SeaDataNet II Proposal

SeaDataNet II Proposal

By

Dick M.A. Schaap – SeaDataNet Technical Coordinator

to upgrade the present SeaDataNet infrastructure into an

operationally robust and state-of-the-art Pan-European

infrastructure for providing up-to-date and high quality

access to ocean and marine metadata, data and data

products originating from data acquisition activities by all

engaged coastal states, by setting, adopting and

promoting common data management standards and by

realising technical and semantic interoperability with other

relevant data management systems and initiatives on

behalf of science, environmental management, policy

making, and economy.

Achieving an overall capacity of all connected data centres on a Pan- European scale to provide up-to-date and high quality metadata and data access services for the data managed by their centres

Achieving more metadata, data input and data circulation from other relevant data centres in Europe by further development of national NODC networks, thereby promoting and supporting adoption and implementation of SeaDataNet standards, tools and services.

Achieving interoperability and exchange with other relevant data

management systems in Europe, thereby promoting, fine-tuning and implementing the SeaDataNet standards, also taking into account active tuning and harmonising on an international scale.

Achieving data access and data products services that meet

requirements of end-users and intermediate user communities, such as GMES Marine Core Service (e.g. MyOcean), WISE-Marine (EEA), regional marine conventions (OSPAR, HELCOM, Black Sea

Commission and Barcelona Convention), establishing SeaDataNet as the core data management component of the EMODNet infrastructure and contributing on behalf of Europe to global portal initiatives, such as the IOC-IODE – Ocean Data Portal (ODP), and GEOSS.

Achieving INSPIRE compliance and contributing to the INSPIRE process for developing implementing rules for oceanography

Achieving for operational oceanography both delayed-mode and real- time data provision capacities in close cooperation with MyOcean, EuroGOOS, its Regions (ROOSes), and other oceanographic

monitoring agencies and systems.

Achieving a more streamlined process from data acquisition by

research fleet, in situ and remote sensing observation systems, and

ex-situ

development and implementation of common technical and semantic standards, such as SensorML, Observation and Measurements and common vocabularies.

Achieving an improved capability for handling also marine biological data and interoperability with the emerging biodiversity data

infrastructure in close cooperation with actors in the EurOBIS, MarBEF, and LifeWatch initiatives

Achieving active, well structured and world class contributions from Europe to global data management and exchange projects, such as Argo, Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD), OceanSites, and others.

This will result in a major and significant improvement in locating, accessing and delivering federated marine and oceanographic

metadata, data and data-products from hundreds of marine and ocean data centres and research institutes in Europe. It will also

provide middleware for users to locate, retrieve and use primary data and data products in multidisciplinary combinations.

This underpins European directives (INSPIRE, Marine Directive, Water Framework Directive) and large-scale framework programmes on

global and European scales (GEOSS and GMES), that urge provision of access to, and exchange of, environmental data and information. It also provides a solid foundation for the Data Management

component of a European Marine Observation and Data

Network (EMODNet) as proposed for the implementation of the European Marine Directive, and that will provide input for the Marine Core Services and MARINE WISE.

SeaDataNet II – Overall approach - cycle

Operation

Implementation

Maintenance

Support

Service

Monitoring

Promotion

Exploitation

Exploration user

requirements

Exploration standards

Error diagnosis

Specifications

Developments & Testing

Training & Transfer

SeaDataNet II – Work Programme

WP1: Project Management (MNGT)

WP2: Infrastructure Management and Monitoring (COORD) WP3: Capacity building and Training (COORD)

WP4: Installation, configuration and taking into operation of upgraded metadata directories services (EDMED, EDMERP, EDIOS, EDMO and CSR) (COORD)

WP5: Population and maintenance of metadata directories services (EDMED, EDMERP, EDIOS, EDMO and CSR) (COORD)

WP6: Installation, configuration and taking into operation of upgraded and extended data access services (CDI and data sets) (COORD)

WP7: Population and maintenance of data access services (CDI and data sets) (COORD)

SeaDataNet II – Work Programme

WP8: Communication – dissemination – promotion to users, data providers and EU initiatives – organisation strategy – IPR issues (COORD)

WP9: Services to give Scientific Access to metadata, data, aggregated data sets, and data-products (SUPP)

WP10: Specification and governance of standard metadata, data and data product formats, qc methods, common vocabularies, and specification of new services (RTD)

WP11: Development of software tools and services and interoperability solutions (RTD)

WP12: Development and regular updating of standard data products for maritime regions (RTD)

SeaDataNet II – Partnership (55 partners – 48 DC’s

IFREMER (Project Coordinator) MARIS (Technical Coordinator) BODC BSH SMHI IEO HCMR OGS RNODC ENEA INGV METU-IMS CLS AWI UlG IMR NERI ICES JRC MI IHPT NIOZ MUMM VLIZ MRI FMI IMGW MSI LHEI EPA SIO-RAS MHI IO-BAS NIMRD TSU INRH IOF INEWI NIB IOI OC-UCY IOLR CNR ENSSMAL INSTM IOPAN IBSS STFC EU-Consult UTM-CSIC UniHB TUBITAK MAM IMBK SHOM RSHMU IODE (subcontractor)