The document discusses the Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) database and its use of the iMarine Reports Manager content management system. The VME database collects information on impacts of deep-sea fisheries but it was dispersed and hard to access. The iMarine Reports Manager was implemented as it could handle the database structure and provide a user-friendly interface and workflow. It was delivered on time and budget. The Reports Manager allows updating fact sheets in the VME database and shares them in a private virtual research environment for authorized users.
ICES - evidence provider to Ecosystem Based Management (EBM)Mark Dickey-Collas
This presentation illustrates how ICES operationally supports EBM with special reference to EBSAs, VMEs, and tradeoffs in the North Atlantic. The ICES network of researchers works with managers and stakeholders to find credible regional solutions, using global best practice methods for EBM.
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.
ICES - evidence provider to Ecosystem Based Management (EBM)Mark Dickey-Collas
This presentation illustrates how ICES operationally supports EBM with special reference to EBSAs, VMEs, and tradeoffs in the North Atlantic. The ICES network of researchers works with managers and stakeholders to find credible regional solutions, using global best practice methods for EBM.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In computational statistics, algorithms often have specialized implementations that address very specific problems. Every so often, these algorithms are applicable also to other problems than the original ones. Today, interest is growing towards modular and pluggable solutions that enable the repetition and validation of the experiments made by other scientists and allow the exploitation of those algorithms in other contexts. Furthermore, such procedures are requested to be remotely hosted and to “hide” the complexity of the calculations, managed by remote computational infrastructures behind the scenes. For such reasons, the usual solution of supplying modular software libraries containing implementations of algorithms is leaving the place to Web Services accessible through standard protocols and hosting such implementations. The protocols describing the computational capabilities of these Services are more and more elaborate, so that modular workflows can rely on them.
By Robyn Johnston and Vladimir Smakhtin. Presented at the "Water in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance. Indicators, Thresholds and Uncertainties of the Global Water System" conference in Bonn, Germany May 2013
DSD-Kampala 2023 Development of the Lake Victoria Basin Water Information Sys...Deltares
Presentation by Benjamin Ssekamuli (LVBC) at the Symposium Models and decision-making in the wake of climate uncertainties, during the Deltares Software Days - Kampala 2023 (DSD-Kampala 2023). Wednesday, 4 October 2023, Kampala, Uganda.
The Vetiver Education & Empowerment Project (VEEP) & the Vetiver System (VS) ...iweco-project
Presentation by Jonathan Barcant, Caribbean Coordinator of the Vetiver Network international at the GEF-funded UNEP-implemented Integrating Water Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (IWEco) Project 17th Partners' Webinar, on 18th January 2022.
Marine Management Organisation with ArcGIS OnlineEsri UK
At Esri UK Annual Conference 2014
In April 2014 the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) made history by publishing the first ever adopted marine plans for England. Alex Coomer, GIS Manager at the MMO, explains how the organisation used ArcGIS Online to create an interactive tool called the Marine Information System (MIS). The MIS presents a combination of over-arching and spatially specific marine plan policies for the East inshore and offshore, including the publication of over 110 spatial datasets via a series of online interactive maps. Alex talks about the process undertaken to develop MIS and the challenges faced.
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
DSD-INT 2019 The Incident Management Forecasting System (IMFS) for England - ...Deltares
Presentation by Stefan Laeger, Environment Agency, at the Delft-FEWS User Days, during Delft Software Days - Edition 2019. Wednesday, 6 November 2019, Delft.
The State of the World’s Wetlands - Building a knowledge-base on wetland info...Wetlands International
Presentation Taej Mundkur & Jaime García Moreno: The State of the World’s Wetlands - Building a knowledge-base on wetland information and resources, held at the CBD Side Event 'Space Agencies for Inland and Coastal Wetlands Observation and Reporting'.
With the participation of the Ramsar Secretariat, Wetlands International and UN-CBD Environmental Affairs for Inland Waters.
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.
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.
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.
In computational statistics, algorithms often have specialized implementations that address very specific problems. Every so often, these algorithms are applicable also to other problems than the original ones. Today, interest is growing towards modular and pluggable solutions that enable the repetition and validation of the experiments made by other scientists and allow the exploitation of those algorithms in other contexts. Furthermore, such procedures are requested to be remotely hosted and to “hide” the complexity of the calculations, managed by remote computational infrastructures behind the scenes. For such reasons, the usual solution of supplying modular software libraries containing implementations of algorithms is leaving the place to Web Services accessible through standard protocols and hosting such implementations. The protocols describing the computational capabilities of these Services are more and more elaborate, so that modular workflows can rely on them.
By Robyn Johnston and Vladimir Smakhtin. Presented at the "Water in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance. Indicators, Thresholds and Uncertainties of the Global Water System" conference in Bonn, Germany May 2013
DSD-Kampala 2023 Development of the Lake Victoria Basin Water Information Sys...Deltares
Presentation by Benjamin Ssekamuli (LVBC) at the Symposium Models and decision-making in the wake of climate uncertainties, during the Deltares Software Days - Kampala 2023 (DSD-Kampala 2023). Wednesday, 4 October 2023, Kampala, Uganda.
The Vetiver Education & Empowerment Project (VEEP) & the Vetiver System (VS) ...iweco-project
Presentation by Jonathan Barcant, Caribbean Coordinator of the Vetiver Network international at the GEF-funded UNEP-implemented Integrating Water Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (IWEco) Project 17th Partners' Webinar, on 18th January 2022.
Marine Management Organisation with ArcGIS OnlineEsri UK
At Esri UK Annual Conference 2014
In April 2014 the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) made history by publishing the first ever adopted marine plans for England. Alex Coomer, GIS Manager at the MMO, explains how the organisation used ArcGIS Online to create an interactive tool called the Marine Information System (MIS). The MIS presents a combination of over-arching and spatially specific marine plan policies for the East inshore and offshore, including the publication of over 110 spatial datasets via a series of online interactive maps. Alex talks about the process undertaken to develop MIS and the challenges faced.
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
DSD-INT 2019 The Incident Management Forecasting System (IMFS) for England - ...Deltares
Presentation by Stefan Laeger, Environment Agency, at the Delft-FEWS User Days, during Delft Software Days - Edition 2019. Wednesday, 6 November 2019, Delft.
The State of the World’s Wetlands - Building a knowledge-base on wetland info...Wetlands International
Presentation Taej Mundkur & Jaime García Moreno: The State of the World’s Wetlands - Building a knowledge-base on wetland information and resources, held at the CBD Side Event 'Space Agencies for Inland and Coastal Wetlands Observation and Reporting'.
With the participation of the Ramsar Secretariat, Wetlands International and UN-CBD Environmental Affairs for Inland Waters.
The Maritime Administration created MarView, a data visualization system based on Microsoft® Single View Platform technologies such as Windows Server®, Microsoft Internet information Services 6.0, the .NET Framework, and Bing™ Maps for Enterprise, which together provide a single, geographic view of complex information and data sets across multiple roles, locations, and user interfaces.
The two countries in southern Africa have classic configuration of being located in transboundary basins. There are many similarities as regards their interdependence on riparians. The presentation summarises possible complementarity and consistency in transboundary water management. The findings are based on almost 30 months of work in the region.
Matthew McCartney presented on WLE's ESR Framework and how this unique approach will effect how research for development projects are carried out at the IWMI Annual Research Meeting on Dec. 2, 2014.
To learn more, please visit http://wle.cgiar.org/research-programs/ecosystem-services/
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.
C4.04: Design of a GEO Coastal Ocean Pilot Project for the Caribbean Region -...Blue Planet Symposium
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Oceans and Society Coastal Ocean Pilot Project for the Caribbean Region is a response to the need for a Pilot Project to demonstrate the added value of an end-to-end System of Systems for Ecosystem-Based Approaches for monitoring and managing the coastal zone (GEO 2012 – 2015 Work Plan, SB-01-C4-02 [1]).
The Pilot Project design will be based on principles established by the Group on Earth Observations “Oceans and Society: Blue Planet [2]” task and developed in collaboration with the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Regional Alliance (GRA) for the Caribbean, IOCARIBE-GOOS [3]. It will incorporate concepts and recommendations from GOOS Pub. 193, Requirements for Global Implementation of the Strategic Plan for Coastal GOOS [4], and will be tailored to provide meaningful and sustainable value for Caribbean Region marine ecosystems and the populations they impact. The Design document will be developed in increasingly detailed stages, with distribution, review, and comment at each stage, leading to a final Design Plan, at which time we will seek approval to move ahead with GEO support for implementation planning and financing.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
The vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME DB) factsheet workflow
1. iMarine data platform for collaborations,
7th March 2014, FAO (Rome)
The Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME-DB) factsheet workflow
iMarine Reports Manager as a content management for fact sheets
Aureliano Gentile (FAO) – VME-DB fact sheets workflow – iMarine data platform for collaborations , 7th March 2014, FAO (Rome)
2. Background
• Understanding the impacts of bottom contact gears used by deep-sea fisheries on the
seafloor is of the utmost priority.
• The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolutions that inspired FAO to
coordinate the development of The International Guidelines for the Management of
Deep-Sea Fisheries on the High Seas.
• Since 2006, RFMO/As have developed measures to protect benthic VMEs and their
coral and sponge communities.
• This has generated a large amount of dispersed and difficult to access information that
Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems database (VME-DB)
• This has generated a large amount of dispersed and difficult to access information that
is now being entered on to a VME database to assist in informed decision making and
the development of further measures to increase sustainability and reduce impacts.
• The VME database is also aiming to facilitate partnerships and create networks among
the community of users, information contributors and those working on the
protection of VMEs in the high seas.
4. Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems database (VME-DB)
The problem
Ensure a sustainable maintenance (delegating authority, distributing the efforts)
• Get a Content Management System (CMS) to handle the VME data
In a given data structure
In a specific workflow
Within a limited funds availability!
The solution
The iMarine Reports ManagerThe iMarine Reports Manager
A flexible CMS for reading content in whatever database schema
User friendly interface
Role-based workflow
Real time integration
Short development (three months)
Delivered on time and on budget
5. Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems database (VME-DB)
Updating the VME database through the iMarine Reports Manager
VME-DB Reports Manager
Fact sheet editing
HTTPS
6. Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems database (VME-DB)
iMarine Terms of Use applied to VME-DB
• The Reports Manager application is instantiated in a dedicated Virtual Research
Environment (VRE) for the VME database
• A private VRE with restricted access to selected users is foreseen in the iMarine Terms
of Use
• The VRE is not exposing data directly to the public nor sharing with other VREs hence
no specific license is required
7. Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems database (VME-DB)
Other services
• The iMarine distributed e-infrastructure provides the VME community with a
collaborative workspace through a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for
information sharing and analysis.
• The community can take advantage of the e-Infrastructure to access
Biodiversity, Environmental and Fisheries data from other VREs.
