EU Open Data Blog

Read this important announcement from the European Commission DG Environment regarding transition of the INSPIRE infrastructure to EU horizontal services to ensure long-term continuity. Rest assured, with ArcGIS INSPIRE Open Data, Esri's support of the EU Open Data Directive, data.europa.eu, DCAT-AP, and High-Value Datasets (HVD) aligns with this transition.

ArcGIS for INSPIRE (Classic) retires August 1, 2026. Understand the impact and plan your shift to modern, EU Open Data delivery.

How do you create INSPIRE Metadata using the new ArcGIS metadata editor? This tutorial provides step-by-step guidance. The new ArcGIS metadata editor, available in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3+, makes creating metadata in compliance with the European Commission's Open Data Directive and INSPIRE Directive easier than ever.

ArcGIS supports INSPIRE Good Practices workflows for network services simplification. Accepted values for the metadata distribution protocol element are provided below.

Save the date! Join us on 28-29 November for the INSPIRE 2023 conference 'Green Data for All' in Brussels.

View the European INSPIRE 2021 Conference Keynote presentation by Esri president, Jack Dangermond.

The shift to simpler, modular, web-based standards brings with it many benefits to EU Member States, data providers, data users, and software developers alike.

ArcGIS Hub supports DCAT-AP, the de facto standard for metadata interchange among European data catalogues. Learn how…

This spring, a new user interface for the INSPIRE reference validator was released, improving its usability. ArcGIS provides tools to create valid INSPIRE datasets, metadata, and services.