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European Knowledge Infrastructure

towards a European Marine Observation and Data

Network

Iain Shepherd European Commission

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why data is underused

• Discovery of Data. – Especially difficult outside your own community

• Access to data. – Confidentiality – Desire of owners to exploit added-value themselves

• Use of data.– Often restricted to “research”

• Cost of data. – Landsat fiasco

• Coherence of Data. – Especially cross-disciplinary and cross-border

• Quality of Data. – Data unaccompanied by precision estimates is useless

• Quantity of Data. – Are we undersampling? marine observation and data expert group

1-2 December 2008 2/31

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discovery, access and use - environmental law

• Discovery– INSPIRE 2007/2/EC

• Access– Environmental Information Directive 2003/4/EC

• Use– Public Sector Information Directive 2003/98/EC

Apply to bodies exercising public authority – not necessarily research establishments

incentives to make date available

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Design Principle 1

• collect data once and share it many times.– especially if paid by public money that is

funding the collection of data,– does not of course obviate the need for

confirmatory measurements.

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Russia Finland

Boulders

> 100 mm > 600 mm

Cobbles 10 – 100 mm 60 -600 mm

Gravel 1 – 10 mm 2 – 60 mm

Sand 1 – 0.1 mm 2 – 0.06 mm

Silt 0.1 – 0.01 mm 0.06 – 0.002 mm

Clay < 0.01 mm < 0.002 mm

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• develop interoperable standards– between different disciplines as well as

within communities– respect the provisions of INSPIRE

implementation rules

Design Principle 2

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• focus on sea-basins– process at laboratory level, national level,

sea-basin level, European level– European level connected to sea-basin level

Design Principle 3

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• Requires sustainable funding at EU level

marine observation and data expert group1-2 December 2008 9/31

Design Principle 4

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Design Principle 5

• Build on existing structures– Eurogeosurveys – International Hydrographic Organisation. – regional sea conventions . – EuroGOOS

• allow EMODNET to profit from the expertise and organisation that has been developed

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Design Principle 6

• user driven– need to develop feedback mechanisms– define priorities

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Design Principle 7

• clarify ownership, accuracy and precision – data should be accompanied by a statement

concerning ownership, rights of use, precision and accuracy

– allows recognition of data providers

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Design Principle 8

• freedom of use for publicly funded data– conditions of use remain prerogative of owner – need to move cautiously

• a number of organisations in the public domain – particularly in geology and hydrography - are concerned that the loss of income from data sales might limit their ability to process and archive data.

– nevertheless the charging for data for commercial use is a brake on innovation without bringing a net gain in benefits for society

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Preparatory Actions €4,250,000

• develop, test, operate and maintain portals allowing public access and viewing of these data

• monitor and report on the effectiveness of the system

• analyse what further steps need to be taken

• keep the portal operational afterwards and be prepared to transfer to the Commission.

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Preparatory Actions €4,250,000

hydrography

North Sea

the Celtic Seas, the Western Mediterranean, the Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean

geology North Sea

Baltic and Celtic Seas

chemistry North Sea

Black Sea

biology North Sea

Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast

habitats North Sea

Baltic, Celtic Seas and Western Mediterranean

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fish other speciesbiology

fishing other activityhuman activity

At sea-basin level; develop complete picture, measure quality and analyse gaps (including

habitat map)

fishing other activity

economics

Researchers

Public authorities

Industry (value added

services)

Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Gravel extraction, Renewable energy,

Port operation, Aquaculture, etc

Sea-level rise estimate

Climate prediction

Atlas of the Seas: disseminate data, clarify policies and promote sea-basin approach

space in-situ

physics

public

Data

Data Assembly and visualisation

Target users

Practical use

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Next steps

next week Launch roadmap and public consultation

June 23 submit impact assessmentNovember adopt action plan

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options

1. carry on as before2. support data collection3. support data assembly4. support data processing

(indicators etc)

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Monitoring and evaluation