issues / outcomes

    • FI proposed to use this GitHub repository for sharing the initial issues and outcomes from pilot participants, with the aim of analysing their potential integration before sharing them with SEMIC.

  • Approaches to run the XSLT transformation

    • Participants reported on the use of different tools to run the XSLT transformation: GeoNetwork, Saxon, SEMIC Proof-of-Concept (PoC) API, XMLSpy, custom tools (command line / Python), DEU Geo-harvester. Check the progress presentations for more details.

Actions

The following agreements were reached between the pilot participants.

  • In the context of the next sprints of the 'DCAT-AP schema plugin integration in GeoNetwork’ Working Group, analyse the different HVDs tagging practices identified until the date with the aim to discuss and propose a candidate implementation good practice. The objective is to present the proposal in the 80th INSPIRE MIG-T Meeting, possibly for initiating its potential endorsement.
  • Participants to consider the use of this GitHub repository for sharing the initial issues and outcomes stemming from the pilot, for their potential discussion and integration with the rest of participants.
  • Analyse the pilot progress presentations summarising the results achieved by participants until this meeting (Summary available here).
  • BE-Flanders volunteered to help JRC in reporting about the pilot progress in the 80th INSPIRE MIG-T Meeting.
  • Third Meeting of the pilot to be scheduled by sending a poll with option dates starting from 12 December 2024.