INSPIRE GeoDCAT-AP Pilot

This repository is intended to store, share and manage documentation and information relative to the ISO & GeoDCAT-AP metadata Implementation Pilot, carried out by the INSPIRE community.

Pilot description

The GeoDCAT-AP pilot is one of the activities aimed at modernising the implementation of European environmental geospatial data sharing under the GreenDataForAll initiative (revision of the INSPIRE Directive), aligning it to the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 on Open Data High-Value Datasets.

Its main purpose is facilitating the integration of INSPIRE metadata, and the corresponding reporting obligations, into a common Open Data flow, centralising the INSPIRE and High-Value Datasets reporting in the European Data Portal (DEU). In particular, the pilot is intended to test and evaluate the transformation of geospatial (ISO 19139-based) metadata into a DCAT-based metadata using the GeoDCAT-AP (from v3.0.0) specification and its related XSLT transformation.

The pilot is carried out as part of the activities of the INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation Work Programmes (MIWP), starting in 2021-2024 and continuing in 2025-2026.

For more infomation about the pilot, its purpose, objectives and outputs/results and expected benefits, please read the Pilot Concept Note.

Participants

• Member States: Belgium (BE-Flanders), Croatia (HR), Czech Republic (CZ), Denmark (DK), Italy (IT), Latvia (LV), Finland (FI), France (FR), Germany (DE), Malta (MT), the Netherlands (NL), Spain (ES), Slovakia (SK).
• European Commission: Publications Office of the European union (OP), Directorate-General for Digital Services SEMIC Group (DIGIT-SEMIC), Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Pilot Meetings / Progress

Phase 1

• Kick-off Meeting Phase 1 (2 October 2024)

• Second Meeting (20 November 2024)

• Third Meeting (23 January 2025)

• Fourth Meeting (28 April 2025)

• Fifth Meeting (3 June 2025)

• Sixth Meeting (25 June 2025)

Phase 2

• Kick-off Meeting Phase 2 (5 December 2025)

• Future meetings

Good practices

Check the current good practices identified in the scope of the pilot here.

Report of issues

Issues stemming from the pilot testing:

• on the GeoDCAT-AP 3 specification: to be reported at https://github.com/SEMICeu/GeoDCAT-AP/issues
• on the related XSLT transformation: to be reported at https://github.com/SEMICeu/iso-19139-to-dcat-ap/issues

Other issues

• issues for further discussion within the INSPIRE community, or concerned to the management of the pilot (including specific proposals related to the pilot structure, methodology, outputs, results): to be reported at https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/GeoDCAT-AP-pilot/issues