a Pan-European Infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management Dick M.A. Schaap – MARIS (SeaDataNet technical coordinator)

Background Data availability of vital importance for marine research European data set is fragmented Not always quality controlled Not always easily accessible In 35 countries bordering European seas more than 600 scientific laboratories from government organizations and private industry collect data use various sensors on board of research vessels, submarines, fixed and drifting platforms, airplanes and satellites measure physical, geophysical, geological, biological and chemical parameters, biological species, etc.

SeaDataNet project EU Sixth Framework Programme Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2011 Objectives develop an efficient distributed pan-European marine data management Infrastructure for managing large and diverse data sets network existing professional data centres of 35 countries, active in data collection provide integrated databases of standardised quality on- line

SeaDataNet partnership 49 partners including: Major oceanographic institutes of 35 countries National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs) Divisions of major national marine research institutes 3 satellite data centres 3 scientific modelling centres 2 SMEs experts in software development 3 International organisations

Building on experience Data management of scientific projects, e.g. MTPII- MATER, CANIGO, OMEX, MERSEA, etc. Leaders of Data Management Concerted Actions MEDAR/MEDATLAS II - Mediterranean Data Archaeology and Rescue, aiming to make available a comprehensive data product of temperature, salinity and bio-chemical data in the Mediterranean and Black Sea through a wide international cooperation, to Sea-Search – The gateway to Oceanographic and Marine Data & Information in Europe, to provide an effective navigation tool to oceanographic and marine data and information sources for European marine waters and to centres in Europe with expertise and skills in oceanographic and marine data & information management. Bringing in new partners – satellite data centres

SeaDataNet components

Infrastructure versions Version 0 Continuation and maintenance of existing Sea-Search systems with minor modifications Version 1 All data centres involved in upgraded meta-databases Technical Task Team partners involved in transparent data access, security, monitoring, viewing services = trans-national access Pre-operational by November 2007 and operational by February 2008 Version 2 All data centres involved in trans-national access and access upgraded Operational by 2010

SeaDataNet Data Policy Metadata free and open access, no registration required each data centre should provide the meta-data in standardized format to populate the catalogue services Data and products services the general case if free and open access/mandatory registration a “SeaDataNet role” (partner, academic, commercial etc.) is attributed to each user Each NODC attributes the roles to the users of its of country Out of the partnership, the roles are assigned by SeaDataNet user-desk each data centre node delivers data according to the user’s role and its local regulation each data centre should provide freely the data sets necessary to develop the common products

Discovery services Marine environmental data sets (EDMED) Marine environmental research projects (EDMERP) Observing systems (EDIOS) Research Cruise Summary Reports (CSR) Common Data Index (CDI) Directory of marine organisations (EDMO)

Common Data Index = linking pin Index to individual data sets Approx entries from 10 partners ISO19115 metadata standard has been adopted On-line searchable directory Direct access to on- line data sets, catalogues or request

Technical developments Establishment of common vocabularies Upgrading metadata formats for harmonisation and interrelationships (ISO as basis) Upgrading metadata entry and retrieval systems: XML exchange (push and pull) XML validation services JavaTool (MIKADO) for generation of XML files Online Content Management Systems (CMS) Adopting Web services technology Vocabularies Metadata catalogues Defining common transport formats (NetCDF, ODV ASCII and MedAtlas) Developing delivery services (shopping basket and download manager) Developing viewing services (OGC mapping, ODV software,..)

SeaDataNet User’s portal schema V1 services for metadata Data downloading services Visualization services (WMS) for V2 Ifremer Database BODC Database BSH Database... Download managers in Data centers CSREDIOS EDMED CDI Shopping basket Requests status manager datametadata CSR CDI Project info Metadata & Data catalogues Data request Status of request General requestMetadata request Organisation + data source id Data download at BODCat BSHat MARIS + EDMERP Entry point for access hits EDMO EDIOSEDMED EDMERPEDMO Software Vocabularies StandardsCross search AAA Registr. My transact. User Register User registration

Involvement in other networks SeaDataNet partners are involved in many other European and international projects, contributing and safeguarding good data management. Examples are: Services for the marine geological institutes in Europe in the projects EUMARSIN, EUROCORE and EUROSEISMICS. See Services for EUROGOOS for the European Directory of Ocean- observing Systems (EDIOS). See Partners in the MERSEA project (GMES) for the set up of the Mersea Information Management (MIM) system Partners in the Humboldt project (GMES) contributing to a European Spatial Data Infrastructure

a searchable catalogue of over 2.5 million line kilometres of marine seismic and sonar survey data held at European institutions

a searchable catalogue of over seafloor samples from the ocean basins and continental shelves, held at European institutions

Supportive to international initiatives and directives GEO-GEOSS initiative (ad-hoc Group of Earth Observations of G8) : Global Earth Observation System of Systems GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) of ESA and EC as European component of GEOSS INSPIRE, new directive for spatial data infrastructure in Europe And can provide added-value for Marine Strategy Implementation, providing a wealth of complimentary data (in time and spatial coverage) for high quality assessments

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