INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2014
Workshop/Seminar proposal
TITLE DETAILS
Workshop title: Supporting INSPIRE by empowering geo-data publication and
sharing with cloud infrastructures and Linked-Open-Data services: analysis of costs
and benefits.
Workshop Length: (number of 90 min sessions) 3
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR DETAILS
Name: Benoit BAURENS
Address: c/o AKKA Informatique et Systèmes, 6 rue Roger Camboulives F-31100
Toulouse
Phone: +33 534 61 93 80
Email: benoit.baurens@akka.eu
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION INCLUDING LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The workshop aims at 2 objectives,
First is to asses the viability of a cloud-based solution for managing geo-data and
publishing it according to INSPIRE requirements. The following issues will be
discussed:
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Elasticity, reliability, high-availability of cloud infrastructures for geo-data
management and publication.
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Performance of network and computation units
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Costs of a cloud-based solution.
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Data privacy and ownership.
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Governance and administration of cloud-based infrastructure
Second is to explore new and emerging application scenarios related to wide
cloud-based solutions. The topics to be discussed are:
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Analysis of a large number of datasets and volumes of data.
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Tools for INSPIRE compliant data publication on a SaaS mode
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Linked-Open-Data solutions for geo-data.
The workshop will include a number of presentations illustrating existing
applications and use cases, as the goal of the workshop is to ground discussions
INSPIRE Conference
Aalborg, 16-2 June 2014
INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2014
Workshop/Seminar proposal
on actual experience of participants. On the basis of such experience the
workshop will produce a report on the current state of the art and on the
possible future developments in the area of cloud-based solutions for geo-data
management.
DESCRIPTION OF TARGET WORKSHOP AUDIENCE
The workshop targets practitioners at the intersection of the area of cloud
computing, linked open data and INSPIRE. The target audience includes both
users of the above technologies willing to share their experience and knowledge,
and un-experienced users willing to understand and explore the future avenues
of geo-data management.
WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS
AV requirements: 2 video projectors and 2 screen of projection for potentially
having slide presentation and demos in parallel.
Room setup: classical classroom audience
Instructions for participants: (laptop, pre-workshop preparation). None in
particular.
DETAILED WORKSHOP AG ENDA
1st Session will be centred on technical aspects of cloud-based infrastructures in
an INSPIRE context: storage aspects, virtualisation of databases, workspaces,
types of instances for attaining performance objectives, authorization
management, network issues, APIs, enabling elasticity and high-availability for
INSPIRE web services. Adaptations and configurations necessary on traditional
technical solutions such as geodata relational database systems, mapping
servers, catalogue management tools etc. will be contemplated.
2nd Session will focus on governance, data privacy and security of services that
are very often considered as main hurdles to broader adoption of cloud
solutions. We will also try to demonstrate how fine-grained supervision and
monitoring solutions can support decision-making and design of accurate
management processes of cloud infrastructures. Presentations and discussions
in this session will in particular focus on pertinent awareness and management
of data and services costs in the cloud.
Finally, 3rd Session will introduce examples of innovating services enabled and
supported through large spatial data services. Presentations will highlight how
cloud technologies can support broader access to and sharing of spatial data sets
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Workshop/Seminar proposal
and services. In particular, RDF representation, the Linked Open Data paradigm,
and supported ability to link and search data from diverse and disparate sources
will be discussed and relevant services will be presented.
INSPIRE Conference
Aalborg, 16-2 June 2014