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It is organised in the following three areas:
 
It is organised in the following three areas:
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* The [[#Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The iMarine_Board | iMarine Board]] area which introduces the board, the rules governing its functioning, the working plan and the meetings;   
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* The [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board | iMarine Board]] area which introduces the board, the rules governing its functioning, the working plan and the meetings;   
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* The Overall Workplan section which provides an overview of the iMarine Board identified activities throughout the project life span
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* The [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Overall_workplan | Overall Workplan]] section which provides an overview of the iMarine Board identified activities throughout the project life span
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* The [[#Outcomes | Outcomes]] area which describes the results of the iMarine Board activities, namely (i) the results of mediation activities, the Governance mechanisms and policies governing the envisaged infrastructure, the harmonization of systems resulting from the requirements characterising the expected infrastructure, and the validation of delivered products.  
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* The [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Implementation_results | Implementation results]] area which describes the outputs of iMarine Board's activities, namely (i) the results of mediation activities, the Governance mechanisms and policies governing the envisaged infrastructure, the harmonization of systems resulting from the requirements characterising the expected infrastructure, and the validation of delivered products.  
  
 
== [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The iMarine_Board | The iMarine Board]] ==
 
== [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The iMarine_Board | The iMarine Board]] ==
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The '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The iMarine_Board | iMarine Board]]''' is a key mechanism for guaranteeing constant interactions with the EA-CoP initiatives involved in the project. This board is described through a number of pages:
 
The '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The iMarine_Board | iMarine Board]]''' is a key mechanism for guaranteeing constant interactions with the EA-CoP initiatives involved in the project. This board is described through a number of pages:
  
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Overview | overview]]''' page briefly describes this board;  
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Overview | EA-CoP Board]]''' page describes the functioning of this Board;  
 
* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Rules_and_Procedures | iMarine Board Rules and Procedures]]''' page describes the regulations and principles supporting the operation of this board;  
 
* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Rules_and_Procedures | iMarine Board Rules and Procedures]]''' page describes the regulations and principles supporting the operation of this board;  
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Work plan | work plan]]''' page describes the work plans of the scheduled governing board activities;   
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Overall_workplan | work plan]]''' page describes the work plans of the scheduled governing board activities;   
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Meetings | meetings]]''' page documents the events organised to support the board activity including their reports, recommendations and conclusions;
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_Meetings | meetings]]''' page documents the iMarine Board and Advisory Council meetings, and other events organised to support the board's activity including their reports, recommendations and conclusions;
  
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== Overall workplan ==
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== Outcome ==
  
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Project activities involving the EA-CoP take place under WP3. These activities are organized according to the three main objectives:
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The Outcome of Board’s activities are to be found at the wider level of the EA Community of Practice, and reflect where Board’s outputs have an impact on the wider EA Community of Practice.
  
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1. Operations of the iMarine Board:
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The Outcome of the Board, and indeed the entire project, activities is documented at the page dedicated to the iMarine [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_iMarine_Business_Cases | Business Cases]]
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*  Meetings of the iMarine Board
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*  Meetings of the iMarine Advisory Council
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*  Mediation with the broader EA-CoP
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2. Governance and Policy developments
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*  Development of the Sustainability plan
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*  Development of Governance model
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*  Development of Data Policies
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*  Development of Software Policies
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3. Harmonization of systems and schemas
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Harmonization activities are organized by technical clusters and can be validated through the VREs set-up to serve the Business cases
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*  Biodiversity cluster
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At its first session, the iMarine Board has initiated the elaboration of an overall workplan which spans across the entire project duration. This workplan provides an overview of Board's activities and related timing expectations, and is used to identify possible conflicting use of project resources in order to decide on priorities.
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* Workplan overview in Excel format
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Work plan | work plan]]''' page describes the work plans of the scheduled governing board activities;
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== Outcomes ==
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The primary goal of the iMarine Board is to define the data e-Infrastructure governance model with a focus on sustainability, and to formulate a set of organizational and technological policy recommendations regulating the resources shared and services provided by the infrastructure.
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=== Mediation ===
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The mediation efforts of the iMarine Board are primarily geared towards serving the three '''Business cases'''.
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_iMarine_Business_Cases | iMarine Business Cases]]''' page which combine technical requirements with organizational, political and managerial issues; they specify larger organizational concepts that may be supported by one or more VRE's. The page on business cases describes these from the technology perspective. Other information on organization and operation in support of the Business Cases can be found in the iMarine Board Channel.
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The iMarine Board '''meetings''' constitute the primary mechanism for mediation among the EA Community of Practice directly involved in the project. The '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Meetings | meetings]]''' page documents the events organised to support the board activity including their reports, recommendations and conclusions;
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* First iMarine Board meeting  -  this meeting has elaborated  the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_The_iMarine_Board#Rules_and_Procedures | iMarine Board Rules and Procedures]]''' ; this page describes the regulations and principles supporting the operation of this board;
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Mediation includes '''liaison and outreach''' activities to the EA-CoP, identified by the iMarine Board:
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=== [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_Governance | Governance]] ===
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The Governance discussed in this chapter relate to the activities of the EA-CoP where they interact with the e-Infrastructure. It describes how Deliverable D3.2 (M10) and D3.3 (M29) are achieved.
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The Governance area contains:
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice: Sustainable use of the data e-Infrastructure | Sustainable use of the data e-Infrastructure]]''' page;
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice: Governing mechanism recommendations | Governing mechanism recommendations]]''' page;
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice: iMarine Policies | iMarine Policies]]''' page;
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** the '''[[EA-CoP Data Access and Sharing Policies]]''' page;
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice: iMarine Guidelines and Best Practices | iMarine Guidelines and Best Practices]]''' page;
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The '''''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_Requirements | Requirements]]''''' area contains:
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_VRE_planning | VRE planning]]''' page which describes the EA-CoP desiderata in terms of a composition of services and resources, delivered as a packaged single unit to the CoP. A VRE provides a defined set of services for a specific group of users that collaborate on a specified task or workflow. An alternative approach to VREs are gCube apps. In the context of the CoP desiderata, no difference is made.
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* the '''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice_Overview:_Clusters | Clusters]]''' page describes how the CoP organizes the requirements collection and discussion on high-level topics in a set of organic, but also technological clusters; geospatial, biodiversity, statistics, and semantic technologies all are supported by technologies that overlap in functionality with other clusters, yet are still easily identifiable as falling within one of the clusters.
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=== [[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_Validation | Validation]] ===
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According to the Description of Work, the goal of this activity is (i) to document status and issues on harmonization approaches, and
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The '''''[[Ecosystem_Approach_Community_of_Practice:_Validation|Validation]]''''' area contains:
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Latest revision as of 09:07, 3 September 2013

This page is dedicated to document the activities of the Ecosystem Approach Community of PracticeA term coined to capture an "activity system" that includes individuals who are united in action and in the meaning that "action" has for them and for the larger collective. The communities of practice are "virtual", ''i.e.'', they are not formal structures, such as departments or project teams. Instead, these communities exist in the minds of their members, are glued together by the connections they have with each other, as well as by their specific shared problems or areas of interest. The generation of knowledge in communities of practice occurs when people participate in problem solving and share the knowledge necessary to solve the problems. (EA-CoPCommunity of Practice.).

It is organised in the following three areas:

  • The iMarine Board area which introduces the board, the rules governing its functioning, the working plan and the meetings;
  • The Overall Workplan section which provides an overview of the iMarine Board identified activities throughout the project life span
  • The Implementation results area which describes the outputs of iMarine Board's activities, namely (i) the results of mediation activities, the Governance mechanisms and policies governing the envisaged infrastructure, the harmonization of systems resulting from the requirements characterising the expected infrastructure, and the validation of delivered products.

The iMarine Board

The iMarine Board is a key mechanism for guaranteeing constant interactions with the EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. initiatives involved in the project. This board is described through a number of pages:

  • the EA-CoP Board page describes the functioning of this Board;
  • the iMarine Board Rules and Procedures page describes the regulations and principles supporting the operation of this board;
  • the work plan page describes the work plans of the scheduled governing board activities;
  • the meetings page documents the iMarine Board and Advisory Council meetings, and other events organised to support the board's activity including their reports, recommendations and conclusions;

Outcome

The Outcome of Board’s activities are to be found at the wider level of the EA Community of PracticeA term coined to capture an "activity system" that includes individuals who are united in action and in the meaning that "action" has for them and for the larger collective. The communities of practice are "virtual", ''i.e.'', they are not formal structures, such as departments or project teams. Instead, these communities exist in the minds of their members, are glued together by the connections they have with each other, as well as by their specific shared problems or areas of interest. The generation of knowledge in communities of practice occurs when people participate in problem solving and share the knowledge necessary to solve the problems., and reflect where Board’s outputs have an impact on the wider EA Community of PracticeA term coined to capture an "activity system" that includes individuals who are united in action and in the meaning that "action" has for them and for the larger collective. The communities of practice are "virtual", ''i.e.'', they are not formal structures, such as departments or project teams. Instead, these communities exist in the minds of their members, are glued together by the connections they have with each other, as well as by their specific shared problems or areas of interest. The generation of knowledge in communities of practice occurs when people participate in problem solving and share the knowledge necessary to solve the problems..

The Outcome of the Board, and indeed the entire project, activities is documented at the page dedicated to the iMarine Business Cases

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