The ENERGIC OD Project: A Brokering Approach for Facilitating Access and Use of Geospatial Open Data

Launched on October 2014, the ENERGIC OD project (European NEtwork for Redistributing Geospatial Information to user Communities - Open Data), was co-funded by the European Union under the Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP). ENERGIC OD involved 15 partners from six EU member states (Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and UK) and was co-ordinated by the (CNR-IIA) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto sull'Inquinamento Atmosferico in Italy. In line with the EU call, the general objectives of the project were: 1)to develop Virtual Hubs at different territorial scales (regions, member states, Europe), providing unique and mutually consistent points of access to heterogeneous data sources for both end-users (via geoportals) and machines (service interfaces, APIs). 2)To demonstrate the validity of the concept, design, implementation and deployment of VHs through the development of a set of ten innovative applications in different domains. The proposed applications will address the needs of businesses, citizens and public institutions, making use of both public and private (open) geospatial data.