INSPIRE Technical Guidelines

Among the things INSPIRE implementers can do to increase the quality of their INSPIRE datasets, the correct use of voidable elements deserves a special mention. The concept of voidable could generate confusion in the INSPIRE implementer, who could be tempted by the erroneous equivalence ‘voidable = optional to provide’.  

Code lists are used extensively in the INSPIRE data models. They can be classified according to their governance (INSPIRE governed vs externally governed) and their extensibility:

The 5 Ws of the next INSPIRE deadline: