1 COASTBASE Presentation 22nd February 2001 Presentation 22/02/2001 Lerici, Matthias Menger MELS

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COASTBASE Presentation 22nd February 2001

Presentation 22/02/2001 Lerici, Matthias Menger MELS

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Overview

general project information

system design

general architecture

3 main components

scenarios

outlook

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Framework

5th Framework Programme R&D project

total budget 2.2 Million EURO

50% funding DG Information Society (EU)

duration 2 years (2000/2001)

11 European partners

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COASTBASE Consortium

EUCC (NL)

NGO organisation

RIKZ (NL)

ENEA (IT)

IMR (NO)

MIG (POL)

MELS (D)

National institutes

JRC (IT)

EU Research centre

PETA (GR)

Service company

ICES (DK)

EU inter-governmentalinstitution

FZI (D)

Industrial partners &technology providers

MS&I (F)

COASTBASEconsortium

EEA

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Facilitate European assessment of marine and coastal environmentthrough:

creation innovative IT architecture

central to find, dispose and aggregation of information

use existing (meta-) information

communication ... Feedback improvement

leave information at original location

open structure for providers and end-users

standardisation: Metadata EU, thesaurus, exchange formats etc.

Main Goals

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...

administrators, scientists, institutions, general publicCoastBase client

provider B provider C provider ...provider A

distributed coastal & marine information sources

data search + access feedback process

One Virtual Door to Various Information Resources

CoastBase server

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Design

catalogue: searching, locating distributed datadata access & manipulation: tools for data retrieval, visualisation and aggregationfeedback: commenting on and uploading of aggregated data

3 main functional units

Feedback servicesFeedback services

Catalogueservices

Catalogueservices

Data access& manipulation

services

Data access& manipulation

services

Coastbase serverUsers

internet

Provider A

Provider B

DistributedInformation sources

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System

based on object-oriented technologies, use of IT standardsWeb technologies: HTTP, SSL protocols, Java servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP)distributed architecture: CORBAstandardised information exchange: XMLOO design: Unified Modeling Language (UML)

an open system architecture internet-accessiblemultilingualdistributed and interoperablemodular and scalable, allowing future inclusion of new functions or

connections to other information sources

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General Architecture

Feedbackclient

FeedbackclientCatalogue

client

Catalogueclient

Data access &manipulation

client

Data access &manipulation

client

HTTP protocolHTTP protocol

Catalogueserver

Feedbackserver

Dataserver

Mapserver

Local Inventory

Local Repository

Userdatabase

Provider database

HTTP

p

roto

col

CoastBase server

CoastBase client

HTTP protocolHTTP protocol

Feedback modules

External communicationInternal communication

Provider A

Wrapper A Search modules

Administration

server

Provider B

Wrapper B

Access&manipulation modules

RegistrationAuthorisation

Metadatasearch

Log filesCommentsUploading

ConversionManipulationAggregation

GIS functions

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Catalogue System

query specification using (multiple) formspreselections on user/user group basismap-based selection for geographical coordinatesMultilingual form

distributed search to all connected sourcesMetadata model compliant with EDMED and GELOS

result presentation First: with short descriptionsSecond: in detail

possibility to store objects and queries

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Catalogue Search

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Feedback System

loggingaccesses are logged at the Coastbase server and sent to the provider (via e-

mail)

commentingusers can comment on downloaded productsusers & providers can consult comments

uploadingboth CoastBase generated and externally created productsuploading can be limited to users with a certain privilege leveluploaded product is stored at the local inventory/repository

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Data Access and Manipulation System

Data Servervisualization according to the type of the productdownload of the product in the desired formatconversion of the requested data

conversion of format, units

open for future extensions to other conversion routines

provides access to aggregation and manipulation functions

production of maps, trends

statistical analysis

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Data Access and Manipulation System

Map Serverallows the visualization of geo-referenced data (rasters, vectors) on a mapperforms conversion between different coordinate systems

Geodetic and geocentric coordinates Geodetic datums

supports standard map projections implements basic GIS functionality

overlay, panning, zooming….

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Manipulation of geo-referenced data

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Scenarios

scenarios of the prototype shows that the systemsaves time / resources to locate data and information, prevents duplication of efforts, promotes the integrated view on problems and solutions

3 scenariosaccessing data to assess eutrophication / North Sea (scientist; working on indicators;

measurements; satellite imagery; raw data)assessing the impact of an artificial island / North Sea (PM; co-ordinating pre-feasibility

airport study; reports)Planning-Scenario: integrated planning of Strymonikos Bay / Mediterranean (consultant

decision taker; interpreting own results; (meta) information about reports)

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Data Use

types of data use

scientist: search + access + (raw) data to

create reports, processed data (e.g. map + measurements)

policy advisor / PM: search + access reports, processed

data to create aggregated information

decision maker: search + access (aggregated) (meta)

information in distributed catalogues

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Outlook

first prototype in May 2001

internal testing (appraisal groups)

external testing (appraisal groups)

improvements

presentation on international workshopsInfoCoast 2001

October 2001, Noordwijkerhout (NL)integrated CoastBase workshop

1st International Congress of Seas and OceansSeptember 17-22, 2001, Szczecin and Miedzyzdroje (PL)plenary session, prototype presentation

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