Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: NEAFC2ICES

NEAFC has been offered a sub-contract to assist the iMarine consurtium with the development of a set of services that enables NEAFC to securily consume and share fisheries information. some of these facilities can not be provided by Virtual Research Environments, as the data to feed these services can not leave the NEAFC premises. Therefore, a facility is required that can be installed, configured and controlled by NEAFC staff. This facility would be the 'gatekeeper' to the NEAFC repository. Similar 'connectors' or more often needed, and e.g. through the iMarine OpenSDMX initiative, example connectors have already been delivered.

In order to facilitate the collection of and negotiations on specific desiderata, the below description captures the CoPCommunity of Practice. 'wish-list', for discussion with NEAFC representatives, WP3 members, and PEB delegates.

Product

The services sought by NEAFC should implement relevant parts of FLUX. These are mainly related to 1.) anonymize confidential data in their infrastructure, 2) convert data to a FLUX format, as per DG MARE requirements, 3.) publish these anonymized datasets in a controlled repository, 4) ensure that these data-sets can be analyzed in a variety of other VREVirtual Research Environment.'s for e.g. statistical trend analysis, plotting, graphing and tabulation.

The activities of NEAFC will focus no the requirements engineering, validation of results, and use of the services. The software will be supplied and / or further developed by iMarine partners, covered under the sub-contract.

In order to ensure a sustainable use and maintenance of the delivered software to NEAFC, NEAFC will have to ensure that it can contribute hardware and software (JAVA) skills, and oversee the development of the connector to their confidential data.

Priority to EA-CoPCommunity of Practice., and more specifically, NEAFC

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

• Potential target community;
• Users;
• Potential for co-funding;
• Structural allocation of resources;
• Referred in DoW;
• Business Cases;
• How does the proposed action generally support sustainability aspects;
• How consistent it is with EC regulations/strategies (eg INSPIRE);
• Re-usability – benefits – compatibility;

Parentage

Relation to NEAFC Software

This para is for NEAFC to fill

Relation to D4S technologies

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?