2005 National Report for Denmark

Danish status report

Jan Hjelmager

Metadata:

There is focus on implemented standard in Denmark for the time being. The reason for this focus is a restructuring of the Danish administrative system, where the number of counties is reduced from 13 to 5 and the number of municipalities is reduced from approximately 250 to 100. At the same time the task these organisations performs is also reorganised so that some of the task that previously was performed by the counties will in the future be by the state or the municipalities and vice versa.

Since the data in these organisations are organised in different ways there is a strong need for metadata described in a standardised way. Because of this need, many of the organisations is started to describe their data according to ISO 19115 Geographic Information – Metadata on a discovery level. In this work INSPIRE also plays in important role, because INSPIRE will require metadata for many of the data sets owned by the municipalities, counties and the state.

The Danish national metadata catalogue service is also being transformed to comply with the ISO 19115 standard.

WMS and WFS:

A Danish nongovernmental organization for geodata has developed guidelines for how to use WMS and WFS services. These services have become increasing popular at all levels of the public administrative system, as a way of communicating geodata to the citizen via the Internet.

XML and GML:

The above-mentioned nongovernmental organization has also developed a guideline for how to use GML.

Besides this there is an e-government project (www.oio.dk) going on under the leadership of the National IT and Telecom Agency, the project consists of several intermediate projects among which one is XML (including GML).