Getting Started
Welcome to “Getting Started”
This is a set of short guides, aimed at business managers and information officers, and their technical partners, who have obligations under INSPIRE, or who wish to publish location information into UK Location on a voluntary basis.
Each guide is short and concise, designed to support business decision making and planning. Technical detail has been kept to minimum.
The guides take you on a journey, from thinking about what to publish, through the process of publishing and the key decisions you need to make. Each guide is published separately, with links to additional information. You are encouraged to decide where to enter, where to leave, and in which order you wish to read them, reflecting your focus of interest and existing knowledge.
Do you know your “Data Provider” from your “Data Publisher”
Throughout Getting Started we refer to “Data Providers” and “Data Publishers”. Within UK Location the distinction is very important and will be used repeatedly in later guidance and operationally. So, what is the difference?
- The Data Provider – the organisation that creates the data and supplies the data for web publication along with its metadata.
- The Data Publisher – the organisation that publishes the data and metadata on the web and supplies data services to data users.
The current set of guides cover the publishing of your existing datasets – as they are now, for Discovery and View Services. Future guides will cover other Network and Data Services, including Download and Data Transformation to the INSPIRE data specifications
Guide 0: The UK Implementation of INSPIRE V2.0
Provides a short guide on how INSPIRE is being implemented in the UK.
Guide 1: UK Location, an introduction V2.0
A brief introduction to UK Location, for those unfamilar with the UK Location Strategy and INSPIRE.
Guide 2: Organisation and Data Coverage V2.0
Guidance on the organisations covered by UK Location, the forms of data to be published and the scope of data, including the INSPIRE Themes.
Guide 3: What Needs to Happen and When v2.0
Information on the timetable for data publishing.
Guide 4: Discovery and View Services v2.0
Initial guidance on publishing data into UK Location, for Discovery and View Services.
Please note that separate guidance may be published in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Supplementary guidance way also be published by your public sector representative bodies, or thematic networks.
If you can’t find what you are looking for on the UK Location website then please do contact us.