Italy - NESIS

Rete del Sistema Informativo Nazionale Ambientale
ICT components for a Shared
Environmental Information System
State of play in Italy
June 2009
Contribution to
Deliverable no. D.2.3
State-of-Play report on national environmental
information systems and services
This report is produced by ISPRA
in the frame of NESIS Grant Agreement
A Network to enhance a European
Environmental Shared and
Interoperable
Information System
ICT PSP Grant Agreement
No. 225062
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Report meta-information
Creator
ICT components for a Shared Environmental Information
System.
State of Play in Italy
Claudio Maricchiolo, Michele Munafò, ISPRA
Date Issued
12 June 2009
Subject
ICT Component for SEIS-National State of Play
Publisher
NESIS
Description
This report is summarizing the status of the ICT
components that will contribute to the development of
SEIS in Italy
Contributor
Cristian Di Stefano, Nico Bonora, Valter Sambucini,
Roberta Vinciguerra
Format
MS Word 2000
Audience
NESIS and SEIS stakeholders
Identifier
ITALY National SoP Report rev 12_6_09
Language
EN
Coverage
N.A.
Title
Version
number
0.1
Date
Modified by
Comments
20/12/2008 Claudio Maricchiolo
First version
0.2
12/06/2009 Valter Sambucini
Integration to the text
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Executive summary
This report summarises the status of the ICT components in place in Italy
pertaining to the Italian Environmental Information System (SINA).
the principal pillars of SINAnet are described: the partnership, the infrastructures,
the content, product and services.
In light of the implementation of SEIS principles, emphasis is given to the
Information and Communication Technology aspects; example of best practices in
this field are also provided.
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Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................... 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................. 4
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS.......................................................................................................... 5
1
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................ 6
2
DETAILS OF THE SEIS RELATED ACTIVITIES AND COMPONENTS ......................... 7
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
3
ORGANISATION OF THE TECHNICAL WORK ................................................................................... 7
OVERVIEW OF SEIS RELATED ACTIVITIES .................................................................................. 11
DATA AND INFORMATION FLOWS ............................................................................................... 12
INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEMS ................................................................................................ 18
USE OF STANDARDS ................................................................................................................... 21
OBSTACLES ................................................................................................................................ 22
PRIORITIES FOR SEIS ................................................................................................................. 24
GOOD PRACTICES ....................................................................................................................... 26
ANNEXES .................................................................................................................................. 27
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
LIST OF ADDRESSES / CONTACTS FOR ITALY............................................................................... 27
LIST OF REFERENCES FOR ITALY ................................................................................................ 29
LIST OF EXISTING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING AND
DATA/INFORMATION EXCHANGE WITHIN NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEM OF
ITALY....................................................................................................................................... 30
LIST OF TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDS APPLIED WITHIN NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
INFORMATION SYSTEM OF ITALY ............................................................................................. 31
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Abbreviations and acronyms
APPA
ARPA
CDS
CMS
CNIPA
DPSIR
EEA
EIOnet
ER
GEMET
GIS
ISPRA
ISTAT
IT&C
MAIS
MATTM
MDIAR
NTC
PFR
SDI
SEIS
SINA
SINAnet
SIRA
URP
WFD
WISE
XML
Autonomous Province Environmental Protection Agency
Regional Environmental Protection Agency
Catalogue of Data Sources
Content Management System
Centro Nazionale per l’ Informatica nella Pubblica
Amministrazione
Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response)
European Environment Agency
European Environmental Information and Observation
Network
Entity Relationship
GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus
Geographical Information System
Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e Ricerca Ambientale
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica
Information Technology & Communication
Spatial Information Access Module
Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare
Monitoring-Data-Information-Assessment-Reporting
National Topic Centre
Regional Focal Point (Punto Focale Regionale)
Spatial Data Infrastructure
Shared Environmental Information System
Sistema Informativo Nazionale Ambientale
Rete del Sistema Informativo Nazionale Ambientale
Regional environmental information system
Ufficio Relazioni con il Pubblico
Water Framework Directive
Water Information System for Europe
eXtensible Markup Language
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1 Introduction
The data and information in this report have been collected in occasion of ad-hoc
seminars and plenary meetings of SINAnet, the Italian network of Environmental
Information System in the last few years.
The latest update results from the SEIS Country Visit of EEA Representatives to
Italy (Torino, 23-24 September 2008).
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2 Details of the SEIS related activities and
components
2.1 Organisation of the technical work
The Italian Environmental Information and Monitoring System (SINA) is a
nationwide cooperating network among the main institutions having competences
on environmental data acquisition and management. The scope of SINA is: to
provide policy makers with high quality, relevant and timely data/information on
state of environment and trends; to ensure public access to data/information; and to
promote integration of environmental concern into policy cycle.
The main objectives of SINA are to develop a sound understanding of
environmental phenomena based on the following frameworks:
x MDIAR (Monitoring-Data-Information-Assessment-Reporting) chain, and
x DPSIR (Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response) indicators.
Reporting
Responses
Drivers
e.g. Industry &
Transport
e.g. Clean production,
Public transport,
Regulations, Taxes
Information etc.
Assessment
Information
Data
Monitoring
Pressures
Impact
e.g. Polluting
emissions
e.g. Ill health,
Biodiversity loss,
Economic
damage
State
e.g. Air, Water,
Soil quality
The architecture of SINA network (SINAnet) resembles the EEA/EIOnet model, in
order to attain the following objectives:
x to take advantage of experiences, organisational and technical concepts,
standards and tools developed in EIOnet framework;
x to promote the Italian participation in European initiatives aiming at building
an effective European environmental information system;
x to ensure a better integration between the European environmental
information system and the Italian one, thus streamlining data flow between
European and Italian Systems.
SINAnet is based on the following nodes:
x the National Module, operated by ISPRA;
x the Regional Focal Points (PFR);
x the Environmental Protection Agencies (ARPA/APPA) ;
x the Main Reference Institution (e.g. Universities, Research Centres, National
Institute of Statistics, River Basin Authorities, etc.).
Acting as the Italian front-end organisation for EEA/EIOnet (i.e. the Italian National
Focal Point and the National Reference Centres), ISPRA ensures a seamless
connection of SINA and Regional environmental information systems (SIRA) to the
European information and observation system. also promoting interaction with
other environment related information systems.
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A plot of the governance of SINA is shown in the following figure.
SINA – The Governance
Governmental level
Relevant networks
Min. Environment
EEA M B
Inspire FP
Comitato regole
tecniche
Dati territoriali
PA (Cnipa)
Tavolo
SINA
Regional Env. Dept.
Aut. Prov. Env. Dept.
Sistema
statistico
nazionale
(Istat)
(Ispra, Miur, Istat, Cnipa)
Ispra
Gen.l Coordination
Nat.l Module
Nfp & Nrc EIOnet
Operational level
Health Info Sys
Regions / Aut. Prov.
R. Focal Point
Arpa/Appa
R. Focal Point
Env.l Monitoring
(formerly Nat.l Topic Centres)
Centro Interreg.
Sist. Info, Geo e
Statistici
(Cisis)
SINAnet
EIOnet-IT
…
Univers., Research Centres
(formerly Nat.l Topic Centres)
Figure 1 - The governance of SINAnet
The list of principal partner organizations contributing to the operation of SINA,
who are involved in data collection and data management for environmental
monitoring and reporting, is provided in the following Table 1.
Table 1 - SINAnet partnership
NAME
MATTM
PUBLIC
AUTHORITY
LEVEL
PA National
ISPRA
PA National
Regione
Piemonte
ARPA Piemonte
PA Regional
Regione
Lombardia
ARPA Lombardia
PA Regional
Regione Valle
d’Aosta
ARPA Valle
d’Aosta
Regione Friuli V.
G.
PA Regional
PA Regional
PA Regional
PA Regional
PA Regional
SECTOR
ROLE
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
EEA/MB, INSPIRE Focal
Point, Tavolo SINA
National Module, NFP, NRC
Tavolo SINA, PFR
WG member
Tavolo SINA
WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
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NAME
ARPA Friuli V. G.
PUBLIC
AUTHORITY
LEVEL
PA Regional
Regione
Basilicata
ARPA Basilicata
PA Regional
PA Regional
Regione Umbria
PA Regional
ARPA Umbria
PA Regional
Regione Lazio
PA Regional
ARPA Lazio
PA Regional
Regione Marche
PA Regional
ARPA Marche
PA Regional
Provincia
Autonoma di
Trento
APPA Trento
PA Regional
Regione Abruzzo
PA Regional
ARTA Abruzzo
PA Regional
Regione Emilia
Romagna
ARPA E.
Romagna
Regione Liguria
PA Regional
PA Regional
ARPA Liguria
PA Regional
Regione Calabria
PA Regional
ARPA Calabria
PA Regional
Regione
Sardegna
ARPA Sardegna
PA Regional
PA Regional
PA Regional
PA Regional
Regione Toscana PA Regional
ARPA Toscana
PA Regional
Provincia
Autonoma di
Bolzano
APPA Bolzano
PA Regional
Regione Veneto
PA Regional
PA Regional
SECTOR
ROLE
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
PFR, WG member
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
PFR, WG member
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA, PFR
WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA, PFR
WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
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NAME
ARPA Veneto
PUBLIC
AUTHORITY
LEVEL
PA Regional
SECTOR
ROLE
PFR, WG member
ARPA Sicilia
PA Regional
Regione
Campania
ARPA Campania
PA Regional
PA Regional
Regione Molise
PA Regional
ARPA Molise
PA Regional
Regione Puglia
PA Regional
ARPA Puglia
PA Regional
MIUR
PA National
ISTAT
CNIPA
PA National
PA National
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Env.
policy/administration
Env. monitoring &
assessment
Research
policy/administration
Social & Economics
IT&C
CISIS
PA Regional
IT&C, GIS
Regione Siciliana PA Regional
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA
PFR, WG member
Tavolo SINA, PFR
WG member
GMES National Contact Point
Statistical network
Technical Committee for the
implementation of INSPIRE
rules
Interregional Coordination
Centre
In the overall organizational set-up pertaining to the environmental policy area, the
nodes of SINA network ensures access to environmental data and information
to the public through: websites, URP access offices (URP – Ufficio Relazioni con il
Pubblico), consultations, conferences.
The Italian network meets in plenary three times a year; technical working
groups are established on voluntary basis to address specific topics.
Organisation of – or participation in – conferences and launch events of special
products and services are intended to raising environmental awareness, as well as
promoting stakeholders’ participation.
SINA strategy and implementation projects are based on the SINA Development
Programme approved in 2001 by the Permanent Conference among State,
Regions and Autonomous Provinces, where objectives, architecture, main players
and start-up funding were established.
Since then, most of the budget for financing operation and development of SINA
has been made available by each network component (i.e. ISPRA and PFRs), as
part of the yearly institutional budget; co-financing may arise from different
European sources, e.g. structural funds, research programmes and so on.
Although a specific SEIS Implementation Plan has not been adopted yet, SEIS
components are being developed as part of different multi-annual Subventions
signed between ISPRA and MATTM.
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Overview of SEIS related activities
Since 1999, SINAnet has promoted and carried out analyses regarding
data/information reporting obligations and related technical aspects. Among others,
the air quality field represents the first pilot of “raw data-to-reporting scheme”; the
data providers’ community, research organisations and EPA’s network were all
involved in streamlining the entire MDIAR chain, making the best use of IT tools.
BRACE system (the Italian Air quality reporting system) was developed by the
National Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change, an ad-hoc Consortium of EPAs
and thematic IPRs financed by ISPRA for supporting the development of thematic
data/information standards necessary to harmonize data collection, processing and
reporting procedures.
Besides the Air quality topic, five NTCs were established on water, soil, waste &
contaminated sites, ionising and non-ionising radiations, nature conservation and
bio-diversity. This experience proved to be very effective in promoting a common
understanding of environmental information systems building blocks, at the same
time developing relevant IT&C infrastructures and standards.
The SINAnet National Topic Centres lasted until 2004, when a different
arrangement of technical WGs were established within the EPAs’ system; these
groups were discontinued in 2006.
In the last few years, progresses have been made mostly in the following fields:
in the frame of WFD implementation, the Italian component of WISE is being
built as the new generation dataflow system, integrating diverse reporting
obligations pertaining to water (quality, quantity, pressure, responses…).
Near-real-time monitoring of tropospheric ozone concentration is a pilot
project for new type of decentralized data information systems.
Both projects are part of SEIS Implementation Plan adopted by EEA/EIOnet, as
“quick win” or technical pilot projects. Besides these two, SINAnet has declared
interest in participating in other projects concerning air emissions, land cover,
integrated assessment, Reportnet enhancement, interlinkages between SEIS and
INSPIRE/GMES.
Integration between SEIS and INSPIRE looks very promising as regards the
process for setting rules of metadata, catalogues, infrastructures and
interoperability of systems. At national level, in fact, this process is promoting a
close cooperation among MATTM, CNIPA and SINAnet. On the other hand,
integration between SEIS and GMES will imply a significant participation of EPAs’
network, as far as the in-situ component is concerned.
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2.3 Data and information flows
Most of data are transmitted electronically and analogue transmission is extremely
unusual; however, this does not imply that different systems are connected and
interoperable yet. Moreover, several electronic data flows are not standardized and
are collected by e-mail or no-structured format. Great effort should be done to
connect and integrate different data flows and to implement common reference
databases.
The major data sources, derived from monitoring network and in-situ
measurements, are the regional EPAs. Spatial data sets derived from cartographic
authorities in Italy at national and regional level and, sometimes, are acquired from
private sector. Spatial data are obtained also from earth observation activities.
PFRs are the main data sources at the regional level and are in charge of
collecting, documenting and making available environmental data through the SINA
network.
ISTAT, the National Institute of Statistics is in charge for national statistics data and
cooperate with ISPRA and other organizations within the SISTAN, the Italian
Statistics System.
A large part of data sources has metadata managed directly from the main data
sources, the PFRs, who have usually regional catalogues of metadata and replicate
a subset of information, relevant at national level, on the SINAnet catalogue of
data sources (FONTI). The national catalogue is available with different access
policy and to public through the SINAnet portal (www.sinanet.apat.it) as well as to
PFRs
and
main
public
organizations
through
the
private
area
(www.fonti.sinanet.apat.it). The project started from EEA initiative and the software
is completely open source. It contains geographic data sets, environmental
monitoring data sets, documents, tools, projects, people, etc. For classification and
indexing (key words), the GEMET (GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus,
is adopted.
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Figure 2 - Public access to FONTI, the National Catalogue of Data Sources
Figure 3 - Managing metadata in FONTI
Pilot activities are being developed to permit synchronization of national and
regional catalogues and to assure the information flow toward the new National
Repository of Metadata between Public Administration. This repository will be
managed by CNIPA and will be the main intersectorial catalogue in Italy.
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Recently, Piedmont Regional Focal Point and ISPRA are testing the share of
environmental data and metadata present in each Catalogues through
interoperable services. This activity aims at evaluating how much effort is required
to assure environmental data and metadata sharing, using INSPIRE compliant
national and regional spatial data infrastructures, also assessing the SDI
adaptability to the environmental issues.
Data models are rarely described by means of UML and have normally ER
diagram.
Reporting activities will benefit from full implementation of SEIS concept (report
once, use many): this, in fact, will streamline the data flows at every level, at the
same time reducing the reporting burden to the source level, and improving the
overall quality of data and information
Only few information flows are automated and SEIS is an important driver to evolve
toward the real-time data collection and integration. EEA project Ozoneweb and its
extension has been the main initiative concerning near real time environmental
data collection in Italy. Its extension, the project Near Real Time Air Quality, is also
being developed to assure a national coverage of all air quality components (not
only O3 and PM10) and to implement a common infrastructure to share monitoring
data between ISPRA and PFRs.
Figure 4 - Air quality monitoring network in Italy
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Figure 5 – Browsing NRT Ozone data
Figure 6 - Implementation of Ozoneweb in Italy - Architecture
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Near Real Time – Air Quality
Data Sharing
Testing
Participating
Not Participating
Figure 7 - Implementation of Ozoneweb in Italy: the participating PFRs
Near Real Time – Air Quality
Web services
CSV/FTP & Web services
CSV/FTP
No Data Sharing
Figure 8 - Implementation of Ozoneweb in Italy: data sharing IT used
At the moment only few data are shared among different sectors and often
duplication and overlapping between different systems arises. Nevertheless spatial
information is the more structured and integrated sector and, through MAIS system,
the SINAnet spatial data infrastructure, it is possible to share spatial
data/information in a multistandard and multiserver platform, within the SINAnet
network. More than 200 map services and 500 data layers are published on MAIS.
A new data integration system, covering all monitoring data and indicators, is being
implemented an will be released during the beginning of 2009.
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Figure 9 – The MAIS website (www.mais.sinanet.apat.it)
Figure 10 – Spatial Data Infrastructure architecture
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2.4 Infrastructure and systems
The architecture of SINAnet described in the SINA Development Plan approved in
2001 is based on the decentralisation of the environmental information system
among different nodes. This design assumption was necessary considering the
administrative structure of the Country, where 21 Regions and Autonomous
Provinces have their own responsibility in most of the environmental related
decision-making.
For this reason, Italy was among the few front runner Countries participating in the
EEA/Eionet who decided to run national data repository by their own; since 1998,
ISPRA has been therefore keeping the National Focal Point server under operation,
functioning also as data repository for the priority data flows established either by
EEA/Eionet and the EU Commission.
An update of the SINA Development Plan is underway, taking into account – inter
alia – new EU Directives, Communications, Strategies and research programmes.
The objective is to make SINAnet the reference institutional environmental network,
bringing together relevant partners, infrastructure, contents products and services.
A selection of existing systems and applications for environmental reporting and
data/information exchange operated by ISPRA/SINAnet are listed in the following
table.
Table 2 - Selection of Italian Environmental Information Systems
Name/Description of Information System
URL
SINAnet main portal
www.sinanet.apat.it
SINAnet Catalogue of data sources
www.fonti.sinanet.apat.it
SINAnet geo-portal (MAIS)
www.mais.sinanet.apat.it
Corine Land Cover 2000 project website
www.clc2000.sinanet.apat.it
Enviromental Indicators database
annuario.apat.it
National Air quality database (BRACE)
www.brace.sinanet.apat.it
Air quality data exchange module (WINAIR)
www.winair.sinanet.apat.it
Greenhouse gases authorization register
www.ages.sinanet.apat.it
Test site for national air emission inventory database www.inventaria.sinanet.apat.it
and report
Italian Emission Trading System Register
www.greta.sinanet.apat.it
European Pollutant Emission Register – Italian data
www.eper.sinanet.apat.it
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Name/Description of Information System
URL
CMS backoffice for EPER
bo.eper.sinanet.apat.it
National pollen monitoring and information system www.rima.sinanet.apat.it
(RIMA)
Climatologic indicators data base (SCIA)
www.scia.sinanet.apat.it
National information system on water protection
www.sintai.sinanet.apat.it
Characteristic data on Italian river water
fiuminazionali.apat.it
Test site for National Waste Register
www.catastorifiuti.apat.it
Test site for National Waste Register
www1.catastorifiuti.apat.it
Test site for National Waste Register
www2.catastorifiuti.apat.it
On-line questionnaire on waste (archive)
www.recupero.sinanet.apat.it
Dioxin monitoring data system
emergenzadiossina.apat.it
Ionising radiations from EMERAD network
www.radia.sinanet.apat.it
Ionising and non-ionising radiations
www.agentifisici.sinanet.apat.it
Ionising radiations data from EMERAD warning www.emerad.apat.it
network
Good practices for sustainable development
www.sinanet.apat.it/it/gelso
Information on environmental agencies laboratory www.laboratori.sinanet.apat.it
network and available analyses
Inventory on relevant incident risk industry
www.seveso.sinanet.apat.it
Ecological Network website
www.ecoreti.sinanet.apat.it
E-learning web site
www.fad.apat.it
CMS backoffice for E-learning
bo.fad.apat.it
Test site for Porta di Dominio (PDD)
pdd.sinanet.apat.it
Access statistics reports more than 2.000 unique visitors/day for SINAnet portal,
and 600 unique visitors/day for the MAIS website.
More details on MAIS, the SINAnet geo-portal, are provided below.
MAIS was developed in order to permit the SINAnet partner (Regional Focal
Points, mainly Regional Environmental Agencies or relevant Authorities with
competences on environmental monitoring and information) to publish raster and
vector cartography directly within the SINAnet architecture, independently by the
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kind of service protocol offered and technology used. The shared data, on the
INSPIRE principles respect, physically keep remaining on the provider’s server
without requirement on hardware or software modifications by the provider’s
information technology.
In order to make easier to the users the data recovering, the Catalogue of Data
Sources software was interconnected to MAIS. The MAIS and Catalogue
combination permits a multiserver and multistandard SDI platform, able to integrate
spatial information produced and managed by servers disseminated on the territory
in a virtual database and to access to different server typologies.
Keeping the above mentioned philosophy on data sharing, significant updating are
going to be applied to the SINAnet SDI. Adopting mainly open-source technology,
both for the system architecture and services providing, a new system is being
renewed, MAIS+, in order to match and converge to the most important worldwide
initiatives (INSPIRE, SEIS, GEOSS) as well as Italian laws. MAIS+ reuses
European Environment Agency software, it is used by ISPRA and Regional Focal
Point of Veneto and it is freely available with an open source licence. The
publishing workflow is integrated in the Plone CMS and it is easily customisable in
different systems. The main features are the following:
Possibility to publish PFRs data within the SINAnet architecture;
The data publication does not require HW or SW modifications on the
servers of the data providers;
The data provider has the whole control of the published data;
Each data provider gets the usage statistics of the shared information;
Users accessing the SINAnet are able to browse synchronous data coming
from different remote servers as, for example, thematic cartography of
different regions or comparing regional cartography with the national one;
Access to different archive is transparent to the user, who does not
distinguish the data sources;
The research engine module is based on the metadata in the SINAnet
catalogue of data sources.
SINAnet is not the unique portal for environmental information; there are, in fact,
other portals for different environmental fields, administration and level (national,
regional, local, etc.). For instance, there are ISPRA specific media monitoring online services, regional portals, MATTM portals; however, rarely they link to each
other or use common components.
Among other service developed for monitoring-to-reporting, it is worth of mention
the ”Annuario dei dati ambientali” , the system developed for publishing the yearly
report on state of environment, based on a core set of indicators; this service also
includes an on-line database.
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2.5 Use of standards
SINAnet network is moving toward a Service Oriented Architecture and new
systems are being developed with XML/SOAP technology and web services to
share environmental information. Existing systems and information flows are often
based on ftp csv file sending or http upload.
ISO 19115 standards are used for metadata catalogue.
WMS 1.1.1 is the GI related data standards used on operational services.
SINAnet architecture is based on a national standard defined in 2000. The
architecture is founded on a shared and cooperative system where PFRs, through
the standard shared module (Modulo Comune – MC), provide access to
environmental data from heterogeneous regional systems.
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2.6 Obstacles
The outcomes of recent SINAnet plenary meeting (May 2008) and SEIS Country
visit in Italy (September 2008) are presented in Table 3, as the base for outlining
major weak points, problems and obstacles related to the organisational set-up for
follow-up of technical issues.
Table 3 - SINAnet priority initiatives
1. Update SINA Strategy according to new EU legislation, communications and
programmes (e.g. Inspire, SEIS Comm and GMES), amending SINA
Development Plan ed. 2001 (new vision)
2. Improve SINAnet institutional steering capacity by enlarging membership of
SINA management board of the Permanent Conference among State, Regions
and Autonomous Provinces (better governance)
3. Clarify official sources of environmental data at different administrative levels
to emphasise their roles in ensuring the access and the publication of
environmental information (clarify different roles)
4. Guarantee the financial support for SINAnet, considering the requirements for
covering the costs of the components of the network and the necessary
human resources (sustainable initiatives)
5. Promote initiatives of cooperation at local and national level with SINAnet, to
improve the capacity of active participation at european meetings and to take
advantage from international financing opportunities (proactivity)
6. Promote initiatives of environmental communication to foster participation of
stakeholders and civil society in the networking activities of SINA
(communication and participation)
7. Take advantage of the opportunities offered by information and communication
technologies to improve environmental information sharing and access to
environmental information (information sharing and access)
8. Improve participation of science and research in partnership with SINAnet,
functioning as the network of networks (networking)
9. Accelerate the legislative reorganisation of the water sector, in order to simplify
the system of transmission and data exchange, fully implementing the Water
Information System for Europe - WISE (legislative simplification)
10. Ensure an ordered transition from one to another environmental data transfer
and exchange system (technological innovation)
11. Promote, where appropriate, data collection and publication systems in real
time mode (timeliness)
12. Rebuild former working group among Regional Focal Points to develop
instruments, products and services to strenghten the membership of the SINA
network (cooperation)
13. Formalise a new institutional agreement between State and Regions to
establish SINA network as part of the national infrastructure for the
implementation of the INSPIRE Directive (INSPIRE implementation)
14. Promote in the SINA network the use of open source for application,
instruments, models etc., starting from the framework agreement signed by the
Italian EPAs’ network (reduction of operational expenses)
The necessary follow-up actions to cope with the issues raised are presented in the
priority diagram (Figure 11); the diagram summarizes the results of a questionnaire
submitted to the PFRs at the last SINAnet plenary meeting (May 2008).
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Lesson learned from SINAnet Plenary Meeting (May 2008)
Priority chart
3,00
Urgenza
II
8
III
6
5
13
2,00
7
14
1
3
12
2
11
10
4
9
II
I
1,00
1,00
2,00
Importanza
Figure 11 - SINAnet Priority diagram
3,00
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2.7 Priorities for SEIS
Activity
Amount of
investment
1
Creation of new data sets (GI, statistics, in situ
measurement data, …)
30.000
2
Creation of metadata for data sets
30.000
3
Harmonisation of existing data sets and information
100.000
4
Re-engineering data/information flows in order to reduce
the timeframe for monitoring and reporting
100.000
5
Automated creation of indicators and reports
10.000
6
Set-up of own network services to have easier access to
the information
80.000
7
Set-up of network services at European level to have
easier access to the information in a cross border context
10.000
8
Development of end-user applications
50.000
9
Implementation of standards
70.000
10
Set-up of better coordinating mechanisms
10.000
11
Incentives for better sharing
10.000
12
Other: ……………………………………………
The most important components to update SINA strategy according the SEIS
initiative are:
1. Harmonisation of existing data sets and information:
To ensure that is possible to combine information from different sources in a
consistent way and share with several users and applications;
2. Re-engineering data/information flows in order to reduce the timeframe for
monitoring and reporting:
Better understanding of environmental conditions and trends in a near real
time mode also promoting, where appropriate, data collection and
publication systems in real time mode;
3. Set-up of own network services to have easier access to the information:
Take advantage of the opportunities offered by information and
communication technologies to improve environmental information sharing
and access to environmental information (information sharing and access)
Promote, where appropriate, data collection and publication systems in real
time mode
4. Implementation of standards:
Promote in the SINA network the implementation of standards and the use
of open source for application, instruments, models etc., to improve our
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framework for sharing the environmental information and to achieve a
reduction of operational expenses;
5. Development of end-user applications:
Make it easier the discovery and use environmental information.
Needs for improving the state of Data Source in SINAnet (1-5 most to least urgent)
Activity
Type of data
1
2
3
4
5
In situ measurements
Spatial datasets
Earth Observation data
Statistical data
other
Priority
1
2
2
3
4
Improvement of
the quality of
existing data
sources/datasets
Update
of out-ofdate
datasets
3
2
2
2
3
3
2
3
2
3
Production of
new data.
Establishing
new data
sources
1
2
2
3
3
The current monitoring networks needs some investment to be able to share data
in real time and to collect new kind of data. In the near future extensive investment
is needed to update statistical data and spatial datasets (also using Earth
Observation techniques).
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2.8 Good practices
The development of the national environmental information system in Italy requires
the development of four pillars: partnership; infrastructures; contents; products and
services.
The IT aspects of each pillar is developed taking into account proven technology
and good practices; special attention has been paid to technical development of
tools within Eionet. Few examples are the following:
CIRCA service is running on the Italian NFP server to manage the SINAnet
working groups;
the national catalogue (FONTI) was developed based on EEA/EIOnet CDS
project, including the Gemet multilingual thesaurus;
Ozoneweb XML schemes and GIS viewers are the sources for developing
national standards and applications;
Zope/Plone software and template are used for web publishing.
In order to foster the good practices among SINAnet partners as much as possible,
ISPRA has recently launched a 5-year Framework Agreement within the Italian
EPAs’ network to develop an “Open Source Centre” of environment related
software, tools and knowledge. This initiative will build on the experience of other
national open source/reuse projects, first of all the project launched by CNIPA in
2004.
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3 Annexes
3.1 List of addresses / contacts for Italy
TAVOLO SINA Representatives (July 2008)
Organisation
MATTM
CNIPA
MIUR
MIUR
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano
Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Regione Abruzzo
Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta
Regione Basilicata
Regione Calabria
Regione Campania
Regione Emilia Romagna
Regione Emilia Romagna
Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
Regione Lazio
Regione Lazio
Regione Liguria
Regione Lombardia
Regione Lombardia
Regione Marche
Regione Marche
Regione Molise
Regione Piemonte
Regione Piemonte
Regione Puglia
Regione Puglia
Regione Sardegna
Regione Siciliana
Regione Siciliana
Regione Toscana
Regione Umbria
Regione Umbria
Regione Veneto
ARPA Veneto
Contact person
Agricola
Bruno
Notarmuzi
Carlo
Rebichini
Antonio
Ragucci
Massimo
Oggiano
Adriano
Fedel
Paolo
Francescon Maurizio
Flacco
Iris
Rocco
Raffaele
Pesce
Franco
Graziano
Giuseppe
Vetere
Lorenzo
Garagnani
Sergio
Godoli
Catia
Tallandini
Vittorio
Cattena
Claudio
Tasco
Carolina
Gestro
Cristina
Ambrosini
Giuseppe Andrea
Volpi
Giovanni
Moroni
Silvia
Bucci
Achille
Campana
Antonio
Brizzolara
Lucia
Turco
Giuseppina
Angelini
Giuseppe
Uricchio
Vito Felice
Fiori
Susi
Sergio
Lucia
Cirone
Salvatore
Lippi
Alessandro
Ciarapica
Ambra
Marchetti
Giancarlo
De Gennaro Maurizio
Menini
Luca
E-mail
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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PFR Representatives (Novembre 2008)
Organisation
ARPA Valle d'Aosta
Agnesod
Contact person
Giovanni
ARPA Friuli V. G.
Artini
Enrico
ARPA Basilicata
Bianchini
Adriana
ARPA Umbria
Capone
Daniela
Regione Lazio
Cattena
Claudio
Regione Piemonte
ARPA Marche
APPA Trento
ARTA Abruzzo
De Giorgio
De Rosa
Fedel
Cocco
Salvatore
Ferdinando
Paolo
Roberto
ARPA E. Romagna
Galliani
Gianfranca
Regione Liguria
Gestro
Cristina
ARPA Calabria
Lemma
Domenico
ARPA Sardegna
ARPA Toscana
APPA Bolzano
ARPA Veneto
ARPA Sicilia
ARPA Campania
Leuzzi
Licitra
Minach
Mozzo
Nania
Onorati
Franca
Gaetano
Luigi
Pierluigi
Pasquale
Giuseppe
ARPA Molise
Patroni
Eduardo
ARPA Puglia
Spartera
Maria
ARPA Lombardia
Zini
Enrico
E-mail
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] - m. [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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3.2 List of references for Italy
Publications
ANPA
Atti - 1/2001
ISBN 88-448-0243-0
APAT
Rapporti - 79/2008
ISBN978-88-448-0333-9
Speciale Corriere delle Opere
Sistemi informativi territoriali
Supplemento al Corriere delle
Opere 198 - Agosto 2007
MondoGIS n. 58
gennaio/febbraio 2007
pro.Sia.Ve 6-2003
Supplemento al n. 91 di POLIS
ISPRA
Rapporti - 82/2008
ISBN978-88-448-0347-X
http://www.sinanet.apat.it/it/stru
menti/catalogo
http://www.sinanet.apat.it/it/stru
menti/catalogo
http://www.sinanet.apat.it/it/stru
menti/catalogo
http://www.sinanet.apat.it/it/stru
menti/catalogo
Seconda Conferenza Nazionale SINAnet, 5-6 dicembre 2000, dedicata alla
presentazione dei programmi e prodotti del Sistema nazionale conoscitivo e
dei controlli ambientali.
Il catalogo dell’informazione ambientale della rete SINA
Il Sistema informativo nazionale ambientale (Sina)
Maricchiolo, Munafò , Sambucini
Integrazione ed interoperabilità dei dati territoriali ed ambientali della rete
SINANET
Sambucini, Munafò, Barbieri
Sistema nazionale conoscitivo e dei controlli in campo ambientale
Valter Sambucini, Michele Munafò
Valutazione della sostenibilità ambientale ed integrazione di dati ambientali
e territoriali
Manuale standard SINAnet - parte 1 indirizzi e regole generali
Proposta di gestione dei flussi informativi sulla qualità dell’aria nella rete
SINAnet
Proposta di standard SINAnet relativa al contenuto informativo sulla qualità
dell'aria
Programma di sviluppo del SINA
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Purpose
National
environmental
information system
Official ISPRA
website
National system on
water protection
Geographic portal
National portal on
noise and
electromagnetic
pollution
System
SINAnet
ISPRA portal
SINTAI
Geographic
portal
Portale Agenti
fisici
national
national
national
national
national
Extent
Noise,
electromagnetic
sources
Soil, geology
Water, hydrology
Research and
environment
Air quality, air
emissions, waste,
land cover, climate
change,
desertification,
hydrography
Components
Data system
gis
Data service, gis
information
Data service, gis
Functions
Postgresql, java
.NET
Technologies or software
utilized
ZOPE, Plone
OGC, XML
W3C
Standards
used
RSS, XML,
W3C, OGC
<1000/month
<5000/month
>5000/month
>10000/month
>10000/month
Number of Users
3.3 List of existing systems and applications for environmental reporting and data/information
exchange within National Environmental Information System of Italy
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XML
HTML
XHTML
CSS
HTTPS
HTTP
OWL
RDF
WSDL
SOAP
Other W3C
DMA/ODMA
WebDAV
DSML
Other
POP
Secure POP (S/POP)
IMAP
S/IMAP
SMTP
S/SMTP
MIME
FTP
P2P
other
OGC WMS
OGC WFS
OGC WCS
OGC CSW
OGC SLD
OGC WPS
Other OGC
Web services
Geographic information
Data transfer
E-mailing
Standard or technology name
Domain
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Operational use
x
Pilot applications
Planned
3.4 List of technologies and standards applied within National Environmental Information System of
Italy
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Data storage and management
Domain
ISO 19101
ISO 19107
ISO 19108
ISO 19109
ISO 19111
ISO 19112
ISO 19114
ISO 19115
ISO 19116
ISO 19117
ISO 19118
ISO 19119
ISO 19128
ISO 19136
Other ISO/TC211 GI
EPSG
national
other
SQL
Oracle
Access
DBMS
CSV
GML
Shapefiles and other common GI vector formats
Vendor specific GI vector formats
GeoTIFF and other common GI raster formats
Vendor specific GI raster formats
Electronic documents
Compressed archives (ZIP, etc)
Standard or technology name
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Operational use
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Pilot applications
Planned
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