2013.12 WP3: Governance and Policy Development Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary
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This WP3 Activity Report described the activities performed in December 2013 by Beneficiary and Task.
It is part of the December 2013 Monthly Activity Report.
T3.1 User Community Mediation
FAO Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
- Follow up to November presentation of iMarine to AgroCampus in Rennes, France.
- Board operations
- Board (+extended Board) communication, preparation, individual meetings
- Preparational activities for iMarine March Event in Rome with WP4
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
ERCIM Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
CNR Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
Terradue Activities
- Support to Board for the development of the Sustainability White Paper
- None
- Email exchanges
FIN Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
UNESCO Activities
Promoted iMarine and Trendylyzer at two events: OBIS steering group meeting (4-6 December 2013 in Oostende) and Caribbean Marine Atlas meeting (11-13 December 2013, Miami)
Participated remotely at the FAO project proposal preparation meeting of he GEF funded ABNJ/deep sea project, of which iMarine is a partner. This involves the use of the iMarine infrastructure (and data from OBIS) for the identification of VMEs among other topics.
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
IRD Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
T3.2 Governance Mechanisms, Policies and Guidelines Development
FAO Activities
- iMarine terms of use and data access and sharing policy updated to capture results of discussion with FAO Legal (A.gentile, A.Ellenbroek)
- Update of several use-case templates and content to capture the community exploitation of infrastructure resources. (Y.Laurent, A.Ellenbroek, M.Taconet)
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
ERCIM Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
CNR Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
FIN Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
UNESCO Activities
Discussed OBIS data policy and terms of use at the OBIS Steering Group meeting. The OBIS governance Task Team will look into this and propose a data policy as well as a limited number of licenses for data providers. At this moment there is a huge variations in licenses, which makes it difficult for users to use data from OBIS or to select data based on a few use constraints
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
CRIA Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
IRD Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
T3.3 Harmonisation of Metadata, Semantics and Technologies
FAO Activities
FAO activities include:
- Interaction with NEAFC on DataExchange; the components to connect to the NEAFC database, and make the semestral reports available to ICES for further analysis;
- Liaise with the VME-DB team to facilitate the exchange of data between the iMarine and VME-DB (Oracle) database;
- Continue development of cotrix.
- Proposal for StatBase migration (Ticket 2425) (Y.Laurent)
Validation can not commence in earnest for want of validatable use-cases.
- NEAFC Sub-contract details forwarded to ERCIM for preparation
- VME-DB first test version reviewed
CNR Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
NKUA Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
FORTH Activities
The main focus has been given to the following activities:
- Ontological analysis of the iMarine sources (FISHBASE, ECOSCOPE, WoRMS, FLOD and DBpedia) w.r.t. the new requirements #2319
- Designing and Implementing MarineTLO Version 4.0.0 #2319
- Cont: Preparation of the related documentation of the MarineTLO Version 4.0.0 #2319
- MarineTLO Dissemination
- Preparing material for the next TCOM
- Extending the design of Mapping and Transformation rules between MarineTLO and iMarine sources #2319
none
none
Terradue Activities
- Study of OGC Stds Observations & Measurements (O&M) fit for purpose with iMarine goals and standardization choices
- cf. http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om
- None
- None (a new section will be added to the iMarine Wiki Geospatial Cluster)
UNESCO Activities
1. Data preparation for Trendylyzer and discussions with Gianpaolo Coro and Tom Webb on several steps forward to categorizing species according to conservation status 2. Harvesting data form 12 OBIS nodes: OBIS Canada | South Western Pacific OBIS | OBIS-SEAMAP | EurOBIS | OBIS Japan | WSA-OBIS | AntOBIS | AfrOBIS | ArOBIS | MicrOBIS | FishBase OBIS | ESP-OBIS. Currently harmonizing, standardizing, integrating, quality controlling and indexing these data for publication. Lots of new and improved quality data will be available to iMarine by end of December/early January 2014
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
CRIA Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
IRD Activities
The beneficiary should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period
The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.
The beneficiary should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period
