1. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Geo-Seas – building a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure for Europe Helen Glaves, Dick Schaap, and Colin Graham (and the 28 consortium partners)

2. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 What is Geo-Seas? Objectives Methodology Where are we now? Key outcomes

3. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 What is Geo-Seas? EU Framework 7 project 1 st May 2009 until 31 October 2012 26 marine geoscience data centres (Geo-Seas nodes) 28 partner organisations from 17 European maritime countries

4. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Partners Belgium (MUMM) Bulgaria (IO-BAS) Denmark (GEUS) Estonia (EGK) France (IFREMER, BRGM, CNRS, SHOM) Germany (BSH, BGR) Greece (IGME,NOA) Italy (OGS) Ireland (GSI, UCC) Lithuania (LIGG) Latvia (LU) Netherlands (MARIS, TNO, EU-Consult) Norway (NGU) Poland (PGI) Portugal (INETI) Spain (IGME, UB) United Kingdom (NERC, CEFAS, CIRIA)

5. BGS GSI LNEG MARIS BRGM TNO OGS NGU GEUS IGME Partners BSH IGME EGK BGR PGI LIGG IO-BAS LU CEFAS CIRIA UB UCC IFREMER SHOM MUMM CNRS

6. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Objectives Creation of a unified marine geoscientific data e-infrastructure across Europe (data grid) Facilitate the location, accession and delivery of federated marine geological and geophysical datasets Provide user-access to harmonized marine geological and geophysical metadata and data in common, standard formats via a single portal.

7. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Develop interoperability with other data types Underpin key European Directives such as INSPIRE and framework programmes e.g. GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) and GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) Objectives

8. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Methodology Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect the geological and geophysical data centres Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire. Development of a common index of data products and services Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

9. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Methodology Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect the geological and geophysical data centres Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire. Development of a common index of data products and services Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

10. ISO 19115 metadata standard for all metadata directories common and controlled vocabularies, including international content governance e.g. GeoSciML OGC standards for mapping and viewing services Data Standards

11. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Metadata EuroCore EU Marsin EuroSeismic EU SeaSed Geo-Seas ISO 19115 compliant SEISCAN SEISCANEX

12. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Methodology Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect the geological and geophysical data centres Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire. Development of a common index of data products and services Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

13. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 http://www.geo-seas.eu

14. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Methodology Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect the geological and geophysical data centres Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire. Development of a common index of data products and services Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

15. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Methodology Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect the geological and geophysical data centres Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire. Development of a common index of data products and services Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

16. Geological data (point)ODV & GeoSciML Geological data (gridded)NetCDF Grab samples ODV & GeoSciML SpecimenODV & GeoSciML Rock CoresODV & GeoSciML Gravimetry (tracking)ODV Gravimetry (gridded)NetCDF Magnetic (tracking)ODV Magnetic (gridded)NetCDF Agreed data types and formats

17. Bathymetry (tracking)ODV Bathymetry (gridded & swath)NetCDF BoreholeODV & GeoSciML Heat FlowODV Seismics (digital data) SEG-Y Seismics (scanned images)TIFF / PNG Seismics (navigation)UKOOA Side scan sonarXTF ImagesPNG Maps (data products)GeoSciML Agreed data types and formats

18. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Data delivery

19. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Where are we now? Community building activities completed User questionnaire conducted Standards agreed by partners Portal available via Geo-Seas website Test data available

20. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Improve the discovery and access to federated marine geological and geophysical data and data products Provision of software tools allowing use of geoscientific data in combination with other data in a multidisciplinary way Improved interoperability of geological and geophysical data with other data and data products Key outcomes

21. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 13 – 17 December 2010 Increased interoperability between disciplines, organisations and countries. Also with other key European framework projects e.g. EMODNet and One Geology- Europe Underpinning European directives e.g. INSPIRE, recent global and European frameworks e.g. GEOSS and GMES Key outcomes

22. Thank you!