INSPIRE Blog

How do you create INSPIRE Metadata using the new ArcGIS metadata editor? This tutorial provides step-by-step guidance. The ArcGIS Online Spring 2024 release makes creating metadata in compliance with the European Commission 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.

This lesson steps you through using the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Editor to create INSPIRE Metadata v2 for dataset metadata. UPDATED 12-April 2023 to remove references to the ArcGIS Pro Add-In that was previously required to be installed.

This lesson steps you through using the ArcGIS Online Metadata Editor to create INSPIRE Metadata v2 for dataset metadata. With ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9+, this tutorial also applies to creating INSPIRE Metadata in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal. UPDATED 23-June-2021 to include steps using the new INSPIRE Reference Validator, plus additional tips to improve your data catalog.

From the European Commission: The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE), established 14 March 2007, aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. This consultation is part of the mandatory evaluation due by 1 January 2022.

This public consultation will assess whether the Directive is:

• effective and efficient in protecting the environment
• still relevant for its stakeholders
• in line with other EU legislation, specifically the new Green Deal data space initiative.

This consultation is open to any interested public or private organisation or individual. The following stakeholders may be particularly interested: bodies and individuals that are managing geospatial data, implementing the INSPIRE Directive or using geospatial data in their day-to-day operations, such as public authorities and administrations at national, regional and local level, environmental non-governmental organisations, professionals in environment protection or geospatial information systems, businesses, academics, interest organisations and private individuals.

The Commission would like to hear your views. Through public consultations you can express your views on aspects of EU laws and policies before the Commission finalises its proposals. You can contribute to this consultation by filling in the online questionnaire.

Public consultation

Feedback period
19 April 2021 - 12 July 2021  (midnight Brussels time)
FEEDBACK: OPEN

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