INSPIRE Conference 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

Agile Maintenance of INSPIRE Models

Lisbon, 28.05.2015

Thorsten Reitz & Simon Templer

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Harmonisation: The Process towards Interoperability

Model• Meaning• Format• Behaviour

Transform• Matching• Structure• Validation

Use• Publish• Reporting• Maintain

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Transform

Use

Model

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InteractionFeedback

Colla-boration

Realtime

Agile

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The Cost of Harmonisation

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Conceptual Modelling

ResearchData Inventory Integration/Migration

50-90% of Cost 10-50% of Cost

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Challenge I: Process Discontinuity

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Textual descriptionUML Model (EAP, XMI)

Conceptual Harmonisation Data Harmonisation Service Harmonisation

XSD orProprietary Model

DDLs (SQL) orProprietary Model

No DataSchema/Format converted Data Final Format/API Data

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Challenge II: Data Usage

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INSPIREDownload

Service??

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Challenge III: Transformation is hard!

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Ingredients of an Agile Standardisation Process

— Model-driven— No Schema Language Mismatches between steps

— Data-driven— Inform every step with real-world data

— Usage-driven— Instantly validate data fitness-for-purpose

— Collaboration— Versioning, Forking— Comments, Tasks, Notes

— Accessible

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Model Change

TransformationChange

ServiceChange

UsageChange

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Explorative UML

— Touch-friendly View — Based on UML Model

— Discover the relevant model elements— Visual Hints

— One Fixed Layout— Directions have meaning

— Supports subset of UML/XSD concepts— Classes, Choices, Enumerations— Interhitance, Aggregation,

Reference

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Create Task

Load Project

Edit Project

How shouldI map this

classification?

Ah, this is a task I can help with!

Projects

Schemas

Data

Tasks

Load Project

Edit Task

Save solution

View Solution

Accept Solution

DEMO

The Agile Harmonisation Process

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— Design and maintain schemas/models

— Harmonise/Transform data

— Publish Services and Applications

— Manage and Maintain data

— Explore data sets

— Perform analysis & analytics

— Built on established FOSS

— Highly Accessible

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