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 Web Services using the SOAP protocol as messaging protocol. This paper proposes application of well-known design patterns for adaptation of INSPIRE-unconformable services. However, there are several challenges. There does not exist any methodology to make easy building wrapper services. What is more, the services provided by member states and offered at state level are not restricted by INSPIRE implementation rules. Nevertheless, the application of the INSPIRE implementation rules at levels below the main architecture level (e.g. at member state level) should decrease significantly the complexity of the development of an application architecture based on the INSPIRE infrastructure. Similarly, applying patterns to any external service, including commercial ones, should transform this service into an INSPIRE-able service that would facilitate the creation of any INSPIREbased application. Palabras clave: INSPIRE, service pattern, SOA, OGC, SOAP