Good Practice document for INSPIRE download services based on OGC SensorThings API
For compliance with INSPIRE, data providers must demonstrate complaince with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules. Pertaining to the data requirements towards download services, we have shown alignment between STA V1.1 and both INSPIRE Environmental Monitoring Facilities and the Observational model in our publication on "Extending INSPIRE to the Internet of Things through SensorThings API" doi:10.3390/geosciences8060221
The Excel Sheet INSPIRE SensorThings Matching provides a good basis for the alignment of an existing data source with the requirements from STA and INSPIRE
INSPIRE Data Specification Implementing Rules
INSPIRE Data Specification Technical Guidelines
In order to qualify STA as an INSPIRE Download Service, the requirements laid down in the Implementing Rules for Network Services (IR NS) must be fulfilled. To simplify this task, a Google Sheet has been created detailing the IR requirements together with STA implementation options. Should IR requirements be identified that cannot be supported by STA 1.0, proposals for extension in STA 1.1 should be provided.
The IR NS Requirements as pertains to STA are available at INSPIRE IR NS - STA, please request edit rights
INSPIRE Network Services Implementing Rules
INSPIRE Network Services Technical Guidelines
In order to establish a new technology within INSPIRE, in addition to the alignment of requirements pertaining to the data specifications and networks services, a "Good Practice" should be established, in accordance with the following procedure:
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Initiation using a "good practice fiche" including evidence that the solution has been put into practice and has received broader support. SensorThings API Good Practice Fiche
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Outreach through a webinar
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Submission for inclusion in a good practices section in the INSPIRE Knowledge Base (ideally with support from one or several INSPIRE MS representatives)
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Opinion of the MIG to endorse, ask for clarification or reject the good practice
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Feedback from users through the good practice repository
On November 19th an ELISE Webinar was held on SensorThings API and INSPIRE, answering the questions of what is Dynamic Data, why is it a valuable enrichment of an SDI and what benefits does it provide?
All presentations and recordings of the event are available at: ELISE Workshop: SensorThings API brings Dynamic Data to INSPIRE
- BRGM - Data sources: Water, maybe Biodiversity
- DataCove e.U.
- Fraunhofer IOSB
- JRC
- KIT - Data sources: Air Quality, national German Project SmartAQnet
- Hamburg