1. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Dawn Wright Oregon State University Trans-Atlantic Workshops on Coastal/Marine Mapping and Informatics

2. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Coastal & Marine Resources Centre

3. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Cork to Dublin

4. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Trinity College Dubin Oscar Wilde in Merrion Sq. Windmill Lane Studios National Bank of Ireland

5. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Dublin to Galway and Points South

6. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Complementary Projects coastalatlas.net mida.ucc.ie Official Launch Today!

7. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Education

8. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Mapping plays a critical role in issues of national sovereignty, resource management, maritime safety, and hazard assessment. 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” –Linkage of topography with bathymetry Slea Head Intellectual Merit, Workshop Goals

9. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Workshop 1: Potentials and Limitations of Coastal Web Atlases Present and discuss atlases from Europe and U.S. Identify and discuss common issues –Design and usability of web sites –Access to data and metadata –Institutional support and funding –Design and integration of tools –Decision support –More … –Conclusions/prelim recommendations Launch MIDA Workshop web portal Executive report and way forward to Workshop 2

10. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … North America (NA) and Europe Improve searches between NA and Europe portals –Initial, common ontologies and thesauri –Semantic interoperability between different data sets –Spatialization of text items Final recommendations Large, collaborative proposals to submit to funding agencies Workshop 2: Building a Common Approach to Disseminating and Managing Coastal Data Three Sisters

11. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Future Funding? NSF Intl Research & Education and EU Framework 6 CoCoNet and CoPraNet Information Society (EU version of NSF Digital Government) and Marie Curie Fellowship Irish and American RA or postdoc funding

12. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Workshop 2 Oregon State University 16-20 July 2007

13. 25 July 2006Trans-Atlantic Workshops … Photo by Liz O’Dea, CMRC