Report of a Trans-Atlantic Workshop Series US/European Partnerships in Coastal Atlases and Coastal/Ocean Informatics Report of a Trans-Atlantic Workshop Series Slide design from Val Cummins of the CMRC to match her presentation at Coastal Zone ‘07
Scope of our International Collaboration Today’s 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 Technical Developments - State/Regional Perspective Liz O’Dea, CMRC and Tanya Haddad, Oregon OCMP National CZM Perspective Tony Lavoi, NOAA CSC
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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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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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