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Chris Little

Representing an INSPIRE stakeholder organisation not registered as an SDIC or LMO
Organisation: 
Expert Information
Name: 
Chris
Surname: 
Little
Email: 
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Country: 
United Kingdom
Expertise
Metadata: 
INSPIRE Technical Guidelines, Implementation in the Member States
Metadata expertise: 
Trying to establish WMO profile of ISO19115 Establishing profiles and Best Practices for OGC and ISO 19xxx standards with consistent, re-usable metadata
Network services and spatial data services: 
VIEW SERVICES, Web service standards (e.g. OGC, ISO, OASIS, W3C), Invoke services & spatial data services, Download Services, DISCOVERY SERVICES, XML schemas, Web standards (e.g. XML, Atom, OpenSearch), Performance requirements, service monitoring
Networking Expertise: 
INSPIRE applications and software components: 
National geoportals
INSPIRE applications and software components Expertise: 
Establishing UKMO geoportal catalogue with open source software, ISO 19115 & ISO19139 compliant
Thematic knowledge related to one or more INSPIRE themes: 
Geographical grid systems, Coordinate reference systems, Environmental monitoring Facilities, Atmospheric conditions, Elevation, Meteorological geographical features, Oceanographic geographical features, Sea regions
Thematic knowledge related to one or more INSPIRE themes Expertise: 
40 years.
Cross-cutting technical issues and INSPIRE architecture: 
Registers and registries, Computing infrastructures
Cross-cutting technical issues and INSPIRE architecture Expertise: 
Establishing some key WMO content in publicly accessible registers with good accessibility and linking.
Data and service sharing Expertise: 
Monitoring and reporting Expertise: 
Interoperability of spatial data sets and services: 
Implementation in the Member States, INSPIRE Technical Guidelines: INSPIRE data specifications and base models (D2.8.x, D.2.10.x), Interoperability of spatial data sets and services INSPIRE Technical Guidelines: Data specification framework documents (D2.5, D2.6, D2.7, D2.9), Portrayal, Observations & measurements, Encoding standards (e.g. GML, RDF), Conceptual data modelling / UML, OCL, Coverages, Conformance testing, Abstract Test Suites, XML schemas, Identifiers, URIs, Linked Data
Interoperability Expertise: 
Producing profiles of WMO and OGC Standards for meteorology and oceanography Ensuring operational 24/7 systems are changed appropriately and effectively. Liaising efforts globally to implement Inspire and other standards. Input into Inspire and other global standards (OGC, W3C, OASIS, ISO, ITU)