Symposion IRIS 2019
Manfred Mittlböck presented first results from the Enerspired Cities FFG project at the IRIS 2019 (International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2019, February 21-23, University of Salzburg) The first prototype of the Enerspired Cities Geoportal was presented in the lecture “Design and development of an Austria-wide energy spatial planning portal – energy data harmonisation in practice”.
The Enerspired Cities Geoportal aims at the standardised and centralised provision of meta-information on high-quality geodata sets related to energy-oriented urban and regional planning as well as their cross-municipal use. This is particularly important because energy use and supply do not stop at federal state borders and it is therefore of great importance for planning that relevant data sets and services can be easily found and valued. The aim is not so much to make the data available as to identify the relevant data sets and services and document them in a standard-compliant manner, taking legal aspects into account, so that they can be found accordingly. In developing the database and geoportal for Enerspired Cities, the aim was to take into account the experiences from the technical implementation of the INSPIRE Directive from the very beginning.
With the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC, the impetus for an EU-wide data harmonisation as well as the standardised documentation of data sets and services in the form of metadata in so-called geoportals was created. Although INSPIRE does not yet play a major role in the perception of the general public, it is very important for the Austria-wide exploitation of geoinformation resources. With the Enerspired Cities Geoportal we have created a technical basis that enables us to list data sets and services for energy spatial planning, compare their contents and, based on this, identify similarities and differences that allow for harmonisation, while taking legal aspects into account.