Slides presented at the "4th Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices (GE-BICH-IV)" which took place on 27-30 January 2009 in Oostende, Belgium More information at: http://d4science.eu/node/173

1. GeBich IV
Oostende - 27th to 30th January 2009
Perspectives on Collaborative Research
Environments offered by D4Science
DIstributed colLaboratories Infrastructure on
Grid ENabled Technology for Science
Marc Taconet 1
marc.taconet@fao.org

2. Outline of presentation
1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine
sciences community
Conclusion: action items for Gebich
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3. The Institutional context in Marine sciences
overarching drivers
Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach
to Fisheries Management (EAF)
the World Summit on Sustainable Development,
Johannesburg, 2002, encourages nations to apply the
ecosystem approach by 2010...
National and Inter-Governmental Organizations
dedicated to:
sustainable exploitation of fishery resources
conservation of habitats and ecosystems
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4. The Institutional context in Marine sciences
Communities of Practice
Implementation of the EAF: Components of knowledge
Production systems
/ Fleets
Fisheries
FAO RFBs
Resources of commercial
interest
biodiversity
WFC
GBIF
CoML / OBIS
Environment
Broader ecosystem
IUCN
Physical environment
IOC
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5. The Institutional context in Marine sciences
Linkages with Gebich objectives
Current status:
communities of practices (CoP):
with e-infrastructures
using structured data
research needs in Marine sciences
enable data sharing beyond established CoP
enable collaborative approaches
generalizing solutions to interoperability is desirable
Opportunity
D4Science offers an approach
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6. Outline of presentation
1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine
sciences community
Conclusion: action items for Gebich
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7. Project backgroud
– Funding: 7M Euros
• European Commission
– 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
– 11 Partners
• Universities
• National institutes
• International organizations
• Private companies
– Timeframe
• Phase 1: Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2009
• Phase 2: Oct. 2009 – Dec. 2011
– History
• EGEE
• Diligent
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8. D4Science vision
calls for the realization of scientific e-Infrastructures that will
remove all heterogeneity, sustainability, scalability, and other technical
concerns from the minds of scientists,
hide all related complexities from their perception, and
enable them to focus on their science and collaborate on common
research challenges
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9. Technology and concepts
Virtual Research Environments (VREs)
VRE
VRE VRE
D4Science
EGEE
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10. Technology and concepts
Virtual Research Environments (VREs)
e-infrastructure
for collaborative science
wikipedia++
able to work with structured databases
federate data and applications ...
... even across boundaries of traditional user communities
through mechanisms allowing ...
semi-automated import of distributed data sources
harmonization of heterogeneous sources
intensive data processing
support for query, output and annotation.
workflow process definition
template generation tools
catalog and discover data
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11. Project phase 2
a Knowledge ecosystem infrastructure
FCPPS ICIS
INSPIRE
GENESI-DR
D4Scienc
e
Knowledge
Ecosystem
DRIVER
AquaMaps
Interoperability - extend D4Science by Main components of the initial ecosystem:
introducing mechanisms for facilitating: • GENESI-DR, AquaMaps, INSPIRE, DRIVER
• the use of data resources managed by 5 scientific applications:
different data infrastructures • ICIS, FCPPS (FARM community) 11
• the programmatic exploitation of the
• INSPIRE, DRIVER, AquaMaps
D4Science capabilities

12. 1. Please, explain briefly what will be the key
outcomes of the proposal and who the end users are
fishery managers and
assessment scientists, policy makers, fisheries
ecologists economists and managers,
aquaculture specialists
More accurated country profiles
Better catches reallocation
GENESI-DR Mining of bibliomeric data
INSPIRE Hybrid metrics
D4Science
30,000+ HEP scientists
Hybrid metrics
AquaMaps Enhanced publications
DRIVER
Better quality maps
200 institutional repositories
biodiversity scientists
RECOLECTA (Spain)
SeaLifeBase, GBIF,
Belgium National Portal
Fishbase (1M accesses per month)
DART 12
…

13. Outline of presentation
1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine
sciences community
The Integrated Capture Information System (ICIS)
a scenario for the proof of concept
Conclusion: action items for Gebich
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14. 3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented
scenario
UNGA recommendations:
FAO should provide indicators for
Fishing activity / Catch
assessment of High Seas stocks
Fisheries
“distinguish catch in the High Seas
from catch within EEZs”
current status:
reporting by Major FAO statistical
fishing areas
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15. 3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented
scenario
CWP recommendations:
enhance quality of global catch
Fishing activity / Catch
statistics
Fisheries
“stronger integration of existing
catch Databases”
current status:
non-integrated databases
shared data standards (to some extent)
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16. 3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented
scenario
CWP recommendations:
enhance quality of global catch
Fishing activity / Catch
statistics
Fisheries
“stronger integration of existing
catch Databases
current status:
non-integrated databases
shared data standards (to some extent)
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17. 3. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented
scenario
Fishing activity / Catch
Fisheries
ICIS
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18. 2. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented
scenario
D4Science: support to
collaborative science
Fishing activity / Catch
Fisheries
ICIS
GLOBAL LEVEL
Reference Catch
system statistics
FAO
GIS areas
- species
REGIONAL
Reference Catch
vms
system statistics
RFBs
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19. 2. ICIS – a cross-communities problem-resolving-oriented
scenario
Fishing activity / Catch Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Habitats Geo-forms Hydrography
Oceanography
Fisheries Biodiversity
Aquamaps
ICIS
GENESI-DR
Aquamaps
GLOBAL LEVEL
Reference Catch WFC
system statistics
FishBase
FAO
GIS areas
- species
Species ESA
occurence Satellite
Sea-datanet
oceanography
OBIS
REGIONAL
Reference Catch
vms
system statistics
RFBs
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20. Outline of presentation
1. Introduction: Why this presentation in Gebich
2. What is D4Science ?
3. How D4Science responds to needs of Marine
sciences community
Conclusion: considerations for Ge-bich ?
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21. Conclusion: considerations for Ge-bich
interoperability with Ocean Data Portal
selection of common standards
in particular where we have bridging systems
use of W3C compliant web services
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22. ICIS – a response to institutional needs
the Vision
Data processing: Predicting species distribution
Environmental envelope type modeling approach
Physical
Species-specific environmental • bathymetry
PMax
envelope • sea temperature
• salinity
• land distance
probability of
• ice concentration
occurrence
Relative
Biological
• primary production
Predictor
Min Preferred Preferred Max 22
min max