2014.07 Activity Report
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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
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
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
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
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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- 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
