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Towards a pan-european infrastructure for marine
data information by ir Dick M.A. Schaap on
behalf of the Sea-Search consortium
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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

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Development over time 1994 - 2005

• 1994 1998 EC-MAST Programme
• MAST Data Committee of NODCs
• Code on Data Management in MAST projects
• Compiling large international environmental data
  sets
• Creating data thematic networks.
• 1998-2001 MAST Data Committee gt EURONODIM
  network
• Concerted action of 16 NODCs 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 gt Sea-Search
• Pan-European network for ocean marine data and
  information management

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Sea-Search project (2002-2005)

• Pan-european dimension (30 countries 33
  partners)
• EURONODIM network expanded with NODCs and MDCs
  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

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Sea-Search Partners
1. Marine Information Service (MARIS) -
Netherlands 2. British Oceanographic Data Centre
(BODC) - United Kingdom 3. Deutsches
Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum (BSH - DOD) -
Germany 4. 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) - Spain 8. Swedish
Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
- Sweden 9. Irish Marine Data Centre - Marine
Institute (MI) - Ireland 10.Norwegian Marine Data
Center - Institute of Marine Research (IMR) -
Norway 11.Finnish Institute of Marine Research
(FIMR) - Finland 12.Management Unit of the
Mathematical Models of the North Sea (RBIN -
MUMM)- Belgium 13.Marine Research Institute (MRI)
- Iceland 14.Instituto Hidrografico (IHPT) -
Portugal 15.ENEA La Spezia (ENEA) -
Italy 16.Netherlands Oceanographic Data Committee
(NODC) - Netherlands 17.Centre of Marine
Research, Ministry of the Environment (CMT) -
Lithuania 18.Institute of Meteorology and Water
management, Maritime Branch (IMGW- OM) -
Poland
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Sea-Search partners
19.All Russian Research Institute of
Hydro-Meteorological Information (RIHMI-
WDC)- Russia 20.P.P. Shirshov Institute of
Oceanology (IO-RAS) - Russia 21.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) - Turkey 25.National Institute
for Marine Research and Development (NIMRD) -
Romania 26.Institute Nationale de Recherche
Halieutique (INRH) - Morocco 27.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) - Cyprus 32.Tallinn Technical
University, Marine Systems Institute (MSI) -
Estonia 33.Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e
di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) - Italy
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Sea-Search Partner countries
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Portal website and network of partner websites
www.sea-search.net
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European Directory of Marine Environmental
Datasets (EDMED) with more than 3800 descriptions
of Datasets from more than 590 Data holding
centres
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European Directory of Marine Environmental
Datasets
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European Directory of Marine Environmental
Datasets
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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

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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)
  

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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

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CDI Search Updating infrastructure
User 1
User 2
User 3
User 4
User ..
CDI Search Navigation Geographic
Alphanumeric Interface
CDI database
CDI-1 XSL
CDI-2 XSL
CDI-3 XSL
CDI-4 XSL
Source 1 BODC
Source 2 IFREMER
Source 3 BSH-DOD
Source 4 .
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CDI- pilot user interface
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CDI- pilot user interface
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CDI- pilot user interface
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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

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www.eu-seased.net
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User Interface - homepage
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Overall search results factsheets per survey /
line
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Pop-up enlarged map only geo-samples layer on
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www.edios.org
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www.edios.org - simple search
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www.edios.org - search results
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Conclusions
Sea-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
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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

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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

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SeaDataNet concept of Regional networks
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Prototype architecture
User portal
User portal
SeaDataNet-DS Virtual Private Network
Normalization Interface
Normalization Interface
Normalization Interface
Normalization Interface
Normalization Interface
Baltic Database
North-EastAtlantic Database
EasternMediterranean Database
Black Sea Database
WesternMediterranean Database
E-Mediterranean Node
Black-Sea Node
W-Mediterranean Node
NE-Atlantic Node
Baltic Node
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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