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INSPIRE at Snowflake
Software
GO Publisher
• Create INSPIRE data
• Share INSPIRE data
GO Loader
• Load INSPIRE data
INSPIRE-as-a-
Service
• Let us do it for you
Training
• INSPIRE Essentials
• GML
• XML
• Data Modelling
Consultancy
• Implementing
INSPIRE
• Transforming
data
• Implementing
enterprise-sized
data publication
systems
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Experiences
• INSPIRE puts data sharing and open
standards on agenda with data providers
• Growing realisation that data is an asset
• INSPIRE is actually being implemented
across Europe; no more paper tiger
• INSPIRE is often perceived as
technological problem, not as an
opportunity for innovation.
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Opportunities
• SMEs are agile by nature and are close to
their customers making them ideal to
cooperate with
• Training and knowledge sharing on
technical and management level still
required
• Other domains adopting INSPIRE-like
initiatives, eg. Single European Sky and
OneGeology.
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Barriers
• Long implementation timescales causing
– Data providers to wait with implementation
– Upfront investment and uncertain long-term
revenues for SMEs
• Current tendering procedures not
beneficial for SMEs
• Governments competing with businesses
• Perceived complexness by data providers
• EU not leading by example...yet
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New Initiatives
• European Location Framework
(E.L.F.)
– Technical infrastructure which delivers
authoratative, interoperable, cross-border
geospatial reference data.
• CITI-SENSE
– Development of sensor-based Citizens'
Observatory Community for improving quality of
life in cities.
• UK Open Data Institute
– Catalyst for the evolution of an open data culture
in the UK.
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Innovation requires...
• Innovative data providers
– More than just opening up datasets
• Innovative technology providers
– More than just selling software licences
• Inspiration
– More than just ticking the INSPIRE-box
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Final Thoughts
• INSPIRE can be a driver for open data
innovation
• INSPIRE is not a technological problem
requiring a single software solution
• SMEs have an intimate understanding of
their customers and their culture. Use it!
• SMEs are agile and innovative, because it
is in their DNA.
