[Geodata] Fw: INSPIRE Metadata Survey results published

[Jo Walsh]

dear all,

With apologies for my extended recent absence from OSGeo-space; just
finished the contract which was eating my life and eyes. The below might 
be interesting here, and i'd like to pick up on dclite4g again very soon.

----- Forwarded message from Roger Longhorn <ral at alum.mit.edu> -----

Has everyone see the announcement on the INSPIRE Web site 
(inspire.jrc.it) about publication of the INSPIRE Metadata Survey 
conducted by DG JRC, published on 12 January (or at least, announced on 
the web site on 12 January)?

The survey announcement is at: 
http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/metadata_survey/

and the survey results (19 pages) is at: 
http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/reports/INSPIRE_Metadata_Survey_2006_final.pdf

The report offers statistics on standards used, search protocols, 
accessibility, etc.

>From the summary:

"The survey revealed that:

? the vast majority (80%) of metadata holdings are operational and 
mostly (76%) available through the Internet while some 20% of metadata 
holdings are currently being redesigned indicating the state of 
transition at the current time.

? 65% of metadata holdings follow ISO standards and more than half of 
the respondents follow some standards to encode MD, of which the 
majority are again ISO standards.

? OGC Catalogue Service standards are applied to 39% of all metadata 
holdings and in the in case of catalogue existence the SOAP and/or HTTP 
protocols are used for search the most often (26%).

? 11% of metadata holders are already created in more than one language, 
and moreover, the user interfaces operate in multiple languages in 18% 
of all cases.

These findings indicate that organizations understand the necessity of 
providing and organizing metadata in a way that is compliant with 
international standards, accessible through the Internet and 
increasingly made available in more than one language.

The survey results will provide an input to INSPIRE Metadata and Network 
Services Drafting Teams."
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A slide presentation of the "Results and Recommendations" from the 
INSPIRE Multiple-Representation and Data Consistency Workshop held at 
the JRC 8-10 November 2006 is also available at:

http://sdi.jrc.it/ws/multiple_rep/WS_recommendations.pdf

while background and presentations from the workshop are at: 
http://sdi.jrc.it/ws/multiple_rep/

Happy reading.

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu
MOTIIVE Project List Moderator

p.s. Can anyone (preferably the Commission!) please tell me the logic 
behind have an INSPIRE 'official' web site located at URL 
inspire.jrc.it, which then links to www.ec-gis.org for some reports and 
sdi.jrc.it for others? How many sites should be be monitoring to keep up 
with INSPIRE activities - or will all announcements usually appear on 
inspire.jrc.it in the first instance?


EGIP Archive:  http://www.ec-gis.org/egip/

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