Transcript Shared European and National State of the Environment - SENSE SENSE-2 outcomes SENSE-2 EEA Project Team 07.03.2013

Shared European and National State of
the Environment - SENSE
SENSE-2 outcomes
SENSE-2 EEA Project Team
07.03.2013
Outline
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SENSE-2: Motivation
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SENSE-2: Core project information
• Description
• SENSE-2 Task Force - participating partners
• Project steps – overview and status
• Intermediate activities
• Technology used
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Country feedback and concluding
recommendations
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Next steps
SENSE-2: Motivation
• Find and access assessments easily
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find EEA indicators, assessments and related national
material
access details on national indicators and assessments
access and compare different indicator information:
trends, methodologies, publication dates, geographic
coverage, time period covered, data sources used...
• Effectively visualise indicators for benchmarking
purposes and modify relevant parameters
• Share environmental content using web-based
technologies
http://projects.eionet.europa.eu/sense-2-project/
SENSE-2: Project description
Purpose:
• Make timely environmental information and assessments
available by sharing environmental indicators with
European (EEA) and national stakeholders - underpinned
by the appropriate information technology
 Contribute to SEIS implementation with a focus on
online sharing of information about the state and outlook
of the environment
Expected outcomes:
• Demonstration of linked indicators (catalogue, service,
visualisations)
• Recommendations for stable infrastructure
Project duration:
• 1 year: 01.03.2012 – 28.02.2013
SENSE-2 Task Force: Participating partners
EEA Project Team
• SEIS Support Programme - SES with GAN, IEA and OSE
• Core EEA project team of six members and supported by
four more members for specific tasks and topics
SENSE-2 Country participation: 21 members plus
one associated member, 70 experts nominated
Austria
Finland
Norway
The former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia
Belgium
France
Serbia
Turkey
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Germany
Slovakia
United Kingdom
Bulgaria
Ireland
Slovenia
Spain
Croatia
Italy
Sweden
Czech Republic
Netherlands
Switzerland
Four project steps: overview and status
Concluded
(1)
Selecting the set of
indicators
• Setting criteria
for the selection
• Nine EEA
indicators (Core
Set of Indicators
- CSI)
• Indicators from
thematic areas:
air pollution,
biodiversity,
climate change,
energy, fisheries,
water
Concluded
Concluded
(2)
Indicator
mapping
• Mapping national
indicators to
selected CSI
Concluded
(3)
Implementation
and linking
(4)
Evaluation and
recommendations
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Stable indicator
conceptual
schema
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Defined
vocabulary and
link to GEMET
• Short report on
reflections and
recommendations
on future
development
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EEA indicators RDF examples
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Countries: RDFs
of national
indicators
(mapped)
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EEA
demonstration of
indicator
catalogue
• Joint contribution
of project
members (EEA
and countries)
• Final delivery:
28.02.2013
• End of project:
28.02.2013
Intermediate activities
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Nine EEA CSI indicators are selected:
Theme
Air pollution
Code
CSI 001
CSI 002
CSI 003
Biodiversity
CSI 008
Fisheries
CSI 010
CSI 011
CSI 029/
ENER 026
CSI 033
Water
CSI 018
Climate change
Energy
Indicator name
Emissions of acidifying substances
Emissions of ozone precursors
Emissions of primary particulate matter and
secondary particulate matter precursors
Designated areas
Greenhouse gas emission trends
Greenhouse gas emissions projections
Primary energy consumption by fuel
Aquaculture production
Use of freshwater resources
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19 countries provided the list of national indicators to be mapped to
the selected nine EEA CSI (being the same or similar)
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14 countries active in technological solutions, discussions and using
RDF (Resource Description Framework)
Technology used: what and how
• Semantic Web: RDF (Resource Description
Framework) and Linked Data principles
• What is needed
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Using shared indicator conceptual model (schema) for
assessments and metadata
Using shared vocabularies directly or by reference
(matching between terms)
Writing indicators in RDF
Making RDF documents available via URL or in SENSE-2
Project Forum
• Country project experience
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Few countries generated RDFs automatically from data
bases, most wrote RDF documents by hand
Selected SENSE-2 recommendations
Content
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Establish a shared understanding of the concept of environmental
indicators, especially those used in the EEA and Eionet. Do we want to
share indicators?
Ensure continuation from previous phases (SENSE-1 and SENSE-2) into
the future development, in particular within SOER 2015 assessments
and SOER Online
Infrastructure and technology
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Use of standards and commonly defined agreements in the
development and implementation
Consider including data used in the indicator assessments as RDF feeds
in the next development phase
Governance structure
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Interdisciplinary expertise is required, appropriate coordination
between participating experts should be established
Investigate capacity building with Eionet
Next steps
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Build on the success and utilize the identified potentials
Discuss with NFPs, NRC SOE and NRC EIS
Coordinate with EEA IMG
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Required action from NFPs: provide feedback on the
SENSE-2 recommendations, to be used for the planning of
the future SENSE
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Target: inform about the accepted project definition and
kick-off at the June 2013 – NFP and Eionet meeting