Transcript iMarine Reports Manager and the VME database

Fifth iMarine Board meeting
25-26 June 2014, FAO (Rome)
The Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME-DB) factsheet workflow
iMarine Reports Manager, a product to manage fact sheets content
Global inventory of fisheries measures
adopted in Areas Beyond National
Jurisdictional to prevent significant adverse
impacts of high-seas bottom fisheries on
vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) and
associated information
Related to Agenda item 6
Related to Agenda item 6
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Background
• Understanding the impacts of bottom contact gears used by deep-sea fisheries on
the seafloor is of the utmost priority.
• The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolutions that inspired FAO to
coordinate the development of The International Guidelines for the Management of
Deep-Sea Fisheries on the High Seas.
• Since 2006, RFMO/As have developed measures to protect benthic VMEs and their
coral and sponge communities.
• This has generated a large amount of dispersed and difficult to access information that
is now being entered on to a VME database to assist in informed decision making and
the development of further measures to increase sustainability and reduce impacts.
• The VME database is also aiming to facilitate partnerships and create networks among
the community of users, information contributors and those working on the
protection of VMEs in the high seas.
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VME-DB components: Maps & Fact Sheets
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The problem on Content management
Ensure a sustainable maintenance (delegating authority, distributing the efforts)
• Get a Content Management System (CMS) to handle the VME data
In a given data structure
In a specific workflow
Within a limited funds availability!
The solution
The iMarine Reports Manager
 A flexible CMS for reading content in whatever database schema
 User friendly interface
 Role-based workflow
 Real time integration
 Short development (three months)
 Delivered on time and on budget
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Updating the VME database through the iMarine Reports Manager
VME-DB
secured
Reports Manager
HTTPS
Fact sheet editing
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Timeline (focused on iMarine developments)
• 2012: Regional Workshop on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) in the Indian Ocean
Flic en Flac, Mauritius, 25–27 July 2012 Scenario on VME-DB components including
iMarine collaborative environment and reports manager
• 2013: FAO Regional Workshop on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) in the
Southeast Atlantic Ocean. Swakopmund, Namibia, 15 – 17 April 2013 iMarine reports
manager mock-up
• 2014: FAO Regional Workshop on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) in the North
Pacific Ocean. Tokyo, Japan, 11-13 March 2014 iMarine operational reports manager
• 2014: FAO Workshop on the Global Database for Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems. Rome,
Italy, 7-9 May 2014. Requests to improve the iMarine reports manager
• 2014: by the end of the year the VME database is expected to be released
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What’s next?
In the short term the iMarine Reports Manager is expected to:
• Manage users’ authorizations at RFMO level (Tickets #2438, #2829)
• Provide rich text editor (Ticket
#2786)
• Improve data validation rules (e.g. date format, string fields)
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iMarine Terms of Use applied to VME-DB
• The Reports Manager application is instantiated in a dedicated Virtual Research
Environment (VRE) for the VME database
• A private VRE with restricted access to selected users is foreseen in the iMarine Terms
of Use
• The VRE is not exposing data directly to the public nor sharing with other VREs hence
no specific license is required
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Other services
• The iMarine distributed e-infrastructure provides the VME community with a
collaborative workspace through a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for
information sharing and analysis.
• The community can take advantage of the e-Infrastructure to access
Biodiversity, Environmental and Fisheries data from other VREs.
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Acknowledgments
The VME-DB project is technically implemented by three teams
• FAO Team: M. Balestra, E. Blondel, F. Carocci, R. Empiri, F. Fiorellato, A. Gentile, J.
Sanders , F. Sibeni, M. Taconet , M. Tandstad , A. Thompson, E. Van Ingen
• iMarine Team: M. Assante, A. Ellenbroek, P. Pagano
• GeoSolutions Team: T. Di Pisa, S. Giannecchini, L. Natali
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Thank you!
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