SITAD:%20from%20a%20regional%20SDI%20to%20a%20model%20for%20delivering%20cross-border%20information%20on%20geographical%20data

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EC-GIGIS Workshop Innsbruck, 23/06/06

• SITAD from a regional SDI to a model for
  delivering cross-border information on
  geographical data

Roberta Lucà CSI- Piemonte
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Summary

• Obstacles and Needs
• SITAD and Standards
• Technological improvements
• Non technological improvements
• Conclusions

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Obstacles and Needs

• During the last years there was a great
  availability of geographic information,
  especially thanks to the work of public sector
  organisations.
• But often it cannot be fully used because
  quality spatial information is available only at
  local or regional level, and is difficult to
  transform it into seamless information.

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Obstacles and Needs

• Moreover, dispersion or limited diffusion of
  spatial data and products, in collaboration with
  the lack of coordination among administrations,
  citizens and private sector, produces a
  fragmentary context, in which information
  exchange is really difficult.

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Obstacles and Needs
Spatial Data Infrastructure
SITAD

• It is necessary to harmonize local level
  initiatives thus leading to a cross-border and
  interoperable geographic data.

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SITAD and Standards
SITAD

• SITAD, the Spatial Data Infrastructure set up by
  Piedmont Region, makes it possible to share and
  collect information on geographic and
  environmental data, as well as products and
  services existing in different format, creating a
  regional framework.

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SITAD and Standards

• Standard

SITAD

• I level metadata
• II level metadata
• WebGIS viewer

• Dublin Core
• ISO19115
• OGC

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SITAD and Standards

• Research consultation

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SITAD and Standards
I level

• Metadata entry

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SITAD and Standards
I level DUBLIN CORE (adopted ISO 158362003)
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SITAD and Standards
II level

• Metadata entry

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SITAD and Standards
II level ISO 19115
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Technological improvements
SITAD is a regional SDI but it also implements
technological solutions and carries out many
initiatives which make it possible for the
Infrastructure to overcome the local dimension in
order to exchange data with other similar SDIs,
at national and international level.
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Technological improvements

• WebGIS viewer

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Technological improvements
WebGIS viewer of SITAD puts one geographical
layer on another, and provides a simplified
mechanism to connect applications regardless of
technology or location and they are based on
Standard protocols with universal support (WMS
protocol by OGC specifications).
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Technological improvements
In the next future

• WFS (Web Feature Service) experimentation
• Services in applicative cooperation

Interoperability
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Non Technological improvements
SITAD has chosen to play an active role in the
national and international debate (in the
institutional forums) on harmonised spatial data
specifications and in general on arrangements for
the exchange of spatial data.
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Non Technological improvements
For SITAD it is particularly important to
implement the available local and regional best
practices experiences in GI interoperable
solutions and transfer them into coordinated
disseminations actions to be transferred and
spread across Europe.
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Non Technological improvements

• INSPIRE
• SITAD is a SDIC and it has an expert in Data
  Specification Drafting Team
• CNIPA
• Repertorio Nazionale dei Dati Territoriali
  Linee guida per lapplicazione dello Standard ISO
  19115 Geographic Information - Metadata

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Non Technological improvements

• IntesaGIS
• Specifiche per la realizzazione dei Data Base
  Topografici di Interesse Generale
• UNINFO
• Cooperation with ISO/TC 211 e CEN/TC 287
• JRC (Joint Research Centre)

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Non Technological improvements
Diffusion and Promotion

• Workshop

In 2005 Regional Administration organised
promotional workshops about the use of SITAD, as
a direct support to municipalities. On 4 July
2006 there will be in Turin a workshop about
SITAD General Rules of Use
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Non Technological improvements

• Newsletter

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Non Technological improvements

• Groupware

Forum FAQ News
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Non Technological improvements
SITAD General Rules of Use
From now on SITAD will be regulated by a specific
and apposite set of regulations, which all the
subjects who enter and use SITAD have to accept
and comply with
Legal Interoperability
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Conclusions
Call for Proposals of eContentplus
Dissemination plan
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Conclusions
Thanks to the realization of a Thematic Network
and a Dissemination plan, it will be possible to
consider SITAD as a model of regional SDI which
can dialogue with other SDIs at different levels
in order to deliver cross-border information on
geographic data.
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Info

• Luigi Garretti(?), Silvana Griffa(??), Roberta
  Lucà(???)
• (?) Regione Piemonte, c.so Bolzano 44 - 10128
  Torino, 011.4324130, luigi.garretti_at_regione.piemon
  te.it
• (??) CSI-Piemonte, c.so Tazzoli 215/12B 10137
  Torino, 011.3169164, silvana.griffa_at_csi.it
• (???) CSI-Piemonte, c.so Tazzoli 215/12B 10137
  Torino, Torino, 011.3169164, silvana.griffa_at_csi.it