towards a pan-european infrastructure for marine data & information by ir dick m.a. schaap on...
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Towards a pan-european Towards a pan-european infrastructure infrastructure
for marine data & informationfor marine data & informationby by
ir Dick M.A. Schaap on behalf of ir Dick M.A. Schaap on behalf of the Sea-Search consortium 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
1. Marine Information Service (MARIS) - Netherlands2. British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) - United Kingdom3. Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum (BSH - DOD) - Germany4. 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) - Spain8. Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) - Sweden9. Irish Marine Data Centre - Marine Institute (MI) - Ireland10.Norwegian Marine Data Center - Institute of Marine Research (IMR) - Norway11.Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR) - Finland12.Management Unit of the Mathematical Models of the North Sea (RBIN - MUMM)- Belgium13.Marine Research Institute (MRI) - Iceland14.Instituto Hidrografico (IHPT) - Portugal15.ENEA La Spezia (ENEA) - Italy16.Netherlands Oceanographic Data Committee (NODC) - Netherlands17.Centre of Marine Research, Ministry of the Environment (CMT) - Lithuania18.Institute of Meteorology and Water management, Maritime Branch (IMGW- OM) - Poland
Sea-Search partners
19.All Russian Research Institute of Hydro-Meteorological Information (RIHMI- WDC)- Russia20.P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO-RAS) - Russia21.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) - Turkey25.National Institute for Marine Research and Development (NIMRD) - Romania26.Institute Nationale de Recherche Halieutique (INRH) - Morocco27.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) - Cyprus32.Tallinn Technical University, Marine Systems Institute (MSI) - Estonia33.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 on-line 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
Source 1BODC
Source 2IFREMER
Source 3BSH-DOD
Source 4……….
CDI-1XSL
CDI-2XSL
CDI-3XSL
CDI-4XSL
CDIdatabase
CDI Search & NavigationGeographic + Alphanumeric
Interface
User 1 User 2 User 3 User 4 User ..
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
ConclusionsSea-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
SeaDataNet-DS Virtual Private Network
ReplicatedCommonCatalogue
ReplicatedCommonCatalogue
ReplicatedCommonCatalogue
ReplicatedCommonCatalogue
ReplicatedCommonCatalogue
ReplicatedCommonCatalogue
User portal
NE-Atlantic Node E-Mediterranean Node
W-Mediterranean Node
Black-Sea Node
Normalization Interface
Baltic Database
Normalization Interface
North-EastAtlantic
Database
Normalization Interface
EasternMediterranean
Database
Normalization Interface
Black Sea Database
Normalization Interface
WesternMediterranean
Database
Baltic 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