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Study on Interim Evaluation of European Marine Observation and Data Network

Conor O’Kane Stephanie Good Robert Arthur. Study on Interim Evaluation of European Marine Observation and Data Network. Interim Evaluation. Task 1: Assess user friendliness Task 2: Gauge re-usability of the data Task 3: Determine how well portals have overcome legal obstacles.

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Study on Interim Evaluation of European Marine Observation and Data Network

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  1. Conor O’Kane Stephanie Good Robert Arthur Study on Interim Evaluation of European Marine Observation and Data Network

  2. Interim Evaluation • Task 1: Assess user friendliness • Task 2: Gauge re-usability of the data • Task 3: Determine how well portals have overcome legal obstacles

  3. Task 1: Assessing user-friendliness of portals • Examination of content and functionality • Does it deliver to the users a good understanding of: • The scope of EMODNET • Data coverage of portal • Quality of data in the portal • How to download data • How to provide feedback

  4. Task 2: Re-usability of data • Assess reusability of the portals by: • Downloading data from each portal • Importing them into local processing systems • Performing a series of simple processing tasks

  5. Task 3. Analysis of legal compliance • Data available through EMODNET are subject to (IPR) intellectual property rights • Use/re-use of the data will depend on the approval of the data owner subject to possible conditions • Carefully review each of the portals in terms of their respective approaches to IPR (both explicit and implicit) as well as the progress reports • Desk study and telephone interviews with the coordinators of the projects behind the portals • Undertake a legal analysis and document the main findings regarding licensing provisions

  6. Task 1: Biology Portal – data coverage

  7. Task 2: Biology Portal – species summaries

  8. Task 2 difficulties • Layers use IHO Sea Areas • More difficult to manipulate the data at sub-basin level • An issue in relation to MSFD?

  9. Task 1: Chemistry Portal – data coverage

  10. Task 1: Chemistry Portal (con’t)

  11. Task 2 difficulties • Data availability – forms to complete even for unrestricted data. Delays to process these • Data formats, additional software may be required to process files

  12. Task 1: Hydrography portal – data coverage **Some datasets have more than one restriction type

  13. Task 2: Hydrography Portal – coastline and bathymetry map

  14. Task 2 difficulties • XYZ as by grids individual folders – lot of files to process • Data availability (for calculating confidence intervals) – perhaps not possible?

  15. Task 1: Geology Portal – data coverage • Geology front page links to OneGeology-Europe (1G-E) website with data product (map) – potentially useful that it is combined with land • The ‘EMODNET substrate map’ is difficult to locate on the 1G-E site • Data layers for Baltic Sea, Greater North Sea, Celtic Sea • It is possible to view the metadata associated with the substrate map • The metadata included an ‘Access constraints’ field that stated: The ~1:1 million scale data is available for download in GeoSciML and ESRI ShapeFile formats from the 1G-E portal free of charge, without any restrictions, for any legitimate use, including public, private and commercial use • Not possible to download raw data used to make the map from the Geology front page or the 1G-E portal

  16. Task 2: Geology Portal – sediment and strata maps

  17. Task 2 difficulties • Data availability - data not yet available

  18. Task 1: Physical habitats portal – data coverage • JNCC website has EUSeaMap page that links to a map tool for viewing layers of data, including from other EMODNET portals • No separate data catalogue, but metadata is available for mapping options in the portal • The metadata included a ‘Conditions of use’ field that stated Data is freely available for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced • Data coverage includes Celtic Sea, North Sea, Baltic Sea, western Mediterranean Sea

  19. Task 2: Physical habitats Portal – % habitat by basin summaries

  20. Task 2 difficulties • Overlaps in basin coverage (Baltic/North Sea) • Habitat and IHO Sea area don't match up • Descriptors for the habitats not always there

  21. Overview of all portals – Task 1 • All portals made mention of the EMODNET initiative • However, some provided more information than others • Workshop/meetings, reports, posters etc: B, C, H, SM • Brief overview of EMODNET initiative: All • Detailed description of EMODNET initiative: C, H • Link to EMODNET pages on DG MARE site: B, C, H, SM • Portals indicated quality control and quality assurance of data in different ways, not always clear to user what has been done • Downloading data (Task 2) • All portals have options to provide feedback

  22. Overview of all portals – Task 2 • Data availability – will it all be available? • Some data sets collated (e.g. Habitats, Hydrology) while some separate (Chemistry, Biology) • Interrogation at the sub-basin level can be an issue • Data Formats can also be an issue

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