Marco,
non è che c’è nuovamente di mezzo Innovazione Italia (come per il portale dei portali … )??
Scherzi a parte, sarebbe scrivere queste considerazioni a EGIP, no?
Chi inizia?
Per quanto riguarda “l’expert viewer fatto in flash” (flash ???) ricordo che, seppure in piccola parte, se nel TR15449 (vedi traduzione FGI in corso) del CEN/TC287 c’è un paragrafo sul tema dell’accessibilità (finora considerato pochissimo dalla comunità GI).
In particolare (estratto non ancora tradotto):
Capitolo 10 - GeoPortali
There are no specific rules for portal development, although in some countries public bodies are bound to national regulations regarding the creation of internet sites. An example of a specification that has found its way into e-government programmes is the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
WAI is an initiative from W3C. It is stated in several e-government documents that electronic services in the near future will replace many of the manual proceeding for the citizens that today are handled by human beings. This requires specific focus on how these services should be implemented. The WAI describes strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities. These strategies and guidelines are further described in http://www.w3.org/WAI/.
GI users – and users of geo-portals - tend to have two major requirements: 1) they need to be able to see a map, and 2) they need to be able to interact with the map through use of a mouse or similar locator. WAI does not mention GI-related matter at all, but it does provide indications on how to structure interaction with the user. For instance, WAI indicates to “provide client-side image maps instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape” and in case of server-side implementations to “provide redundant text links for each active region of a server-side image map”.
WAI does not mention the inability of some people to perceive differences between some or all colours, which has a greater impact than some technical issues like JavaScript-disabled browsers.
At the same time, some European country started the Euroaccessibility initiative (http://www.euroaccessibility.org/objectives.php), in order to avoid the fragmentation of the WAI outcomes. Some countries incorporate the WAI specification in their national law or regulations. In Italy for example, the WAI specifications were declared mandatory by law in 2004 (Legge 4/2004 - http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/04004l.htm), and is now mandatory for all Public Administrations (see also http://www.pubbliaccesso.gov.it/english/index.htm).
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visto che “mio fratello è figlio unico”, ne approfitto e metto in Cc anche Gfoss
On 4/11/07, Marco Cerruti <cerruti.marco@gmail.com> wrote:
Ricevo da lista EGIP la comunicazione del lancio ufficiale del sistema informativo comunitario a tema acque.
Visto che i primi commenti in lista erano stati positivi, visto che spesso in ARPA Lombardia lavoro a fianco di chi si occupa di risorse idriche, visto anche che in questo WISE c’è di mezzo il JRC in cui sono stato per un annetto, sono andato a farci un giro e …… mi spiace ma non sono soddisfatto.
Il WISE è un interfaccia multilingue (o almeno multilingue lo sarà) al già esistente data centre della EEA. La sezione Theme&Data rimanda infatti proprio alla sezione acque del sito EEA dove a quel punto posso scegliere se:
- accedere ad un expert viewer fatto in flash, che ieri non funzionava ma oggi sì, particolarmente lento (sia ieri che oggi) e che mi lascia un sensazione da “giochino preconfezionato”. Da questo expert viewer non ho trovato modo di scaricare dati (però noto che la comunicazione dice “in the future the system will enable to…”). Non ho trovato nemmeno una info su come sia stato realizzato, anche se da questo punto di vista non sono stato molto a cercare.
- ripiegare su Data Download, che però manda alla prima pagina dell’archivio dati della EEA, dalla quale devo ripartire da zero andandomi a cercare, ad esempio, spatial data a tema acque.
Boh, non mi sembra un “lancio” significativo.
Commenti vostri? Magari di qualcuno che ha a che fare le le acque.M
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Roger Longhorn < ral@alum.mit.edu>
Date: 10-apr-2007 12.40
Subject: [Fwd: Launch of the Water Information System for Europe]
To: EGIP <european-gi-policy@jrc.it >An interesting portal that has been a long time in development. Since much of the data behind WISE is (a) cross-border and (b) required to be compliant with Water Framework Directive (WFD) reporting rules, it will be interesting to see how well this data also related to the INSPIRE metadata, data and network services Implementing Rules as they are delivered over the coming months from the INSPIRE Drafting Teams.
Thanks to Kate Lance of GSDI Association for bringing this to my attention.
Kind regards
Roger Longhorn
ral@alum.mit.edu-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SDI-Europe] Launch of the Water Information System for Europe
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:07:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kate Lance klance_remote@yahoo.comhttp://water.europa.eu/
The Water Information System for Europe (WISE) was launched March 23, 2007.
WISE is a web portal which provides the public with a wealth of information on water and water-related topics such as bathing and other water quality data and information on urban wastewater treatment sites. The portal is a collaborative effort between the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Commission (Environment, Joint Research Centre and Eurostat).http://water.europa.eu/content/view/13/27/lang,en/
The Themes and Data section provides information on a variety of European water related issues, and includes an overview of:
European waters
Water pollution
Status and monitoring
Water resources
Water management
Data centre services
Reports and indicators
For many of the thematic areas, maps and data are available. These aids help visualise the particular issue on a European scale. For example, thematic maps summarise the data delivered by the Member States and provide links to national information providers at river basin level. Maps are updated when new quality assured data are received.
All data used for the European overview are accessible as part of the public interface of the WISE Geographic Information System. In the future, this system will also enable experts to access and download all the available data that Member States submit to the EU institutions. As a result, it will help streamline and reduce the reporting burden for Member States under the obligation of the Water Framework Directive and other water legislation, including also State of Environment information for the European Environment Agency or Eurostat.
This information is intended to provide a comprehensive single entry point for identifying and tackling current water related issues for the whole of Europe as well as measuring the development of water quality and quantity. This will help facilitate improved management under the Water Framework and other EU Directives.http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water
http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/wise-viewer
expert WISE map viewer
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Piergiorgio Cipriano
pg.cipriano@gmail.com
non avendo mai fatto (per ora) un test con il player libero.