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Perspectives on Collaborative Research
Environments offered by D4ScienceDIstributed colLaboratories Infrastructure on
Grid ENabled Technology for Science
Marc Taconet [email protected]
GeBich IV
Oostende - 27th to 30th January 2009
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1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine
sciences community
Conclusion: action items for Gebich
Outline of presentation
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National and Inter-Governmental Organizations dedicated to:
�sustainable exploitation of fishery resources
�conservation of habitats and ecosystems
The Institutional context in Marine sciences
overarching drivers
Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAF)
the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002, encourages nations to apply the
ecosystem approach by 2010...
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Implementation of the EAF: Components of knowledge
Production systems
/ Fleets
Resources of commercial
interest
Broader ecosystem
Physical environment
FAO
WFC
RFBs
CoML / OBIS
IOC
IUCN
Fis
he
rie
s
bio
div
ers
ity
En
vir
on
me
nt
The Institutional context in Marine sciences
Communities of Practice
GBIF
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Current status:
� communities of practices (CoP):� with e-infrastructures� using structured data
� research needs in Marine sciences� enable data sharing beyond established CoP� enable collaborative approaches
� generalizing solutions to interoperability is desirable
Opportunity� D4Science offers an approach
The Institutional context in Marine sciences
Linkages with Gebich objectives
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1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine
sciences community
Conclusion: action items for Gebich
Outline of presentation
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– Funding: 7M Euros• European Commission
– 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
– 11 Partners• Universities
• National institutes
• International organizations
• Private companies
– Timeframe• Phase 1: Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2009
• Phase 2: Oct. 2009 – Dec. 2011
– History• EGEE
• Diligent
Project backgroud
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calls for the realization of scientific e-Infrastructures that will
� remove all heterogeneity, sustainability, scalability, and other technical concerns from the minds of scientists,
� hide all related complexities from their perception, and
� enable them to focus on their science and collaborate on commonresearch challenges
D4Science vision
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D4Science
VRE VRE
VRE
EGEE
Technology and conceptsVirtual Research Environments (VREs)
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� through mechanisms allowing ...
� semi-automated import of distributed data sources
� harmonization of heterogeneous sources
� intensive data processing
� support for query, output and annotation.
� workflow process definition
� template generation tools
� catalog and discover data
� e-infrastructure for collaborative science
� wikipedia++able to work with structured databases
� federate data and applications ...... even across boundaries of traditional user communities
Technology and conceptsVirtual Research Environments (VREs)
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Project phase 2a Knowledge ecosystem infrastructure
Main components of the initial ecosystem:
• GENESI-DR, AquaMaps, INSPIRE, DRIVER
5 scientific applications:
• ICIS, FCPPS (FARM community)
• INSPIRE, DRIVER, AquaMaps
Main components of the initial ecosystem:
• GENESI-DR, AquaMaps, INSPIRE, DRIVER
5 scientific applications:
• ICIS, FCPPS (FARM community)
• INSPIRE, DRIVER, AquaMaps
Interoperability - extend D4Science by
introducing mechanisms for facilitating:
• the use of data resources managed by
different data infrastructures
• the programmatic exploitation of the
D4Science capabilities
Interoperability - extend D4Science by
introducing mechanisms for facilitating:
• the use of data resources managed by
different data infrastructures
• the programmatic exploitation of the
D4Science capabilities
DRIVER
GENESI-DR
AquaMaps
INSPIRE
D4Science
ICISFCPPS
Knowledge Knowledge
EcosystemEcosystem
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1. Please, explain briefly what will be the keyoutcomes of the proposal and who the end users are
Better quality maps
Mining of bibliomeric data
Hybrid metrics
biodiversity scientistsSeaLifeBase, GBIF, Fishbase (1M accesses per month)
D4Science
Hybrid metrics
Enhanced publications
200 institutional repositoriesRECOLECTA (Spain)Belgium National PortalDART…
fishery managers andassessment scientists,ecologists
policy makers, fisherieseconomists and managers,aquaculture specialistsMore accurated country profiles
Better catches reallocation
GENESI-DR
AquaMaps DRIVER
INSPIRE
30,000+ HEP scientists
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1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine
sciences communityThe Integrated Capture Information System (ICIS)
a scenario for the proof of concept
Conclusion: action items for Gebich
Outline of presentation
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3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented scenario
UNGA recommendations:
� FAO should provide indicators for assessment of High Seas stocks
“distinguish catch in the High Seas from catch within EEZs”
� current status:reporting by Major FAO statistical
fishing areas
Fisheries
Fishing activity / Catch
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CWP recommendations:
� enhance quality of global catch statistics
“stronger integration of existing catch Databases”
� current status:non-integrated databases shared data standards (to some extent)
Fisheries
Fishing activity / Catch
3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented scenario
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CWP recommendations:
� enhance quality of global catch statistics
“stronger integration of existing catch Databases
� current status:non-integrated databases shared data standards (to some extent)
Fisheries
Fishing activity / Catch
3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented scenario
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ICIS
Fisheries
Fishing activity / Catch
3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented scenario
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ICIS
GLO
BAL L
EVEL
REG
IO
NAL
Catch
statistics
Reference
system
GIS areas
- species
FAO
Fisheries
Catch
statistics
Reference
system
RFBs
Fishing activity / Catch
vms
D4Science: support to collaborative science
2. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented scenario
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AquamapsGENESI-DR
ICIS
GLO
BAL L
EVEL
REG
IO
NAL
Catch
statistics
Reference
system
GIS areas
- species
FAO
Aquamaps
WFC
Fisheries Biodiversity Oceanography
Habitats Geo-forms HydrographyVulnerable Marine Ecosystems
Catch
statistics
Reference
system
RFBs
Sea-datanetSatellite
oceanography
Species
occurence
FishBase
OBIS
ESA
Fishing activity / Catch
vms
2. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented scenario
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1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine sciences community
Conclusion: considerations for Ge-bich ?
Outline of presentation
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Conclusion: considerations for Ge-bich
� interoperability with Ocean Data Portal
� selection of common standardsin particular where we have bridging systems
� use of W3C compliant web services
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Data processing: Predicting species distribution
� Environmental envelope type modeling approach
Predictor
Species-specific environmental
envelope PMax
Rel
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pro
bab
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f
occ
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ence
Preferred
min
Preferred
max
Min Max
Physical• bathymetry• sea temperature• salinity• land distance• ice concentration
Biological• primary production
ICIS – a response to institutional needs
the Vision