Facing data sharing in a

heterogeneous research community:

lights and shadows in the RITMARE

project

RITMARE SP7

P. Carrara, C. Fugazza, S. Lanucara, S. Menegon,

A. Oggioni, F. Pavesi, A. Sarretta, P. Tagliolato, M. Zilioli

& F. Trincardi

FAIR Data Management, Florence, 14-15 November 2016

Reuse of marine research data: a benefit for society

4 november 1966: reanalysis of Venice flood data

Courtesy Fabio Trincardi, CNR ISMAR

Trincardi, F., A. Barbanti, M. Bastianini, A. Benetazzo, L. Cavaleri, J. Chiggiato, A. Papa, A. Pomaro, M. Sclavo, L. Tosi, and G. Umgiesser. 2016. The 1966 flooding of Venice: What time taught us for the future. Oceanography 29(4), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.87.

Presentation schema

• RITMARE: the project • Subproject 7 (building data infrastructure): goal and

philosophy • Past actions and results • Current activity • FAIR principles and RITMARE: a comparison • Critical conclusion

RITMARE: Italian project of marine research

Publicly funded (MIUR)

About 1500 researchers 12 disciplinary communities (oceanography, ecology,

biology, geophysics, …) 5 research institutions and 2 university consortia (CNR, OGS,

INGV, ENEA, SZN, CoNISMa, CINFAI) 7 Sub Projects

Institutional stakeholders: Civil Protection, Marina Militare, National Environmental Agency (ISPRA), Regions, etc.

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Main goal:

building the data

management

infrastructure ->

interoperable

Subproject 7: RITMARE and its data

«… To design and create an IT infrastructure allowing to coordinate and share data, information, processes generated in the Project, in order to ease the interaction among different systems, the exchange and reuse of project results also from different , heterogeneous information systems (interoperability) , without forcing practices and technologies used by the participating communities.»

From Executive Programme, 2012

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Interoperability To conceal project heterogeneity without

forcing a unique model / centralization

Technological interoperability

of geographic data

Syntactic

interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Subproject 7: RITMARE and its data

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In order to

favour data exchange and open access ->

building a data policy for marine research data

Subproject 7: RITMARE and its data

How to leverage participants (researchers)

involvement?

T: Tech point of view: to be as close as possible to

researchers’ needs and habits, to ease the tasks, to adopt

jargons, … -> collecting requirements

DP: Policy point of view: from shared practices; to move

from background to foreground; to favour open movement

-> rules definition and data plan

Subproject 7: actions and results

RITMARE Data Policy

A document (open) defining DP rules in RITMARE and proposing a governance http://figshare.com/articles/RITMARE_Data_Policy_document/1235546. Effort to suggest different policies depending on data tipology Creation of a plan to check and inventory data and products available from partners (background) and created by them (foreground) License awareness - suggestion

Subproject 7: actions and results

1. Rules for data/products usage apply, without any

difference, to both RITMARE community and external users

2. Each time data/products are used, producer’s citation is

mandatory and, if different, owner’s citation

3. Within 2 years from data/products generation, whoever

uses them for publication must check producer’s interest (and/or owner’s) in participating as co-author

4. Starting from data/products generation, a time range

[MORATORIUM] is set, in which they are reserved to the usage of producer (owner), who decides their usage mode

5. Raw data must be delivered with all ancillary information

necessary to reuse, independently on the values of parameters which were the aim of data collection, (i.e. calibration files,

tools specifications, etc.)

6. Licenses or usage rules associated to background

data/products must be applied to them

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Subproject 7: actions and results

120 requirements collected from researchers

Definition of macro-requirements for marine data

1. Information on a geographic area To find if and which information exhist on an area, plus how to obtain them

2. Tools for researchers’ collaboration Tools to ease interaction and exchange among researchers to plan and/or co-ordinate experiments and in-situ activities

3. Real time data management To access observations in Real Time - Near Real Time and quality control processing before distribution

4. IT supporting facilities Helpdesk for IT support to domain researchers about data and data management

5. Complex infrastructure solutions Hardware and software solutions to allow synergies among processing infrastructures of different research organizations

6. Advanced visualization Non-traditional and custom visualization of project products in order to improve reuse by other researchers and/or users

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Subproject 7: actions and results

Creation of an open sw suite to easily create and populate interoperable web services to

access data; to easily create metadata in standard profiles for finding data and sensors;

lifting interoperability / reuse promotion by semantic MD enrichment (towards semantic level

interoperability and constant update of MD items)

Local interaction applications

SOS

WMS WFS

WCS

Local repositories and standard services

SensorML

MD

RITMARE Portal : Project intaraction applications

GET-IT is capable of kickstarting an autonomous node in the infrastructure for the collection, annotation, and deployment of both geographic and sensor data

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Subproject 7: actions and results RITMARE portal (lev 0)

12 new nodes to access data hosted by independent repositories

Subproject 7: actions and results

Node number Node Number of resources

available Web service

1 THREDDS Data Server ISMAR-VE 2 THREDDS

2 CNR THREDDS Catalog for RITMARE Project 15270 THREDDS

3 THREDDS Data Server ISAC CNR 814 THREDDS

4 GET-IT OGS 15 WCS

5 GET-IT IAMC Oristano 12 WMS-WFS

6 GET-IT ISMAR Lesina 31 WCS, WMS-WFS

7 GET-IT ISMAR Venezia 2 WMS-WFS

8 GET-IT ISMAR SOS 28 SOS

9 ICPSM SOS 13 SOS

10 ADRIPLAN 70 WMS-WFS, WCS

11 SHAPE Adriatic Atlas 371 WMS-WFS

12 GET-IT IREA Milano 60 WCS

TOTAL RESOURCES 16628

Subproject 7: actions and results

Macroarea Adriatico-Ionica

Mar Adriatico

Mar Ionio

Mar di Sardegna

Altro

Subproject 7: actions and results

1890-2008 (16)

1900-2009 (2)

1998-2008 (9)

2002-2004 (1)

2002-2011 (5)

2003-2010 (4)

Macroarea

Adriatico-Ionica 2009-2013 (2)

2009-2014 (1)

2011-2013 (1)

2012-2013 (2)

2013 (1)

2013-2014 (3)

RIFERIMENTI NON

UTILIZZABILI (48)

1890-2008 (7)

1965-2014 (1)

1978-2001 (1)

1978-2014 (1)

1992-2001 (1)

1992-2011 (1)

1994-2000 (2)

1995 (1)

1997 (1)

1999-2011

2000 (1)

2001 (3)

2002-2011 (1)

2004 (8)

2005 (10)

Mar Adriatico 2006 (9)

2006-2009 (3)

2006-2010 (2)

2007 (10)

2007-2009 (1)

2008 (9)

2008-2010 (1)

2009 (9)

2010 (13)

2010-2011 (1)

2010-2012 (1)

2011-2005 (3)

2011-2011 (1)

2012 (11)

2012-2013 (1)

2013 (1)

2013-2015 (15263)

2014 (2)

2015 (1)

2015-2016 (13)

RIFERIMENTI NON UTILIZZABILI (176)

Subproject 7: actions and results

Macroarea Adriatico-Ionica Mar Adriatico Mar Ionio

Physical Oceanography 5 15243 1

Chemical Oceanography 9 6 0

Geology 8 20 0

Geophysics 0 0 0

Coastal Systems 5 18 0

Ecosystems 25 43 0

Fishing and Aquaculture 3 17 0

Molecular Biology 0 0 0

Physical Oceanography/Geology 20 3 0

Ecosystems/Physical Oceanography 0 103 0

Ecosystems/Coastal Systems 6 21 0

Coastal Systems/Miscellanea 1 1 0

Ecosystems/Geology 0 1 0

Coastal Systems/Geology 0 3 0

Coastal Systems/Physical Oceanography 0 42 0

Coastal Systems/Fishing and Aquaculture 0 1 0

Ecosystems/Fishing and Aquaculture 0 3 0

Coastal Systems/Energy 0 1 0

Trasnsport network 4 9 0

Miscellanea 1 6 1

Energy 8 3 1

NO METADATA 0 54 0

Subproject 7: Current activities

• Researchers’ uptake not sufficient -> one year of support • helpdesk; • online facilities (FAQ, glossary, wiki pages, …) • webinars on geodata, RITMARE software tools and

interoperable web services • open data publication prize

• Helpdesk / support researchers in: • preparing marine data for distribution through the infrastructure services and

other portals; • installing necessary software tools, and in service population with (meta) data; • analysing issues of communities novel to data infrastructures and offering

customised solutions; • monitoring, updating and maintening the overall interoperable access portal with

new facilities.

FAIR principles and RITMARE data

GET-IT assures and facilitates metadata editing, enriched by WoK references,

with links to vocabularies and onto terms Discovery facilities in the RITMARE portal

(under construction)

GET-IT facilitates: creation of services (standard, autonomous, independent)

and data population RITMARE promotes a data policy engagement and (open) licensing

Interoperability is the goal of RITMARE infrastructure (see the portal)

NB interoperability of sensors and sensed observations

NB vocabularies and ontologies

OGC standards are sustained by a worldwide community

We’re testing persistent identifiers Use of RDF MD with links to WoK to

assure MD content updating

Critical conclusion

RITMARE web site: www.ritmare.it

Data Policy doc:

http://figshare.com/articles/RITMARE_Data_Policy_document/1235546

GET-IT Starterkit: www.get-it.it

RITMARE Data Portal (v 0.0): http://portale0-sp7.ismar.cnr.it

Shadows of RITMARE: fewer success than expected, in particular in Italy (international enthusiasm: H2020 ODIP2, eLTER) Main reasons: tech enabling not sufficient; we built a DP during the project (too late); there was no specific budget allocation for data; lack of (career) incentives

FAIR proposes a data policy from the beginning, suggesting resource allocation

This must be done!