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Wiebke EbelingAODN Development Office, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Luke EdwardsIMOS / iVEC / WAMSI / Curtin University, Perth, Australia

[email protected]://imos.org.au/aodn.html

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (1917 2008)Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (1917 – 2008)British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Wiebke EbelingLuke EdwardsPatrick Gorringe

AODN Development [email protected]

http://imos.org.au/aodn.html

eResearch Australasia conference“21st Century Research – Where Computing Meets Data”

Gold Coast, 8‐12 November 2010

Abundance is not the only incentive to study and monitor the oceans:

• assessment of biodiversity & marine ecosystems• assessment of biodiversity & marine ecosystems• exploitation & conservation of marine resources• discovery of alternative energy sources• prediction & early detection of natural disasters• understanding climate & investigating climate change• optimisation of transport routes &• etc…

safety

1842: Maury published his plan to simplify & organisethe information accumulated in navigational charts:

Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806 – 1873)

the information accumulated in navigational charts:“These charts are intended to generalize experienceof navigators in such a manner that each may havebefore him, at a glance, the experience of all.”

United States Navy, “Pathfinder of the Sea”:astronomer, historian, oceanographer,meteorologist, cartographer, author,

geologist, and educator







Establishing basic principles of meteorology & oceanography:

1853: Maury addressed attendees of the First International Maritime Conference For1853: Maury addressed attendees of the First International Maritime Conference ForDevising An Uniform System Of Meteorological Observations At Sea in Brussels

“… bringing the subject under the consideration of every maritime nation, with the hope of inducing all to adopt a uniform model of log book In order to place thehope of inducing all to adopt a uniform model of log‐book. In order to place the

captains navigating under a foreign flag in a position to cooperate in this undertaking.”

common standards / formats for ship logs a set of 18 standard instructions for meteorological observations at sea common standards of data quality control and analysis a system for the collection of ship logs

founding of the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), the predecessor of the World Meteorological Organization (1947)the predecessor of the World Meteorological Organization (1947)







>150 years later:

• we still (or even more than ever!) see the need for availability of marine data• we still (or even more than ever!) see the need for availability of marine data

• we still have the same requirements for interoperability

describing data = metadata standardsexchanging data = common data formats presenting data = infrastructure & accessreleasing data = data licensingreleasing data = data licensing

• but we can now utilise much neater technical solutions!







• builds on the “BlueNet” project

the Australian Ocean Data Network:

• builds on the BlueNet project established to link universities to the AODC (Australian Ocean Data Centre)

• includes six Australian Government partner agencies of the AODC‐Joint Facility signatory to contribute their substantial marine data holdings to the AODN “publicly funded data, publicly available”

the vision:

“an interoperable, online network of marine and coastal data resources […], supported by standards‐based metadata which will serve data to support Australia's scienceby standards based metadata, which will serve data to support Australia s science,

education, environmental management and policy needs: Australia’s data ocean commons.”







>150 years later:





distributed set of equipment anddata‐information services to make

marine data freely available

learn more about IMOS – listen to the next talk!







>150 years later:





to describe data:

metadata standard ISO19115/19139 for Geographic Information + Australian MarineGeographic Information Australian Marine

Community Profile (MCP) extension







standardised metadata records:

to predictably search for and build reusable software frameworks to handle metadatato predictably search for and build reusable software frameworks to handle metadata

harvested by the GeoNetwork software Metadata Entry and Search Tool (MEST)







>150 years later:





to exchange data:

Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) proposed to become geospatial standardproposed to become geospatial standard







common data formats:

to write scripts for data visualisation (maps plots)to write scripts for data visualisation (maps, plots)

advantages = standard data variable names, metadata embedded (‘self‐describing’)







>150 years later:





to present data:

infrastructure based on standard web services protocols by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)protocols by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)







standard web services:

to serve geospatial data via the internet

catalogue exchange:Catalogue Service to serve geospatial data via the internet gfor Web (CSW)

visualisation:Web Map Service (WMS)

data download:Web Feature Service (WFS)







AODN Web Portal for data discovery: map view

metadata search

data layers

filter options

legendsdata visualisation







>150 years later:





to release data:

Creative Commons by Attribution Licenceto share, copy, distribute, and adapt datato share, copy, distribute, and adapt data







Benefits of open‐access availability of marine data:

facilitate the discovery of data facilitate the discovery of data accelerate the uptake of research findings

reduce duplication of effort among agencies increase verification & re use of available data increase verification & re‐use of available data

identify data gaps and improve diversity in future marine research establish partnerships between sectors (States, Universities, Industry)

educate marine researchers to adopt standards encourage cooperative action towards common data management infrastructure

benefit to data user

benefit to data provider?

but: “only other people’s data should be freely available (to me), not mine (to them)...”







Promoting the culture of data‐sharing:

provider incentiveprovider incentive

“Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles”

Eysenbach G (2006) PLoS Biol 4(5): e157

bibliometric analysis of OA and non‐OAbibliometric analysis of OA and non OA articles published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

“Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate”

b !Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) PLoS One 2(3): e308 by 69% !







AODN’s data implementation challenge:

• marine data from different sectors• marine data from different sectors• archived and real‐time data across multiple disciplines• observation data such as remote sensing, tide gauges, and biological data• model output , forecasts, predictions







The key to…

future of marine research collaboration… future of marine research collaboration

multidisciplinary teams to solve problems

collaboration across disciplines networks… collaboration across disciplines networks

a nationally sustained AODN

long‐term sustainability regional views… long‐term sustainability regional views

engaging the entire marine community

first pilot project to establish a regional view of the AODN:

Western Australia







• builds on work started by

Establishing the WAODN:

• builds on work started by

WAMSI (Western Australian Marine Science Institute)iVEC (supercomputing facility)WASTAC (Western Australian Satellite Technology & Applications Consortium)WASTAC (Western Australian Satellite Technology & Applications Consortium)

• utilises iVEC infrastructure – e.g. iVEC MEST, Petascale datastore

• is facilitated by WA State Government infrastructure for spatial data (“SLIP”)

• can draw back on previous collaborations – e.g. between WA State Governmentand CSIRO (SRFME = Strategic Research Fund for the Marine Environment )

• will get new data contributors from cross section of the marine community• will get new data contributors from cross‐section of the marine community

State GovernmentCommonwealth Governmentuniversitiesuniversitiesprivate industrycommunity groups







Creating a comprehensive marine data index:

metadata sources







Engaging the marine community:

easy to point out

voluntary system – emphasis on “broker” or facilitation servicecontributors retain ownership, store, and publish their own data

hard to achieve

54%

The data format / service I use most regularly for work is:

getting disparate organisations working together for a common goal

54%1. Excel / CSV

2. Shapefiles / other GIS format

3.NetCDF / HDF / GeoTIFF/ binary

4 WMS / WFS / web service

example of feedback from iVEC Marine Data Management

workshop Sept 2010

Workshop had State Government majority

1 2 3 4 5

16%11%13%

7%

4.WMS / WFS / web service

5.None of the above

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Luke EdwardsIMOS / iVEC / WAMSI / Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Wiebke Ebeling, Patrick Gorringe, Roger ProctorAODN Development Office, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

[email protected]://imos.org.au/aodn.html

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