Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: FLOD

The main objective of the FLOD is to develop a fisheries Knowledge Base of reference data.

The iMarine FLOD components were identified as potential indexing and annotation sources (through FLOD uri's) for data in other systems. E.g. FLOD is proposed for the F-RIS portal browsing and query tools to access easily these information and data.

Development with iMarine initially focused on development of the KB, web semantic services development and later enriched with the need to host the portal and Knowledge Base in iMarine.

The possibility to create a VREVirtual Research Environment. to host and make available to the community FLOD index and annotations has been discussed and could be added to iMarine if the content and future exploitation of FLOD is validated.

Product

FLOD is a Knowledge base providing reference data through URI's on Fishereies related information, such as species, gears, vessel type, and fishing areas. It is not a static dats-set, but one which is intended to grow, and services for content maintenance and enriching are being developed. FLOD uri's serve e.g. SmartFish and TLO use cases e.g. for semantic fact sheet development.

Priority to CoPCommunity of Practice.

The proposed solution meets the following the iMarine Board priority setting criteria:

• The target community can be split in 2: data contributors and data consumers.
  • data contributors are source information systems. This source information systems are not limited to the 3 current source information Systems;
  • data consumers are fisheries experts, fisheries professional and the wider public with an expressed interest in fisheries ;
• Users; there are 2 groups of users: the source information systems data managers, which can be any kind of open information systems publishing public data and the final data user.
• Potential for co-funding; High as other stakeholders could be interesting to develop Regional Information Systems based on the same concepts
• Structural allocation of resources; SmartFish hosting is already in place. Activities on annotation and indexing are currently in progress and should be achieved by December 2013 for a presentation in a stakeholder workshop mid December 2013.
• Referred in DoW;in BC3
• How does the proposed action generally support sustainability aspects? SmartFish being hosted in iMarine e-infrastructure is a sustainable solution compared to the initial foreseen solution of a local hosting a marine research institute in Kenya that showed its limits with another hosted statistical database;
• How consistent it is with regulations/strategies ?
• Re-usability – benefits – compatibility: SmartFish use case is the typical example of reuse of existing components (FLOD) and of improvement of these components. Benefits are immediate with the possibility to reuse existing components (saving development time) and to easily improve them (use of common open source technologies);

Parentage

Relation to CoPCommunity of Practice. Software

• SmartFish
• VR and other FAO repository management tools

Relation to D4S technologies

• iMarine ConnectCube
• iSearch
• Xsearch

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)

• A portal has been created, and human and machine users can issue SPARQL queries.

Policy

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

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

• No, and this is an important issue for the data access and sharing discussion.