Transcript Marketing & Promotional Strategy

a Pan-European Infrastructure for Ocean and
Marine Data Management
Dick M.A. Schaap – MARIS (SeaDataNet technical coordinator)
Background
• Data availability of vital importance for marine research
• European data set is fragmented
• Not always quality controlled
• Not always easily accessible
• In 35 countries bordering European seas
• more than 600 scientific laboratories from government
organizations and private industry collect data
• use various sensors on board of research vessels, submarines,
fixed and drifting platforms, airplanes and satellites
• measure physical, geophysical, geological, biological and
chemical parameters, biological species, etc.
SeaDataNet project
• EU Sixth Framework Programme
• Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3)
• 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2011
• Objectives
• develop an efficient distributed pan-European marine data
management Infrastructure for managing large and diverse
data sets
• network existing professional data centres of 35 countries,
active in data collection
• provide integrated databases of standardised quality online
SeaDataNet partnership
49 partners including:
• Major oceanographic
institutes of 35 countries
• National Oceanographic
Data Centres (NODCs)
• Divisions of major national
marine research institutes
• 3 satellite data centres
• 3 scientific modelling
centres
• 2 SMEs experts in
software development
• 3 International
organisations
Building on experience
• Data management of scientific projects, e.g. MTPIIMATER, CANIGO, OMEX, MERSEA, etc.
• Leaders of Data Management Concerted Actions
• MEDAR/MEDATLAS II - Mediterranean Data Archaeology and
Rescue, aiming to make available a comprehensive data product of
temperature, salinity and bio-chemical data in the Mediterranean and
Black Sea through a wide international cooperation
• Sea-Search – The gateway to Oceanographic and Marine Data &
Information in Europe, to provide an effective navigation tool to
oceanographic and marine data and information sources for European
marine waters and to centres in Europe with expertise and skills in
oceanographic and marine data & information management.
• Bringing in new partners – satellite data centres
SeaDataNet components
Infrastructure versions
• Version 0
Continuation and maintenance of existing Sea-Search systems with minor
modifications
• Version 1
All data centres involved in upgraded meta-databases
Technical Task Team partners involved in transparent data access, security,
monitoring, viewing services = trans-national access
Pre-operational by November 2007 and operational by February 2008
• Version 2
All data centres involved in trans-national access and access upgraded
Operational by 2010
SeaDataNet Data Policy
• Metadata
• free and open access, no registration required
• each data centre should provide the meta-data in standardized format
to populate the catalogue services
• Data and products services
• the general case if free and open access/mandatory registration
• a “SeaDataNet role” (partner, academic, commercial etc.) is attributed
to each user
• Each NODC attributes the roles to the users of its of country
• Out of the partnership, the roles are assigned by SeaDataNet user-desk
• each data centre node delivers data according to the user’s role and
its local regulation
• each data centre should provide freely the data sets necessary to
develop the common products
Discovery services
• Marine environmental data sets
(EDMED)
• Marine environmental research
projects (EDMERP)
• Observing systems (EDIOS)
• Research Cruise Summary
Reports (CSR)
• Common Data Index (CDI)
• Directory of marine
organisations (EDMO)
Common Data Index = linking pin
• Index to individual data
sets
• Approx. 200000 entries
from 10 partners
• ISO19115 metadata
standard has been
adopted
• On-line searchable
directory
• Direct access to online data sets,
catalogues or e-mail
request
Technical developments
• Establishment of common vocabularies
• Upgrading metadata formats for harmonisation and interrelationships (ISO
19115 as basis)
• Upgrading metadata entry and retrieval systems:
• XML exchange (push and pull)
• XML validation services
• JavaTool (MIKADO) for generation of XML files
• Online Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Adopting Web services technology
• Vocabularies
• Metadata catalogues
• Defining common transport formats (NetCDF, ODV ASCII and MedAtlas)
• Developing delivery services (shopping basket and download manager)
• Developing viewing services (OGC mapping, ODV software, ..)
SeaDataNet User’s portal schema V1
General request
Metadata request
Project info
Standards
Data request Status of
request
metadata
User
Data
registration download
data
Cross search
My transact.
Software
EDIOS
EDMED
CDI
Vocabularies
CSR
EDMERP
EDMO
Shopping
basket
Requests
status
manager
Organisation +
data source id
CSR
EDIOS
CDI
EDMO
EDMED
at BODC
BODC Database
+ EDMERP
at MARIS
BSH Database
Metadata & Data catalogues
Entry point for access hits
services for metadata
Data downloading services
Visualization services (WMS) for V2
AAA
User
Register
Ifremer Database
at BSH
Registr.
...
Download managers in Data centers
Involvement in other networks
• SeaDataNet partners are involved in many other European
and international projects, contributing and safeguarding good
data management. Examples are:
• 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 Oceanobserving Systems (EDIOS). See www.edios.org
• Partners in the MERSEA project (GMES) for the set up of the Mersea
Information Management (MIM) system
• Partners in the Humboldt project (GMES) contributing to a European
Spatial Data Infrastructure
www.eu-seased.net
a searchable catalogue of over 2.5 million line kilometres
of marine seismic and sonar survey data held at
European institutions
a searchable catalogue of over 300.000 seafloor samples
from the ocean basins and continental shelves, held at
European institutions
Supportive to international initiatives and
directives
• GEO-GEOSS initiative (ad-hoc Group of Earth Observations
of G8) : Global Earth Observation System of Systems
• GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) of
ESA and EC as European component of GEOSS
• INSPIRE, new directive for spatial data infrastructure in
Europe
And can provide added-value for Marine Strategy
Implementation, providing a wealth of complimentary data (in
time and spatial coverage) for high quality assessments
Website
www.seadatanet.org