SDC - 1st annual meeting

The SeaDataCloud first annual week, organised by HCMR, took place on October 15-19 October 2017, in Athens, Greece, at the Divani Palace Acropolis

A total of 104 participants attended the 1^st annual week of SeaDataCloud project, of which

• 20 + 4 remote for the Steering Group meeting on October 16^th, morning
• 17 + 2 remote for the side TTG meeting, on October 16^th, afternoon
• 40 + 1 remote for the TTG meeting, on October 17^th
• 13                     for the Product meeting, on October 17^th
• 89 + 9 remote for the 1st annual meeting on October 18^th-19^th
•   8 + 1 remote for the Scientific Committee meeting on October 19^th, 16:00-18:00

Presentations

Work Package Reports

• WP1 - WP2 -  Management – Coordination – 1^st year outcome(IFREMER, M. Fichaut)
• WP3 - Training of data providers(RBINS, H.M Le)
• WP4 - SeaDataNet AISBL (RBINS, S. Scory)
• WP4 - Communication – Dissemination(ENEA, L. Pecci)
• WP5 - Metadata and data catalogues (HCMR/IO/HNODC, S. Iona)
• WP6 -  Monitoring plan (OGS, E. Patescano)
• WP6 -  Help desk activity (IFREMER, M. Fichaut)
• WP7 -  Scientific committee (EU-JRC, V. Barale)
• WP8 - Governance of standards and development of common services
  • Progress with Vocabulary Builder and other vocabulary developments  (BODC, A. Kokkinaki)
  • Applying Linked Data principle for common directories (MI, R. Thomas)
  • Review of SeaDataNet data formats considering INSPIRE O&M (BODC, R. Cramer)
• WP9 – Developments of upstream services
  • Upgrading the CDI service making use of the cloud(MARIS-EUDAT, D. Schaap)
  • SWE ingestion service (52°NORTH, C. Autermann)
  • Status of SeadataNet tools (IFREMER, M. Fichaut)
  • Virtual Appliance for connecting data centres to CDI (ENEA, L. Pecci)
  • Integration of external datasets (EuroGOOS, P. Gorringe)
  • Progress made on standardisation of Flow Cytometer data (CNRS-MIO, S. Lahbib)
• WP10 – Developments of downstream services
  • Analysis and specifications for the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) (MARIS, P. Thijsse)
  • Status of ODV online as VRE application (AWI, S. Mieruch)
  • Status of Diva online as VRE application (ULG, C. Troupin)
• WP11 – Development, update and publication of data products
  • Overall approach – Workplan - Possible integration of external data sets (INGV, S. Simoncelli)
  • Proposed new products (UniBO, M. Zavatarelli)
  • Interaction with VRE developments (IFREMER, C. Coatanoan)

Work plan for next year

• Work plan, milestones and deliverables for the 2^nd year. First report to EC (IFREMER, M. Fichaut)

Advisory board

• Advisory board comments (Fisheries and Oceans, M. Ouellet)

News on other European projects and plans

• TG DATA (RBINS - IFREMER, S. Scory)
• ODIP II (MARIS, D. Schaap)
• EMODnet Physics (ETT, A. Novellino)
• EMODnet Chemistry (OGS, E. Partescano)
• EMODnet Bathymetry (MARIS, D. Schaap)
• European Open Science Cloud – EOSC Pilot (EUDAT, C. Aryio)
• Pilot Blue Cloud (MARIS, D. Schaap)