Dawn Wright

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Trans-Atlantic Workshops on Coastal/Marine
Mapping and Informatics
Dawn Wright Oregon State University
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Coastal Marine Resources Centre
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Cork to Dublin
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Trinity College Dubin
National Bank of Ireland
Oscar Wilde in Merrion Sq.
Windmill Lane Studios
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Dublin to Galway and Points South
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Complementary Projects
coastalatlas.net
mida.ucc.ie Official Launch Today!
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National Science Foundation Office of
International Science and Education
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Intellectual Merit, Workshop Goals

• Mapping plays a critical role in issues of
  national sovereignty, resource management,
  maritime safety, and hazard assessment.
• 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
• Linkage of topography with bathymetry

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Workshop 1Potentials and Limitations of
Coastal Web Atlases

• Present and discuss atlases from Europe and U.S.
• Identify and discuss common issues
• Design and usability of web sites
• Access to data and metadata
• Institutional support and funding
• Design and integration of tools
• Decision support
• More
• Conclusions/prelim recommendations
• Launch MIDA
• Workshop web portal
• Executive report and way forward to Workshop 2

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Workshop 2Building a Common Approach to
Disseminating and Managing Coastal Data

• North America (NA) and Europe
• Improve searches between NA and Europe portals
• Initial, common ontologies and thesauri
• Semantic interoperability between different data
  sets
• Spatialization of text items
• Final recommendations
• Large, collaborative proposals to submit to
  funding agencies

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Future Funding?

• NSF Intl Research Education and EU Framework 6
• CoCoNet and CoPraNet
• Information Society (EU version of NSF Digital
  Government) and Marie Curie Fellowship
• Irish and American RA or postdoc funding

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Workshop 2 Oregon State University 16-20 July 2007
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Photo by Liz ODea, CMRC