2014.07 Activity Report

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Revision as of 13:42, 19 September 2014

This Activity Report captures the activities performed in July 2014.

This report is organized in two parts:

• Progress and Achievements at the WP level reports a concise overview of the activities, issues and corrective actions, and major achievements produced by each WP Leader;
• Progress and Achievements by WP and Beneficiary reports a detailed description of the activities, issues and corrective actions, and major achievements produced by each beneficiary at the level of Project task.

Progress and Achievements at WP level

WP1: Administrative and Financial Management

WP Leader: ERCIM - Participants: CNR

Final Review date established: NOVEMBER 25; Deadline for submission: NOVEMBER 7

Reporting deadlines were agreed project wide:

• September 15 for ALL WP Contributions
• Final Event will be held on 29 September
• October 10 for Period 3 Effort Reports, Form Cs and Explanation on the Use of Resopurces per partner.
• ERCIM to provide first consolidation by October 17.
• CNR to provide enhanced consolidation one week later.

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• Reporting deadlines agreed upon for project end.
• ERCIM provided an update on the iMarine funds left that can be redirected to assist with project end dissemination events.

WP2: Project Management

WP Leader: CNR - Participants: NKUA, FAO

• SB meeting organization, chairing and minutes validation (22.07);
• PEB meeting organization, chairing and minutes taking (18.07);
• TCom organization and chairing (Heraklion, 8-11.07)
• Contribution to the discussion, assessment and validation of the “White paper on the development of an iMarine Public Partnership centered Business Model”;
• Analysis of a number of requests for collaboration;
• Contribution to the scientific preparation of the iMarine Final event.

No major deviations.

• SB, PEB and TCom meetings;
• Liaisons with a number of new initiatives;
• Progresses in the preparation of the iMarine Final event.

WP3: Governance and Policy Development

WP Leader: FAO - Participants: ERCIM, CNR, NKUA, FORTH, TERRADUE, FIN, UNESCO, CRIA, IRD

In task 3.1: Mediation

• Preparation of the iMarine Board meeting report,
• Liaise with other UN agencies and international GO's to promote iMarine exploitation (E.g. BOB-LME and IAEA)
• Promote iMarine opportunity at various Blue growth and other fora, such as during the FAO Travel to CLME

In task 3.2: Governance mechanisms Continuation of some reporting activity on wiki and for iMarine Board report.

In task 3.3: Harmonization

FORTH Finalized MarineTLO v.4.0.0 activities. The 4th version of the ontology has been released.

Validation completed for: Cotrix, TabMan, and BiOnym; all with good results (and sometimes critical feedback)

Activities exploiting the Statistical Manager continued, with new experiments for e.g. IOTC

In task 3.4: Sustainable exploitation

• White paper was further developed and discussed
• Sustainability and business model development
• Exploitation model aligned with a cost assessment

The beneficiary should report here major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions, if any.

• Internal validation of Cotrix, TabMan, BiOnym and Statistical Service (All successful)

WP4: Communication, Dissemination and Training

WP Leader: TRUST-IT - Participants: CNR, NKUA, FAO

The WP leader should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period

• FAO participation to the XVI Consultative Committee Meeting on Large Marine Ecosystems and Coastal partners, 8 - 11 July 2014, Paris, France http://www.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventDocs&eventID=1512 where iMarine has been presented.

• 22 July 2014 iMarine webinar on openchannels.org https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/507922993 - webinar organisation & promotion

On the 22 July 2014, OpenChannels.org and the EBM Tools Network, two of the premier sources of information about coastal and marine planning and management tools in the United States and internationally, are hosting the iMarine webinar: iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources. The webinar will focus on the presentation of the powerful iMarine data e-infrastructures and its services with practical demos of specific data management tools. The presentation will be given by Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI and iMarine Technical Director and Gianpaolo Coro, CNR-ISTI.

• July newsletter: promotion of the iMarine webinar http://www.i-marine.eu/Content/eLibrary.aspx?id=4f8592d9-aaee-488b-817e-529c88eba8d8&li=0

• September event organisation: From collaboration to market and future growth, 29 September 2014
• New versions of the agenda
• Weekly calls between FAO, CNR & TRUST for the preparation of the event
• Set up online registration form http://www.i-marine.eu/iMarineEvent2014/
• Speakers invitation
• Venue confirmation: booked 1 room at the EC & 1 room at the Tuscany Region
• Communication about the event to the all imarine mailing list

The major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions should be reported here

The WP leader should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period

Webinar: 10 more registrations to the website 6 twitter follower 5 mention in 1 external twitter people reached with tweets 102 + 748 + 171 + 6243 + 110 + 320 176 people registered The webinar was attended by 94 researchers, ecologists, marine biologists, students and analysts from 23 different countries. Geographical breakdown per continent: 77% Americas, 17% Europe, 4% Asia & Middle East; 2% Africa 2 top countries: US (55 pax); Canada (8 pax) Organisation type breakdown: 38% universities & research institutes; 23% Governamental organisations; 14% private companies11% nonprofit organisations, 5% other, 4% international organisations, 2% independent consultant, 1% RFMO & SDO 5 questions from universities & research institutes + 3 from nonprofit organisation , 1 from governmental organisation

iMarine in the Open CLoud Directory http://www.ocdirectory.org/organization/imarine

WP5: iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Deployment and Operation

WP Leader: CERN - Participants: CNR, NKUA, FAO, FIN

The WP leader should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period

The major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions should be reported here

The WP leader should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period

WP6: Virtual Research Environments Deployment and Operation

WP Leader: CNR - Participants: ERCIM, NKUA, FAO, FIN, UNESCO, CRIA, IRD

The WP leader should report here a summary of the activities performed in the reporting period

The major issues faced in the reporting period and the identified corrective actions should be reported here

The WP leader should report here a bullet list highlighting the main achievements of the reporting period

WP7: Enabling-technology Integration and Distribution

WP Leader: E-IIS - Participants: CNR, NKUA

• Integration of gCube 3.3.0
  • Duration: 18 days (30 June/17 Jul)
  • 17 Integration Builds
  • 135 new/updated components from 17 different subsystems (out of 29)

• Maintenance and operation of the ETICS service

• NKUA reports no improvements in the Documentation Validation procedure during last monhts (data below are as of 19th September).
  • Developers' guide: 61% (was 61% on 4th July)
  • Administrator's guide: 67% (was 67% on 4th July)
  • User's guide: 0%

• NKUA Updated the distribution site with information and packages of release 3.3.0

• none

• gCube release 3.3.0

WP8: iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Enabling Technology Development

WP Leader: CNR - Participants: NKUA, E-IIS, FAO

Completed in October 2013

WP9: Data Management Facilities Development

WP Leader: CNR - Participants: NKUA, CERN, TERRADUE, FAO

Completed in January 2014

WP10: Data Consumption Facilities Development

WP Leader: NKUA - Participants: CNR, FORTH, TERRADUE, FAO

The development of an SRU Geonetwork adaptor, using the resource-aware libraries, has been completed and makes available any geonetwork metadata, accessible by the gCube search. SearchSystem and ResourceRegistry have been extended to support SRU datasources.

Files stored in user's workspace are also available for search. Changes have been made in gCube Data Transformation Service, for handling and transforming files from workspace. Also, a service for workspace index updates has been developed, that monitors storage accounting activity and updates the index correspondingly.

An OAI-PMH publisher has been developed, to make available all data offered by the gCube search infrastructures as an OAI-PMH repository. Returned metadata formats are: Dublin Core (DC) and a custom "gCube" format.

IndexService has changed query HTTP method from GET to POST and added deleteDocuments methods to support workspace index management process. A bug related to the UTF8 encoding of the documents in the Smartfish extractors and another bug that ignored distinct parameter in the queries have been fixed.

Moreover, the construction of MarineTLO-based warehouse v4 has been completed. VoID extension for expressing the connectivity metrics has been registered and can be exploited in the latest version of the MarineTLO warehouse. At last, a document describing the process of constructing MarineTLO-based warehouses is under preparation.

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• A paper that has been accepted for publication and part of the work behind the paper has been performed on iMarine:
  • A. Antoniadis, Y. Gerbessiotis, M. Roussopoulos and A. Delis. Tossing NoSQL-Databases out to Public Clouds, IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014, London, UK, December 8-11, 2014
• D10.5 - iMarine Data Consumption Software has been updated
• Completed the SRU geonetwork adaptor
• Completed the OAI-PMH publisher
• Created a client library for discovering the DTS adaptors
• Search over user's workspace files

• The following components have been released during gCube 3.3.0:
  • ASL
  • Data Transformation
  • Execution
  • Index Management
  • Search System
  • SRU

• The following components have been released during gCube 3.4.0:
  • ASL
  • Data Transformation
  • Index Management
  • SRU

WP11: Data e-Infrastructures Integration and Interoperability Facilities Development

WP Leader: NKUA - Participants: CNR, CERN, E-IIS, FORTH, TERRADUE, FAO

Completed in February 2014

Progress and Achievements by WP and Beneficiary

WP1: Administrative and Financial Management Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP2: Project Management Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP3: Governance and Policy Development Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP4: Communication, Dissemination and Training Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP5: iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Deployment and Operation Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP6: Virtual Research Environments Deployment and Operation Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP7: Enabling-technology Integration and Distribution Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP8: iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Enabling Technology Development Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary - Completed in October 2013

WP9: Data Management Facilities Development Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary - Completed in January 2014

WP10: Data Consumption Facilities Development Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary

WP11: Data e-Infrastructures Integration and Interoperability Facilities Development Monthly Activity By Task and Beneficiary - Completed in February 2014