Catalogue:Applications

The iMarine infrastructure resembles an archipelago where applications emerge as islands of services, resting on a underlying infrastructure bedrock. The islands specialize in one or more functions, yet are not isolated 'atolls'. Every island is well connected to others, and island-hopping is strongly encouraged. Each island offers a standard set of features that can be extended by selecting services from several topical bundles.

The iMarine infrastructure currently offers 4 main application bundles that can be customized and / or enriched. Each application in the infrastructure is tightly integrated with the underlying gCube enabling software, and can access and re-purpose data from other iMarine applications.

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The 4 key-applications that iMarine has delivered and continues to enrich are:

• BiolCube; focuses on the management and interpretation of biological and ecological data in the environment.
• StatiCube; a complete full life-cycle data framework, from observational data to aggregated data repositories enriched with validation and analytical tools.
• GeosCube; tightly connected to the BiolCube, the framework, based on OGC compliant tools and services manage the storage and interpretation of geospatial explicit information, including WPS processing.
• PoliCube; brings semantic technologies for publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful to end-users, enabling them to produce LOD, to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried.

The bundle approach, by itself an abstraction over a host of services, is expected to offer more 'flavors' in the near future. For instance a focused approach on organizing access to computing resources, or a support infrastructure for Mobile Apps are foreseen:

• IceCube; will offer access to infrastructure, cloud and grid based computing resources for dummies.
• AppsCube; will offer an integrated approach to mobile app development. The infrastructure organizes the content and data-exchange with mobile apps, Please note that the App itself is not developed with iMarine, rather it relies on the infrastructure to maintain and manage the data collected with and exposed through this App.

BIOLCUBE

BiolCube is available as a suite that packs many useful features in one environment to have a complete work-space for biologists working with occurrence data and reviewing species names. It offers:

• Occurrence data finder
• Species name finder
• Species name matcher
• Biodiversity mapper, already producing AquaMaps
• Species fact-sheets

StatiCube

StatiCube offers a complete data suite that reflects the entire data-cycle .

StatiCube relies on continued support and ongoing development of a bundle of service. This Staticube bundle has separate development lines. These are;

• Data collection;
• Code lists management;
• Data mining;
• Data Lifecycle;
• Data publication;

These are explained in more depth on the specifications pages.

For more information on getting started with and using StatiCube, the iMarine website offers many resources. You can also register here to experience some of the components.

Examples of

PoliCube

The primary aim of PoliCube is to deliver information to policy makers from a variety of sources as an integrated view generated using a variety of approaches, including semantic technologies.

PoliCube offers flexible reporting, search and retrieval, aggregation and projection facilities. These are primarily offered as data-driven indicators and topical fact sheets. These facilities can only be effective if a modern toolset is available to enrich or annotate existing data with relevant information in the form of e.g. uri's. This

The use of an infrastructure enables to focus on the needs of policy makers, that need to rely on dynamic reports, extracted near-real time from data coming in from multiple directions, and with varying quality and accessiblity policies attached to these data flows.

ICECUBE

A key benefit of iMarine is the ease to set up scalable data processing solutions. A scalable solution may be needed because you have to manage any combination of a lot of users, a lot of data, a lot of processing, and a lot of new functionality. This requires expertise that is usually not found in one place. Whether the

AppsCube

The quickly growing use of mobile apps for data collection and dissemination requires that content and reference data are managed from an integrated data perspective. With ever more versatile and demanding apps, data often cannot be kept in one central repository that fits all sizes. Very often, apps mash up data from e.g. geospatial and statistical data resources, or when collection data, rely on constantly updated refrence data, such as on names of species, vessel characteristics, or local reporting requiremetns.

To manage a multitude of data collection and dissemination apps, an infrastructure that offers ...

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