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SeaDataNet 3 nd Annual Plenary Meeting Madrid – Spain March 2009 - 25(14:00) – 27(13:00)

SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009. SeaDataNet 3 nd Annual Plenary Meeting Madrid – Spain March 2009 - 25(14:00) – 27(13:00). SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid - March 25-27 2009. SeaDataNet Closure. SeaDataNet future.

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SeaDataNet 3 nd Annual Plenary Meeting Madrid – Spain March 2009 - 25(14:00) – 27(13:00)

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  1. SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009 SeaDataNet3nd Annual Plenary MeetingMadrid – SpainMarch 2009 - 25(14:00) – 27(13:00)

  2. SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid - March 25-27 2009 SeaDataNetClosure

  3. SeaDataNet future • Very short term : Preparation of the next annual report • Activities for the next year • On a longer term : what will be SeaDataNet after SeaDataNet project?

  4. 2008-2009 Report (third annual report) • Due on May, 15. • Prefilled forms will be sent by coordinator to all partners before April, 17 • Must be completed and transmitted by email before April, 24for preliminary check. • Final version on paper (signed and stamped) due before May, 5. • Preliminary report papers from coordinators to be sent before April, 30

  5. Contract amendment in preparation (1) • Main objective • Redeploy remaining TA funds on other activities otherwise approx. 0.5M€ will not be employed • Principles • Partners funding remains unchanged • Unit for TA access remains unchanged (KiloPageView) • Funds redeployment will be based on average of reported KiloPageView for the previous two years All partners will have to report approx. the same amount of TA access than the previous years.

  6. Contract amendment in preparation (2) • Guidelines for remaining TA fund redeployments • approx. 15% will be redeployed on the new NA taskNA8.5 - Upgrade of Partners Data Centres web portal add “Communication about SeaDataNet”, others updates, … • approx. 30% will be redeployed to the new NA taskNA2.5 - Upgrade of Partners Data Systemsnecessary upgrades to make use of SeaDataNet standard in the NODC’s (vocabulary, data quality, …) • 65% will be redeployed to existing activities • Data aggregation for regional products • Data and metadata preparation / upgrade for SeaDataNet V1 • Save some money to organize an added training course about “Download Manager installation and configuration”  Report on these activities will be possible for the 2008-2009 period in the limits of the provided spreadsheet

  7. Implementation of SeaDataNet V1 • All components of V1 system are now operational Preparing data for data access is now the priority ! • Continuous data management and metadata generation • Pay attention on update of existing V0 entries to V1 (some issues to be solved) • Record new entries for these directories • Improvement of data access, two options  Implement direct access to distributed data sets… using download manager automatic services • Implementation of « Download Manager » at data centre level  Be part of the V1 interim option • Manual management of data requests using SeaDataNet web portal (RSM)

  8. Regional products • Prepare the next generation (V2) of products • Define accurately the new products • Improve data exchanges at regional level in order to improve aggregated data sets (ODV may help) • Process the new version of products (DIVA) • Harmonize to distribution of regional products to external users • Common catalogue • Download and visualisation services

  9. Next meeting(s) et IMDIS 2010 Conference • Plenary meeting 2010 will be joint with the IMDIS Conference 2010 • End of March (22-26, to be defined precisely) • Paris - France • A training course about data preparation for SDN V1 will probably be organized in autumn 2009(decision by steering Committee) • Regional Product Harmonization meeting ?

  10. On a longer term, what could be SeaDataNet ? • Sustainability of developed services • Discovery services (common vocabularies, metadata, catalogues)Continuous maintenance of European directories • Data access services Interoperability within the distributed system mainly operated by NODC’s “Continuous operation of the distributed data system” • Development of new services, triggered by : • users communities needs (Research, Policy makers, …) • scientific and technical state of the art • New technical facilities • New scientific approaches, new observations, processing and analyses methods • New collaborations between marine research projects • new directives (Inspire, SMM, …) “Project mode”

  11. On a longer term, what could be SeaDataNet? • Three complementary scales of work : • Pan-European, in close relationships with international initiatives and organisations • Regional (Basin) • Countries (EC Members States + non EC countries) • An appropriate funding scheme between EC funds and National funds must be reached for the two types of activities : • Maintenance of operational services (Copernicus (Marine Core Services), EMODNET, …) • New developments (DG-Research projects, …)

  12. Thank you in advance for your cooperation for next report ! • Thank you all for your participation to this meeting Special thanks to our Spanish colleagues

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