Quo vadis INSPIRE?

Abstract

An entirely new approach to environmental data management – sustainable, scalable expandable and interoperable – including the data provision for INSPIRE. Environmental data are usually subject-specific structured and incompatible for multidisciplinary applications. INSPIRE itself has thematically tailored data models. We miss a Theme Crossed approach for environmental data management. This presen-tation shows how a harmonized data management can be constructed and how the environmental data can be made available according to the INSPIRE definitions of Annex III. The contents and the amount of the data for the thematic tasks are substantially larger than the data specification of INSPIRE requires. That?s why we added some attributes for INSPIRE in our central data base and we created one data pool for all reporting, INSPIRE included.