Use Cases for EA-CoP Data Access and Sharing Policies

Here follows a list of use cases for which the EA-CoP Data Access and Sharing Policies may apply.

Aquatic Species Distribution Maps

• The FAO Aquatic Species Distributions will be served by OGC Web-Services (OWS):
  • The products themselves will be available as WxS resources (WMSSee Workload Management System or Web Mapping Service. for visualization, WFSWeb Feature Service for processing)
  • The access to these resources will be provided through OGC metadata, served by CSW web-service with 2 access levels:
    • service metadata (ISO 19119:2005 / 19139) describing WxS instances specific to the species distribution collection
    • dataset metadata (ISO 19115:2003 / 19139) describing each species distribution
  • Such access could be completed later by Feature Catalogue description (ISO 19110), for data processing needs.
• The above set of metadata will be published in the FAO Geonetwork and shared in i-Marine through a CSW Harvesting operation.
• A metadata constraints section will be added to the metadata, and will specify the license applicable to the species distribution data.

FAO Species fact sheet VREVirtual Research Environment. - App'lifish

Content to be input by Aureliano/Ellenbroek

Data provided through Web Services

• For geospatial data, use of OGC Web-Services (OWS)
  • Access to geospatial data through OGC WMSSee Workload Management System or Web Mapping Service./WFSWCS
  • Access to resources through OGC metadata / CSW
  • example: case of FAO aquatic species distributions

• ... to be input by Aureliano/Ellenbroek

Resources selector

Content to be provided by Ellenbroek

WIOFish

Content to be provided by Laurent

Policy template

• Objectivity
• Reliability and timeliness
• Length versus comprehensiveness
• Hard copy – versus electronic format
• Languages and translations
• Partnerships