Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: OBIS

OBIS Current Situation

The OBIS information system is a complete data-management environment that is based on a Postgresql database.

OBIS manages the upload of data from a variety of sources (list) and formats (csv, ...), and offers many database functions and procedures for sorting, filtering, merging, etc. It also includes advanced analytical support, as postgresql queries and pl/pgsql functions. The resulting OBIS rdbms feeds data to the OBIS website maintain in Ostends, and to GBIF using... It can also:

• generate geospatially explicit data (georeferenced)
• display data in an integrated MapViewer;
• export data over R-ODBC to a stand-alone R-environment;
• etc.

An extensive description of OBIS can be found on-line ....

The user-guide of OBIS is available here: guide

OBIS DB

The OBIS aims to provide the .

A progress report

OBIS VREVirtual Research Environment.

Product

Describe the proposed solution in maximum 3 sentences:

With ICIS capture time-series can be

Priority to CoPCommunity of Practice.

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

• Identified community: Users now:
• 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 CoPCommunity of Practice. Software Relation to D4S technologies

Does the proposed solution solve other problems associated with EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. Business Cases?

If the proposed solution can be used in another SW scenario (not users!) please describe.

Public

How big is the expected user community after delivery?

Productivity

Are the proposed measures effective?

Does it reduce a known workload?

Price

Is the proposed solution cheap?

Expected effort in PM:

Presentation

How is the component delivered to users? (Design / on-line help / training material / support).

Privacy

Are they safe? Need the proposed solution to manage confidential info at data / dataset / organizational level? Describe security and privacy issues:

Policy

Are there any policies available that describe data access and sharing? Are these really needed? Copyright / attribution / metadata / legal

Perils

Do they introduce moral hazard? (A hazard here is the risk that users will behave more recklessly if they are insulated from the effects of the software, or if they do noit understand what it produces, where data come from, what they represent etc. .)