1. Sextant PRODUCTs catalogue
4-5 April 2017
Erwann Quimbert, Morgan Le Moigne, Julie Gatti, Mickael Treguer, Thomas Loubrieu

2. Outline A products catalogue – current status
Extension to new products
New granularity ?
DOIs
Sextant v6

3. Sextant catalogue - current status
A products catalogue to coordinate and to promote the project data outcomes :
152 products in the catalogue for eutrophication
INSPIRE compliant and supports OGC WMS and WFS services
Granularity : a description by region, by parameter, by season
E.g. : in Atlantic, 6 parameters and 4 seasons for each = 24 descriptions
Includes citation to the data originators
Thematic and Spatio-temporal criteria for products selection

4. Sextant catalogue - current status
A workflow management to publish Eutrophication maps descriptions:
XML generated by divadoXML (ULG) by Regional Leaders
XML imported, updated and submitted via the Sextant interface by Regional Leaders
Product descriptions validated by the catalogue manager (OGS)
-> public visualisation
To do : Upgrade the workflow, dashboards,…to allow more actions ?
Do you still need the same workflow with a catalogue manager (OGS) as implemented during the previous phase?

5. Sextant catalogue - new products
WP3.1 – Description of aggregated/Qced collections
-> to improve their visibility through the Discovery Service
-> could give access only to restricted person (MSFD stakeholders)
WP3.2 - Description of contaminant maps
-> which maps? Which granularity?
-> How these new products descriptions can be generated?
WP3.3 - Description of Marine Litter products
Does a training (new version of Sextant + new products outside divadoXML scope)
needed to be included on 19 may Training Workshop planning for the Regional
Leaders+OGS?

6. Sextant catalogue - granularity
Which granularity?
Eutrophication maps :
No more by season with redundant metadata
–> only by parameter by region?
Same granularity as it is planned in OceanBrowser?
Same granularity between all WP3 products?
Interaction with the central EMODnet portal catalogue

7. Sextant catalogue - DOIs
External DOI can be added to the product description.
Sextant can also create a DOI with its Landing Page for each product from the available metadata.
e.g.: - EMODnet Bathymetry -
- Seadatanet (T,S) climatology -

8. Sextant catalogue upgrade
A new release of Sextant is available (v5 -> v6) :
To do : - Upgrade the EMODnet-Sextant catalogue interface
- Upgrade the metadata editor