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 ==== Other ====
-* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description/ INSPIRE EUOSME]: (European Open Source Metadata Editor) developed by EC-JRC in the EuroGEOSS project, and deployed in the [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/ INSPIRE Geoportal] to allow user to test editing capabilities and testing ISO19139 XML files. Unfortunately, the development of the editor has been discontinued. The source code (a very old version of it) has been published here: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/euosme-103/103
+* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description/ INSPIRE EUOSME]: (European Open Source Metadata Editor) developed by EC-JRC in the EuroGEOSS project, and deployed in the [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/ INSPIRE Geoportal] to allow user to test editing capabilities and testing ISO19139 XML files. Unfortunately, the development of the editor has been discontinued.
 * [https://github.com/GeoSmartCity-CIP/Excel-Metadata INSPIRE Excel file]: developed within [http://www.geosmartcity.eu/ GeoSmartCity project] to collect INSPIRE XML19139 compliant metadata in easy and quick way
 * [http://52north.org/communities/metadata-management/smarteditor smartEditor]: smartEditor is a web based editor to easily create and update metadata documents on geospatial data sets, services, series and applications and many more resources supporting ISO19115/19119 and the INSPIRE metadata specification (INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119)

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 ==== Other ====
-* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description/ INSPIRE EUOSME]: (European Open Source Metadata Editor) developed by EC-JRC in the EuroGEOSS project, and deployed in the [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/ INSPIRE Geoportal] to allow user to test editing capabilities and testing ISO19139 XML files
+* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description/ INSPIRE EUOSME]: (European Open Source Metadata Editor) developed by EC-JRC in the EuroGEOSS project, and deployed in the [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/ INSPIRE Geoportal] to allow user to test editing capabilities and testing ISO19139 XML files. Unfortunately, the development of the editor has been discontinued. The source code (a very old version of it) has been published here: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/euosme-103/103
 * [https://github.com/GeoSmartCity-CIP/Excel-Metadata INSPIRE Excel file]: developed within [http://www.geosmartcity.eu/ GeoSmartCity project] to collect INSPIRE XML19139 compliant metadata in easy and quick way
 * [http://52north.org/communities/metadata-management/smarteditor smartEditor]: smartEditor is a web based editor to easily create and update metadata documents on geospatial data sets, services, series and applications and many more resources supporting ISO19115/19119 and the INSPIRE metadata specification (INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119)

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 ==== Other ====
 * [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description/ INSPIRE EUOSME]: (European Open Source Metadata Editor) developed by EC-JRC in the EuroGEOSS project, and deployed in the [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/ INSPIRE Geoportal] to allow user to test editing capabilities and testing ISO19139 XML files
-* [http://best-practices.smespire.eu/practices/133/inspire-metadata-in-a-simple-excel-file INSPIRE Excel file]: developed within [http://www.geosmartcity.eu/ GeoSmartCity project] to collect INSPIRE XML19139 compliant metadata in easy and quick way
+* [https://github.com/GeoSmartCity-CIP/Excel-Metadata INSPIRE Excel file]: developed within [http://www.geosmartcity.eu/ GeoSmartCity project] to collect INSPIRE XML19139 compliant metadata in easy and quick way
 * [http://52north.org/communities/metadata-management/smarteditor smartEditor]: smartEditor is a web based editor to easily create and update metadata documents on geospatial data sets, services, series and applications and many more resources supporting ISO19115/19119 and the INSPIRE metadata specification (INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119)
 * [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ISO/INSPIRE_Metadata_Support GRASS GIS ISO/INSPIRE Metadata support] developed within [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014/MetadataForGRASS Google Summer of Code 2014]

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−	This page aims at building an inventory of the tools aiding the INSPIRE implementation. ~~Several~~ software tools have been developed within EU-funded projects and are suitable for reuse, but are often unknown to the broader community. If you are aware of free software implementing INSPIRE specifications, please contribute to this inventory.	+	According to the INSPIRE Directive, View and Download services should be set up for the data which is within scope and metadata should be provided. Furthermore, data needs to comply with the INSPIRE data schemes and monitoring, testing and validation of the data, metadata and services should be executed.
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		+	This page aims at building an inventory of the tools aiding the INSPIRE implementation. The OsGeo-Live environment includes Open Source software that is needed to implement these different INSPIRE components. Furthermore, several software tools have been developed within EU-funded projects and are suitable for reuse, but are often unknown to the broader community.
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		+	If you are aware of free software implementing INSPIRE specifications, please contribute to this inventory.

	== Software ==		== Software ==

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 === Other ===
 * [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/are3na/home Are3na] is A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform. This open community aims to support access to common reusable software and other components for spatial data in European e-government.
-* [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools INSPIRE in Practice] is an inventory of useful tools for the INSPIRE implementation. They can range from desktop/server software, libraries, plugins, online services and many more technical products and solutions that help people to share INSPIRE data, metadata and services.
+* [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools INSPIRE in Practice] is a collaborative platform with the aim of bringing together INSPIRE implementers, solution providers, and application developers. Among other content, it provides an inventory of useful tools supporting the INSPIRE implementation tasks. Those tools can range from desktop/server software, libraries, plug-ins, online services and many more technical products and solutions that help people to share INSPIRE data, metadata and services.
 == Actions to improve the existing tools ==

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 == Actions to improve the existing tools ==
 * It could be useful that OSGeoLive projects listed on this page include some INSPIRE example in their quickstart documentation to illustrate their usefulness in the specific perspective of INSPIRE.
-* It would be beneficial have these tools in the [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools INSPIRE in Practice platform tool section] highlighting how those ones actually support INSPIRE, for example by adding the [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vocabulary/tasks INSPIRE tasks] they support (See example: https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools/geoserver)
+* It would be beneficial having these tools in the [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools INSPIRE in Practice platform tool section] highlighting how those ones actually support INSPIRE, for example by adding the [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vocabulary/tasks INSPIRE tasks] they support (See example: https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools/geoserver)
 [[Category: Standards]]
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-This page aims at building an inventory of the tools aiding the INSPIRE implementation. Several software tools have been developed within EU funded projects and are suitable for reuse, but are often unknown to the broader community. If you are aware of free software implementing INSPIRE specifications, please contribute to this inventory.
+This page aims at building an inventory of the tools aiding the INSPIRE implementation. Several software tools have been developed within EU-funded projects and are suitable for reuse, but are often unknown to the broader community. If you are aware of free software implementing INSPIRE specifications, please contribute to this inventory.
 == Software ==
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 * [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: deegree supports a internal DSL (a XML configuration file) to specify mappings from a database model into a GML application schema which allow on-the-fly transformation of data.
 * [https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geokettle_quickstart.html Geokettle] is an ETL tool and can be useful to transform an existing dataset to comply with the schemes defined by the INSPIRE Directive. ''note: currently set to be retired in Live 11''
-* In GDAL, the GMLAS driver is available which can read and write XML files of arbitrary structure, included those containing so called Complex Features, provided that they are accompanied by one or several XML schemas that describe the structure of their content. While this driver is generic to any XML schema, the main target is to be able to read and write documents referencing directly or indirectly to the GML namespace.
+* In GDAL, the GMLAS driver is available which can read and write XML files of arbitrary structure, included those containing so-called Complex Features, provided that they are accompanied by one or several XML schemas that describe the structure of their content. While this driver is generic to any XML schema, the main target is to be able to read and write documents referencing directly or indirectly to the GML namespace.
 ==== Other ====
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 * [http://pycsw.org pycsw]: OGC CSW server.  Standalone or embeddable.  Powers CSW in CKAN, GeoNode.  OGC Reference Implementation
 * Geonetwork
-* [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: Provides an implementation of a OGC CSW 2.0.2 APISO server. Supporting harvest operation and storage of MD records for centralized apporach. The [https://live.osgeo.org/fr/quickstart/deegree_quickstart.html Quickstart of Degree for the OsGeo-Live] uses an INSPIRE example.
+* [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: Provides an implementation of a OGC CSW 2.0.2 APISO server. Supporting harvest operation and storage of MD records for centralized approach. The [https://live.osgeo.org/fr/quickstart/deegree_quickstart.html Quickstart of Degree for the OsGeo-Live] uses an INSPIRE example.
 ==== View ====
 * [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] is a tool for serving maps for other clients to draw. It allows to setup view and download services as required by the INSPIRE Directive.
-* [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: Provides an OGC compliant WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0 server (OGC reference implementation). Additional it has an implemantation of the OGC WMTS 1.0 standard.
+* [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: Provides an OGC compliant WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0 server (OGC reference implementation). Additional it has an implementation of the OGC WMTS 1.0 standard.
 * [http://mapserver.org/ MapServer] is an Open Source server-based application that allows you to publish geographic map images and vector data through the internet using OGC standards such as WMS, WFS, and WCS.
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 === Clients ===
-* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS] can be used to consume INSPIRE compliant view and download services. The [https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/gml_application_schema_toolbox QGIS plugin ‘GML Application Schema Toolbox’] makes use of the GMLAS driver for GDAL and aims to develop tools to manipulate complex features in a GIS desktop application. On the related [https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/qgis-ogr-gmlas github page] ‘Consumption and use of GML complex features like INSPIRE harmonised data (vector), GeoSciML within QGIS’, specific INSPIRE use cases are described and illustrated.
+* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS] can be used to consume INSPIRE compliant view and download services. The [https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/gml_application_schema_toolbox QGIS plugin ‘GML Application Schema Toolbox’] makes use of the GMLAS driver for GDAL and aims to develop tools to manipulate complex features in a GIS desktop application. On the related [https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/qgis-ogr-gmlas GitHub page] ‘Consumption and use of GML complex features like INSPIRE harmonised data (vector), GeoSciML within QGIS’, specific INSPIRE use cases are described and illustrated.
 * [http://www.geomajas.org/ geomajas] can be used to support eGov workflows and create a controlled environment where processes can be executed based on available INSPIRE data.
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 === Other ===
-* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/are3na/home Ar3na] is A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform. This open community aims to support access to common reusable software and other components for spatial data in European e-government.
+* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/are3na/home Are3na] is A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform. This open community aims to support access to common reusable software and other components for spatial data in European e-government.
 * [https://inspire-reference.jrc.ec.europa.eu/tools INSPIRE in Practice] is an inventory of useful tools for the INSPIRE implementation. They can range from desktop/server software, libraries, plugins, online services and many more technical products and solutions that help people to share INSPIRE data, metadata and services.
 == Actions to improve the existing tools ==
-* It could be useful that OSGeoLive projects listed on this page include some INSPIRE example in their quickstart docuemention to illustrate their usefulness in the specific perspective of INSPIRE.
+* It could be useful that OSGeoLive projects listed on this page include some INSPIRE example in their quickstart documentation to illustrate their usefulness in the specific perspective of INSPIRE.
 [[Category: Standards]]
 [[Category: INSPIRE]]

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 Please add a short description of the software implementation and a link to the online resource.
 === Metadata management ===
 * [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description/ INSPIRE EUOSME]: (European Open Source Metadata Editor) developed by EC-JRC in the EuroGEOSS project, and deployed in the [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/ INSPIRE Geoportal] to allow user to test editing capabilities and testing ISO19139 XML files
 * [http://best-practices.smespire.eu/practices/133/inspire-metadata-in-a-simple-excel-file INSPIRE Excel file]: developed within [http://www.geosmartcity.eu/ GeoSmartCity project] to collect INSPIRE XML19139 compliant metadata in easy and quick way
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 === Data storage/management ===
-* [http://postgis.net/ PosgGIS]: ...
+* [http://postgis.net/ PosgGIS] adds spatial capabilities to the PostgreSQL relational database. It extends PostgreSQL so it can store, query, and manipulate spatial data. In this Quickstart we will use ‘PostgreSQL’ when describing general database functions, and ‘PostGIS’ when describing the additional spatial functionality provided by PostGIS.
 * [http://www.rasdaman.org Rasdaman]: flexible, scalable spatio-temporal raster server, supporting OGC WMS, WCS, WCPS, WPS; OGC WCS Core Reference Implementation.
 * [http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/ SpatiaLite]: ...
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 === Data modeling ===
 * [http://idm.spatialdbgroup.polimi.it/it/inspire-data-model-tools/ INSPIRE Data Model Tools]: developed by Politecnico di Milano to facilitate the browsing of INSPIRE Data Specifications and provide procedure to structure PostGIS pseudo-INSPIRE SQL structure
 === Data mapping/transformation ===
 * [http://inspire-foss.org inspire-foss.org INSPIRE FOSS]: ETL-tooling for INSPIRE Data harmonization and harmonized web services (largely unmaintained)
-* [http://www.esdi-community.eu/projects/hale HALE]: ...
+* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/java4inspire/description Java4INSPIRE]: is a java library to handle INSPIRE data as java objects; it may be used to transform existing spatial datasets into INSPIRE compliant datasets
-* [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: deegree supports a internal DSL (a XML configuration file) to specify mappings from a database model into a GML application schema which allow on-the-fly transformation of data.
+* [http://www.stetl.org Stetl]: Python-framework for ETL. With [https://github.com/justb4/stetl/tree/master/examples/basics/10_jinja2_templating Examples] for INSPIRE data harmonization.
 === Network services ===
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 ==== Discovery ====
 * [http://pycsw.org pycsw]: OGC CSW server.  Standalone or embeddable.  Powers CSW in CKAN, GeoNode.  OGC Reference Implementation
 * Geonetwork
-* [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: Provides an implementation of a OGC CSW 2.0.2 APISO server. Supporting harvest operation and storage of MD records for centralized apporach.
+* [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: Provides an implementation of a OGC CSW 2.0.2 APISO server. Supporting harvest operation and storage of MD records for centralized apporach. The [https://live.osgeo.org/fr/quickstart/deegree_quickstart.html Quickstart of Degree for the OsGeo-Live] uses an INSPIRE example.
 ==== View ====
-* GeoServer
+* [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] is a tool for serving maps for other clients to draw. It allows to setup view and download services as required by the INSPIRE Directive.
 * [http://www.deegree.org/ deegree]: Provides an OGC compliant WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0 server (OGC reference implementation). Additional it has an implemantation of the OGC WMTS 1.0 standard.
-* MapServer
+* [http://mapserver.org/ MapServer] is an Open Source server-based application that allows you to publish geographic map images and vector data through the internet using OGC standards such as WMS, WFS, and WCS.
 ==== Download ====
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 * MapServer
 * [https://wiki.52north.org/bin/view/SensorWeb/SensorObservationServiceIVDocumentation 52°North Sensor Observation Service 4.x]: Enhanced SOS implementation for serving observation data compliant with the INSPIRE requirements for Download Services
 === Validation services ===
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 === Clients ===
-* QGIS
+* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS] can be used to consume INSPIRE compliant view and download services. The [https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/gml_application_schema_toolbox QGIS plugin ‘GML Application Schema Toolbox’] makes use of the GMLAS driver for GDAL and aims to develop tools to manipulate complex features in a GIS desktop application. On the related [https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/qgis-ogr-gmlas github page] ‘Consumption and use of GML complex features like INSPIRE harmonised data (vector), GeoSciML within QGIS’, specific INSPIRE use cases are described and illustrated.
-* [http://www.geomajas.org/ geomajas]
+* [http://www.geomajas.org/ geomajas] can be used to support eGov workflows and create a controlled environment where processes can be executed based on available INSPIRE data.
 === Registry ===
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 === Other ===
-* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/are3na/home Ar3na] A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform. This open community aims to support access to common reusable software and other components for spatial data in European e-government.
+* [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/are3na/home Ar3na] is A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform. This open community aims to support access to common reusable software and other components for spatial data in European e-government.
 [[Category: Standards]]
 [[Category: INSPIRE]]