Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: VME DB

The VME-DB will allow practioners in the field of marine resource management collect, collate, analyze and publish information related to the location, value and . It is envisaged it will comprise two main parts:

• Fact sheets
• GeoExplorer enriched with interactive features to identify and comment geospatial eexplicit data on VME location, encounters, survey-data, bio-physical data.

The current VREVirtual Research Environment. is focused exclusively on tje first part and offers a template to capture the descriptive information.

Product

Describe the expected service in maximum 3 sentences

Implementation activity

The implmenetation can be tracked through TRC:

• Obtain OBIS deep-sea species through the SDP [[1]]

Priority to CoPCommunity of Practice.

List proposed solution priority following the iMarine Board priority setting criteria:

• Potential target community consists scientists, polic makers, industry, and the wider public with an expressed interst in ;
• Users; data entry will be done by any registered scientist, policy support officer, biologist, industry representatives. With such a large and diverse user group, requirements to clearly separate content and ensure confidentiality requiremstn are obvious.
• Potential for co-funding; High
• Structural allocation of resources; The VREVirtual Research Environment. is expected to be prototyped towards the end of 2013. The GeoExplorer development has started, and the deliverables can be alirgend with teh relese of VREVirtual Research Environment. components.
• Referred in DoW;in BC2
• How does the proposed action generally support sustainability aspects;
• How consistent it is with EC regulations/strategies (eg INSPIRE); The developement of the interactive features of the GeoExploreer will also aim to further the compliance with the INSPIRE directive.
• Re-usability – benefits – compatibility;

Parentage

Relation to CoPCommunity of Practice. Software

• FAO GeoNetwork
• FAO Geoserver and GeoServer manager
• FAO GeoBatch
• FiGIS schema, fact sheet engine and website

Relation to D4S technologies

• A ...

Productivity

Are the proposed measures effective?

Does it reduce a known workload?

Presentation

How must the component be delivered to users? (UI Design / on-line help / training material / support)

• The interactive Map User interface is expected to be able to describe / edit the properties (attributes) of a polygon or point.
• Collecting these features, defined through their featuretype, is expected to be done either through a VREVirtual Research Environment. or a connected stand-alone GIS Application. The feature type (the schema) can e.g. be defined in a VREVirtual Research Environment. for re-use in a desk-top GIS.
• The geoExplorer should be enriched with a style editor, and style settings should be persisted for a next login.

Policy

Are there any policies available that describe data access and sharing?

• data access and sharing policy of geospatial and OGC data [2]

Have the Copyright / attribution / metadata / legal aspects been addressed from a user and technology perspective?

For Yann / Aureliano.