This document discusses considerations for the UK spatial data infrastructure (SDI) lifecycle and supply chain. It introduces concepts like INSPIRE and the UK Location Strategy. It outlines the many organizations involved in geospatial data provision in the UK and challenges around data sharing, ownership and transforming data to comply with INSPIRE specifications without changing native data models. The document proposes a framework for INSPIRE transformation that works with existing data and tools to help organizations start providing compliant data while identifying areas for future improvement.

3. Data sharing is growing in importance and profile

12. UK LMOs as at 2007 (source: AGI website) Highways Agency European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) English Heritage Defence Estates Met Office International Alliance for Interoperability Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland [now LPS] Defence Intelligence Joint Environment (DI JE) [Ministry of Defence] Office of the Deputy Prime Minister [now Dept of Communities & Local Gov] Scottish Executive British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS/BADC) [Part of NERC] UK Hydrographic Office Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Environment Agency for England and Wales Land Registry for England and Wales Ordnance Survey Bureau Veritas [contact for National Air Quality Monitoring] British Geological Survey [Part of NERC]

14. Candidate framework for INSPIRE transformation and quality control