Dawn Wright - Oregon State University

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U.S./European Partnerships in Coastal Atlases and
Coastal/Ocean Informatics
Dawn Wright - Oregon State University Val Cummins
- Coastal Marine Resources Centre, IRELAND Liz
ODea - Coastal Marine Resources Centre,
IRELAND
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Abstract
While significant capacity in the last decade has
been built in the field of coastal mapping via
Web-based GIS, Web atlases, and general
coastal/ocean informatics, little has been done
to take stock of the implications of these
efforts or to compile lessons learned and best
practices (including the effective translation of
science to coastal decision-making). This
presentation will share progress and preliminary
results of two recent NSF-funded workshops. The
first workshop was held in Cork, Ireland in the
summer of 2006, under the theme of "potentials
and limitations of coastal web atlases." The
second workshop was held in 2007, under the theme
"building a common approach to managing and
disseminating coastal data, maps, and
information." Both workshops brought together key
experts from Europe, both coasts of the United
States, and Canada to examine state-of-the-art
developments in Web-based coastal mapping and
informatics, future needs, and initiation of a
possible International Coastal Atlas Network.
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Definitions
Coastal Atlas - a collection of digital maps and
datasets with supplementary tables, illustrations
and information that systematically illustrate
the coast, oftentimes with cartographic and
decision-support tools, and all of which are
accessible via the Internet. Coastal/Ocean
Informatics - the general study of the
application of computer and statistical
techniques to the management of coastal and ocean
data and information
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Complementary Projects
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Oregon Coastal Atlas, www.coastalatlas.net Data
Sharing, Tools, Encyclopedia
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Oregon Coastal Atlas Tool in ArcIMS
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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 1, July 2006, Cork, Ireland Potentials
and Limitations of Coastal Web Atlasesworkshop1.s
cience.oregonstate.edu

• 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 2, July 2007, Corvallis, ORCoastal
Atlas Interoperability

• 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
• International Coastal Atlas Network

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SIOExplorer Digital Library Not just File
archive Web site Database Cyberinfrastructure Sto
re, search, retrieve Integrate Database for
metadata PostgreSQL or Oracle Storage Resource
Broker SRB middleware for files
Courtesy of Steve Miller, Scripps GDC
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SIOExplorer Design to Overcome Project Barriers
Courtesy of Steve Miller, Scripps GDC and John
Helly, SDSC
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Coastal Atlas Interoperability WorkshopJuly
16-21, 2007, Corvallis, OR workshop1.science.oreg
onstate.edu

• 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
• International Coastal Atlas Network

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Contact Information
Dawn Wright Professor Department of
Geosciences Oregon State University Corvallis, OR
97331-5506 dawn_at_dusk.geo.orst.edu 541-737-1229
p 541-737-1200 f Related web site
http//workshop1.science.oregonstate.edu/home
The author gratefully acknowledges NSF grant
OISE-0527216.