This article provides European organizations with a technical overview of how ArcGIS supports the requirements of the EU Open Data Directive and practical resources to get started today.
ArcGIS helps you achieve your open data goals and maximize its potential by streamlining the process of publishing data for download, dynamic data access through APIs, discoverability, and friendly data reuse. It will help you bring it out.
The value of open data
Today's complex challenges, from climate adaptation to food security to migration and more, require the geographic approach enabled by FAIR.[1] and open data.
Data generated by the public sector is particularly interesting for reuse in value-added services and applications that address modern challenges. For example, cities like Prague in the Czech Republic are fighting climate change.[2] Local data can be combined with other open data, such as Copernicus Earth Observation data, to better understand the relationship between human health, urban heat islands, green areas, and built-up areas.
Putting open data in the hands of leaders, decision makers, knowledge workers, students, researchers, innovators and the general public means more of Europe's brightest minds can apply a geographical approach to problem solving. means. As we face the biggest problems of our time, location data reveals patterns and trends, models scenarios and solutions, and ultimately helps people make sound, strategic decisions.
EU Open Data Directive
Pioneering EU Open Data Directive[3] We aim to make open data widely available to address Europe's priorities. The Directive clearly recognizes the socio-economic benefits of friendly reuse of geospatial, earth observation, environmental, meteorological, statistical, business and mobility datasets.
The Directive is based on the general principle that public data and publicly funded data should be able to be reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Furthermore, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022[4] Lists specific high-value datasets (HVDs) and their publication and reuse arrangements, including datasets within the scope of the INSPIRE data theme.
Public sector organizations must ensure that all datasets on the list of high-value datasets (HVD) are[5] It will be available from June 9, 2024, with easy-to-reuse conditions. Free, accessible, searchable, reusable, machine-readable format, complete with metadata, and provided in bulk via application programming interfaces (APIs) where relevant. download.
Open data features in ArcGIS
Esri celebrates the Open Data Directive[6] and support open data objectives and requirements, such as open formats, reuse by electronic means, online search and discovery, dynamic data available via application programming interfaces (APIs), and, where appropriate, bulk downloads. I am working hard on this. ArcGIS supports the requirements of the EU Open Data Directive in several ways.
table: ArcGIS makes it easy to meet or exceed all EU open data requirements.
Open data requirements | meets or exceeds | ArcGIS support |
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Share open data in existing formats | ✓ | Share a variety of open geospatial data in existing formats such as GeoJSON, GML, KML, and GeoPackage, as well as non-spatial data such as maps, apps, documents, spreadsheets, tables, PDFs, etc. (see full list) ). |
Share open data in existing languages | ✓ | ArcGIS supports European Union languages. ArcGIS Hub includes on-the-fly site transformation down to the site, catalog, and data layer field attribute level. |
Share open data, as appropriate, by electronic means in open, machine-readable, accessible, searchable, and reusable formats. | ✓ | Expose a variety of dynamic data layers using the GeoServices REST open specification, as well as OGC Web Map Tile Services (WMTS), OGC API functionality, and more (see full list). Learn more about how ArcGIS supports FAIR data principles. |
Shared as dynamic data available via application programming interfaces (APIs) | ✓ | By default, ArcGIS uses the GeoServices REST open specification with an ArcGIS REST API supported by clear documentation that can be easily reused in maps, apps, and analysis. It also supports the emerging OGC API family of standards. |
Share relevant open data as bulk downloads | ✓ | Depending on the type of item, different file formats are available, including CSV, XLSX, KML, Shapefile, file geodatabase, GeoJSON, and GeoPackage (including hosted downloads). Downloading with local projection is supported. |
Share open data, including metadata | ✓ | ArcGIS provides metadata (human-readable HTML and machine-readable XML) that is tightly coupled with content and supports a variety of international open standards such as ISO metadata and INSPIRE metadata. |
Online search and discovery | ✓ | Every Hub site comes with a human- and machine-readable catalog for sharing open data. View item details, read full metadata, and dynamically explore or filter content before downloading or consuming data directly through the web data layer or web service API. |
Collaboration with open data registries | ✓ | Auto-generated European Data Catalog Vocabulary Integrate your catalog content with other EU open data portals using DCAT-AP, GeoRSS, and OGC API records. |
High Value Dataset (HVD) | ✓ | HVD is supported through ArcGIS INSPIRE Open Data and ArcGIS for INSPIRE Classic, including a selection of default INSPIRE-specific data models and formats, and INSPIRE fGDB templates that are streamlined according to INSPIRE good practices. |
report | ✓ | A downloadable list of datasets and online references to metadata are available from the ArcGIS Hub Catalog to support Section 5 reporting requirements. |
Open format and easy to reuse
Deliver open geospatial data, maps, apps, and non-spatial data such as documents, images, spreadsheets, tables, and PDFs to community residents, students, journalists, business innovators, and public developers.
ArcGIS supports the EU Open Data Directive with multiple open formats for reuse by electronic means, including modern web services via APIs and bulk downloads in human- and machine-readable formats.
ArcGIS Online's high-performance, scalable web services ensure you can meet the demands of open data being shared with your community and the world. Therefore, end users can use the data layer in decision-ready information products or use easy-to-build no-code and low-code application builders.
Metadata follows international standards such as ISO and INSPIRE metadata formats. ArcGIS helps make spatial datasets available according to Searchable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data principles. Additionally, ArcGIS supports simplified, modern delivery of high-value datasets (HVD) within the INSPIRE data theme.
Online search and discovery
ArcGIS Hub supports online search and discovery through open data catalogs. Dynamic data is available via an application programming interface (API) and can be downloaded in bulk on demand.
The Hub's open data catalog improves discoverability. Hub automates search engine optimization (SEO) techniques according to WCAG accessibility guidelines. Provides a human- and machine-readable data catalog of web services with API access.
Automated catalog feeds use international open standards such as GeoRSS, OGC API Records, and DCAT-AP, the European Data Catalog Vocabulary, to federate open data to open data portals such as data.europa.eu. Helpful. The Hub also supports multilingual functionality with automatic translation and license generation for Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) or other less restrictive standard public licenses.
Share open data
Global, local, national, and pan-European communities use ArcGIS to collaborate with stakeholders and provide open data. Here are some examples:
- In Brno, Czech Republic,[7] Break down silos by sharing standards-based open data.
- Assen Geohub in the Netherlands[8] Support your city's vision of a transparent, reliable, and easily auditable government.
- Ireland’s National Geospatial Open Data Hub GeoHive[9] provides free web-based access to trusted Irish spatial data from multiple providers, including Tailte Éireann, to meet the needs of citizens, businesses and governments.
By supporting the Open Data Directive, ArcGIS helps organizations apply a geographic approach to insight for decision-making and ensure open data reuse.
Get started today
Build on what you already have. ArcGIS Online includes the open data capabilities of ArcGIS Hub as a free extension, so organizations with a subscription can already access it and get started quickly.
Get started today with these resources or contact your local Esri representative.
References
[1] Saligoe-Simmel, J., M. Gould, and S. Sankaran, 2022. It helps make the data fair. ArcGIS Blog. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis/sharing-collaboration/help-to-make-your-data-fair-part-1/
[2] Esri case study. Czech Republic: Fighting climate change – new challenges for Europe https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/about-esri/europe/case-studies/czech-republic-case-study
[3] EU Publications Office, 2023. Open data and the reuse of public sector information, web resource href=”https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/open-data-and-the-reuse of public sector information. html
[4] Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022, setting out the list of certain high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN /TXT/?uri=celex%3A32023R0138
[5] European Commission. High-value datasets: Questions and answers. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/high-value-datasets-questions-and-answers Accessed March 6, 2024.
[6] Esri Announcement, 2021. Esri praises European Union Open Data Directive https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/payments/esri-commends-european-unions-open-data-directive/
[7] https://datahub.brno.cz
[8] https://opendata-assen.hub.arcgis.com/ and Esri Nederland, December 2019. Het innovatieve open data portaal van Assen (Assen's innovative open data portal (Google translation)) https://www.esri.nl /nl-nl/nieuws/archief/nieuwsoverzicht-2019/het-innovatieve-open-data -portaal-van-assen
[9] https://www.geohive.ie and https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/fliers/gis-census-cs-ireland-flier-web.pdf
[10] INSPIRE Knowledge Base: Evolution. https://knowledge-base.inspire.ec.europa.eu/evolution_en Accessed 12 March 2024