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Oceans Portal Workshop 30 th March 2004

Oceans Portal Workshop 30 th March 2004. Oceans Portal Project Ocean Biodiversity Informatics Conference Hamburg, 29 - 1 November 2004.

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Oceans Portal Workshop 30 th March 2004

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  1. Oceans Portal Workshop30th March 2004 Oceans Portal ProjectOcean Biodiversity InformaticsConferenceHamburg, 29 - 1November 2004 Healthy oceans: cared for, understood and used wisely for the benefit of all, now and in the future healthy oceans: cared for, understood and use wisely for the benefit of all, now and in the future healthy Kim Finney C.I.O. National Oceans Office

  2. Outline • Australia’s Oceans Policy & Regional Marine Planning • Why initiate An Oceans Portal Project ? • Key Ingredients For Success • Implementation

  3. Launched December 1998 Maintenance of healthy and productive ecosystems Science-based planning and management Precautionary Economic, environmental, social and cultural aspirations accommodated through integrated planning and management “Healthy oceans: cared for, understood and used wisely for the benefit of all, now and in the future” Australia’s Oceans Policy

  4. Regional Marine Planning • 13 Large Marine Domains • Ecosystem-based management • Ecologically Sustainable Development • Integrated sectoral management arrangements • Participatory decision making • Facilitate involvement of States

  5. Data To Underpin Regional Marine Planning Biological & Physical Information Economic Information Indigenous Information Statutory Information Impacts Information Social & cultural Information

  6. Why Initiate An Oceans Portal Project ? Regional IOC/WMO Data Centres Global Observing Programs National Marine Institutions Commonwealth R&D Inst. (0.33 of Oz research) • Hard to discover what’s out there • IP & access issues • Different data formats • Different quality (scale, resolution, accuracy) • General lack of a common vocabulary to describe phenomena & real world objects • Most data not on-line • Difficult to know where real gaps in data availability are. Museums State Fisheries Depts Local Govts. EPA Universities Natural Resource Management Agencies

  7. Why Initiate An Oceans Portal Project ? • Given issues – what do we need to achieve and how ? • An immediate improvement in access to those national marine fundamental datasets that are needed to underpin marine management decisions and marine research activities, • A networked platform ripe for scientific exploitation in terms of: • accessing and sharing up-to-date multi-disciplinary data; • deploying tools and models; • communicating and conceptualising using multi-media 2 & 3D visualisations; • facilitating collaborations across agencies and across scientific disciplines, and • greater leverage of our existing collective IT infrastructure and agency-based capabilities.

  8. The Oceans Portal ProjectAustralian Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) In Action ! • Project Components • Web-based (demonstration) portal • Catalogue service • Contributors & service providers (initially museums, Federal marine data centres, OBIS).

  9. Key Ingredients For Success • Community of interest • Agency-level support • Funding • Governance Arrangements • Architecture • Standards/protocols • Content (semantic interoperability)

  10. Key Ingredients For SuccessMarine Community of Interest Partners Marine Catalogue OBIS Marine Portal OZCAM Virtual Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility

  11. Key Ingredients For SuccessAgency-level Support & Funding • Lobbying agency heads – high level support • Oceans Policy Science Advisory Group – answers to a Ministerial Board • Workshops, agency visits, presentations, established project advisory group, • NOO – built Project into first RMP as a key deliverable • Core funding from NOO – conditional on in-kind support from agencies • Implementation Plan – sign-off at agency head level

  12. Key Ingredients For SuccessGovernance Arrangements • Overall Project Management • Governance Working Group • Rules/Procedures for: • Administration, management and update of marine community profile and associated standards, • Management & administration of (hosted) Catalogue • Service level obligations for data/services deployed via the Catalogue and by the Catalogue.

  13. Key Ingredients For SuccessArchitecture, Standards & Protocols • Geospatial Services-oriented-architecture (ISO RM ODP) • Computational viewpoint • Information viewpoint • Engineering viewpoint • Technology viewpoint • OGC Catalogue Specification V2.0 • ebXML RIM V2.0 • ISO 19119/19115 Metadata XML encodings ISO 19139. • Metadata harvesting interface specification (Open Archives Protocol) • Rendering symbology and styling standards (IHO S52) • OGC WMS, WFS, WCS

  14. Key Ingredients For SuccessContent Semantic Interoperability • Developing a marine community application profile • Metadata model – dataset descriptions and services (not tackling feature types initially). ISO 19115/19119 • Which metadata elements should be core ? • Which code lists should we extend/add ? • marine keywords (GCMD ?), • thesauri & dictionary of terms (BODC parameter list ??), • species taxonomies (Catalogue of Life or Codes For Australian Aquatic Biota [CAAB] ??), • marine location names (IHO, AHO, AAD, GA), • Commence R&D work on marine data modelling, GML application profiles and feature catalogues (Marine XML - NERC Data Grid ?? – relationship to IOC Feature Type Catalogue ?)

  15. Implementation • Scoping Report, high level Technical Specification & Implementation Plan already developed, • RFT to be let in December – buy/build Catalogue and Portal (separately deployed) • Evaluation of COTS – shows no truly OGC compliant Catalogue software yet ! • 6 Working Groups have been established: • Governance, • Symbology/styling • Metadata Application Profile • Species Finder Service • OPENDAP (R&D) • Data Modelling/Feature Type Catalogue (R&D) • Catalogue developers to work in tandem with WGs – WGs have kicked off first. • Project Advisory Committee

  16. ImplementationSpecies Finder Harvest data in OBIS Australian OBIS Mirror site • How to generate ISO compliant metadata • Wrap OBIS as a map service • Register data and service in Catalogue

  17. Conclusion • Ambitious project in that it is genuinely a development by a “community of interest”. • Lead the way in developing some key Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure technologies and standards, • Requires national and international collaboration, • Will need to expand partnership once runs are on the board. • Catalogue will be accessible by anyone. • All standards and specifications will be public.

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