IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ipt/iptwpa/jrc128885.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Evaluation of Application Programming Interfaces for INSPIRE

Author

Listed:
  • SCHLEIDT Katharina
  • VAN DER SCHAAF Hylke
  • MOSSGRABER Juergen
  • GRELLET Sylvain
  • OLIVEIRA Nuno

Abstract

The report investigates new developments in geospatial standards and technologies, foremost the new OGC API – Features and SensorThings API standards, within the context of the INSPIRE work programme. For this purpose, an evaluation strategy was developed to determine how these new and emerging standards can best be utilized to leverage existing investments by EU Member States, as well as supporting new developments in e-Government and the Digital Single Market. The evaluation focused on various facets of usability ranging from the configuration and deployment aspects of service deployment to ease of uptake of the API, and included a wide range of stakeholders within the evaluation process. The outcomes of this investigation were analysed, relevant guidance materials created based on insights gained, and widely disseminated to interested stakeholders. While usability evaluation has long been an established practice pertaining to Human Computer Interaction (HCI), this has often been neglected in regard to APIs, alternatively subsumed within a more general code review process. Research has shown that a well-structured API usability evaluation can ameliorate issues in the implementation phase, and greatly increase uptake of the API.

Suggested Citation

  • SCHLEIDT Katharina & VAN DER SCHAAF Hylke & MOSSGRABER Juergen & GRELLET Sylvain & OLIVEIRA Nuno, 2022. "Evaluation of Application Programming Interfaces for INSPIRE," JRC Research Reports JRC128885, Joint Research Centre.
    • Handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc128885
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128885
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    INSPIRE;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc128885. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Publication Officer (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipjrces.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.