Learn about the insights of our webinar ‘Geospatial harvesting on
data.europa.eu’
On 29 November 2022, the data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy] conducted a webinar on the topic
‘Geospatial harvesting on data.europa.eu’
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/geospatial-harvesting-dataeuropaeu].
The primary aim of the webinar was to introduce the type, origin and
services of geospatial data that can be found on data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/en] and to explain the process of harvesting
it.

In the first part of the webinar, Dr. Thore Fechner (Head of Team for
Open Data and Copernicus at con terra [https://www.con-terra.com/])
discussed the ample amount of geospatial data that is available on the
portal and walked through the entire process of geospatial harvesting
from a geo-catalogue to the portal. He explained how metadata is
harvested from open data catalogues and geo-catalogues along with 
INfrastructure for SPAtial InfoRmation in Europe
[https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/glossary/FeatureCatalogue] (INSPIRE). He
observed, that ‘we do not only look at INSPIRE data from
geo-catalogues, but we also collect non-INSPIRE compliant or
non-conformance via metadata from national geoportals` to expose the
value of this data. Moreover, he added that geo-services, geo-data and
data with direct or indirect spatial information can be found on the
portal.

In the second part of the webinar, Jan van Zadelhoff (Software
Engineer for open data and Copernicus at con terra
[https://www.con-terra.com/]) explained how the metadata is collected
from the geo-catalogues and made available on data.europa.eu. In
addition, he clarified the role of eTranslation
[https://ec.europa.eu/info/resources-partners/machine-translation-public-administrations-etranslation_en],
an online machine translation service provided by the European
Commission (EC) [https://ec.europa.eu/info/index_en]: ‘While there
is a lot of metadata already available, it is not always in the right
format for data.europa.eu. So, geospatial harvesting component takes
the available data and translates it to a format that is
understandable by the harvesting mechanism of data.europa.eu’.

The webinar concluded with an interactive Q&A session and the audience
was given a chance to provide their feedback via Sli.do.

If you are interested to know more about the insights of the webinar,
watch the recording [https://youtu.be/7UPneA4QOoo]and consult the
slides
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/course/Geospatial_Harvesting_2022.pdf]presented
during the session in our dedicated data.europa academy page
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/geospatial-harvesting-dataeuropaeu].

 

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Publication Date/Time
2022-12-05T08:00:00+00:00
The webinar focused on geospatial data on our portal and how it is
harvested