Prepare and Inspire

Schema Transformation for INSPIRE

Many Legally Mandated Organisations (LMOs) and other data suppliers who are providing data within the INSPIRE themes will retain their own schemas for the data that they collect, manage and publish. For INSPIRE compliance however, they must also ensure that there is a Transformation Service available to transform the data to the appropriate INSPIRE schema. This service may be provided by the su...

INSPIRE-able services

The INSPIRE services network architecture establishes rules for architectural model of the European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Each Member State of the European Union should create new services or adapt existing ones according to the implementing rules derived from the INSPIRE directive. The INSPIRE Drafting Team responsible for services implementing rules has agreed that services should be W...

Do Families Inspire

HCI inspire dynamic design ?

By nature, computational systems are temporal machines. For more than 50 years, the discipline of HCI or human-computer interaction, has explored how people behave with dynamic objects like buttons, scrollbars or more recently tangible interfaces and ubiquitous environments. In the same time, a significant and complex culture has emerged: digital affordances are now familiar for users. Can this...

Future scenarios to inspire innovation

In recent years and accelerated by the economic and financial crisis, complex global issues have moved to the forefront of policy making. These grand challenges require policy makers to address a variety of interrelated issues, which are built upon yet uncoordinated and dispersed bodies of knowledge. Due to the social dynamics of innovation, new socio-technical subsystems are emerging, however ...