Presentation made at the closing workshop of ESDIN combined with a video that is on YouTube

1. Maximising access and use
A complete approach:
The ESDIN Geo Product
Finder

2. A new approach?
• Problems can not be resolved by thinking within the
framework in which the problems were created”
(Albert Einstein)
• How do we maximise public and private use of
reference data?
• From self-absorbed musings to the user perspective
• From the “we are different” to “we are actually much
the same as everyone else”

3. We are not unique!
• A lot of effort into harmonising licensing terms
for national authorities
– An exercise in futility?
– Pricing can not be harmonised by us
• What are other providers of digital
data doing?
• Look around and change the perspective
– Reference groups and workshops
– Analysing use cases
– Testing the experience on real life issues

4. The users perspective is our focus
• Users are not interested in our
struggles for finding the perfect
license
• The users focus is fit for purpose
• Users want automated processes to
find and acquire datasets and
services
• Technical, legal and administrative
concerns should work seamlessly
in the back

5. The INSPIRE connection
• ESDIN is about assisting with
implementation of the directive
• Improve access to INSPIRE
Annex I themes, particularly
for large scale data,
• Organizational development
and better implementation of
existing technology

6. A complete approach
• Combining the output of ESDINS work on legal,
administrative and technical issues
• WP on best practice for licensing
– A decision tree for taking user input and
finding the right license
– A modular approach to licensing
• WP on service implementation
– Best practices for INSPIRE compliant
content access services
– The ESDIN client

7. Licensing
• Two important tools for making the Geo Product
Finder work
• Construction of a decision tree
– A wizard style questionnaire identifying
the most important user needs for
providing an appropriate license
– A 95 % solution
• A modular licensing system
– Only 2 or 3 terms needs to be harmonised
– User have to take most of terms as they are
– Nothing new – this is what CC agreements are based on

8. Service implementation
• The technical framework to be completed with the Geo
Product Finder
• Best practices for an INSPIRE compliant
content access services
• The ELF/INSPIRE demonstrator
– Visualizing the harmonization efforts
and serve as a client test case for
the content services
– Easy to use yet very powerful –
ideal for the Geo Product Finder

9. The ESDIN Geo Product Finder
• Finding the dataset
– Access from usual places, like Google
– A visual interface to make a user friendly identification of the
required dataset
– Explanation – simple and full – INSPIRE specifications
• Bind the agreement
– Identify user needs – finding and offering alternative licenses
– The modular approach makes an updated overview possible
– If payment is required, link to providers web shop
• Agree and access
– E-commerce solutions

11. A concept – how will it be implemented?
• Flexible and fluid – not replace,
but fill the holes
• Decide a framework for which
type of datasets and providers it
will ”point to”
• Need to interact with existing
services and portals
• Co-operation between all
stakeholders are necessary to
make it a reality