1 North Pacific Ecosystem Metadata Federation: Japan Component USA Kimberly Bahl, UW/JISAO Dan Klawitter, Macrostaff S. Allen Macklin, NOAA/PMEL Bernard A. Megrey, NOAA/AFSC JAPAN Toru Suzuki, JHA/MIRC To be named: Metadata Specialist Computer Specialist

2 Outline  Rationale  The Project  The Players  The Process  Progress  Challenges

3 North Pacific Ocean South Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean Southern Ocean Bering Sea Sea of Japan JAPAN East China Sea S. KOREA Yellow Sea RUSSIA CHINA CANADA Gulf of Alaska USA Sea of Okhotsk Bo Hai Sea PICES Members And Shared Ecosystems

4 Rationale   shared ecosystems are a source of conflict due to national interests and management   despite a great deal of effort put forth to collecting and analyzing environmental information, much of this information is not easily available and disseminated to the public   a method of sharing national information about marine ecosystems, independent of political boundaries, is required

5 More Rationale   need international collaboration that will provide tools to foster multi- national sharing of information on marine ecosystems   multi-national partnerships should include all member countries of PICES

6 Metadata Federation   this project empowers a metadata- and clearinghouse-enabled organization to assist an international partner to code metadata and become a clearinghouse node

7 Metadata Federation   NPEM project will provide MIRC with FGDC metadata standard knowledge to help Japan become a new node in the NSDI Clearinghouse called “PICES – MIRC”

8 PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization   promotes the collection and rapid exchange of scientific information between its member countries: Canada, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the USA   URL:

9 NPEM North Pacific Ecosystem Metadatabase   locates and assembles an inventory of the biological and physical data collected on the North Pacific ecosystem and develops them into metadata making them available to the public   is a project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)   is also a PICES project   URL:  

10 Marine Information Research Center of Japan Hydrographic Association (JHA)   collaborates with JODC, serving as JODC’s quality-control data distributor and developer of value-added products   URL: JODC Japan Oceanographic Data Center   compiles Japan’s oceanographic data   is the largest data holder contributing to the World Ocean Data Center   URL: MIRC

11 PICES Metadata Federation   federate - join together in a league or association   fast and easy metadata search and access of all PICES member nations   browsable and searchable on-line inventory of data and other information   transparent to users

12 PICES Federated Search   starting in 2003, the metadata project began developing “federated search collaboration”   our first demonstrated collaboration was with South Korea in 2005   Far East Russia became a partner last month   federated searches enable users to search within the NPEM and, at the same time, search other data centers, as well.   NPEM personnel are working with MIRC to be a federated partner representing Japan

13 PICES Clearinghouse Nodes

14 PICES Metadata Federation Korea RussiaCanadaUSA JapanChina PICES Clearinghouse Russia Canada China Japan USA Korea

15 3 Steps Towards Federating With Japan 1.FGDC metadata standard training 2.set up a metadata clearinghouse node server system with iSite software 3.register with the NSDI Clearinghouse and become operational as a node

16 Steps To Create PICES-MIRC Node 1.map metadata records to XML using FGDC standard 2.acquire server 3.install iSite and associated software, XML metadata files 4.open port on server 5.test 6.join the NSDI Clearinghouse as a node 7.get indexed by NSDI Clearinghouse

17 iSite Server Configuration Open Source Software   RED Hat Linux OS   iSite package and associated software   Apache Web Server   XML files from every record on database server   Hardware   2.3 GHz Intel CPU   512 MB RAM   120 GB HD

18 Progress To Date: MIRC-NPEM   partner with MIRC and JODC   MOU between NPEM and MIRC   travel support from PICES for 1 st meeting   1 st project meeting in Seattle, Aug. ’06   provide FGDC metadata standard training   2 nd project meeting in Tokyo, Oct. ’06   assist with iSite installation and node registration with the NSDI Clearinghouse

19 Challenges   location of external funds to bring other PICES countries into the federation   cross talk between metadata standards other than FGDC, communication protocols other than Z39.50   translation of metadata records to English   geographic name conflicts

20 FGDC NSDI USGS Thank you! Domo Arigato!

21 Participants   North Pacific Ecosystem Metadatabase (NPEM)   URL:     Marine Information Research Center (MIRC)   URL:   Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)   URL:   Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)   URL:   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)   URL: