Introduction to iMarine

and it’s challenges

Alexandros Antoniadis (NKUA)John Gerbesiotis (NKUA)

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iMarine project

• Research Infrastructures CP & CSA funded by the E.C.; • Nov 2011 - Apr 2014;• 13 worldwide partners;

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Launch an Initiative aimed at establishing and operating a data Infrastructure supporting the

principles of the Ecosystem Approach

to Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources

iMarine Objective

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DILIGENT (2004-2006)

D4Science (2008-2009)

D4Science II (2010-2011)

iMarine (2011-2014)

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Genealogy

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e-Infrastructure

Elecronic platform operated by a responsible entity offering an open set of basic enabling services (including access to resources) to a distributed Community of Practice. By exploiting these shared services the members of the Community of Practice realise economies of scale.

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Physical and chemical features

Challenges

• Analysis and processing of a large amount of heterogeneous, across-domain produced information

• Multidisciplinary & multifacets collaboration at the local, national, regional and international levels

Capacity & Diversity

Marine Planning

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iMarine Community

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Data registration & access

Data harmonization, validation and

enrichment

Data transformation, publishing and

visualization

Advanced data analysis

Collaborative environments

(Virtual Research Environments)

Core facilities

Developed facilities

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iMarineiMarine Registries

Private Cloud

Commercial Cloud

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iMarine e-Infrastructure

Thematic Clusters

Biodiversity build and

analyse species distribution and

biodiversity maps

Geospatialstore, discover,

access, and process of

geospatial data

Statisticalexchange and

process of statistical data

Semanticdiscover and bridge across

knowledge providers

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Data resources• FIGIS (reports)• MyOcean (environmetal data)• GENESI-DEC (earth observation data)• DRIVER (publications)• OBIS (marine species datasets)• GBIF (marine species datasets)• Catalogue of Life (taxonomies)• SDMX Registry (code lists)• AquaMaps (species maps)• FLOD (open linked data)• Geonetwork (georefenced data)• ….

• OAI-PMH, OpenSearch, OGC W*S ,SDMX,….

-> GENESI-DEC

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• Data e-Infrastructure as a service• Open Source applications – of interest to fisheries communities

• Collaborative Scientific Platform and bridge between science & policy making

What is the iMarine offer?

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iMarine internals

A closer look into the facilities of:• Visualisations• Semantic analysis• Information Retrieval

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Large amounts of data in a human perceivable form:• Map based / Non map-based• Original / derived

Visualisations

• Aims to provide a semantic based infrastructure for marine living resources services integration

• Bridge the gap between communities• Link distributed data across community

boundaries

Semantic Data Analysis

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Realize semantic support in 3 actions…

1. Harmonization of foreign coding systems2. Semantic annotation of digital resources 3. Information retrieval based on semantic

search

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Data retrieval facilities

• Support index and search facilities over heterogeneous datasources

• Provide a unified view of the results• “User-friendly” search– Enrich results with semantic facilities (X-search)– Provide better ways to explore the results and

datasources

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AppliFish: Pocket book of marine knowledge

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/applifish/id593857305?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2

Available on Android

And iOS

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=applifish

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Landscape D4Science e-Infrastructure

gCube FrameworkgCube AppsDiscussion

Thanks for your attention

www.i-marine.org portal.i-marine.d4science.org

www.gcube-system.orggcube.wiki.gcube-system.org

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