CEN/TR 15449-1:2012

Geographic information - Spatial data infrastructures - Part 1: Reference model

This part of the Technical Report provides a reference model for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). It covers framework standards and identifies the relevant standards, technical specifications, technical reports and guidelines.
This part of the Technical Report provides a context model for the other parts of this Technical Report applying general architecture standards.
The intended readership of this Technical Report are those people who are responsible for creating frameworks for SDIs, experts contributing to INSPIRE, experts in information and communication technologies and e-government that need to familiarise themselves with geographic information and SDI concepts, and standards developers and writers.

Geoinformation - Geodateninfrastrukturen - Teil 1: Referenzmodell

Der vorliegende Teil dieses Technischen Berichts stellt ein Referenzmodell für eine Geodateninfrastruktur (GDI) bereit. Er behandelt Rahmenstandards und nennt die relevanten Normen, Standards, technischen Spezifikationen, technischen Berichte und Leitlinien.
Dieser Teil bietet ein Kontextmodell für die übrigen Teile dieses Technischen Berichts, wobei für das Modell allgemeine Normen und Standards zur Architektur genutzt wurden.
Der vorliegende Technische Bericht wendet sich an die Entwickler von GDI Rahmenrichtlinien, an die an der Erarbeitung der INSPIRE Richtlinie beteiligten Fachleute, Experten auf dem Gebiet der Informations  und Kommunikationstechnologie und des E Governments, die sich mit Geoinformations  und GDI Konzepten vertraut machen müssen, sowie an die Entwickler und Autoren von Normen und Standards.

Information géographique - Infrastructures de données spatiales - Partie 1: Modèle de référence

Geografske informacije - Infrastrukture za prostorske podatke - 1. del: Referenčni model

Ta del tehničnega poročila zagotavlja referenčni model za infrastrukturo za prostorske podatke (SDI). Vključuje okvirne standarde ter določa ustrezne standarde, tehnične specifikacije, tehnična poročila in smernice. Ta del tehničnega poročila določa kontekstualni model za druge dele tega tehničnega poročila, ki uporabljajo splošne arhitekturne standarde. To tehnično poročilo je namenjeno ciljnim skupinam ljudi, ki so odgovorni za oblikovanje okvirov infrastruktur za prostorske podatke, strokovnjakom, ki prispevajo k direktivi INSPIRE, strokovnjakom na področju informacijskih in komunikacijskih tehnologij, e-upravi, ki se mora seznaniti s pojmoma geografskih informacij in infrastrukture za prostorske podatke, ter pripravljavcem in avtorjem standardov.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 23-Oct-2012
• ICS: 07.040 - Astronomy. Geodesy. Geography
• ICS: 35.240.70 - IT applications in science
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 287 - Geographic Information
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 287/WG 5 - Spatial Data Infrastructure
• Current Stage: 6060 - Definitive text made available (DAV) - Publishing
• Start Date: 24-Oct-2012
• Due Date: 06-Feb-2013
• Completion Date: 24-Oct-2012
• Ref Project: SIST-TP CEN/TR 15449-1:2013 - Geographic information - Spatial data infrastructures - Part 1: Reference model

Relations

• Replaces: CEN/TR 15449:2011 - Geographic information - Standards, specifications, technical reports and guidelines, required to implement Spatial Data Infrastructures
• Effective Date: 08-Jun-2022

Standards Content (Sample)

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Geographic information - Spatial data infrastructures - Part 1: Reference model
Geoinformation - Geodateninfrastrukturen - Teil 1: Referenzmodell
Information géographique - Infrastructures de données spatiales - Partie 1: Modèle de
référence
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TR 15449-1:2012
ICS:
07.040 Astronomija. Geodezija. Astronomy. Geodesy.
Geografija Geography
35.240.70 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in science
znanosti
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

TECHNICAL REPORT
CEN/TR 15449-1
RAPPORT TECHNIQUE
TECHNISCHER BERICHT
October 2012
ICS 07.040; 35.240.70 Supersedes CEN/TR 15449:2011
English Version
Geographic information - Spatial data infrastructures - Part 1:
Reference model
Information géographique - Infrastructures de données Geoinformation - Geodateninfrastrukturen - Teil 1:
spatiales - Partie 1: Modèle de référence Referenzmodell

This Technical Report was approved by CEN on 27 May 2012. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 287.

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Contents Page
Foreword .4
1 Scope .7
2 Normative references .7
3 Terms and definitions .7
4 Abbreviated terms .8
5 SDI interoperability .9
5.1 Interoperability Standards .9
5.2 Challenges . 10
5.2.1 Costs . 10
5.2.2 Quality . 10
5.2.3 Impact and checkpoints . 11
5.3 The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) . 11
5.4 The Architectural reference model . 13
5.4.1 Data . 13
5.4.2 Services . 14
5.5 Combining EIF and the Architectural service reference model . 16
5.6 SDI as a dynamic framework . 17
6 Reference Model for a SDI . 19
7 SDI Components . 21
7.1 SDI core component . 21
7.2 Application and Geo-portal components . 22
7.3 Relations among service components . 23
8 Standards to implement the Core components . 24
8.1 Framework standards . 24
8.2 Relevant standards . 24
Annex A EU policy documents relevant to standardisation and interoperability . 26
A.1 Introduction . 26
A.2 Policy documents . 26
A.3 Strategy and framework documents. 26
Annex B Directive 2007/2/EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community . 27
B.1 General . 27
B.2 Legal acts . 27
B.3 Metadata Implementing Rules . 27
B.3.1 Legal acts . 27
B.3.2 Guidance Documents . 28
B.4 Data Specifications Implementing Rules . 28
B.4.1 Legal acts . 28
B.4.2 Guidance Documents . 28
B.4.2.1Framework documents . 28
B.5 Network Services Implementing Rules . 30
B.5.1 Legal acts . 30
B.5.2 Guidance Documents . 30
B.6 Spatial Data Services Implementing Rules . 30
B.7 Data and service sharing Implementing Rules . 30
B.7.1 Legal acts . 30
B.7.2 Guidelines and good practice documents . 30
B.8 Monitoring and reporting Implementing Rules . 31
B.8.1 Legal acts . 31
B.8.2 Guidelines, justification document and templates . 31
Annex C Description of referenced ISO standards . 32
Annex D CEN/TC 287 and ISO/TC 211 standards . 34
Annex E Open Geospatial Consortium specifications . 37

Foreword
This document (CEN/TR 15449-1:2012) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 287
“Geographic information”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document supersedes CEN/TR 15449:2011.
The present standard comprises the following parts:
 CEN/TR 15449-1, Geographic information — Spatial data infrastructures — Part 1: Reference model (the
present part);
 CEN/TR 15449-2, Geographic information — Spatial data infrastructures — Part 2: Best practices;
 CEN/TR 15449-3, Geographic information — Spatial data infrastructures — Part 3: Data centric view;
 CEN/TR 15449-4, Geographic information — Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) — Part 4: Service centric
view.
Introduction
Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a general term for the computerised environment for handling data that
relates to a position on or near the surface of the earth. It may be defined in a range of ways, in different
circumstances, from the local up to the global level.
This Technical Report focuses on the technical aspects of SDIs, thereby limiting the term SDI to mean an
implementation neutral-technological infrastructure for geospatial data and services, based upon standards
and specifications. It does not consider an SDI as a carefully designed and dedicated information system;
rather, it is viewed as a collaborative framework of disparate information systems that contain resources that
stakeholders desire to share. The common denominator of SDI resources, which can be data or services, is
their spatial nature. It is understood that the framework is in constant evolution, and that therefore the
requirements for standards and specifications supporting SDI implementations evolve continuously.
SDIs are becoming more and more linked and integrated with systems developed in the context of e-
Government. Important drivers for this evolution are the Digital Agenda for Europe, and related policies (cf.
Annex A). This Technical Report takes these developments into account. By sharing emerging requirements
at an early stage with the standardization bodies, users of SDIs can help influence the revision of existing or
the conception of new standards.
The users of an SDI are considered to be those individuals or organisations that, in the context of their
business processes, need to share and access geo-resources in a meaningful and sustainable way. Based on
platform- and vendor-neutral standards and specifications, an SDI aims at assisting organisations and
individuals in publishing, finding, delivering, and eventually, using geographic information and services over
the internet across borders of information communities in a more cost-effective manner.
Existing material about SDIs abounds. The criteria used for determining if a given standard or specification is
referred to in this report are that the publication addresses an aspect of an SDI; and the publication is non-
proprietary in nature.
Based on these considerations, the following reports have been taken into account:
• legal texts and guidelines produced in the context of INSPIRE;
• documents produced by ISO/TC 211 (and co-published by CEN);
• documents produced by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), including the OpenGIS Reference
Model (ORM) (OGC, 2003);
• the European Interoperability Framework and related documents;
• deliverables from the European Union-funded projects (e.g. GIGAS, SANY).
Considering the complexity of the subject and the need to capture and formalise different conceptual and
modelling views, CEN/TR 15449 is comprised of multiple parts:
• Part 1: Reference model: this provides a general context model for the other Parts, applying general
IT architecture standards.
• Part 2: Best Practices: this provides best practices guidance for implementing SDI, through the
evaluation of the projects in the frame of the European Union funding programmes.
• Part 3: Data centric view: this addresses concerns related to the data, which includes application
schemas and metadata.
• Part 4: Service centric view (in preparation): this includes the taxonomy of services, concepts of
interoperability, service architecture, service catalogue, and the underlying IT standards.
Further part
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