Transcript Marketing & Promotional Strategy

Towards a pan-european
infrastructure
for marine data & information
by
ir Dick M.A. Schaap on behalf of the
Sea-Search consortium
National Oceanographic Data Centres
Europe has National Oceanographic Data Centres and
Focal Points, that are skilled and experienced in Marine
Data Management
More than 10 years ago a closer cooperation was initiated:
• to achieve a more cost effective approach to ocean and
marine data & information management
• to fulfill the growing demand for these services and support
from scientists and other communities
• to stimulate more use of data & information resources and
more interaction and transfer between users and providers
Development over time: 1994 - 2005
1994 – 1998 EC-MAST Programme:
• MAST Data Committee of NODC’s
• Code on Data Management in MAST projects
• Compiling large international environmental data sets
• Creating data thematic networks.
1998-2001 MAST Data Committee => EURONODIM
network:
• Concerted action of 16 NODC’s + EC
• To provide users with central overview and better access
to ocean and marine data & information in Europe
• To exchange experience and to cooperate in data & info
management practices and methods.
2002-2005 EURONODIM => Sea-Search:
Pan-European network for ocean & marine data and
information management
Sea-Search project
(2002-2005)
Pan-european dimension (30 countries – 33 partners)
EURONODIM network expanded with NODC’s and MDC’s from
Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Bulgaria,
Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, Israel, Malta, Cyprus,
Croatia, and Morocco.
• adopting the mechanisms and populate the meta-data
directories of Sea-Search
• exchange of experiences between present and new
partners concerning dm practices and methods.
• new partners contribute to dissemination of Sea-Search
and its products in their countries
Sea-Search Partners
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Marine Information Service (MARIS) - Netherlands
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) - United Kingdom
Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum (BSH - DOD) - Germany
Systemes D'Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer (IFREMER-SISMER) France
5. National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) - Denmark
6. Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HNODC-NCMR) - Greece
7. Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia (IEO) - Spain
8. Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) - Sweden
9. Irish Marine Data Centre - Marine Institute (MI) - Ireland
10.Norwegian Marine Data Center - Institute of Marine Research (IMR) - Norway
11.Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR) - Finland
12.Management Unit of the Mathematical Models of the North Sea (RBIN MUMM)- Belgium
13.Marine Research Institute (MRI) - Iceland
14.Instituto Hidrografico (IHPT) - Portugal
15.ENEA La Spezia (ENEA) - Italy
16.Netherlands Oceanographic Data Committee (NODC) - Netherlands
17.Centre of Marine Research, Ministry of the Environment (CMT) - Lithuania
18.Institute of Meteorology and Water management, Maritime Branch (IMGWOM) - Poland
Sea-Search partners
19.All Russian Research Institute of Hydro-Meteorological Information (RIHMIWDC)- Russia
20.P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
(IO-RAS) - Russia
21.Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Ukrainian National Academy of Science (MHI)
- Ukraine
22.Institute of Oceanology, Department of Marine Physics, Bulgarian Academy of
Science (IO-BAS) - Bulgaria
23.Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Geography and Geo-Ecology, UNESCO
Oceanological Research Centre (TSU-UORC) - Georgia
24.Middle East Technical University, Institute of Marine Sciences (METU-IMC) Turkey
25.National Institute for Marine Research and Development
(NIMRD) Romania
26.Institute Nationale de Recherche Halieutique
(INRH) - Morocco
27.Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Latvia (IAE-UL) - Latvia
28.Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (IORS) - Croatia
29.University of Malta, Physical Oceanography Unit (IOI-MOC) - Malta
30.Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute (IOLR) - Israel
31.Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, Laboratory of Physical
Oceanography (DFMR-OS) - Cyprus
32.Tallinn Technical University, Marine Systems Institute (MSI) - Estonia
33.Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) - Italy
Sea-Search Partner countries
Portal website and network of partner websites
www.sea-search.net
European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets
(EDMED) with more than 3800 descriptions of Datasets
from more than 590 Data holding centres
European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets
European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets
Other Sea-Search products so far
• European Directory of Marine Environmental Research
Projects (EDMERP) with more than 780 descriptions of
Research Projects from more than 240 Research Institutes
• Directory of EC supported marine research with more than
530 descriptions of EC Research Projects
• European Cruise Summary Reports database, including online entry facilities
Sea-Search further activities
Development of Common Data Index (CDI) meta-database
to individual datasets, held at partner databases
Development of a number of online Data Access pilots
Adoption of new technologies and data policies
 adoption of open standards ISO19115
 adoption of XML
 adoption of Geographical Search and Presentation
 use of high-bandwidth communication networks
•Further cooperation and exchange with Operational
Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Coastal environmental
management communities, Regional Conventions and EEA
(Water Framework Directive – Marine Strategy)
Common Data Index - CDI:
• To give users a highly detailed insight in the
availability and geographical spreading of marine data
across the different Sea-Search partners and beyond.
• Low treshold for other dataholding organizations to
join the CDI-network with up-to-date indexes to their
data.
• Development includes definition and promotion of
data dictionaries and XML schema following ISO19115
• Implementation of online Geographic search and
display functionalities
CDI Search & Updating infrastructure
User 1
User 2
User 3
User 4
User ..
CDI Search & Navigation
Geographic + Alphanumeric
Interface
CDI
database
CDI-1
XSL
Source 1
BODC
CDI-2
XSL
Source 2
IFREMER
CDI-3
XSL
Source 3
BSH-DOD
CDI-4
XSL
Source 4
……….
CDI- pilot user interface
CDI- pilot user interface
CDI- pilot user interface
Sea-Search involvement
Sea-Search partners are involved in many other European
and international projects, contributing and safeguarding
good data management
Some recent examples:
Services for the marine geological institutes in Europe in
the projects EUMARSIN, EUROCORE and EUROSEISMICS
See www.eu-seased.net
•Services for EUROGOOS for the European Directory of
Ocean-observing Systems (EDIOS)
See www.edios.org
•Services for the MERSEA project in the framework of the
Global Monitoring system for Environment and Security
(GMES
www.eu-seased.net
User Interface - homepage:
Overall search results + factsheets per
survey / line:
Pop-up enlarged map + only geo-samples
layer on:
www.edios.org
www.edios.org - simple search
www.edios.org - search results
Conclusions
Sea-Search partners are leading data managers in the
European marine & oceanographic community and oversee
large volumes of marine environmental data.
These data centres are divisions of major national marine and
oceanographic institutes and governmental departments,
ensuring long-term consolidation of the infrastructure
The Sea-Search infrastructure is operational, has a strong
foundation and is developing steady towards full detailed
overview and access of data & information by internet
Sea-Search partners widely support national and EC projects
with data management and dissemination
Next step: SeaDataNet
2005 - 2010
 further development of Sea-Search into pan-european and
harmonised infrastructure for archival and provision of
marine environmental data
 providing full and transparant data access by internet
 streamlining overall process from data acquisition, QC and
storage to online dissemination and distribution
 adopting overall standard QC protocols
 providing standard automated data & information products
SeaDataNet
long-term objectives
 To give easy access to marine data currently collected by
hundreds of organisations under as many different systems
•To construct a standardized system for managing the large
and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets
and the new automatic observation systems.
•To prepare synthetic value added information products
•To provide a fruitful basis for application users for producing
their end-user products and services
SeaDataNet concept of Regional networks
Prototype architecture
User
portal
User
portal
Replicated
Common
Catalogue
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Common
Catalogue
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Common
Catalogue
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Common
Catalogue
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Common
Catalogue
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Common
Catalogue
SeaDataNet-DS Virtual Private Network
Normalization
Interface
Normalization
Interface
Normalization
Interface
Normalization
Interface
Normalization
Interface
Baltic
Database
North-East
Atlantic
Database
Western
Mediterranean
Database
Eastern
Mediterranean
Database
Black Sea
Database
NE-Atlantic Node
W-Mediterranean
Node
E-Mediterranean
Node
Baltic Node
Black-Sea
Node
SeaDataNet proposal
• A proposal for SeaDataNet is now under preparation for the
Research Infrastructures programme of the EC
• Involvement of more than 60 data centres from all coastal
states around European Seas
 Cooperation and involvement of many interest groups,
active in application areas, such as EuroGOOS, GMES, ICZM,
ERA, European Water Directive, Marine Regional Conventions,
Marine Strategy