IDsW

Description

Organisation:

IDsW: Dutch standardisation organisiation for water management information

Acronym:

IDsW

Details

Mission and Objectives:

The InformationDesk standards Water is a Dutch, inter governmental organisation between five Dutch government organisations / layers that are involved in water management (see also under Mandate). The mission of the IDsW to ensure an efficient and effective transfer of information within the Dutch, governmental, water management. To ensure this, the IDsW brings partners in water management together and develops information standards. The standards developed are mainly of semantic nature and directed at the exchange of the content of data. The technical basis of the IDsW standards is formed by national and international standards such as the ISO19xxx standards and the Dutch NEN3610. In it's strategy for development of standards IDsW has futher stated that it will try to (re) use as much of existing standards as possible and to refer to these standards instead of developing new standards. Considering standardisation, the IDsW tries to reduce overlap between standards as much as possible and to harmonize standards that are closely related.

Formal Mandate:

None

Mandate:

The IDsW was founded by five Dutch government organisations in 2003. These five parties have signed an agreement not only to found the IDsW, but also to adhere to the standards developed by it's predecesoors and to implement new standards developed in the future. The five IDsW partners are: - Ministry of Public Works and Water Management (V&W) - Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries (LNV) - Environmental and Nature Planning Agency (MNP) - 12 Provinces represented by the Association of Provincial Authorities (IPO) - 26 Water boards represented by the Union of Waterboards (UvW) Standards are developed with, and for the parties mentioned above with a strong interaction between the IDsW working groups and commercial parties. Comemrcial parties have however no formal status within the IDsW organisation and cannot vote during the meetings of the Advisory Board.

Activities:

There are two main activities defined within the IDsW; standardisation and communication. Where standardisation is concerned IDsW is mainly concerned with metadata and (semantic) datamodelling and all related aspects such as thesauri, ontologies etc etc. The following activities fall within the group of standardisation: - maintenance of the current Aquo standard - development of (new) standards as required by changes in processes or law. - harmonization of IDsW standards with other standards in direct relation to the IDsW standard Aquo. - project management for joint software development between partners if required by those partners. The following activities fall within the group of communication - advising users on the implementation of standards in general and the IDsW standards in specific. - organizing congresses and seminars to inform the IDsW partners of changes in law / processes / standardisation that affect current standards or information needs. - organizing seminars to consult current users on changes in preparation or to inform which changes are deemed necessary by users. - publication of newsletter (analog & digital) detailing changes as mentioned above

Membership:

- IDsW partners as mentioned under 'Mandate'. Only members with voting rights. - Municipalities - ICT business organisations related to water management specific ICT - universities / research organisations related to water such as TNO-NITG and Wageningen University - other standardisation bodies within the Netherlands such as the NEN, Geonovum and SIKB

URL:

http://www.idsw.nl

Typology:

Sectorial

Thematic

PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT

Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development

submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams

yes

allocate experts to Drafting Teams

yes

participate in the review process

yes

collect and describe user requirements related to Environmental policies

yes

contribute to awareness raising and training

yes

Geographic Domain

TransNational

Mainly Netherlands + cross border (Germany)

Societal Sector

Both central and regional government (provinces & waterboards)

Specific Expertise

Specific Expertise:

Metadata

Monitoring and Reporting

Data Specifications

Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development

With regard to the Data themes, user is now filled inj, but the actual involvement is semantic standardisation within the field mentioned. IDsW is however not a data user, producer or coordinator. Prevous involvement with INSPIRE has been the reviewing of the (concept) implementing rules for metadata and data harmonisation. Furthermore IDsW is actively involved in: - communicating the effect of INSPIRE and the implementing rules to it's partners - the adaption of current standards and guidelines within the water management domain to meet the future INSPIRE implementing rules.

Environmental application domains

Water management in its broades sense (including wastewater, biodiversity, etc)

Primary Business

Water management in its broadest sense (including Monitoring, Survey, Civil engineering etc)

INSPIRE Data Themes
Coordinator	Transport networks, Environmental monitoring Facilities, Area management / restriction / regulation zones & reporting units
User	Transport networks, Hydrography, Protected sites, Soil, Utility and governmental services, Environmental monitoring Facilities, Agricultural and aquaculture facilities, Area management / restriction / regulation zones & reporting units, Meteorological geographical features, Oceanographic geographical features, Sea regions, Bio-geographical regions, Habitats and biotopes, Species distribution, Coordinate reference systems, Administrative units

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