The document describes an e-infrastructure called iMarine that provides resources and services for marine research. It offers:
- Heterogeneous computing and storage resources across different providers as services.
- Access to large amounts of marine data from various sources through its "Data Bonanza".
- A collaborative Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for users with tools for data access, validation, enrichment, processing and sharing.
- Software platforms that abstract over differences in technologies to provide scalable and flexible access to resources and tools through a single interface.
Horst Hecht created a presentation with a critical view on ECDIS from various perspectives: technical, regulatory and in the daily practice. In the conclusion he gives suggestions for improvement in the process
Marine Knowledge Meeting, 11-12 Oct 2012, Brussels: All About iMarine iMarine283644
iMarine is empowering users in the marine community and beyond by providing a highly efficient e-Infrastructure to accelerate data discovery, exchange, and analysis, tools and platforms that facilitates scientific discovery. Funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, a number of iMarine services are already available through the iMarine Gateway supplying cross disciplinary data supporting experts in the field.
A step into the future of iMarine: The iMarine Public-centred Partnership Bus...iMarine283644
Presentation by Marc Taconet - FAO-FI, Chief Fisheries Statistics and Information Branch (FIPS) & iMarine Board Chair, Patricio Bernal - IUCN High Seas Initiatives and Hervé Camount - Terradue, Program Manager on the sustainability plan of the iMarine initiative
Horst Hecht created a presentation with a critical view on ECDIS from various perspectives: technical, regulatory and in the daily practice. In the conclusion he gives suggestions for improvement in the process
Marine Knowledge Meeting, 11-12 Oct 2012, Brussels: All About iMarine iMarine283644
iMarine is empowering users in the marine community and beyond by providing a highly efficient e-Infrastructure to accelerate data discovery, exchange, and analysis, tools and platforms that facilitates scientific discovery. Funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, a number of iMarine services are already available through the iMarine Gateway supplying cross disciplinary data supporting experts in the field.
A step into the future of iMarine: The iMarine Public-centred Partnership Bus...iMarine283644
Presentation by Marc Taconet - FAO-FI, Chief Fisheries Statistics and Information Branch (FIPS) & iMarine Board Chair, Patricio Bernal - IUCN High Seas Initiatives and Hervé Camount - Terradue, Program Manager on the sustainability plan of the iMarine initiative
This is the device Klassmate which I have developed for classroom teaching. Which costs 70000 INR and is portable interactive whiteboard. with Microsoft Kinect sensor.
The iMarine initiative provides a data infrastructure aimed at facilitating open access, the sharing of data, collaborative analysis, processing and mining processing, as well as the dissemination of newly generated knowledge. The iMarine data infrastructure is developed to support decision making in high-level challenges that require policy decisions typical of the ecosystem approach. The iMarine offering can be articulated in six bundles. A “bundle” is a set of services and technologies grouped according to a family of related tasks for achieving a common objective. Bundles can be customized and/or enriched into flexible, purpose-built Virtual Research Environments (VRE). Virtual research environments offer flexible and secure web-based, community-centric platforms, so researchers can work together on common challenges. Each VRE in the infrastructure is tightly integrated with the underlying gCube enabling software, and can access and re-purpose data from other iMarine applications.
Integrating Heterogeneous and Distributed Information about Marine Species th...iMarine283644
On the 21st of November 2013, Yannis Tzitzikas, FORTH, presented the Integrating heterogeneous and distributed information about marine species through a top level ontology paper at the 7th Metadata and Semantic Research Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.
iMarine data e-infrastructure: Data access, harmonization, analysis, and mana...iMarine283644
On the 22 July 2014, OpenChannels.org and the EBM Tools Network, two of the premier sources of information about coastal and marine planning and management tools in the United States and internationally, hosted the iMarine webinar: iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources.
The webinar focused on the presentation of the iMarine initiative and its powerful data e-infrastructures and services, followed by a presentation of a set of use cases related to Geospatial Analysis, Ecology, Biodiversity and Life History Traits. The presentations were given by Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI and iMarine Technical Director and Gianpaolo Coro, CNR-ISTI. Watch the video of the webinar here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgf30BPyBbk
Virtual Research Environments supporting tailor-made data management service...Blue BRIDGE
Presented by Pasquale Pagano of CNR at the BlueBRIDGE Workshop at SeaTech Week 2016 in Brest, France. http://www.bluebridge-vres.eu/events/join-bluebridge-10th-biennial-sea-tech-week-brest-france
iMarine Services: presentation from COFI 2016 side event "Innovative IT solutions to support Data needs for Blue Growth – Google and iMarine examples".
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, BlueBRIDGE Director
Anton Ellenbroek, Fisheries Officer - iMarine
BlueBRIDGE Presentation at Blue Growth Research & Innovation Event 2017Blue BRIDGE
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI and BlueBRIDGE Project Coordinator, contributed to the event as part of the sub session that showcased project portfolios on marine data and digitisation technologies applied to the marine and maritime sector and also affecting aquaculture and fisheries, using this presentation.
An overview of Datashed will be provided to explain how the free website can be used to manage watershed restoration efforts including storing water quality data and project information.
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Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI & BlueBRIDGE Coordinator, gave an introductive talk in the "Towards an e-infrastructure in agriculture?" session at the Euragri workship in Inra, Paris discussing leading an e-infrastructure project in marine research e-Infrastructure and how it refers to a combination of digital technologies (hardware and software), resources (data, services, digital libraries), communications (protocols, access rights and networks), and the people and organisational structures needed to manage them.
MapR 5.2: Getting More Value from the MapR Converged Community EditionMapR Technologies
Please join us to learn about the recent developments during the past year in the MapR Community Edition. In these slides, we will cover the following platform updates:
-Taking cluster monitoring to the next level with the Spyglass Initiative
-Real-time streaming with MapR Streams
-MapR-DB JSON document database and application development with OJAI
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Disaster Recovery Experience at CACIB: Hardening Hadoop for Critical Financia...DataWorks Summit
Hadoop is becoming a standard platform for building critical financial applications such as risk reporting, trading and fraud detection. These applications require high level of SLAs (service-level agreement) in terms of RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective). To achieve these SLAs, organizations need to build a disaster recovery plan that cover several layers ranging from the infrastructure to the clients going through the platform and the applications. In this talk, we will present the different architecture blueprints for disaster recovery as well as their corresponding SLA objectives. Then, we will focus on the stretch cluster solution that Crédit Agricole CIB is using in production. We will discuss the solution’s advantages, drawbacks and the impact of this approach on the global architecture. Finally, we will explain in detail how to configure and deploy this solution and how to integrate each layer (storage layer, processing layer...) into the architecture.
This is the device Klassmate which I have developed for classroom teaching. Which costs 70000 INR and is portable interactive whiteboard. with Microsoft Kinect sensor.
The iMarine initiative provides a data infrastructure aimed at facilitating open access, the sharing of data, collaborative analysis, processing and mining processing, as well as the dissemination of newly generated knowledge. The iMarine data infrastructure is developed to support decision making in high-level challenges that require policy decisions typical of the ecosystem approach. The iMarine offering can be articulated in six bundles. A “bundle” is a set of services and technologies grouped according to a family of related tasks for achieving a common objective. Bundles can be customized and/or enriched into flexible, purpose-built Virtual Research Environments (VRE). Virtual research environments offer flexible and secure web-based, community-centric platforms, so researchers can work together on common challenges. Each VRE in the infrastructure is tightly integrated with the underlying gCube enabling software, and can access and re-purpose data from other iMarine applications.
Integrating Heterogeneous and Distributed Information about Marine Species th...iMarine283644
On the 21st of November 2013, Yannis Tzitzikas, FORTH, presented the Integrating heterogeneous and distributed information about marine species through a top level ontology paper at the 7th Metadata and Semantic Research Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.
iMarine data e-infrastructure: Data access, harmonization, analysis, and mana...iMarine283644
On the 22 July 2014, OpenChannels.org and the EBM Tools Network, two of the premier sources of information about coastal and marine planning and management tools in the United States and internationally, hosted the iMarine webinar: iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources.
The webinar focused on the presentation of the iMarine initiative and its powerful data e-infrastructures and services, followed by a presentation of a set of use cases related to Geospatial Analysis, Ecology, Biodiversity and Life History Traits. The presentations were given by Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI and iMarine Technical Director and Gianpaolo Coro, CNR-ISTI. Watch the video of the webinar here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgf30BPyBbk
Virtual Research Environments supporting tailor-made data management service...Blue BRIDGE
Presented by Pasquale Pagano of CNR at the BlueBRIDGE Workshop at SeaTech Week 2016 in Brest, France. http://www.bluebridge-vres.eu/events/join-bluebridge-10th-biennial-sea-tech-week-brest-france
iMarine Services: presentation from COFI 2016 side event "Innovative IT solutions to support Data needs for Blue Growth – Google and iMarine examples".
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, BlueBRIDGE Director
Anton Ellenbroek, Fisheries Officer - iMarine
BlueBRIDGE Presentation at Blue Growth Research & Innovation Event 2017Blue BRIDGE
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI and BlueBRIDGE Project Coordinator, contributed to the event as part of the sub session that showcased project portfolios on marine data and digitisation technologies applied to the marine and maritime sector and also affecting aquaculture and fisheries, using this presentation.
An overview of Datashed will be provided to explain how the free website can be used to manage watershed restoration efforts including storing water quality data and project information.
Towards an e-infrastructure in agriculture?Blue BRIDGE
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI & BlueBRIDGE Coordinator, gave an introductive talk in the "Towards an e-infrastructure in agriculture?" session at the Euragri workship in Inra, Paris discussing leading an e-infrastructure project in marine research e-Infrastructure and how it refers to a combination of digital technologies (hardware and software), resources (data, services, digital libraries), communications (protocols, access rights and networks), and the people and organisational structures needed to manage them.
MapR 5.2: Getting More Value from the MapR Converged Community EditionMapR Technologies
Please join us to learn about the recent developments during the past year in the MapR Community Edition. In these slides, we will cover the following platform updates:
-Taking cluster monitoring to the next level with the Spyglass Initiative
-Real-time streaming with MapR Streams
-MapR-DB JSON document database and application development with OJAI
-Securing your data with access control expressions (ACEs)
Disaster Recovery Experience at CACIB: Hardening Hadoop for Critical Financia...DataWorks Summit
Hadoop is becoming a standard platform for building critical financial applications such as risk reporting, trading and fraud detection. These applications require high level of SLAs (service-level agreement) in terms of RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective). To achieve these SLAs, organizations need to build a disaster recovery plan that cover several layers ranging from the infrastructure to the clients going through the platform and the applications. In this talk, we will present the different architecture blueprints for disaster recovery as well as their corresponding SLA objectives. Then, we will focus on the stretch cluster solution that Crédit Agricole CIB is using in production. We will discuss the solution’s advantages, drawbacks and the impact of this approach on the global architecture. Finally, we will explain in detail how to configure and deploy this solution and how to integrate each layer (storage layer, processing layer...) into the architecture.
MapR 5.2: Getting More Value from the MapR Converged Data PlatformMapR Technologies
End of maintenance for MapR 4.x is coming in January, so now is a good time to plan your upgrade. Please join us to learn about the recent developments during the past year in the MapR Platform that will make the upgrade effort this year worthwhile.
Kafka Migration for Satellite Event Streaming Data | Eric Velte, ASRC FederalHostedbyConfluent
ASRC Federal created the Mission Operator Assist (MOA) tool to extend human capabilities through AI/ML for NOAA. MOA ingests system log data from on-orbit satellite constellations and applies machine learning to greatly improve real-time situational awareness. MOA uses a collection of tools, including Kafka for multi-subscriber communications, all hosted through AWS Cloud Services and Kubernetes Containers for microservices. Like many traditional on-premises systems, satellite ground station operations are undergoing a renaissance as they increasingly become enabled by cloud.
During this session, the audience will learn about the satellite communications chain, and best practices and lessons learned in creating a data pipeline with Kafka for high throughput and scalability while displaying high quality situational awareness to mission operators. We will discuss our goals centered around establishing event-driven streaming for satellite logs so our machine learning becomes real-time and supporting a multi-subscriber approach for various Kafka topics. Listeners will also learn how a multi-subscriber approach using Kafka, helped us auto scale logstash based on how many messages are in the queue and other microservices.
OCRE Workshop: Shaping the Earth Observation Services Market for Research. Session 3: Presentations from DIAS and eoMALL.
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The event will be the 4th OCRE Requirements Gathering Workshop. Researchers and Earth Observation Service Providers will be asked to provide inputs to help us shape OCRE's tender.
The OCRE project aims to provide the first end-to-end instance of organised, large-scale market pull for EO services in Europe. These services will be provided for free to EU researchers through the European Open Science Cloud. To ensure that the services meet the actual needs of the research community we invite both the demand and the supply side, to share their views and engage in a productive dialogue. Our aim is to capture the needs of EU researchers and inform the EO service providers so that they make available services that effectively address them. We will also explain how the OCRE process will work, how the different stakeholders should be involved and how to make the most of the foreseen benefits.
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2. Outline
The Infrastructure
• Heterogeneous resources as a service
• Data Bonanza
• Virtual Research Environment
• Software platform
iMarine Catalogue
• StatsCube
• GeosCube
• BiolCube
• ConnectCube
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3. Distinguishing capabilities of the iMarine e-infrastructure and its
enabling software
THE INFRASTRUCTURE
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4. Concepts
The initiative
(the visionary leadership)
The e-infrastructure
(the operational platform)
The system
(the enabling sw system)
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6. Infrastructure: key characteristics
• Efficient and tailored storage technologies
• Computational environments dealing with the volume
of the data
• Elastic management of the resources, monitoring,
alerting, recovery
• Collaborative environment to support scientific
communities
• Rich portfolio of applications to perform access,
validation, enriching, processing, sharing, and mash-up
of data
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7. Infrastructure: Storage as Service
• Secure
• Fault-tolerant
• Replication
• Open source
RDBMS
• Up to 1 TB data
Virtual
Workspace
Relational
Databases
45 TB Currently Used
Spatial
Database
Large and
Active data
storage
• ISO
19115/10139
Metadata
• Catalogue
• Scalability and
high availability
• Across sites
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8. 330 Cores Currently Allocated
Infrastructure: Computing as Service
Hadoop
• MapReduce
Statistical
Manager
• Analysis/clustering/modeling
R clusters
• Windows and Linux
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9. Infrastructure: Management as Service
Operation Machine readable SLAs
Machine readable monitoring, auditing, billing,
reporting, and notification
Machine readable resource/performance capabilities
description
Trust
Privacy, governance, and attribution
Security, trusted network
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10. Infrastructure: Collaborative Environment
The Social Portal offers a familiar view of what is
happening on their VREs
A single place to
• Get status and updates from applications and other users they are interested in;
• Get notifications about messages, jobs completion, new generated products, etc.
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11. Infrastructure: Collaborative Environment
The Social Portal offers a familiar view of what is
happening on their VREs
A single place to
• Manage all the portal extension.
W rk p Ms ags o atio sP e
o s ac es eNtific n ag
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Se hiny u W rk p e
arc o r o s ac
H m So ial
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12. Infrastructure: Collaborative Environment
The Social Portal offers a familiar view of what is
happening on their VREs
A single place to
• Manage data, store and preserve them
• Share data
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15. Data Bonanza
SDMX *
- FAO CodeLists
- IRD CodeLists
- FAO Global
Aquaculture
Production
- FAO Global Capture
Production
- FAO Global
Production
- Eurostat
- …
Statistical
Biodiversity
Geospatial
DarwinCore / ISO19139
>35 M Observations (OBIS)
≈ 120 K Observed Species
(OBIS)
≈ 500 K Taxa (WoRMS)
>600 K Scientific Names
(ITIS)
>12 K Species Distribution
Maps (AquaMaps)
≈ 600 Species Extent (FAO)
… FishBase, SeaLifeBase
… CoL, GBIF
> 300
variables
ISO19139 (OGC W*S)
10 years Chemical and Physical variables in 2D space
Ice concentration and velocity, Chlorophyll, Oxygen, Nitrate, Phosphate,
Phytoplankton as carbon, Salinity, Temperature, …
On-demand Chemical and Physical variables in 3D space
Apparent Oxygen Utilization, Dissolved Oxygen, Salinity, Temperature, …
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16. Not Only Access
• Access
– Retrieval of geospatial data as
space/time-varying phenomena
– Direct fine-grained access to feature
and feature property level.
• Validation
– User-defined quality and dissemination level
• Enriching
– Generation metadata, exploitation of reference data, linking to
environmental dataset
• Processing
– Analysis and mining exploiting e.g. R, Weka and RapidMiner
statistical frameworks
• Sharing
– User-driven process to decide how other agents (human / machine)
can access information
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17. Features Clustering with StatsCube
Presence
Points
(FishBase
+
Obis)
Density Based Clustering
DBSCAN
(with outliers)
Other methods are also
available …
K-Means
X-Means
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20. Not Only Access, Validation, Enriching,
Processing, Sharing
• It is always possible to save the discovered
data in various Standard formats
• It is always possible to collaborate with coworkers through a dedicated workspace.
• Mash-up data across diversity
– Accessing statistical datasets in SDMX, geo-referencing
them, describing them in ISO19139, and making them
available via OGC W*S standard protocols
– Accessing species observation datasets in DwC, analysing
their distribution trend via R, and projecting them in
geographical space
– Accessing species taxonomies in DwCA and publishing
them as reference data in SDMX
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21. Data Bonanza: a common vision
Integrate and harmonize crossdisciplinary data and information
across information systems and
workflows to support evidence-based
decision making
iMarine is implementing this vision through the
adoption of Standards, the identification of
common Methods and the implementation of
Tools which enable integration and
harmonization.
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22. Is this enough?
• An ecosystem of
participatory data eInfrastructures
• Regulated by policies
• Enabled by standards
• Promoting not only
access but mash-up of
heterogeneous data
User centric
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23. User-Centric View
User-centric view of an ecosystem of
participatory data e-Infrastructures to
• Cope with the overwhelming amount of data
and capacities
• Promote re-use of data
• Encourage sharing of resulting products
User-centric and workflow-oriented
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24. Virtual Research Environment
iMarine is user-centric and workflow-oriented thanks to
the gCube VRE technology
Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is
• a distributed and dynamically created environment
• where subset of data, services, computational, and
storage resources
• regulated by tailored policies
• are assigned to a subset of users via interfaces
• for a limited timeframe
• at little or no cost for the providers of
the participatory data e-infrastructures
L. Candela, D. Castelli, P. Pagano (2013) Virtual Research Environments: An Overview and a
Research Agenda. Data Science Journal, Vol. 12
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25. Flexible
Software Platform
Software platform to
abstract over differences
in location, protocols,
and models by
keeping failures partial and
temporary,
Storage, Discovery, Indexing,
Search, Execution, …
reacting to and recovering from
a large number of potential
issues.
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Feature-rich
Feature-rich
scaling no less than the
interfaced resources,
It turns resources and
technologies into a utility
by offering a single
registration, monitoring,
and access facilities
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27. iMarine Exploitation models
Service
Data hosting
Infrastructure
Unlimited users, Infrastructure support, helpdesk, back-up, security
Validation (records)
Workspace
Hardware
Default Processing (<1MB)
Social Tool
Community Management
Storage 1TB
Cloud Resources
Validation (Datasets)
Custom Data Resources
Custom Processing (> 1MB)
Spatial Data integration
User Management
Large and Active Storage
Unlimited VRE’s
Hour/Day
Month
Year
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28. Concept map of the products
I-MARINE OFFER
I-MARINE EXTENDED BOARD
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29. Application Bundles
Management and interpretation of biological and
ecological data in the environment
Complete full life-cycle data framework, from
observational data to aggregated data repositories
enriched with validation and analytical tools
Storage and interpretation of geospatial explicit
information, including WPS processing
Flexible sharing, storage, reporting, search and
retrieval, aggregation and projection facilities
I-MARINE EXTENDED BOARD
A BUNDLE is
a set of
services and
technologie
s grouped
according to
a family of
related
tasks for ac
hieving a
common
objective
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