Comsode pilot - implementation of Open Data Node - Slovak Environmental Agency (May 2015)

1. Slovak Environmental
Agency pilot
Linked geo data for an environment
Martin Tuchyňa, Peter Hanečák, Jindrich Mynarz, Jirka Helmich, Ján Marček
COMSODE Final User Board meeting, 28.05.2015, Vienna, AT

2. Mission of the Slovak Environment Agency
● Policy support
o Design and Implementation
● Infrastructure provider
o Data Services (DB servers)
o Webapps design and hosting
o GIS (desktop/web)
● Data provider/integrator
o LandCover,Environmental burden,waste dumps
● Support for INSPIRE
o Maintenance of National Geoportal
o Support for the stakeholders
● Consultancy provider
o Analysis and design of environmental information systems

3. Pilot Motivation & Goals
● Motivations
o Explore potential to increase re-usability of environmental and spatial
(including INSPIRE) resources via Linked data and semantic web
o Test the outcomes of COMSODE (Methodologies, ODN)
o Knowledge & Experience exchange between COMSODE and
SmartOpenData projects
● Goals
o To create the biodiversity and environmental risk related spatial linked
data resources
o Contribute to the development of vocabularies
o To link these resources with relevant linked data
o To visualise and query resources via machine and human readable
interfaces

4. Achievements so far
● Creating the 5
biodiversity and
environmental risk
related spatial linked
data resources

5. Achievements so far
● Where possible contribute to
the development of INSPIRE
related and domain specific
vocabularies
o INSPIRE related
o Domain specific
“Environmental
burdens”

6. Achievements so far
● Linking transformed RDF resources with relevant linked data
o Geonames > SK Protected sites
o EEA Natura 2000 Standard Data Flow reporting > SK Protected sites
o Geonames > SK Contaminated sites

7. Achievements so far
● Visualisation and query of
transformed RDF resources
via machine and human
readable interfaces
o Geo(Sparql) end point
provided via Parliament
triplestore
o ODN deployment
o Payola Biodiversity Mash-up
Visualisation

8. Next steps, obstacles, sustainability
● To be done:
o Migration into the SAZP infrastructure
● Issues to keep in mind
o Lack of relevant expertice in public sector bodies
● Sustainability
o Exploring potential for another data resources and links for
enrichment
o Increase effectiveness of the eGov processes
o Contribute to the OpenGovernmentPartnership activities
o Awareness raising

9. Contacts
● SAZP:
martin.tuchyna@sazp.sk
● EEA:
peter.hanecak@eea.sk