Quality Awards for INSPIRE Services 2018

1. 1
Spatineo Quality Award 2018
for INSPIRE Services
Fabio Bittencourt
Sampo Savolainen
18th of September 2018
www.spatineo.com

2. QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
Numbers about it
How to participate
The monitoring agent
Criteria for the
Quality Award
Hints to improve
quality of services
The awarded ones
And the winners are…
Best Improvement
Spatineo
Spatineo Ranking

3. SPATINEO
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
• Founded in 2011 in Finland
• Mission: “Make spatial data platforms widely
used and reliable.”
• Cloud based solutions for quality assurance of
spatial web services
• Impact Assessment for spatial data platforms

4. THE MONITORING AGENT
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
Currently 90.000 spatial web services around the
world reached by our monitoring every 5 min

5. SPATINEO RANKING
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
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6. QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
CRITERIA FOR THE
QUALITY AWARD
• INSPIRE Services
• Identified and measurable from 1/8/2017 until
31/7/2018
• Total downtime in the period*
• Minimum of total 25+ data offerings
• Metadata validation to ratify quality

7. QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
Metadata validation to ratify quality
• JRC INSPIRE Geoportal Metadata Validator
http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/validator2/
• Function normalizing fewest and highest number
of validation errors at 0 to 1, respectively
• Assumption: top 5% with fewest errors should
imply 1% less in the validation score (0.99)
• Penalize those with highest number of errors
CRITERIA FOR THE
QUALITY AWARD

8. QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
Final combined score for each service:
availability level (0-1.0) multiplied by the
validation score obtained (0-1.0)
Rank is then the average of the combined
score achieved by all services of an
organisation
CRITERIA FOR THE
QUALITY AWARD

9. NUMBERS ABOUT IT
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
• 34861 INSPIRE Services identified
• 12082 services qualified (9047 last year)
• 199 (136) organisations listed (in the period)
• 125 (95) qualified for the Award (25+ offerings)
• 106 (55) organisations at +99% availability
• Winners from different industry sectors…

10. THE AWARDED ONES
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
• 1st to 3rd place awards
• List of top 10
• Best improvement
in availability!
AVERAGE of Combined score SUM of Number of layers AVERAGE of Availability 08/01/2017 - 07/31/2018 AVERAGE of Validation score
0.9935104989 72 0.9979576351 0.9955437625
0.989127808 3 0.9935553265 0.9955437625
0.9850872815 34 0.9894967138 0.9955437625
0.9836039095 15 0.9935392858 0.9900000167
0.9819320113 34 0.9992764197 0.9826456733
0.980819131 10 0.9985035964 0.9822890318
0.980129485 159 0.9900297662 0.9900000167
0.9786579381 26 0.9963034366 0.9822890318
0.978594904 509 0.9962392659 0.9822890318
0.9775869536 196 0.9819628131 0.9955437625
0.9714455285 23 0.9989556761 0.9724610929
0.9707163085 41 0.9997325538 0.9709759788
0.9707088881 234 0.9805140119 0.9900000167
0.9696824787 2 0.9971426989 0.9724610929
0.9662093399 703 0.9741464308 0.9918180821
0.9658551826 628 0.9897680054 0.9758408904
0.9650002587 138 0.9947923754 0.970048784
0.9594799985 17 0.9998828643 0.9595921857
0.9572216499 4 0.9668905392 0.9900000167

11. AND THE WINNERS ARE…
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
• Bronze level – 3rd place
• Silver level – 2nd position
• Gold medal – The winner!
European Commission Joint Research Center
(JRC) https://ec.europa.eu/jrc with 99.9276%
availability (only 6h 14min of interruptions in the
period!) Score combined = 0.9819
DORIS (Digitale Oberösterreichische Raum
Informations System – www.doris.at with
99.7957% (2.37d of interruptions). Combined score =
0.9935
Amt der Tiroler Landesregierug – www.tirol.gv.at
with 98.9496% availability (3.83d of interruptions).
Combined score = 0.9851

12. AND THE WINNERS ARE…
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
Other organisations in the top 10
4. Araba / Álava - http://www.ide-alava.com/dfa/index
5. Vodohospodárskej výstavby - http://www.vvb.sk/
6. La Métropole de Lyon - https://www.grandlyon.com/
7. Portail de la Wallonie - http://spw.wallonie.be/
8. Statistika centralbyrån - http://www.scb.se/
9. Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera - https://www.ipma.pt/pt/index.html
10.Informatie Vlaanderen - https://www.vlaanderen.be/
For the complete list, visit our stand or contact us @ spatineo.com

13. BEST IMPROVEMENT
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
Winner for
Best improvement in service availability!
o From the period 2017 to 2018 won by Gibraltar
Geoportal – www.geoportal.gov.gi who achieved from 88.46% availability to
99.76% level! Meaning a massive reduction in interruptions (from 42 days
to impressive 21h 7min in the period, and moving from 85 layers to 93 this
year).

14. QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
HOW TO PARTICIPATE

15. HINTS TO IMPROVE
QUALITY OF SERVICES
QUALITY AWARD FOR INSPIRE SERVICES
Practical ways to rise to the top of the ranking
1. Describe your service
2. Organise your datasets
3. Ensure the functionality
What data the service provides, for which use
Describe the whole service and datasets
Title, Abstract, Keywords
Appropriate number of datasets in a service
Similar visualisations/datasets in a service
Name it according to grouping principle
Test with several client applications
Assure compliance with standards
Ensure it works fast & reliably 24/7

16. 16www.spatineo.com
Contact information:
Fabio Bittencourt
fabio.bittencourt@spatineo.com
+358 40 632 6828
Skype: fabioavbit