The document summarizes the current state of building a spatial data infrastructure in Slovakia. Key points include: 1) New legislation established a coordination council and national infrastructure for spatial information. 2) The council consists of public authorities and works to coordinate INSPIRE themes. 3) A pilot metadata service has been implemented by the Slovak Environmental Agency to support metadata editing, search, and viewing. 4) Monitoring and reporting tools are being developed including an online form and application to capture data from public authorities.

1. SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IN
BRATISLAVA
SLOVAK ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
IN BANSKA BYSTRICA
CURRENT STATE OF BUILDING THE
SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Róbert FENCÍK, Tomáš KLIMENT, Martin TUCHYŇA
GI2010 – SYMPOSIUM - DRESDEN

2. CONTENTS
Legislation
Coordination council
Metadata and Discovery service
Monitoring and Reporting

3. LEGISLATION
Act No. 3/2010 on National Infrastructure for
Spatial Information (NIPI)
• prepared by the Ministry of Environment (ME) of the
Slovak Republic (SR)
• adopted on 2nd December 2009
• with effect from 1st February 2010

4. COORDINATION COUNCIL
• established as advisory body
for the minister of ME
• has started work from April 2010
• consists of the public (responsible) authorities

5. COORDINATION COUNCIL
MINISTRY
COORDINATION COUNCIL
MI SR MA SR MP SR MD SR ME SR
Working groups
MH SR MCRD SR MTPT SR
SAŽP
SHMÚ
SO SR AGCC SR ...
ŠGÚ DŠ
ŠOP
Local authorities Third parties VÚVH SVP
Association of Towns and Villages ...

6. COORDINATION COUNCIL
identified public authorities (see following table) for
each INSPIRE theme

7. METADATA and DISCOVERY
SERVICE
Slovak Environmental Agency (SEA) has
implemented pilot metainformation solution
• METAINFORMATION CATALOGUE (EDITOR)
– Standards ISO 19115/19119/19139, OGC CSW 2.0.2
• Simple, thematic and advance metadata search

8. METADATA EDITOR

9. METADATA EDITOR - validation

10. SIMPLE SEARCH

11. THEMATIC SEARCH
INSPIRE THEMES

12. ADVANCE SEARCH

13. METADATA VIEW

14. MONITORING AND REPORTING
Process of monitoring and the report creation
• Creating tools – online form and application for
processing of provided information
• Data capturing from public authorities
• Calculation of indicators
• Processing and creation of the report and sending for
validation and marking up to ME

15. MONITORING AND REPORTING

16. MONITORING AND REPORTING
Online form for public authorieties

17. MONITORING AND REPORTING
Online form – 1st part, spatial data and services

18. MONITORING AND REPORTING
Online form - 2nd part, information for reporting

19. AWARENESS RISING
SK INSPIRE related information access points
• INSPIRE@SK Website
– http://inspire.enviroportal.sk/
• INSPIRE Forum
– http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
• Geoinformatika.SK
– http://www.geoinformatika.sk
• GeoFórum
– http://www.geodezia.org/

20. REFERENCES
• http://inspire.enviroportal.sk
• http://geo.enviroportal.sk/nipi/
• http://www.sazp.sk
• http://www.enviroportal.sk
• http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
• http://www.geoinformatika.sk
• http://www.geodezia.org/