Status: DRAFT Version: 01

Ocean Data Interoperability Platform

Deliverable D2.4: Minutes of the 2nd ODIP Workshop

Workpackage / WP2 / ODIP workshops
Author (s) / Sissy Iona / HCMR
Author (s) / Dick Schaap / MARIS
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Doc Id / ODIP_WP2_D2.4
Dissemination Level / PUBLIC
Issue / 1.0
Date / 8 February 2014
Document History
Version / Author(s) / Status / Date / Comments
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Dick Schaap / DRAFT / 8 February 2014 / First draft
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Contents

Executive Summary

1Introduction

2List of Participants

3Workshop Agenda

4Workshop proceedings

5Proposed follow-up and actions

Executive Summary

The 2nd ODIP Workshop took place on 3 - 6 December 2013 in La Jolla, USAat the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCS. More than 50people from Europe, USA and Australia attended including representatives from IODE. In addition to those attending the meeting in person a number of additional participants joined the meeting remotely.The lively discussion and brainstorming took place around the 3 ODIP Prototype projects that had been formulated as outcome of the 1st ODIP Workshop, which took place in February 2013. Furthermore 2 more topics were included that had been identified and prioritized by the ODIP project partners.

The main topics addressed were:

  • ODIP Prototype Project 1
  • ODIP Prototype Project 2
  • ODIP Prototype Project 3
  • Vocabularies
  • Data publication and citation

This deliverable reports on the organisation, participation, proceedings and outcomesof the 2nd ODIP Workshop. It concludes with a list of additional actions that have come out of the Workshop discussions in addition to the activities planned for the further development of the 3 ODIP Prototype projects and the planned Deliverables. Their actual developmentis a joint activity undertaken by ODIP partners leveraging on the activities of current regional projects and initiatives such as SeaDataNet (EU), IMOS (Australia) and R2R (USA). The Workshop also identified potential for possible one or two extra ODIP Prototype projects. This is going to be explored further.

The 3rd ODIP Workshop is planned to take place at AIMS, AustraliainAugust 2014.The focus of this meeting will on presenting and discussing the progress of the ODIP prototypes under development as well as possible brainstorming on a number of additional topics such as big data, cloud computing, and data quality. .

1Introduction

The Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) project aims to establish an EU / USA / Australia/ IOC-IODE coordination platform, the objective of which is to develop interoperability between existing regional marine e-infrastructures to create a global framework for marine and ocean data management, and to demonstrate this coordination through several joint EU-USA-Australia-IOC/IODE prototypes that demonstrate effective sharing of data across scientific domains, organisations and national boundaries.

ODIP will convene four workshops during which the project partners and other invited experts will review and compare existing marine data standards in order to identify major differences between them, and propose how to overcome these through the development of interoperability solutions and/or common standards.

The 2nd ODIP Workshop took place on 3 - 6 December 2013 in La Jolla, USA at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCS. It was organised and hosted by SIO-UCSD. There was discussion and brainstorming around the 3 ODIP Prototype projects that had been formulated as outcome of the 1st ODIP Workshop, February 2013. Furthermore 2 more topics were included that had been identified and prioritized by the ODIP project partners.

2List of Participants

As part of the ODIP project an extensive mailing list is maintained of experts representing the ODIP project partners and their associated projects and initiatives. This list together with the ODIP website was used to invite participants for the second ODIP Workshop. Moreover a draft agenda was circulated and amended over time to support the invitation process. As a result 54 attendees from 11 countries took part in the 2nd ODIP Workshop (7 of them participated remotely by WebEx). They were:

RobertARKO LDEO, United States

Irina BASTRAKOVA Geosciences Australia, Australia

Rita BAUER SIO-UCSD, United States

SergeyBELOV RIHMI-WDC, Russian Federation

Justin BUCK NERC-BODC, United Kingdom

Thierry CARVAL IFREMER, France

Cyndy CHANDLER WHOI, United States

Yanning CHEN RPI/TWC, United States

Dru CLARK SIO-UCSD, United States

Simon COX CSIRO, Australia

KarienDE CAUWER MUMM, Belgium

Steve DIGGS SIO-UCSD, United States

Paolo DIVIACCO OGS, Italy

BenDOMENICO UNIDATA, United States

Renata FERREIRA SIO-UCSD, United States

Jeff GEESIO-UCSD, United States

HelenGLAVES NERC-BGS, United Kingdom

John GRAYBEAL Marine Explore, Uinited States

Sissy IONA HCMR, Greece

Matthias LANKHORSTSIO-UCSD, United States

ThomasLOUBRIEU IFREMER, France

Roy LOWRY BODC, United Kingdom

AngelosLYKIARDOPOULOS HCMR, Greece

Sebastian MANCINI UTAS, Australia

Steve MILLER UCSD, United States

Stefano NATIVI CNR-IAA, Italy

Mohamed OUBERDOUS ULG, Belgium

Elena PARTESCANO OGS, Italy

Jay PEARLMANIEEE, United States

Anna POTTERGeoscience Australia, Australia

Gael QUEMENERIFREMER, France

Dick SCHAAP MARIS, Netherlands

Serge SCORYMUMM, Belgium

Adam SHEPHERDWHOI, United States

Jean-Marc SINQUINIFREMER, France

Shawn SMITHFSU COAPS, United States

Derrick SNOWDENNOAA, United States

Jordi SORRIBASCSIC, Spain

Karen STOCKS SIO-UCSD, United States

Aaron SWEENEYSIO-UCSD, United States

Tobias SPEARSDFO-BIO, Canada

Rob VAN EDE TNO, Netherlands

Sytze VAN HETEREN TNO, Netherlands

Matteo VINCI OGS, Italy

Dawn WRIGHTESRI, United States

Lesley WYBORNGeoscience Australia, Australia

Linyun FURPI/TWC, United States

Participating by Webex:
ScottBAINBRIDGE AIMS, Australia
Kenneth CASEY NOAA/NODC, United States
AlessandraGIORGETTI OGS, Italy
MargaritaGREGG NOAA/NODC, United States
AnaMACARIOAWI, Germany
RogerPROCTOR UTAS (IMOS), Australia
GregREED Royal Australian Navy, Australia

The participants of the 2nd ODIP workshop representeda good cross-section of the relevantEU, USA and Australian regional infrastructure projects and initiatives that are stakeholders of the ODIP project. There was also representation from the international IOC-IODE Ocean Data Portal (ODP) project.

3Workshop Agenda

The second ODIP workshop had a major focus on the three ODIP Prototype development projects that are currently being undertaken by the ODIP partners following the outcomes of the first workshop. The programme included a dedicated session for each prototype development project. Therefore the ODIP Prototype project leaders had each prepared a sub agenda of relevant presentations and speakers, giving an overview of the Prototype project objectives, and the related situations in the three regions (Europe, USA and Australia). This was followed by a discussion and brainstorming on the possible implementation plans.

Furthermore two additional discussion topics were included in the meeting programme. These topics had been identified and prioritized by the ODIP project partners beforehand. Also here topic leaders had been appointed that had compiled a sub agenda of relevant presentations and speakers, again from the three regions.

The overall workshop agenda was circulated to all ODIP partners by e-mail before the workshop and also published on the public ODIP website.

Workshop Topics

Session / Title / Leader
1 / ODIP Prototype project 1 / Dick Schaap
2 / ODIP Prototype project 2 / Bob Arko
3 / ODIP Prototype project 3 / Sebastian Mancini
4 / Vocabularies / Roy Lowry, Simon Cox, John Graybeal
5 / Data publishing and citation / Cyndy Chandler, Justin Buck, Lesley Wyborn
6 / Feedback on sessions / Session leaders
7 / Workshop wrap-up / Helen Glaves

During the Workshop a further detailing took place, which is given below.

Agenda

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

8:15 – 8.45Registration

8.45 - 8.55Welcome by Jeff Gee (Deputy Director SIO-UCSD)

8.55 - 9.10 Workshop logistics by Karen Stocks and Rita Bauer (SIO-UCSD)

9.10 - 9.30Introduction participants and their expectations for this workshop

9.30 - 9.45 Overview of the ODIP project by Helen Glaves (NERC-BGS)

Session 1: ODIP Prototype Project 1

9.45 - 10.00 Introduction by Dick Schaap (EU)

10.00 - 11.00 Base services:

  • EU CDI Data Discovery and Access service by Dick Schaap (EU)
  • USA NODC Data Discovery and Access service by Norm Hall - Ken Casey (USA)
  • Australia IMOS Data Discovery and Access service by Sebastien Mancini (Australia)

11.00 - 11.30 Target services:

  • GEOSS portal by Jay Pearlman (IEEE)
  • IODEOcean Data Portal by Sergey Belov and Tobias Spears (IODE)

11.30 - 11.45 Brokerage service concept by Stefano Nativi (CNR)

11.45 - 12.00 Possible activities and workplan for ODIP Prototype project 1 by Dick Schaap (EU)

12.00 - 13.00 Discussion and brainstorming lead by Dick Schaap (EU)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

Session 2: ODIP Prototype Project 2

14.00 - 14.15 Introduction by Bob Arko (USA)

14.15 - 16.00 Presentations and discussion:

  • SeaDataNet CSR, POGO and Eurofleets - Sissy Iona (EU)
  • Use of GeoNetwork for harvesting CSR - Thomas Loubrieu (EU)
  • German data portal - Ana Macario (EU)
  • Cruise metadata in Australia (MNF) - Sebastien Mancini (Australia)
  • R2R - Cruise reports in USA - Bob Arko (USA)

16.00 - 17.00 Discussion and brainstorming lead by Bob Arko (USA)

End day 1

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Session 3: ODIP Prototype Project 3

9.00 - 9.30 Introduction by Sebastien Mancini (Australia)

9.30 - 12.00 Presentations and discussion:

  • What’s happening in Australia - Sebastien Mancini (Australia)
  • What’s happening in the USA - Derrick Snowden (USA)
  • What’s happening in EU - Jordi Sorribas (EU)
  • SOS and 52North - Simon Jirka (52North)
  • O&M and SensorML update - Simon Cox (Australia)

12.00 - 13.00 Discussion and brainstorming lead by Sebastien Mancini (Australia)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

Session 4: Vocabularies

14.00 - 15.30 Presentations and discussion lead by Roy Lowry (EU), Simon Cox (Australia) and John Graybeal (USA)

  • What’s happening in Europe - Roy Lowry (EU)
  • What’s happening in the Australia - Simon Cox (Australia)
  • What’s happening in USA - John Graybeal (USA)

15.30 - 16.00Checking status of actions from ODIP 1st Workshop - lead by Roy Lowry (EU)

  • Harmonisation for event logging on research vessels - Karien de Cauwer (EU) and Cyndy Chandler (USA)
  • Possible use of GMX:Anchor - Thomas Loubrieu (EU)

16.00 - 17.00 Discussion and brainstorming lead by Roy Lowry (EU), Simon Cox (Australia) and John Graybeal (USA)

End day 2

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Session 5: Data publication and citation

9.00 - 13.00 Presentations and discussion lead by Cyndy Chandler (USA), Justin Buck (EU) and Lesley Wybourn (Australia)

  • ANDS Research Data Citation - Lesley Wybourn (Australia)
  • ESRI developments - Dawn Wright (ESRI)
  • What's happening in Europe - Justin Buck (EU)
  • Data Citation in USA - Cyndy Chandler (USA)

12.00 - 13.00 Discussion and brainstorming lead by Cyndy Chandler (USA), Justin Buck (EU) and Lesley Wybourn (Australia)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

Session 4: Vocabularies - continued

14.00 - 17.00 Discussions lead by Roy Lowry (EU), Simon Cox (Australia) and John Graybeal (USA)

End day 3

Friday, 6 December 2013

Session 6: Feedback on sessions

9:00 – 10:00 ODIP prototype development projects

Feedback from each group on activities during the workshop:

  • ODIP 1 - Dick Schaap(EU)
  • ODIP 2 - Bob Arko (USA)
  • ODIP 3 - Sebastien Mancini (Australia)

10:00 – 10:30 Session 4 report:

  • Vocabularies - Simon Cox (Australia) and Roy Lowry (EU)

Session 7: Workshop wrap-up

10:30 – 11:00 Further potential prototype projects (D3.4) - Helen Glaves (ODIP co-ordinator)

11:30 – 12:00 Workshop summary - Dick Schaap (ODIP Technical co-ordinator)

12:00 – 12:30 Plans for next 8 months - Helen Glaves (Co-ordinator)

12:30 – 12:45 3rd ODIP workshop - Sissy Iona (EU)

12:45 – 13:00 Closing remarks - Helen Glaves (Co-ordinator)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Closure of the 2nd ODIP Workshop

4Workshop proceedings

All presentations and associated videos are available at the ODIP website ( under the “Workshops” menu option. The presentations and video's are hosted by IODE at:

There is also a short link on the ODIP website on the 2nd Workshop page at:

Opening of the Workshop

The 2nd ODIP Workshop was held on the 3 - 6 December 2013 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The meeting was openedby Mr Jeff Gee, Deputy Director of SIO-UCSD. Hewelcomed everyone to the meeting and gave background about SIO, its organisation and activities, including involvement in international oceanography projects and research infrastructures. This was followed by a welcome by Ms. Karen Stocks of SIO-UCSD, who together with Ms. Rita Bauer (SIO-UCSD) explained the local logistics of the Workshop and the arrangements regarding remote webex participation and oral recordings of each presentation. These have been posted together with the slide presentations by SIO-UCSD at a Dropbox account and thereafter downloaded and posted on-line via the IODE portal for permanent access. The IODE portal address is accessable via the ODIP website.

Ms. Helen Glaves, ODIP-Coordinator, welcomed all participants on behalf of the co-ordinators. She noted that there was a good cross section of attendees from around the world including representatives from IODE. She then invited participantspresent in the room and also joining on-line to introduce themselves before starting with the agenda.

Overview of the ODIP project

MsHelen Glaves (HG)presented an overview ofthe ODIP project,its concept, the objectives, activities and structure, as well as its developments so far. HGurged that wider dissemination is an important task in the project, which is being implemented among others through active involvement in the Research Data Alliance (RDA), Marine Data Harmonisation Group (Mr. Simon Cox is member). HG summarised the 1st ODIP Workshop, which treated 6 ODIP topics and which resulted in a long list of potential actions. Following the Workshop proceedings this has been the basis for the formulation of 3 ODIP Prototype projects by the ODIP Technical coordinator and which has been accepted by the ODIP Steering Committee..

ODIP Prototypes introduction

Mr Dick Schaap (DS), ODIP Technical Coordinator, summarised the motivation behind the ODIP activities.This concerns comparing and analysing standards and best practices in EU, USA and Australia; developing interoperability solutions between existing infrastructures; developing together common standards, where possible, especially in new domains such as Sensor Web Enablement (SWE); establishing global discovery and exchange of marine and ocean data, between regional infrastructures and towards GEOSS, Ocean Data Portal (ODP) and POGO. DS also highlighted the chosen technical approach by means of formulating ODIP Protototype projects, which will be implemented leveraging on the activities of current regional projects and initiatives such as SeaDataNet (EU), IMOS (Australia) and R2R (USA).ODIP provides the communication and exchange platform where partners can meet, discuss and tune their development activities. DS underpinned that this in practice is quite abstract and challenging, also considering large distances, differences in timezones and no regular meetings.The 3 ODIP Prototype projects, so far formulated and agreed are:

ODIP 1: Establishing interoperability between SeaDataNet CDI, US NODC, and IMOS MCP Data Discovery and Access services, making use of a brokerage service, towards interacting with the IODE-ODP en GEOSS portals

ODIP 2: Establishing deployment and interoperability between Cruise Summary reporting systems in Europe, US and Australia, making possible use of GeoNetWork, towards interacting with the POGO portal

ODIP 3: Establishing a prototype for a Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and formulating common O&M and SensorML profiles for selected sensors (SWE), installed at vessels and in real-time monitoring systems.

The character of the 3 ODIP Prototype projects is quite different. ODIP 1 aims ata full scale contents contribution of metadata and data from Europe, USA and Australia to ODP and GEO, including research on data brokerage. ODIP 2 aims at a full scale contents contribution of Cruise Summary Reporting (CSR) and Cruise Programmes from Europe, USA and Australia to the POGO portal, including research on harvesting possibly using GeoNetWork, common vocabs, and innovationof linked data and direct linking to onboard cruise event systems. While ODIP 3 is aiming at building up experience with SWE and developing a number of common standards; mastering the technology, developing guidance for deployment and formulating and demonstrating a number of common standards.

Another key issue is that the ODIP Prototypes 1 and 2 will not deliver self-standing ODIP portals which might compete with ongoing portal initiatives, but will contribute to ongoing global portal initiatives such as IODE-ODP, GEOSS and POGO and will facilitate bundling and tuning ongoing actions in regional projects and initiatives towards these global initiatives.ODIP Prototype 3 hasmajor potential for common standards.

Seeking a balance in the ODIP partnership each region (Europe, USA, and Australia) is contributing to each ODIP Prototype project. Moreover each project is lead by a different region:

  • ODIP 1 by Europe through SeaDataNet (MARIS)
  • ODIP 2 by USA through R2R (LDEO)
  • ODIP 3 by Australia through AODN (UTAS)

Session 1: ODIP Prototype project 1

DS introduces that ODIP 1 will be based upon the regional data discovery and access services of SeaDataNet CDI service (Europe), US NODC service (USA), and MCP service (Australia). The aim is to establish metadata exchange between these 3 regional services and each towards the global GEO and IODE ODP portals. Furthermore it has been decided to make use of brokerage service concept.

Base services:

  • SeaDataNet CDI service:

DS presents the key features of the SeaDataNet Common Data Index (CDI) service in Europe, which nowadays counts more than 90 connected data centres from 34 countries riparian to European seas. It covers already more than 1.3 million data sets with global coverage for a wide range of marine disciplines. Further development and population takes place through engagement in multiple European projects. CDI is marine profile of ISO 19115 content model and XML encoding now follows ISO 19139 and is fully INSPIRE compliant. Use is made of controlled vocabularies where possible. Tools are available for preparing metadata and data entries in agreed formats (ODV ASCII, NetCDF (CF), and others) AND services are in place for import of CDI entries, discovery and accessing of data sets, that are managed by the distributed data centres. Access takes place by means of a shopping basket mechanism with tracking and tracing system of request processing and downloading. Various interoperability services are available on the metadata, such as WMS, WFS, CS-W and service bindingsin CDI for supporting SWE and visualisations. Further work is on going for OpenSearch and GeoNetWork metadata harvesting. The CDI Shopping system now also features a robot harvester for maintaining buffers of specific data sets for specific user communities with controlled access.