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US/European Partnerships in Coastal Atlases and Coastal/Ocean Informatics. Report of a Trans-Atlantic Workshop Series. Today’s Session. Scope of our International Collaboration Dawn Wright, Oregon State University Overview of Workshop 1 in Cork, Ireland Val Cummins, CMRC
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US/European Partnerships in Coastal Atlases and Coastal/Ocean Informatics Report of a Trans-Atlantic Workshop Series
Today’s Session • Scope of our International Collaboration • Dawn Wright, Oregon State University • Overview of Workshop 1 in Cork, Ireland • Val Cummins, CMRC • Overview of Workshop 2 in Corvallis, Oregon • Dawn Wright, Oregon State University • Technical Developments - State/Regional Perspective • Liz O’Dea, CMRC and Tanya Haddad, Oregon OCMP • National CZM Perspective • Tony Lavoi, NOAA CSC
Intellectual Merit - Workshop Series Goals • Issues of regional governance, coordination • Significant capacity, varying approaches • Little done to compile/assess efforts • Best practices? • Widespread solutions needed • Access to and documentation of data • Integration of tools • Decision support for coastal mgmt via atlases • “Semantic interoperability”
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Aims of the second workshop • Improve searches between atlases • CVs and ontologies • Semantic interoperability • Linkages to use cases, communities • Proof-of-concept ontologies • “International Coastal Atlas Network” (ICAN) • Large, collaborative funding proposals • White paper, workshop report, journal articles • Workshop 3 in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2008