The purpose of the 36th NSDI workshop was to encourage work on the harmonization of data under the jurisdiction of public authorities in order to fulfill the obligations set by the INSPIRE Directive and the NSDI Act. For this workshop, the Croatian Geological Institute and the data topic "Geology" were chosen as the subject of NSDI. Geological data, primarily in the form of geological maps of various scales, constitute high-value data that have applications in many scientific fields and as such must be harmonized at the European level and available for view and download.
With this aim in mind, a workshop was held where geological map data from existing models were translated into the INSPIRE data model in the most precise way so that essential information from the original data would not be lost.
Harmonization of data represents one of the basic steps in the establishment, maintenance and development of NSDI, and can be performed using software packages for the transformation of spatial data.
The final goal is to have data from the topic of geology at the national level available on the INSPIRE Geoportal so that it can be visible and accessible to the entire European community.