New INSPIRE technical guidance published for metadata, coverage and observation data

During the 5th INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation Group (MIG) meeting on 30 November 2016, the following documents prepared by the MIG technical group and sub-groups were endorsed (pending a scrutiny reserve from France*) and have now been published in the INSPIRE Knowledge Base.

• Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE dataset and service metadata based on ISO/TS 19139:2007
• Guidelines for the use of Observations & Measurements and Sensor Web Enablement-related standards in INSPIRE
• Technical Guidance for implementing download services using the OGC Sensor Observation Service and ISO 19143 Filter Encoding
• Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE Download Services using Web Coverage Services (WCS)
• Central INSPIRE registry and INSPIRE register Federation – Terms of Reference for the control body and submitting organisations
• Technical Guidance for INSPIRE Spatial Data Services and services allowing spatial data services to be invoked (this document was already endorsed by the MIG in September by written procedure)

This important milestone marks the completion of more than 2 years of work of numerous national experts under the 2014-2016 INSPIRE Maintenance and Implementation work programme – continuing the successful participatory approach adopted by INSPIRE. We would like to thank all the experts involved.

* France will submit the prepared documents to a national stakeholder consultation (until end of January) only after approval by the MIG, as foreseen as an option under the workflow of the MIWP 2014-2016.