Ocean Data Interoperability Platform

EU-US-Australia collaborative project

Grant Number: 312492

Call: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-INFSOActivity: INFRA-2012-3.2: International co-operation with the USA

on common e-infrastructure for scientific data

Start date: 1 October 2012 Duration: 36 months

By Dick M.A. Schaap – MARIS (NL), technical coordinator -

Funded in parallel by European Commission, National Science Foundation (NSF) and Australian Government

E-infrastructuresA number of regional initiatives

have made significant progress in addressing discovery, access, and long term stewardship of ocean and marine data on a regional basis

ODIP is a community lead initiative to overcome barriers by exploring common standards and interoperability solutions for improving exchange between regional infrastructures and towards global infrastructures such as GEOSS, IODE – ODP, POGO, ..

USA

Europe

Australia

Europe: 10 EU funded partners: 6 countriesNERC-BGS/BODC, MARIS, OGS, IFREMER, HCMR, ENEA, ULG, CNR, RBINS-MUMM, TNO

ODIP partners

USA: NSF funded partners (supplement to existing R2R project)

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI)

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

Florida State University: Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (FSU)

Australia

University of Tasmania (IMOS)

InternationalUNESCO IOC-IODE

Associate partnersEurope

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research (AWI)MARUM

USA

NOAA US-IOOS, NOAA US-NODC, NOAA NGDC

UNIDATA

AustraliaAustralian National Data Service (ANDS)Geoscience Australia (GA)CSIRO

ODIP: Objectives To establish an EU/USA/Australia/IOC-IODE

co-ordination platform to facilitate the interoperability of ocean and marine data management infrastructures

To demonstrate this co-ordination through the development of several joint prototype projects that allow effective sharing of marine and ocean data

To develop these prototype projects by largely leveraging on existing and ongoing regional projects and initiatives

To promote and disseminate ODIP approach and results widely for further uptake and feedback

Progress to date……….1st ODIP workshop: Ostende, Belgium (February 2013)

Addressed 6 discussion topicsFormulated into an extensive list of actionsResulted into definition of 3 prototype projects

2nd ODIP workshop: San Diego, USA (December 2013)Addressed implementation plans for the 3 prototype projects

and 2 additional topics (vocabularies and data publishing – citation (incl DOI)

3rd ODIP workshop: Townsville, Australia (August 2014) Addressed progress of 3 prototype projects and actions for

vocabularies, data publishing – citation and person identifiers

ODIP 1 prototype:

Establishing interoperability between the SeaDataNet, IMOS and US NODC data discovery and access services using the GEO-DAB brokerage service and towards interacting with interacting with the IODE-ODP and GEOSS portals

Lead by European partners via SeaDataNet

Exchange from SeaDataNet to ODP and GEOSS is now operational at metadata level; IMOS and US NODC will follow soon

October 2014: 103 data centres connected and 4 data Centres in test for moving into operation soon => 107 data Centres from 34 countries;

pan-European infrastructure

ODIP 1 prototype:

Aggregation of SeaDataNet metadata CDI granules to CDI collections (ISO 19115 – 19139), conversion to Common Brokerage Model, and harvesting via CS-W and OAI-PMH services

ODIP 1 prototype:

ODIP 2 proposal submitted to add data brokerage, and semantic interoperability

ODIP 2 prototype:

ODIP 2: Establishing interoperability between cruise summary reporting systems in Europe, the USA and Australia and also towards global POGO portal

Lead by Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) partners (USA)

SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report (CSR) adopted with ISO19115 – 19139 Schema and supporting Common Vocabularies

ODIP 2 prototype approach:Publish ISO Cruise Summary Reports at regional nodes:

Marine National Facility (Australia)

SeaDataNet (Europe)

R2R (USA)

Deploy GeoNetwork catalogues at regional nodes providing both a GUI (web portal) and API (CSW service)

Harvest GeoNetwork nodes into POGO global catalogue

ODIP 2 prototype progress:GeoNetWork software has been adapted by SeaDataNet

for handling SeaDataNet CSR and supporting common vocabularies

R2R (USA) has deployed the SDN GeoNetWork tool and makes great progress with the GUI and mapping of vocabularies for R2R US cruises and also for populating EDMO directory ( >150 US organisations added)

MNF (Australia) has also deployed GeoNetWork and started with populating EDMO directory and mapping vocabularies

ODIP 2 prototype new developments:CSR Schema extension with new vocabulary for specific

instruments

Embed in CSRs Linked Data URIs

Make CSRs available as RDF for semantic web applications

Interoperate with NSF EarthCube and NOAA Data Centers

Establish Cruise-ID governance because of potential overlap in case of international cruises

ODIP 3 prototype:Establishment of a prototype for a Sensor Observation

Service (SOS) and SensorML and O&M profiles for selected sensors installed on research vessels and in real-time monitoring systems (Sensor Web Enablement (SWE))

Lead by AODN (Australia)

Bundling of multiple regional initiatives and best practices towards the adoption of SWE to formulate and evaluate common standards, incl involvement of 52 North

ODIP 3 prototype approach:

establish a collaboration tool (Github):

compile inventory of SOS services and their endpoints

compile inventory of instrument SensorML records & O&M structures

compile inventory of vocab and registry services

working groups to assess SOS performance

propose templates for SensorML/StarFl and O&M profiles

examine vocabulary services and potential mappings

Set-up a test bed

ODIP 3 prototype progress:collaboration at https://github.com/aodn/ODIP

inventory includes: Ritmare starter kit (IT), SOS Coriolis – EuroARGO (FR), Oceanotron interaction (FR), Eurofleets SWE version 2.0 (ES), ncSOS for gliders (UK), IOOS SOS (USA), IMOS (Australia), 2 SOS installations (Australia), SMG and sensorCloud (Australia)

Analysis: => must adopt SWE Version 2.0 to stay aligned

52 North SOS still on V1.0 but will upgrade

SensorML profiles EU and Australia quite similar in approach

Testbed is being deployed for further testing of different SOS services

Dialogue with manufacturers planned

Dissemination of ODIP outcomesProject website

Social media

International conferences

Other related initiatives

Ocean Data Portal (ODP)

Research Data Alliance

Belmont Forum

www.odip.org

Thank you!