US/European Partnerships in Coastal Atlases and Coastal/Ocean Informatics

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• US/European Partnerships in Coastal Atlases and
  Coastal/Ocean Informatics

Report of a Trans-Atlantic Workshop Series
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Todays Session

• Scope of our International Collaboration
• Dawn Wright, Oregon State University
• Overview of Workshop 1 in Cork, Ireland
• Val Cummins, CMRC
• Overview of Workshop 2 in Corvallis, Oregon
• Dawn Wright, Oregon State University
• Technical Developments - State/Regional
  Perspective
• Liz ODea, CMRC and Tanya Haddad, Oregon OCMP
• National CZM Perspective
• Tony Lavoi, NOAA CSC

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Complementary Projects
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Intellectual Merit - Workshop Series Goals

• Issues of regional governance, coordination
• Significant capacity, varying approaches
• Little done to compile/assess efforts
• Best practices?
• Widespread solutions needed
• Access to and documentation of data
• Integration of tools
• Decision support for coastal mgmt via atlases
• Semantic interoperability

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Next Speaker

• And now, on to Val

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Aims of the second workshop

• Improve searches between atlases
• CVs and ontologies
• Semantic interoperability
• Linkages to use cases, communities
• Proof-of-concept ontologies
• International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN)
• Large, collaborative funding proposals
• White paper, workshop report, journal articles
• Workshop 3 in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2008

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