Cambridge UK, 8th December 2009
Following extensive investment in European activities, 1Spatial is pleased to announce their role in the consortium awarded the contract to 'Develop Technical Guidance for the INSPIRE Transformation Service'. This is specifically for schema transformation of geospatial datasets in Europe.
With so many regional and national Spatial Data Infrastructures at different points of development across Europe, data vary quite significantly in quality, coverage, content and structure. Pulling data together or aggregating them across Europe from the different sources, different themes and at multiple resolutions, through a services-based approach is a concept yet to be implemented in practice on any significant scale. This contract award will go part-way towards delivering the information required to better understand some of the benefits from the data sharing and harmonisation challenges that transformation addresses.
This contract will be a major contribution to the European geospatial community, effectively delivering the necessary technical guidance to help institutions in European Member States to put into operation transformation services that are consistent with the INSPIRE mandated Implementing Rules.
The consortium is being led by RSW Geomatics in conjunction with 1Spatial and Rob Walker Consultancy, all based in Cambridge, UK. The contract has been awarded by the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. The project will last eight months, starting in early 2010, and it requires a survey of:
- 'state of the art' spatial data transformation services
- the drafting of the associated technical guidance
- the prototyping of a schema transformation service
- the production of a video demonstration in three languages
Dr Michael Sanderson, Chief Executive Officer of 1Spatial added:
“ We are already involved in European initiatives, such as ESDIN through eContentplus, and in the past we have worked successfully on European Framework Programmes. This contract award is a result of our extensive experience around Spatial Data Infrastructures and our solutions for delivering schema transformation and conformance checking against INSPIRE data specifications. This award also comes at a time when we have just celebrated 40 years in business, so it's a special time for the company. ”
Other partners in our successful bid were Legally Mandated Organisations who will provide data, e.g. NLS Finland, NLS Sweden and Statens kartverk Norway. Outside of Scandinavia, Ordnance Survey Ireland and Land & Property Services Northern Ireland are also in the consortium as data providers.
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