Transcript The ICAN Prototype

The International
Coastal Atlas Network
(ICAN)
Dawn Wright
Oregon State University
Ned Dwyer
Coastal & Marine Resources
Centre, Ireland
FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee Meeting, Oct 8, 2008
Outline
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
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Background
Strategic Aims
Current Membership
ICAN Workshop 3
Interoperability Prototype
Strategic Directions
Conclusion
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Background:
Intellectual Merit
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• Issues of regional governance,
coordination
• Significant capacity, varying approaches
• Best practices?
• Widespread solutions needed
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Access to and documentation of data
Integration of tools
Decision support for coastal mgmt via atlases
“Semantic interoperability”
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Emergence of
“Coastal Web Atlases”
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
“A collection of digital maps and datasets
with supplementary tables,
illustrations, and information that
systematically illustrate the coast,
oftentimes with cartographic and
decision support tools, all of which are
accessible via the Internet.”
(O’Dea et al., 2007)
Coastal Zone Management, Governance
Governments, NGOs, Citizen Groups
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Emergence of
“Coastal Web Atlases”
• Outline
Marine Irish Digital Atlas, mida.ucc.ie
• Background
• Strategic Aims
Oregon Coastal Atlas,
www.coastalatlas.net
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
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Oregon Coastal
Atlas, USA
MIDA, Ireland
De Kustatlas,
Belgium
Magic, UK
NOAA Digital Coast,
USA
And many MORE …
Background:
Workshop 1, Cork, Ireland
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
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• To create & strengthen
relationships between
experts in marine &
coastal mapping in
North America and
Europe
• To identify state of the
art approaches to
coastal mapping and
informatics
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Background:
Workshop 2, Corvallis, USA
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
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• Improve searches between
atlases
– metadata to ontologies
– Marine Metadata
Interoperabilty
• Semantic interoperability
• Linkages to use cases,
communities
• Proof-of-concept ontologies &
interoperability prototype
• Large, collaborative funding
proposals
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ICAN Strategic Aims
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• Share experiences and find common solutions to
coastal web atlas development
– Knowledge portal: Guides, cookbooks,
“engines”, discussion boards, code, use cases…
• Globally integrate and interoperate among locallymaintained atlases
• Inform regional decision- and policy-making across
several themes:
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Climate change - coastal vulnerability
Coastal governance (boundaries, protected areas, etc.)
Coastal hazards
Population pressures
Marine spatial planning
Resource availability and exploitation
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Current Membership
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
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Workshop 3, Copenhagen,
July 2008
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• Advance actions in:
– Technical developments
• Review of interoperability prototype
– Strategic directions
– Governance structure
• Welcome new members
• Link to European relevant activities
• Full proceedings at
ican.science.oregonstate.edu
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Interoperability Prototype
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Integrate and facilitate access to several distributed
& heterogeneous coastal atlases
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
Global atlas
• Conclusion
Local atlases
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Technical Developments
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• Focus on coastal erosion as a use-case
– Overarching view : vulnerability of coastal
communities to climate change
• Key Future work on prototype
– At least 6 new nodes
– Implement OGC WMS on all
– Implement WFS on advanced subset
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Strategic Directions
• Outline
• Background
• Clarified vision and goals of ICAN
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• Identified a range of key activities in following
areas:
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Technical project development
Awareness raising and publicity
Outreach and training activities
Documentation of resources, tools, expertise
Development of ICAN portal
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Governance Structure
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• Generated Document outlining:
– Committee structure
– Governance activities
– Pathway towards a sustainable funding
model
• Develop a transition plan from ad-hoc
steering to formalized governance
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ICAN Workshop 4
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
UNESCO University Trieste, Italy
Autumn 2009
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For More Information…
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Workshop 1 in Cork, Workshop 2 in Corvallis
– workshop1.science.oregonstate.edu
Workshop 3 in Copenhagen
– ican.science.oregonstate.edu
ICAN Interoperability Prototype
– ican.ucc.ie
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Acknowledgments
U.S. National Science Foundation
Irish National Development Plan
Marine Institute (Ireland), Marine RTDI
Networking & Technology Transfer Initiative
European Environment Agency
Oregon Coastal Mgmt Program
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