Part of the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), hosted at the University of Glasgow in September 2015
http://eaaglasgow2015.com/
1. http://eaaglasgow2015.com/21st meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, Scotland 3rd September 2015
Peter McKeague
(Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk
Stefano Campana
(McDonald Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the University of Siena)
srlc3@cam.ac.uk
Roundtable: Where is the cultural heritage in INSPIRE?
#heritage_sdi
2. I wouldn’t start from here
Purpose of the Roundtable
The INSPIRE Directive
What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure
What INSPIRE requires
What is in scope
Other datasets
Data Standards
Acessibility and re-use
Why we as a community need a thematic SDI
Efficiency savings
Build not reinvent
What we value
How others view us
Open data
Existing trans-national initiatives?
http://blueeyedennis-siempre.blogspot.co.uk/2011/
10/i-wouldnt-start-from-here.html
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3. Delivers efficiency
INSPIRE sets down the general rules for establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe
for the purposes of Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an
impact on the environment
• Data should be collected once and maintained at the
level where this can be done most effectively
• The ability to combine seamlessly spatial data from different
sources and share it between many users and applications
• Spatial data should be collected at one level of Government
and shared between all levels
• Spatial data needed for good Governance should be available
on conditions that are not restricting its extensive re-use
• It should be easy to discover which spatial data is available,
to evaluate its fitness for purpose, and to know which conditions
apply for its use.
Source: David Fry, Inspire Directive: GIS Professional issue 15, April 2007, 18
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4. Where is cultural heritage in INSPIRE?
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What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure?
Coordinating body
Component GI Services
Framework GI / Thematic GI
Interoperability Standards
Resources Research & Development
Policies/LegalFramework
AccessMechanism
SDI is the technology, policies, standards, human resources and
related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use,
maintain and preserve spatial data
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What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure? … and why it matters
GI Enabled Business Applications and Services
Coordinating body
Component GI Services
Framework GI / Thematic GI
Interoperability Standards
Resources Research & Development
Policies/LegalFramework
AccessMechanism
Social, Economic and Environmental Benefits
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6. The INSPIRE Directive
• Requires that existing data held by member states is compliant with INSPIRE standards
• It does not require the creation of new datasets but it does state that when new datasets
are created they must comply with INSPIRE standards
• INSPIRE requires Metadata for the creation and maintenance of searchable catalogues to
identify what data is available, who holds it and any access constraints.
• INSPIRE requires data publishers to setup network services
View Services (WMS)
Transformation services (From British National Grid to WGS 84)
Data harmonisation – consistent schema
Download services (WFS and ATOM feed)
• INSPIRE outlines charging for public access to services
• Monitoring and reporting on INSPIRE compliance
• INSPIRE is about Public Sector data – it does not address data created by the private
sector
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7. The INSPIRE Directive
Source: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reports/ImplementingRules/inspireDataspecD2_3v2.0.pdf
Annex I
1. Coordinate reference
systems
2. Geographical grid systems
3. Geographical names
4. Administrative units
5. Addresses
6. Cadastral parcels
7. Transport networks
8. Hydrography
9. Protected sites - *
Annex II
1. Elevation
2. Land cover
3. Ortho-imagery
4. Geology
Annex III
1. Statistical units
2. Buildings
3. Soil
4. Land use
5. Human health and safety
6. Utility and governmental services
7. Environmental monitoring facilities - *
8. Production and industrial facilities - *
9. Agricultural and aquaculture facilities - *
10. Population distribution – demography
11. Area management/restriction/regulation
zones & reporting units - *
12. Natural risk zones
13. Atmospheric conditions - *
14. Meteorological geographical features - *
15. Oceanographic geographical features
16. Sea regions
17. Bio-geographical regions - *
18. Habitats and biotopes - *
19. Species distribution - *
20. Energy Resources - *
21. Mineral resources - *
-* heavy weighting towards the natural environment
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8. INSPIRE
Directive
One Scotland, One Geography
INSPIRE (Scotland)
Statutory Instrument
Cookbook 1 How to serve a Scottish SDI
and INSPIRE compliant WMS
Annex I & II
Metadata
Annex III Metadata,
View & Download
Newly collected
Annex I data
conforms to IR
Newly collected
Annex II & III
data conforms to IR
All existing Annex II
& III data conforms to IR
All existing Annex I
data conforms to IR
INSPIRE: Spatial Data Standards
Operational Guide
UK Location Download Service
IR: Implementation regulations
2004
2007
2009 2010 2013
20122010 2011
Annex I & II
View
2015 2017 2020
INSPIRE roadmap
Historic Scotland & RCAHMS
Metadata and View services
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INSPIRE: Implementation roadmap
9. The INSPIRE Directive - Protected Sites
Grade A Listed building:
Gardner’s warehouse
36 Jamaica Street and 10 Midland Street,
Glasgow, Scotland
Scheduled monuments
Roman fort, fort annexes and temporary camps
Newstead, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Copyright and database right 2015. All rights reserved, Ordnance Survey licence number 100020548
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10. Annex I Protected Sites and the wider Historic Environment
A Protected Site is defined as an
“Area designated or managed within a framework of
international, Community and Member States' legislation
to achieve specific conservation objectives”
[Directive 2007/2/EC].
“..a Protected Site is an area of land and/or sea
especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of
biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural
resources, and managed through legal or other effective
means.”
[International Union for the Conservation of Nature]
The INSPIRE Directive – Protected Sites
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The INSPIRE Directive – much richer cultural heritage
Upstanding archaeology
Lost heritage
Landscape and landuse
Built heritage
Real world sites
Maritime heritage
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12. Excavation
Laser scanning
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Analysis
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and the techniques that inform our interpretation and decision making
The I
The INSPIRE Directive and cultural heritage – much more than Sites
Cropmark interpretation Remote sensing
Field survey
14. The whole is other than the sum of its parts: where is the spatial data infrastructure for cultural heritage?
Keep the Revolution Going? - Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, Siena 1st April 2015.
Common terminologies
Brandenburg Tor, Berlin, Germany
The East Port, Dundee, Scotland
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/details/1232014/Attribution: James Denham
Bootham Bar, York, England
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15. Data specific metadata
Spatial Discovery metadata:
Describes the nature and content of the dataset
Exploration metadata:
The information required to ensure the data is appropriate for purpose
Exploitation metadata:
The information required to access, transfer and apply the data
Geophysical survey Airborne Laser Scanning Laser scanning
After:
Shaw, R., Corns, A. and McAuley J. Archiving Archaeological Spatial Data: Standards and Metadata
In the online proceedings of Making History Interactive, CAA 2009, 22-26 March 2009, Wiliamsburg, Virginia, USA
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16. Balmuildy
Rough
Castle
Croy
Kinneil
House
Tollpark
Fieldwork is undertaken for a specific purpose
• Contributes to the management and understanding
• Documents a site at risk
But lack of spatial co-ordination and standards limits
Potential interest in the data and value beyond immediate use
which requires
Consistent standards
Clear message
Bantaskin
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Why does a consistent approach matter?
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Dullatur
Individual excavations and surveys along the Antonine Wall
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With a consistent approach we can fit the pieces together
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Balmuildy Dullatur
Rough
Castle
Croy
Kinneil
House
Data
BantaskinTollpark
Excavations and surveys along the Antonine Wall
Consistent application of standards delivers better value from the data collected
18. Balmuildy Dullatur
Rough
Castle
Croy
Kinneil
House
Data
To contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the heritage
we curate. The approach recognises that data has value beyond its
immediate purpose
Data
BantaskinTollpark
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With a consistent approach we can fit the pieces together
19. Balmuildy Dullatur
Rough
Castle
Croy
Kinneil
House
Information
Project reports / Site records
Data
To contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the heritage
we curate. The approach recognises that data has value beyond its
immediate purpose
Data
BantaskinTollpark
Where is cultural heritage in INSPIRE?
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With a consistent approach we can fit the pieces together
20. Balmuildy Dullatur
Rough
Castle
Croy
Kinneil
House
Information
Project reports / Site records
Data
To contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the heritage
we curate. The approach recognises that data has value beyond its
immediate purpose
Data
BantaskinTollpark
Knowledge
The Evidence Base
INSPIRE
Metadata
View
Download
services
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With a consistent approach we can fit the pieces together
21. Balmuildy Dullatur
Rough
Castle
Croy
Kinneil
House
Information
Project reports / Site records
Wisdom
Data
To contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the heritage
we curate. The approach recognises that data has value beyond its
immediate purpose
Data
BantaskinTollpark
Knowledge
The Evidence Base
INSPIRE
Metadata
View
Download
services
Where is cultural heritage in INSPIRE?
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With a consistent approach we can fit the pieces together
22. Balmuildy Dullatur
Rough
Castle
Croy
Kinneil
House
Information
Project reports / Site records
Wisdom
Data
To contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the heritage
we curate. The approach recognises that data has value beyond its
immediate purpose
Data
BantaskinTollpark
Knowledge
The Evidence Base
INSPIRE
Metadata
View
Download
services
Where is cultural heritage in INSPIRE?
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With a consistent approach we can fit the pieces together
23. Remote access, visibility and what we value: Eco-system services
http://www.openness-project.eu/
Managing change in landscapes through
decision support tools (Quickscan)
Data needs to be understood by the
non-specialist user
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24. G8 Open Data Charter 2013
Scottish Government Open Data Strategy 2015
Open Data and digital rights management
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Opportunities Threats
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/11/police-warning-hadrians-wall-nighthawking
Data should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive re-use
25. The information flow line or why Heritage needs an SDI
Creating /
Gathering
Reporting /
Publishing
Deposition/
Archiving
Discovery Accessibility Re-use
Monitoring
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Measurable data makes the case
Quantifies the known heritage and proportion protected
Number of sites considered in planning applications
Quantifies threat and sites lost
Number of sites excavated
Number of sites published
Number, quantity and location of archived material
Number of public consultations
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Peter McKeague peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk Stefano Campana srlc3@cam.ac.uk
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Topics for discussion
INSPIRE addresses the publication of statutory datasets
• Are we meeting our obligations?
• What about the undesignated heritage?
• Or the evidence that informs our interpretation?
Application of standards
Consistent metadata including technical standards
Accessing information
• Open access and rights management
• Risk of open access
• User experiences
Monitoring – making the case
Possible actions
Need to address the issue - STRATEGY
What is already happening - DOCUMENT
Deliver - IMPLEMENT
Which way?
What unit of measurement?
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Notas do Editor
Through INSPIRE we already have a broad data strategy one that defines best practice
INSPIRE defines the rules about the collection of data
- That it should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively.
- It should be possible to combine data seamlessly from different sources and share it between many users and applications
- It should be collected at one level of Government and shared between all levels
- Spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use
And that it should be easy to discover which spatial data is available to evaluate its fitness for purpose and know which conditions apply for its use.
How these rules are applied to the data the cultural heritage sector create and collect remains a systemic challenge for us all.
INSPIRE defines 34 key themes, in three annexes. However most of the themes are weighted to the natural environment rather than Europe’s cultural heritage
Indeed within INSPIRE cultural heritage is only really covered as part of the Protected Sites theme and what is in and out of scope is open to interpretation. Most agencies favouring a narrow definition of legally defined constraints rather than a more generous managed through legal or other effective means.
We already make information available through Web Portals but we need to make data much more accessible. This is particularly true for spatial information which is, or rather should be covered by the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community – or more simply INSPIRE.
INSPIRE provides a clear mandate for public bodies to share environmental data through a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).
Data curators are required to provide discovery services, WMS, WFS and Transposition Services for a range of datasets organised into 34 themes in 3 annexes to an agreed roadmap – or timetable.
In Scotland, both the Royal Commission and Historic Scotland have published metadata and view services for their key datasets as part of the Protected Places theme.
However, the status of undesignated assets is less clear in INSPIRE with the UK Location advice to treat Historic Environment Records as part of the annex III Buildings theme – even though this is an ill fit for much of the data.
Many of the techniques used, particularly those dependant on technology, require additional metadata elements to be collected. – in particular the Exploration metadata that enables a user years later to assess if the data is fit for purpose. (See Shaw, R., Corns, A. and McAuley J. Archiving Archaeological Spatial Data: Standards and Metadata Online proceedings CAA 2009 : http://www.caa2009.org/articles/shaw_contribution187_c%20(1).pdf )