INSPIRE: Is it Time for Better Semantic Interoperability?

摘要

On 8 April 2013, the INSPIRE committee unanimously approved the Implementing Rule regarding the themes of annex Ⅱ and Ⅲ. This important event is a milestone for interoperability in the EU, primarily for environmentally related spatial data, but also for other communities who will benefit from and build upon the INSPIRE experience. The Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 established an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) and came into force on 15 May 2007. After several regulations (on metadata in 2008, network services in 2009, data and service sharing, download services and transformation services in 2010), the latest regulation deals with semantic interoperability. This means, as far as the themes of annex Ⅱ and Ⅲ are concerned, that every new dataset will have to comply by 2015 and every existing dataset by 2020.