EU INSPIRE Directive Seminar – Clear Steps Towards Compliance

The EU INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament seeks to establish an 'Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community' (INSPIRE). The INSPIRE Directive entered into force on the 15th May 2007 and sets out a range of requirements as regards standardisation and publication of geographical datasets and associated datasets descriptions (metadata) across the European Union.

Seminar Rational & Agenda

Based on feedback from those facing INSPIRE-related tasks in 2010 and beyond, we have designed a seminar that will set out in a straightforward manner the steps required to achieve compliance for the 2010 and 2011 deadlines.  We will present a series of open source based technology solutions also.

  1. EU INSPIRE Directive - Compass Informatics compliance and advisory servicesBrief introduction to INSPIRE
  2. INSPIRE Roadmap & Deadlines
  3. Compliance workflows
    1. Planning & Programme Management
    2. Preparatory tasks
    3. Metadata tasks
    4. Network Services tasks
  4. Compliance Solutions
    1. Metadata solutions (GeoNetwork)
    2. Network services solutions (MapServer / GeoServer)
  5. Q&A
  6. Added value beyond INSPIRE
  7. INSPIRE / SDI Readiness Checklist
  8. INSPIRE.ie Website
  9. Compass INSPIRE Compliance Portfolio & Toolkit – An Overview
  10. Q&A

Contact us for more info or to attend. 

Logistics

Dates to be set for Autumn 2010 and 2011 events.

Location: Compass Informatics, Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland. Location details here. 
Transport: Note parking spaces are very limited within the business park.  On-street pay parking on Carysfort Avenue by UCD Business School.  We recommend travel by Dart to Blackrock Station with ten minute stroll to Compass offices.

Places are limited and those wishing to attend must typically come from government organisations. 

For more information on INSPIRE click here, and click here for information on our INSPIRE ISO Compliance Toolkit.