The information accessible on this area of the INSPIRE site has been provided by Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) and Legally Mandated Organisation (LMOs) via the ongoing Call for Expression of Interest for INSPIRE development.

The information includes:

Description
SDIC Title Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Acronym ISDE
Details
Mission and Objectives The Irish Spatial Data Exchange (ISDE) is a discovery service for spatial data belonging to. Using the exchange it is possible to search meta-data catalogues operated by each of the partner organisations. This can be done either using the ISDE Search page on this site, or by selecting the global option on the individual catalogue search pages from any of the partners’ websites. The exchange architecture is distributed with a light central mediation service. The exchange is based around OGC and ISO standards, which allows it to be independent of any catalogue implementation technologies. Development of the exchange has been funded by the Information Society Fund, the DCENR Change and Innovation Fund and the Marine Institute.
Mandate The Irish Spatial Data Exchange is a discovery service for national spatial datasets belonging to government organisations. The members of the ISDE project seek to provide an exchange that acts as a spatial data infrastructure for discovery for Ireland.
Formal Mandate National Government
Main Activities The ISDE project is focussed on providing metadata compliant to INSPIRE.
SDIC URL http://www.isde.ie
Membership Marine Institute Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, UCC Environmental Protection Agency Geological Survey of Ireland Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Typology Thematic
Comments The Marine Institute are focussing on the 'marine' component of the ISDE Spatial Data Infrastructure ie. SDI.
Contact information for SDIC
Contact Person Trevor Alcorn
Organisation Marine Institute
Function Data Analyst
Address Marine Institute HQRinvilleOranmoreCo. Galway
Country IRELAND
Tel +353-91-387476
Fax +353-91-387201 
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development
  1. submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
  2. participate in the review process
  3. be kept informed
Area of work/experience
Geographic Domain: National
Description of geographic extent Irish Marine Exclusive Economic Zone
Societal Sector Research, Education
Specific Expertise
Metadata
Data Specifications
Data and Service Sharing
INSPIRE Data Themes
Title UserProducerCoordinator
Coordinate reference systems    
Geographical grid systems    
Geographical names    
Administrative units    
Addresses    
Hydrography    
Elevation    
Orthoimagery    
Geology    
Environmental monitoring Facilities
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Area management/restriction/regulation zones & reporting units    
Meteorological geographical features
Oceanographic geographical features
Sea regions    
Habitats and biotopes    
Species distribution
Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development The Marine Institute have a number of programmes collecting marine environmental data across the fields of biology, chemistry, geology and meteorology. In addition, the Marine Institute are the lead partner in the Irish Spatial Data Exchange which is acting as a discovery service to Irish national datasets taking into consideration and being driven by the INSPIRE directive.
Primary Business Marine Data Management 
Environmental application domains Marine  

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