Helcom Data. Present and future

PartiSEApate Spatial Data Infrastructure and Network Building for MSP

Manuel FriasHamburg, 15th October 2013

HELCOM DataPresent and future

David.Asch

HELCOM Data sharing system is very young

Victor Frias Ahlbäck

The sharing system,

as we know it now,

is almost as old as

my son

1974 2013

1995HELCOM starts showing maps: Grid Arendal

2002Baltic Atlas

2004 MARIS

2005Nutrient

2006COMBINE

2008Finally a download option!

2010Updated version

Helsinki convention signed

HELCOM Data brief history

2004HELCOM Data and Information Strategy

What HELCOM Data?

Dave Herholz

Environmental data

HELCOM hosts

a huge

amount of

data of this

type

Fisheries

Energy

Traffic

Protected areas

Dredging sites

Data relevantfor MSP?

(and more...)

Better

fisheries data

Underwater archeology

Military areas(And more...)

HELCOM Data doesn’t have everything!

Main target resolution: REGIONAL

HELCOM collaborates with other European data institutions

MSFD Data and InformationKnowledge Exchange

HELCO

M is

onboar

d in the

MSFD

process

Libertic

HELCOM Data’sPhilosophy

Ed Menendez

OPEN AND FREEHELCOM Data’s mantra

Brittney Bush Bollay

WHY?HELCOM Data and Information Strategy (2004)

HELCOM-VASAB MSP principles (2010)

“All HELCOM monitoring data should be openly accessible…”

”Planning processes should be open and transparent””Data should be openly accessible”

Example of MSP data

openness

Plan Bothnia

final report

translated into

Vietnamese!

ChallengesMooi Hsieh

Those time consuming data flows

Brenda Anderson

We need user-friendly systemsAnd better access to data

Paul Inkles

Data visualization – room for improvement

We should try

to make more

understandab

le charts

We have a dream

UIC Digital Collections

A world where all data is compatible

Kyknoord

A painless downloading and uploading

John Trainor

Data can be viewed in all devices

Clemens Löcker

YouI would like a regional data system to be ____________

VASAB

To be continued...