Donatella Castelli gives an overview of the iMarine main achievements after three years of work.

1. From collaboration to market and future growth
Brussels, 29 September 2014
iMarine achievements:
three years and beyond
Donatella Castelli
CNR-ISTI
iMarine Scientific Director

2. iMarine Objective
Launch an Initiative aimed at establishing and
operating a data Infrastructure supporting the
implementation of the principles of the
Ecosystem Approach
to Fisheries Management and CCoonnsseerrvvaattiioonn ooff
Marine Living Resources
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3. iMarine components
EA Community of
Practice
e-Infrastructure
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4. CoP: main interest/ motivation
data sharing & re-use
(interoperability, synchronization of solutions,
shared standards and policies, coordinated re-use,
etc.)
Not only row data, but also more elaborated
information.
“facilities as-a-service”
(format transformation, data curation,
statistical models, map generation, …….)
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5. From collaboration to market
SMEs
Business opportunities
(Today:
4 requests per month in average)
International,
public and
Sustainability
contributors
private
organizations
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6. Terminology
Projects
(Initiatives)
e-infrastructure
(the operational platform)
)
System
(the enabling sw system)
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7. gCube driving principle
e-Infastructures take-up (impact)
largely depends on the availability of:
• Easy-to-use services
• Easy to access products
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8. User classes
Data providers
Third-party
service providers
(Other infras, SMEs)
Educators
Scientists
(basic science,
policy advice)
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9. gCube
Ontologies
and Data
Warehouse
BBiioollooggiiccaall
and
Ecological
Data
Documents
Statistical
Data
GeoSpatia
l Data
Facilities and standards for managing
& processing data types widely
used in supporting the EA
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10. D4Science & iMarine
OOnnttoollooggiieess
and Data
Warehous
e
BBiioollooggiiccaall
and
Ecological
Data
Aquatic Commons, Zookeys,
Ocean Docs, Bioonline, BHL,…
Document
GeoSpati
al Data
Statistical
Data
s
Eurostat, IRD, FAO,…
(timeseries and codelists)
TLO, FLOD,…
GBIF, OBIS, WoRMS, CoL,
WORDSS, ITIS, IRMNG, ASFIS,
NCBI, ….
MyOcean, WorldOcean Atlas,
WorldOcean Atlas Database,
FAO GeoNetwork,…..
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11. e-Infastructure ecosystem
building on others’ effort
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12. ……. and beyond
• iMarine uniqueness is in its global, cross-domain and cross-dimensional
support to the EA
• The underlying and generic system gCube, the D4Science
infrastructure and iMarine have the potential to serve similar
science based policy frameworks, such as ddoommaaiinnss wwiitthhiinn tthhee
Blue Growth
• We are happy to offer what we have developed and to
support other needs through the acquired experience
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13. NEXT
A step into the future of iMarine: The iMarine Public-centered Partnership
Business Model
Patricio Bernal (IUCN) , Hervé Camount (Terradue), Marc Taconet (FAO)
How iMarine fulfils data needs in support of the Ecosystem Approach
Pasquale Pagano (CNR), Nicolas Bailly (FIN), Yann Laurent (FAO),
Jerome Guitton (Agrocampus)
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