There are seven categories for the Annex I data themes, one for each theme that specifies spatial objects:

  • Addresses

  • Administrative Units

  • Cadastral Parcels

  • Geographical Names

  • Hydrography

  • Protected Sites

  • Transport Networks

Additionally, there is the Interoperable data sets in GML category which contains test suites for conformance classes applicable to all interoperable data sets encoded in GML, for any INSPIRE data theme. All Annex I test suites invoke automatically the test suites in this category.

To validate an INSPIRE data set in GML for full conformance, select all test suites in the appropriate category. For example, for a data set containing addresses scroll to the Data Theme: Addresses (Data Specification version 3.1) category and select all 4 conformance classes by clicking on the 'use' flip switch on the right-hand side:

  • Application schema, Addresses

  • Data consistency, Addresses

  • Information accessibility, Addresses

  • Reference systems, Addresses

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Afterwards click on the Start button.

The files can either be uploaded or used by the INSPIRE validator by providing a URL.

Note
 The Validator only accepts files with XML and GML file extension and ZIP files containing these two file types. All other files like schema files cannot be used and are silently ignored by the Validator!

File upload

If the files are locally stored on your system use the Data source selector in the Configure Test Run dialog and select File Upload.

After clicking on Choose files one or multiple files can be selected. The files are uploaded and the Choose files button becomes inactive. Once the upload finishes, the Start button can be clicked to start the test.

Further steps are described in the standard manual.

Reference remote files by URL

If the data is available on the web, they can be tested by entering a single URL. Use the Data source selector and select Remote file (URL) in the Configure Test Run dialog.

Then enter the URL to either one XML, GML or ZIP file - or the URL of a query to your download service that returns one of these file types. If the URL requires authentication, username and password can be provided by clicking on Credentials.

Afterwards start the test by clicking on Start

Further steps are described in the standard manual.

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