Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: FishFinderOffLine

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FishFinder Off User and Use Specification

The opportunities provided by a Virtual Research EnvironmentA ''system'' with the following distinguishing features: ''(i)'' it is a Web-based working environment; ''(ii)'' it is tailored to serve the needs of a Community of Practice; ''(iii)'' it is expected to provide a community of practice with the whole array of commodities needed to accomplish the community’s goal(s); ''(iv)'' it is open and flexible with respect to the overall service offering and lifetime; and ''(v)'' it promotes fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results by guaranteeing ownership, provenance, and attribution. for Fact-sheet elaboration can increase if also off-line communities are served. The EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. behind the FishFinder VREVirtual Research Environment. has to collaborate with users in developing countries that can not rely on internet connectivity at all times.

In order to facilitate the compilation of marine species fact-sheets, an off-line reporting tool was requested and developed by CNR with support of the EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. and FAO for the elaboratin of the use-case and validation of the product.

The Off-line FishFinder Product
The off-line version of FishFinder is developed as a data-collection tool for editors who have no reliable access to the internet.

Users of the tool can either import a set of species fact sheets that have been prepared by the program manager, or decide to start a species fact sheet for a species. Once fact sheets are completed, they are sent to the VREVirtual Research Environment. manager to be included in the web-based fact-sheets production work-flow.

Priority to CoPCommunity of Practice.
List proposed solution priority following the iMarine Board priority setting criteria:
  • Potential target community;
  • Users;

Users are invited by the data manager to contribute. They are expected to be several tens of scientist, initially mainly located in South-Americe. they will all have a working knowledge of english, and a local language version of the tool is not needed.

  • Potential for co-funding;

The design and availability of the on-line components to prepare the of-line version alreadt resulted in a development funding, and some support to the operatianal phase.

Prospects for further instances of similar tools are in the identification phase.

  • Structural allocation of resources;
  • Referred in DoW;

The tool is new, and was not foreseen in the DoW. It required a redirection of effort, mostly covered under a co-funding arrangement.

  • Business Cases;
  • How does the proposed action generally support sustainability aspects;

Being initially focused on biodiversity data, the tool fits best in BC2 and BC3.

  • How consistent it is with EC regulations/strategies (eg INSPIRE);
  • Re-usability – benefits – compatibility;
Parentage
Relation to CoPCommunity of Practice. Software

FishFinder Off-line builds on the FAO FiMES infrastructure for conversion of reports to FiMES compliant XML, and re-uses the FiMES structure for the template to align structural elements.

Relation to D4S technologies

FishFinder Off-line would not have been possible without the reporting, templating and work-flow features developed in iMarine.

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)
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?
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