Metadata on Biodiversity: Definition and Implementation

SINP (Information system on nature and landscape) and ECOSCOPE (Observation for research on biodiversity data hub) are two distinct scientific infrastructures on biodiversity relying on different data sources and producers. Their main objective is to document and share information on biodiversity in France. INPN (https://inpn.mnhn.fr) is the reference information system for data related to nature. It manages and disseminates the reference data of the "geodiversity and biodiversity" part of the SINP, and deliver the metadata and data to GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). For SINP and Ecoscope projects, working groups composed of scientific organisations have defined two compliant metadata profiles, also compliant with INSPIRE Directive, to describe data on this thematic. These profiles are implemented using existing metadata standards: ISO 19115/19139 (for geographic metadata) for SINP and EML (Ecological Metadata Language) and ISO 19115/19139 for ECOSCOPE. A mapping has also been processed between the two profiles, as well as several thesaurus for keywords and a classification system for taxonomic identification are used, so as to ensure interoperability between systems. The profiles are implemented in web applications for editing and managing data (GeoSource/GeoNetwork for SINP and an ad hoc application for ECOSCOPE). These applications allow the harvesting of metadata using OGC/CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) standard. Next steps will support increased metadata visibility through the automatization of web-services

Implementation of an INSPIRE registry in France : state of progress

International audienceBRGM (the French geological survey) is France's reference public institution for Earth Science applications. BRGM works on managing and delivering geosciences data to be used as support to decision-making for spatial planning, mineral prospecting, groundwater protection, pollution control, natural risk prevention and the characterization of local areas.BRGM is managing the French Géocatalogue (www.geocatalogue.fr) which collects information (metadata) and provides tools for harvesting, searching and consulting geographical information. It also provides a discovery service (CSW) which is harvested by the INSPIRE geoportal. In accordance with INSPIRE implementing rules, a national registry is implemented in the Géocatalogue infrastructure (http://registre.geocatalogue.fr), based on the Re3gistry software. This registry references codelists for data produced by French public authorities, in a distributed architecture based on thematic registers/registries (e.g. BRGM registry). It is also synchronized with the INSPIRE register federation (http://inspire-regadmin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ror/).The presentation aims to show the technical and organizational issues in implementing a national registry and explain how it can help organizations manage and use reference codes, especially in the context of INSPIRE

Organization and implementation of an INSPIRE registry in France

International audienceBRGM (the French geological survey) is France's reference public institution for Earth Science applications. BRGM works on managing and delivering geosciences data to be used as support to decision-making for spatial planning, mineral prospecting, groundwater protection, pollution control, natural risk prevention and the characterization of local areas.For all these data, models have been defined at a conceptual level (UML) and implemented using existing standards (GeoSciML, EarthResourceML, GroundWaterML2, ...) to enable interoperability with other systems. For some attributes, codelists have been defined, such as for example a list of values characterizing the lithology like granit, sandstone, etc. These codelists contain common values with INSPIRE codelists, as well as extended specific values. BRGM is currently implementing a GeoScience multithematic registry (geology, mineral resources, groundwater, ...) in order to identify and describe the content of these codelists.BRGM is also managing the French Géocatalogue (www.geocatalogue.fr) which collects information (metadata) and provides tools for harvesting, searching and consulting geographical information. It also provides a discovery service (CSW) so it can be harvested by the INSPIRE geoportal. In accordance with INSPIRE implementing rules, a national registry is being implemented in the Géocatalogue infrastructure. For the technical solution, two registry softwares (R3gistry and UKGovLD) have been tested.This situation provides a unique opportunity to validate that a data provider registry can be linked to a national one which in turns is synchronized with the European INSPIRE registry

An Urban Geochemical Database for Contaminated Land Management

International audiencen February 2007, new approaches of management were proposed by the French Ministery for Sustainable Development to the various actors involved in “(potentially) contaminated land management”.They describe the stages of management of a (potentially) contaminated site: the diagnosis identifies and locates pollution, the management plan sets objectives of rehabilitation, the residual risks assessment verifies the accuracy of the selected management option, the Media Quality Assessment (MQA) (Interpretation de l'Etat des Milieux, IEM) verifies the impacts out of the site.During these approaches, the interpretation of the data collected from the field necessarily causes the comparison of the analyses and measurements with reference values. Thus, the approach of MQA is based on the risk management policy conducted by the public authorities for the French population. It results in comparing the state of the investigated mediums with:• Natural environment close to the zone of investigation;• Regulatory management values set by the public authorities.Indeed, the public authorities fix sanitary values which regulate air quality as well as water and food. Therefore, these values naturally serve as references. However, the soil is not the object of a specific regulation and no regulatory reference value exists in France for this medium.A soil is considered free from pollution since its characteristics are coherent with the local natural geochemical background. This is why, the approach results in comparing the state of the investigated soil with the state of the natural soils close to the zone of investigation. With this intention, the knowledge of the natural geochemical background, in particular of the local geochemical anomalies, is essential. Moreover, the characterization of pollution is important to distinguish if it implies the site or not.However, the industrial sites are more often gathered in industrial and urban areas where an anthropic geochemical background is superimposed to the natural geochemical background. It then becomes necessary to compare data collected on the investigated site with this anthropized pedological and geochemical background.In order to support the various actors implied in the management of (potentially) contaminated land, it was thus proposed to carry out a database of analyses of soils from urban and industrialized environment on the whole French territory. The project “Diagnoses of the soils in the places hosting children or teenagers” implemented by the French ministry for Sustainable development, was the occasion of launching an operation of sampling and analyses of urban soils at the level of the national territory. The collection of analyses during this operation constitutes the heart of the project “Geochemical Database on Urban Soils and Subsoils (BDSolU) conducted by BRGM and funded by ADEME.Soils analyzes include inorganic trace elements, mercury, cyanides, phenol index, HC C10-C40, PAH, PCB and PCDD/PCDF...This presentation points out the building of the database and describes the difficulties encountered

French feedback from urban soil geochemical data archive to data sharing: state of mind and intent

International audienceUrban territories collect many types of geochemical and physico-chemical data relative to, e.g., soil quality or soil functions. Such data may serve for various purposes like verifying the compatibility with current or future uses, defining (pedo)geochemical backgrounds, establishing levels of exposure to soil pollutants, identifying management options for polluted sites or for excavated soils, verifying the evolution of infiltration ponds, assessing carbon storage, etc. They may also serve to prioritize soil functions and associated ecosystem services such as, e.g., soil fertility, surface and groundwater storage or supply, purification of infiltrated rainwater, etc. Gathering such data in national databases and making them available to stakeholders raises many issues that are technical, legal and social. Should all of the data be made available or only selected portions? How can access and reuse of the data be ensured in a legal fashion? Are statistical and geostatistical methods able to deal with data from heterogeneous origins, allowing their reuse for other purposes than the initial one? In this context, it is necessary to take into account scientific as well as practical considerations and to collect the societal needs of end-users like urban planners. To illustrate the complexity of these issues and ways to address them, we propose to share the French experience: •on gathering urban soil geochemical data in the French national database BDSolU. We will present how this database was created, the choices made in relation with the national context, the difficulties encountered, and the questions that are still open. •on a new interrogation system linking agricultural and urban soil databases (DoneSol and BDSolU), which have different requirements, and the corresponding standards. Such linkage based on interoperability is important in the context of changes of soil use, with for example agricultural soils becoming urbanised soils, or soils from brownfields intended for gardening. It is also necessary to ensure a territorial continuity for users. The objective is to define a robust and standardised methodology for database conceptualisation, sharing and final use by stakeholders including scientist

Le système d’information sur les sols de France : capitaliser, analyser, diffuser, aller vers l’open data

International audienceThe Scientific Interest Group on soil (GIS Sol) was created in 2001 with the mission of designing and coordinating the inventory and monitoring of soils in France. This mission requires capitalizing existing or newly produced data in databases, analyzing them, producing new knowledge and bringing data and knowledge to the attention of users. This article briefly describes the databases and their associated tools for the main data acquisition programmes of the GIS Sol. Then the work of analyzing these data to produce statistics and predictions on soil properties is presented. Finally, the tools and developments for consultation and dissemination of soil data are described. This panorama of tools currently available or under development shows the importance of the efforts made by GIS Sol since 2001.El Grupo de Interés Científico del Suelo (GIS Sol) fue creado en 2001 con la misión de diseñar y coordinar el inventario y seguimiento de suelos en Francia. Esta misión requiere capitalizar datos existentes o recién producidos en bases de datos, analizarlos para producir nuevos conocimientos y devolver datos y conocimientos a los usuarios. Este artículo describebrevemente las bases de datos y sus herramientas asociadas para los principales programas de adquisición de datos del GIS Sol, luego el trabajo de análisis de estos datos para producir estadísticas y predicciones sobre las propiedades del suelo y finalmente las herramientas y desarrollos para la consulta y difusión de datos del suelo. Este panorama de herramientasactualmente disponibles o en desarrollo muestra la importancia del esfuerzo realizado por GIS Sol desde 2001.Le Groupement d’intérêt scientifique sur les sols (GIS Sol) a été créé en 2001 avec la mission de concevoir et de coordonner l’inventaire et la surveillance des sols en France. Cette mission nécessite de capitaliser les données existantes ou nouvellement produites dans des bases de données, de les analyser, de produire de nouvelles connaissances et de restituer données et connaissances aux utilisateurs. Cet article décrit succinctement les bases de données et les outils associés aux grands programmes d’acquisition de données du GIS Sol, puis les travaux d’analyse de ces données pour produire des métriques et des prédictions sur les propriétés du sol dans l’espace et le temps, et enfin les outils et développements pour la consultation et la diffusion des données sur les sols. Ce panorama des outils actuellement disponibles ou en cours de développement montre l’importance des efforts réalisés sur ce plan par le GIS Sol depuis 2001

Le système d’information sur les sols de France : capitaliser, analyser, diffuser, aller vers l’open data

International audienceThe Scientific Interest Group on soil (GIS Sol) was created in 2001 with the mission of designing and coordinating the inventory and monitoring of soils in France. This mission requires capitalizing existing or newly produced data in databases, analyzing them, producing new knowledge and bringing data and knowledge to the attention of users. This article briefly describes the databases and their associated tools for the main data acquisition programmes of the GIS Sol. Then the work of analyzing these data to produce statistics and predictions on soil properties is presented. Finally, the tools and developments for consultation and dissemination of soil data are described. This panorama of tools currently available or under development shows the importance of the efforts made by GIS Sol since 2001.El Grupo de Interés Científico del Suelo (GIS Sol) fue creado en 2001 con la misión de diseñar y coordinar el inventario y seguimiento de suelos en Francia. Esta misión requiere capitalizar datos existentes o recién producidos en bases de datos, analizarlos para producir nuevos conocimientos y devolver datos y conocimientos a los usuarios. Este artículo describebrevemente las bases de datos y sus herramientas asociadas para los principales programas de adquisición de datos del GIS Sol, luego el trabajo de análisis de estos datos para producir estadísticas y predicciones sobre las propiedades del suelo y finalmente las herramientas y desarrollos para la consulta y difusión de datos del suelo. Este panorama de herramientasactualmente disponibles o en desarrollo muestra la importancia del esfuerzo realizado por GIS Sol desde 2001.Le Groupement d’intérêt scientifique sur les sols (GIS Sol) a été créé en 2001 avec la mission de concevoir et de coordonner l’inventaire et la surveillance des sols en France. Cette mission nécessite de capitaliser les données existantes ou nouvellement produites dans des bases de données, de les analyser, de produire de nouvelles connaissances et de restituer données et connaissances aux utilisateurs. Cet article décrit succinctement les bases de données et les outils associés aux grands programmes d’acquisition de données du GIS Sol, puis les travaux d’analyse de ces données pour produire des métriques et des prédictions sur les propriétés du sol dans l’espace et le temps, et enfin les outils et développements pour la consultation et la diffusion des données sur les sols. Ce panorama des outils actuellement disponibles ou en cours de développement montre l’importance des efforts réalisés sur ce plan par le GIS Sol depuis 2001