The document discusses the objectives and technical architecture of the EU-MKDP (EU Minerals Knowledge Data Platform). The EU-MKDP aims to provide a single access point for both structured and unstructured mineral resources data from across Europe. It will include data on exploration, production, reserves, and market trends. The system is designed to be INSPIRE compliant and utilize a distributed architecture with a central database to improve performance. Services on the platform will include advanced search, statistics, and automated report generation. The document argues the EU-MKDP is not in competition with other data providers but rather aims to provide value-added analysis and synthesis to support decision making.

1. Minerals4EU - WP5
The EU-MKDP (Minerals Knowledge Data Platform)
System architecture, objectives, services
1st MINCE Conference, Espoo, November 26-27, 2014
Daniel Cassard and the WP5 Team
BRGM, CGS, GeoZS, GEUS, GTK, JRC and TNO

2. Content
The objectives, the technical choices, our contribution, the future…
 The project and the EU-MKDP objectives
 The technical choices: why?
 What do we bring to the community? Are we in competition with other
Internet data providers?
 The EU-MKDP is a first step. Other projects currently running and the very near
future
 Concluding remark

3. The project
Minerals4EU – the European
Intelligence Network on the Supply
of Raw Materials will provide tools
and expertise to enhance
resource efficiency, minerals
supply security and support
sustainable minerals development
for Europe.
Minerals4EU will thus set up:
- A permanent EU Mineral Intelligence network;
- The most comprehensive European Minerals Yearbook;
- An INSPIRE compliant EU Minerals Knowledge Data Platform;
- Foresight studies on minerals supply and demand in Europe.
www.minerals4eu.eu

4. The EU-MKDP objectives
The EU-MKDP represents one of the first bricks of the future European geological
data infrastructure. The proposed technical solutions assure an effective and
sustainable system designed for facilitating data updates and maintenance, and
for offering a full and seamless access to information related to the whole mineral
resources value chain.
The system is thus designed to accommodate:
- Structured data from national databases and
- Semi- and non-structured information: syntheses and statistics (graph charts
and time-series), related to primary and secondary resources ( exploration,
production, reserves and resources), exploitation technologies, end-product
development and waste management practices, European market survey
and raw material demand… in various formats (text files, PDF files, images…).

5. Web
Services
REE
Info
MR
Info
Web
Services
Non-, semi- & structured /
standardized information related to
MR & wastes: knowledge extraction,
indexation…
EU-MKDP Web Portal
Newknowledgeproducedbypartnersfrom
otherworkpackages
Information Factory
data filtering, advanced search,
statistics computing,
report generation
Layers
Web
Services
Pertinent available layers
from geological surveys
and EU projects and
other institutions (e.g.,
geographic, geological,
geophysical,
geochemical maps)
…YX
…YYXX
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web Services
General simplified architecture of the EU-MKDP
Other agencies, institutes,
professional associations…, able to
provide structured data
Documents
& Metadata
Structured data provided by
geological surveys
Based on OGC/
INSPIRE
Implementing
Rules for
Services and
Data
A sustainable system
always kept up to
date:  adoption
and development of
a distributed
architecture.
A system fully
INSPIRE
compliant: 
based on INSPIRE
v.3 and
EarthResourceML
(ERML) v.2 data
models.

6. Web
Services
REE
Info
MR
Info
Web
Services
Non-, semi- & structured /
standardized information related to
MR & wastes: knowledge extraction,
indexation…
EU-MKDP Web Portal
Newknowledgeproducedbypartnersfrom
otherworkpackages
Information Factory
data filtering, advanced search,
statistics computing,
report generation
Layers
Web
Services
Pertinent available layers
from geological surveys
and EU projects and
other institutions (e.g.,
geographic, geological,
geophysical,
geochemical maps)
…YX
…YYXX
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web
Services
Web Services
General simplified architecture of the EU-MKDP
Other agencies, institutes,
professional associations…, able to
provide structured data
Documents
& Metadata
Structured data provided by
geological surveys
Based on OGC/
INSPIRE
Implementing
Rules for
Services and
Data
Management of:
- Non-structured
data, always
accompanied by
their metadata
- Structured data
A Central
Database to
minimize the
drawbacks of the
distributed
architecture: 
improves the
performance,
reduces the risk
in case of server
crash

7. Provider’s own format
Mapping (ETL process and code lists)
Harvesting DB
(+ quality control)
Project DB
Diffusion DB
(+ diffusion optimizations)
Documents
& Metadata
Web Services
(WMS/WFS)
Web Services
(Search engine)
Web Services
(Stats, auto report, filtering…)
DB SYNCHRONIZATION
Standardized data models
(INSPIRE MR, ERML)
Harvesting
mechanism
(ETL process)
INFORMATION FACTORY
EU-MKDP detailed architecture
Based on a « production-diffusion schema »
EU-MKDP Web Portal
Web
Services
National DB
Provider DB
National DB
Provider DB
Indexation
Provider DB
Deegree 3
MICKA Catalog
(CS/W)
A professional
architecture:  A
Central Harvesting
Database
synchronized with
a Central Diffusion
Database. The first
one controls data
quality and the
second one is
optimized for
diffusion.
Synchronization is
made using SQL
scripts.
EU level
Country
level
Web
Services
Web
Services

8. Technical choices – the diffusion system
 The EU-MKDP Web Portal
 An Editorial: latest news of the EU-MKDP and information on the use of the web portal.
 A Map Viewer will present the data inside the Diffusion Database, and will allow the
user to combine them with other data (geological map, consumption area...). This Map
Viewer will support INSPIRE View Services, will propose a predefined layers list, a metadata
catalogue dedicated to Minerals4EU (MICKA), a connection to other catalogues (One
Geology-Europe, INSPIRE...) and external layers (OGC WMS). Some of the basic (statistics,
reports...) and dedicated services will be integrated in the Map Viewer.
 The Search facilities will allow the user to search in the Diffusion Database, in some
other databases (manually plugged into the Indexation Engine) and in documents added
to the EU-MKDP using a dedicated interface. The user will be able to search (i) using full
text or (ii) using a specific interface dedicated to the concept he is looking for. It will be
possible to refine all these searches by adding a location (Diffusion Database, documents
or both).

9. The diffusion system: overview
 4 parts (front office)
 Editorial (1)
 Map Viewer (2)
 Search (3)
 Services (in progress)
 1 part (back office)
 Documents management
(1)
(2)
(3)
(3)
(+ a dedicated viewer for
a dynamic presentation of
the e-Mineral Yearbook
and foresight studies)
http://minerals4eu.brgm-rec.fr

10. Technical choices – the services
 Services on top of the Central Diffusion Database, accessible through the EU-
MKDP
 ‘Basic’ services: data filtering, advanced search, statistics computing, automatic
report generation.
 Dedicated services, some answering to the most common/frequent queries (with
possible storage of results in the Central Diffusion Database): e.g., LREE/HREE
computation, extraction - using mineralogy - of all deposits containing REE (indicated or
NOT in the commodity list) for a better definition of mining districts/provinces.
 ‘On request’ services based on Geological Surveys’ know-how/expertise
 Services with a substantial added-value, not automated, tailored to meet specific
demands from industry, EC, governmental agencies and other potential end users (e.g.,
dedicated metallogenic /potential maps, predictive maps…).

11. What do we bring? Are we in competition with
other Internet data providers?
 Most of the Internet data providers collect, standardize and disseminate all
relevant corporate, financial, market and M&A data — plus news and analysis
— for industries like metals & mining.
 We are partly dealing with the same data (e.g., project/mine status,
exploration, production and grades, reserves and resources…) but our goal is
to provide the investor, the decision-maker or the stakeholder with the
capability (i) to produce in a seamless way his own analysis combining several
types of data and (ii) to search for and exploit pertinent syntheses (e.g., the e-
Minerals Yearbook [WP4] and foresight studies [WP6]).
 We are covering the whole value chain, putting notably at the end user
disposal all the geological and metallogenic knowledge necessary to
evaluate ongoing mining projects (potential of the area, potential of
development…)
No competition, but complementarity

12. EURARE
IKMS (REE)
Minerals4EU
EU-MKDP
Raw materials intelligence
capacity: Database of models &
tools (MFA, LCA, 3D-4D…),
ontology-based selection tool
ProSUM
The EU-UMKDP: Mining
wastes, WEEE, ELVs, Batteries
EUMINET
European Minerals
Information Network
REMIND
Responsible Mining
Demonstrations
H2020
EIP-RM
COMMITMENTS
Strong
synergy
One of the first
bricks of the EGDI
Building on
Minerals4EU
and extending
the EU-MKDP
Looking toward
the near future


Addresses EIP-SIP
II.C Priority Area –
Action area II.8: The
EURMKB
Adding new bricks

13. Thanks a lot for your attention!
Developing the EU-MKDP
architecture will contribute to
lay the foundations of an
effective and lasting system
designed to accommodate
various data sets related to
raw materials, make easier
their visualization and their use
and facilitate data updates
and maintenance.