Annex I - “Description of Work” - Hlandata

CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3Pilot BHLANDATAEach one of the public or private entities participating in the HLANDATA project as content providerswill also become end users of the achieved services and functionalities, with the already pointedpeculiarity that the intermediate-level users of such kind of implemented solutions will be specificallyconceived as target users of the delivered applications.The usefulness of the different web services and pilot projects, together with the public or semi-publicnature of most of the entities involved in the project, assure on the one hand the maintenance andfinancial viability in the future of the services, and on the other hand the free deployment of theachieved objectives and functionalities through a variety of ways. Each partner will be in charge forthe support and economical maintenance of the web services and high-level applications after the endof the project, which is in any case not problematic, provided the extraordinary benefits to be extractedby the partners from the successful accomplishment of the project objectives. At the end of the project,each of the pilot owners will develop an exploitation plan (task 4.3 within WP4) aimed at assessingand explaining the way the pilots will be adapted to an operational version aimed at giving stable andcontinuous service to the end users of these pilots. Due to the public nature of the partners developingthe pilots, these exploitation plans will not be led by the objective of getting a financial benefit fromthe exploitation of the pilots, but they will look into the ways of integrating the pilots in an operationalway in the systems they already run giving a public service to those interested parties.HLANDATA project will also be a reference initiative towards the INSPIRE transposition regardingthe Land use and Land Cover data. The experience gained in the project will be highly relevant for thedevelopment of the implementation rules and therefore the project results will be a valuable input forthis. This is why among its deliverables the project will deliver guidelines and recommendations forthe European countries for the establishment of the harmonization of their Land Use/Land Cover Dataand the development of their Land Use/Land Cover Data sharing Infrastructures.23/03/10 v11 33