INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe INSPIRE Generic Conceptual Model Title D2.5: Generic Conceptual Model, Version 3.4rc2 Status Version for Annex II/III data specifications v3.0rc2 Creator Drafting Team "Data Specifications" Date 2012-06-15 Subject Generic Conceptual Model of the INSPIRE data specifications Publisher Drafting Team "Data Specifications" Type Text Description Generic Conceptual Model of the INSPIRE data specifications Contributor Members of the INSPIRE Drafting Team "Data Specifications", INSPIRE Spatial Data Interest Communities & Legally Mandated Organisations, INSPIRE Consolidation Teams and other Drafting Teams Format MS Word (doc) Source Drafting Team "Data Specifications" Rights Public Identifier D2.5_v3.4rc2.docx Language En Relation n/a Coverage Project duration Table of contents Foreword ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 8 1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................. 11 2 Normative references ................................................................................................................... 11 3 Terms and abbreviations ............................................................................................................. 12 3.1 Terms ....................................................................................................................................... 12 3.2 Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................ 19 3.3 Verbal forms for the expression of provisions .......................................................................... 20 3.4 References within the document .............................................................................................. 21 4 Background and principles .......................................................................................................... 21 4.1 Requirements as stated in the INSPIRE Directive ................................................................... 21 4.1.1 Articles of the Directive ...................................................................................................... 21 4.1.2 Recitals in the Directive ..................................................................................................... 25 4.1.3 Additional principles for data specifications ....................................................................... 25 4.2 A standards-based approach ................................................................................................... 26 4.3 Data interoperability components ............................................................................................. 27 4.3.1 Principles ........................................................................................................................... 27 4.3.2 Components overview ....................................................................................................... 28 5 Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 35 6 Principles ....................................................................................................................................... 36 7 Terminology .................................................................................................................................. 37 8 Reference model ........................................................................................................................... 38 8.1 General aspects ....................................................................................................................... 38 8.2 The ISO 19101 reference model .............................................................................................. 38 8.3 INSPIRE data specifications .................................................................................................... 39 8.3.1 General aspects ................................................................................................................. 39 9 Rules for INSPIRE application schemas ..................................................................................... 40 9.1 Overview .................................................................................................................................. 40 9.2 General Feature Model ............................................................................................................ 40 9.2.1 Concepts provided by the General Feature Model – an overview ..................................... 40 9.2.2 Representations of models based on the General Feature Model – an overview ............. 41 9.2.3 Relevant profile of the General Feature Model .................................................................. 43 9.3 INSPIRE Feature Concept Dictionary Register ........................................................................ 43 9.4 Modelling application schemas ................................................................................................ 44 9.4.1 General rules ..................................................................................................................... 44 9.4.2 Additional rules for spatial object types ............................................................................. 45 9.4.3 Profiles of the ISO 19100 series ........................................................................................ 47 9.4.4 Additional rules for basic types .......................................................................................... 47 9.4.5 Additional rules for coded values ....................................................................................... 48 9.4.6 Additional rules for the properties with “no data” ............................................................... 50 9.4.7 Additional rules for observations ........................................................................................ 51 9.5 Conceptual schema language .................................................................................................. 52 9.5.1 General rules ..................................................................................................................... 52 9.5.2 Additional rules for coded values ....................................................................................... 53 9.6 The Consolidated INSPIRE UML Model .................................................................................. 56 9.6.1 Layers ................................................................................................................................ 56 9.6.2 Maintenance ...................................................................................................................... 57 9.6.3 UML profile ........................................................................................................................ 57 9.7 Spatial object life-cycle ............................................................................................................. 61 9.7.1 General rules ..................................................................................................................... 61 INSPIRE Data Specifications Reference: D2.5_v3.4rc2.docx Generic Conceptual Model 2012-06-15 Page 3 of 140 9.7.2 Modelling patterns for life-cycle information ...................................................................... 61 9.8 Base types ................................................................................................................................ 64 9.8.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................ 64 9.8.2 Base types ......................................................................................................................... 64 9.8.3 Additional base types ......................................................................................................... 69 9.9 Base models ............................................................................................................................. 74 9.10 Feature catalogues ................................................................................................................. 74 10 Spatial and temporal aspects .................................................................................................... 75 10.1 Spatial and temporal characteristics of a spatial object ......................................................... 75 10.2 Profile of the spatial schema .................................................................................................. 76 10.3 Profile of the temporal schema ............................................................................................... 77 10.4 Rules for use of coverage functions ....................................................................................... 77 10.5 Profile of the coverage schema .............................................................................................. 78 10.6 Geographic identifiers 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