Accessing the Compass INSPIRE Compliance Portfolio

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:: Advisory support on a fixed fee or drawdown basis

Our team consists of expert information policy analysts and technical specialists. The team constantly monitors developments at policy and technical levels, as well as being involved in hands-on SDI development projects here and abroad. The information, knowledge and direct experience arising from these activities are shared with clients via the Portfolio.

Additional Services to Support SDI Creation

:: Training services

Compass have been the leading organisation providing SDI and INSPIRE awareness and training services in Ireland since the Directive was published, and increasingly provide SDI training services elsewhere in Europe and beyond. Training consists of INSPIRE Master Classes - introductions to the INSPIRE Directive and the impact of an SDI on your organisation - and INSPIRE Technical Classes on more challenging aspects, such as data transformation services. Shorter seminars, such as the recent ‘Clear Steps to INSPIRE Compliance’ have been introduced by popular demand, to provide a succinct presentation on developing an action plan towards achieving INSPIRE/SDI compliance.

:: Programme Management

In order to undertake INSPIRE related work in an efficient manner that delivers wider benefits beyond simply achieving ‘compliance', we can guide and provide ICT project and programme management services, working in partnership with your organisation.

:: Technology Toolkit

The INSPIRE / ISO Toolkit is an integral part of the Compliance Portfolio, components of which can be utilised as appropriate to a client’s specific situation.

:: Installation and configuration of Content Management System for supporting website portal.

For corporate or other portals, an organisation will typically want to support a metadata or data search and view facility with a supporting information website. We can design and install an open source content management system to allow the management and editing of that website. The metadata and network services can then be integrated with this site.

:: eLearning facility

The pending eLearning facility, to be offered in the second quarter of 2010, will provide tutorials on the INSPIRE Directive and its implications for government organisations at all levels. These also examine the relationship of INSPIRE to other information-oriented Directives, e.g. the Public Sector Information Re-Use Directive, Access to Environmental Information Directive, the Aarhus Directive, Water Framework Directive. Finally, the classes will look at INSPIRE in relation to forthcoming actions from the European Commission and European Environment Agency (EEA), such as the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS), which is to be underpinned by INSPIRE data and services interoperability, the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) core services provision, and reporting and data sharing obligations with other governments resulting from international conventions, e.g. for meteorological and oceanographic data.