smeSpire Day Germany scheduled for February 21st, 2014. The event will take place at the GIS-Lab of the Munich Technical University (TUM), campus Weihenstephan, in Freising, Germany. It shall be hosted by Prof. Schaller UmweltConsult (PSU) and Esri Deutschland. During the event, the smeSpire project will be presented, as well as ArcGIS for INSPIRE and best-practice examples to inspire the participants to develop profitable business opportunities. Invitations have been sent

On November 19th, the workshop “Information & Communication Technologies in Horizon 2020” took place in Athens. On December 9th, the workshop “Program of the European Research Council for Horizon 2020, about Research & Innovation in European Union” took place in Athens.  National Documentation Centre of Greece organized several sessions for promoting Horizon 2020 and helping businesses to understand the funding opportunities and challenges arising from the Horizon 2020. This was

The smeSpire Project has been featured on GIS Professional issue 56 : February 2014 Download the article &nbsp

smeSpire project is organising an on-line hackathon within the Open Data Day Italy 2014. smeSpire project, together with AMFM GIS Italia, CISIS–CPSG, Stati Generali dell’Innovazione and GFOSS association, is organising an on-line hackathon within the Open Data Day Italy 2014. The online hackathon will focus on data transformation to provide open data compliant to INSPIRE requirements. Those who wish to participate shoudd register HERE no later than 02/15/2014 Download the

16-20 June 2014. Aalborg, Denmark The call for abstracts for the INSPIRE 2014 Conference has been published. Seven years have passed since INSPIRE was adopted as the EU’s legal framework establishing the infrastructure for spatial information in Europe serving policies and activities having an impact on the environment. During this period the framework of technical specifications necessary to underpin an interoperable infrastructure has been completed, and a major effort has

SlideShare is a Web 2.0 hosting service for slideshows and Presentations. The smeSpire presentations uploaded on this content were among the top 3% of most viewed on SlideShare in 2013. We Uploaded 40 Presentations and our content was viewed 5812 times in 2013. More information. &nbsp

Available in the smeSpire Best Practice Catalogue a report containing operational instructions about how to create INSPIRE compliant metadata, relevant to a dataset belonging to INSPIRE Annex II/III data themes, containing both discovery metadata (Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1205/2008) and metadata for interoperability (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010). Also available an example xml metadata file. The Best Practice is available here More information. &nbsp

A warm welcome to Geonovum, the GI standardization body in the Netherlands, who recently adhered to the smeSpire Network. Reciprocally beneficial will be the sharing of knowledge and experience in enabling geo-ICT SMEs to build successful implementations of INSPIRE in particular and of GI standards in general. &nbsp

05-09 MAY 2014. Centre International Conferences Geneve Switzerland. Now in its 6th edition, Geospatial World Forum has gained a repute of being a not-to-be-missed conference for the professionals engaged in geospatial sector and its application domain. It is the most premium global platform for geospatial community and offers the best opportunity for learning, sharing, connecting, networking, branding and positioning with senior decision makers associated with geospatial world. The conference aims

W3C/OGC Workshop: Linking Geospatial Data, London 5th – 6th March 2014, Campus London, Shoreditch Call for Participation What are best examples of data-driven Web applications you’ve ever seen? The updates to Open Street Map after the Haiti earthquake? The mapping of all 9,966,539 buildings in the Netherlands? The NHS Prescription data? Things like SF Park that help you ‘park your car smarter’ in San Francisco using real time data? Bing