ODIP II. Overview including aims and objective Xxxxx Xxxxxx gave a short introduction of ODIP II focusing on the contact obligations of the EU partners. ODIP is in its 2ndphase which was recently funded by the EU. The proposal was submitted September of 2014 and officially started on 1 April 2015. Its duration is 36 months. The basic concept is to support multilateral cooperation on research infrastructures in marine science. It is a collaborative project between Europe, USA, Australia and related international initiatives such as IODE, GEOSS and POGO. The key objectives are to: continue and extend the activities of the existing ODIP project; provide a coordination platform to facilitate the establishment of interoperability between regional data infrastructures in Europe, USA and Australia and also with global systems e.g. IODE Ocean Data Portal, GEOSS, POGO; develop common approaches for specific aspects of marine data management e.g. vocabularies, formats, sensor web enablement etc; development of joint prototype activities including the further development of the existing prototypes to fully operational systems to demonstrate this coordinated approach; extend the scope of the project to include other domains e.g. marine biology.
ODIP II development of potential activities Xxxx Xxxxxx (MARIS), ODIP II Technical Coordinator welcomed everybody to the second phase of the project. He was very pleased that the group is together again to continue the successful ODIP approach and its synergies that came out of this. There are many projects now either new or future ones that are related to ODIP and make use of its work. ODIP is a platform that brings together ideas, progresses and developments, trying to tune and implement these in other projects using the linking- pinch principle as ODIP does not implement by itself. More analytically the approach is to develop interoperability between existing regional marine e-infrastructures in which ODIP partners are involved in order to create a global framework for marine and ocean data management. Through the Workshops the related topics of interest will be presented and discussed in order to identify potential topics for prototype projects. ODIP II will bring together expert developers and managers of leading regional and global infrastructures. In addition to the content wise approach there are many IT challenges as new standards are coming up continually such as OGC, ISO. Also the internet of things will bring large changes and opportunities in using the network but now the challenge is how to deal with the flow and access of the plugged data and metadata for example from the observations sensors using the SWE. ODIP II will also try to connect the existing data systems which used so far a bottom-up approach, will try to combine the data from different sources and turn them into information and knowledge by using the technology. Xxxx Xxxxxx encouraged partners to bring new ideas that they may have to be accommodated either into the Workshops topics or into the cross cutting activities. A number of prototype projects will be formulated and taken into development, largely by leveraging on the activities of current regional projects and initiatives such as SeaDataNet, EMODnet (EU), IMOS and AODN (Australia), R2R, US NODC, UNIDATA and US IOOS (USA) and in dialogue T Grant Agreement Number: 654310 ODIP II_WP2_D2.2 and direct cooperation with global initiatives such as IODE-ODP, GEOSS and POGO. This process requires strong interaction with the development activities taking place in the regional and global infrastructures. ODIP will function partly as a “think-tank” with agreed solutions carried forward by the related infrastructures for further development, te...
