Data and services availability in Spanish NSDI
Rodriguez, Antonio et al.
National Spanish Data Infrastructure (IDEE), with a national Geoportal opened in 2004, is built upon the contribution of a wide community of actors from academia, public and private sector, growing and cooperating for more than five years. At present, it can be considered a mature and consistent collective project, supported mainly by the National and Regional Spanish governments, with more than 80 nodes publishing more than 500 Web services and 6,000 layers of data available covering all themes in INSPIRE Annexes I and II. From our point of view, we are in the middle of a big conceptual revolution from a data-centric model of GI management based on GISSs, as isolated, centric and selfsufficient systems, to a new services-centric model based on SDIs, as open, flexible, distributed and collective projects. In this new paradigm, the stress is put on the set of public, free and open services available as very basic components allowing building added-value services, applications, geoportals and web pages based on them. NMAs play an essential role providing very basic and fundamental services publishing reference and guaranteed data to be used as a consistent basis for all kind of thematic applications.
Event: GSDI 11 Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence : Building SDI Bridges to address Global Challenges
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