EMODnet Ingestion
EMODnet Ingestion and safe-keeping of marine data
Categories: Europeans | Florence | Anthropogenic impacts | In progress | Sharing Monitoring Technologies
Funding: CINEA
Period: March 2022 - March 2022
Total project budget: € 6.385.000,00
Total budget CNR IIA: € 62.250,00
Scientific Responsible: Enrico Boldrini
Abstract of the project
EMODnet Ingestion is part of a further development of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet), an initiative of the European Commission (DG MARE) part of the 2020 strategy for Marine Knowledge. A partnership of over 20 European organizations collaborates in EMODnet by assembling marine data from different sources and making them usable through seven thematic portals.
However, for many reasons, a large amount of data acquired by public bodies, researchers and private companies do not reach the EMODnet portals or other public databases and are therefore not available. Potential users sometimes resort to less accurate data sources or are forced to repeat observations, encountering obvious obstacles.
EMODnet Ingestion aims to facilitate the publication and distribution of data that would not otherwise be available, by involving potential suppliers and employing technologies to facilitate sharing.
CNR-IIA contributes above all to the objective of facilitating machine-to-machine data transfers and thus enabling the sharing (download) of near real time data from heterogeneous data sources.
Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) technology is used to put into production a brokerage service dedicated to EMODnet Ingestion, capable of facilitating the harmonization and sharing of data from heterogeneous sources with the EMODnet Physics portal, which represents a point of access to discover and obtain the near real time data of EMODnet.
Among the potential sources that can contribute to EMODnet by exploiting the DAB technology, some national and regional hydrological services have been identified which acquire observations of interest also for the marine community (in particular water flow rate and water quality data collected at the estuary of rivers ).
Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) technology is used to put into production a brokerage service dedicated to EMODnet Ingestion, capable of facilitating the harmonization and sharing of data from heterogeneous sources with the EMODnet Physics portal, which represents a point of access to discover and obtain the near real time data of EMODnet.
Among the potential sources that can contribute to EMODnet by exploiting the DAB technology, some national and regional hydrological services have been identified which acquire observations of interest also for the marine community (in particular water flow rate and water quality data collected at the estuary of rivers ).
Among the objectives of EMODnet Ingestion are:
• Maintain and further develop the EMODnet web portal for data ingestion.
• Implement operational procedures to convey data to the final repositories. The project does not aim to establish a new permanent data repository as existing ones will be used. Data can only be handed over to the final archives on condition that they are made freely available and open access to the data is guaranteed.
• Facilitate machine-to-machine data transfers. To facilitate faster data availability (near real time), direct connections to observation tools can be established without the data necessarily passing through the data ingestion portal.
• Manage a user support service to provide your data in the most appropriate format.
• Allow data providers to track the progress of publishing their data from submission on the ingestion portal to archiving in a repository.
• Participate in discussions with EMODnet partners in order to improve the efficiency of the entire collection, assembly and dissemination process.
• Maintain a summary record of the data provided.
• Engage in outreach activities to significant marine data holders whose data is not already available. A strategy must be proposed to identify and target relevant marine data holders who are not yet connected to existing data management infrastructures. This should include an approach to engaging different audiences and stakeholders.
• Improve and document the availability of data from licensed activities (eg aquaculture and offshore power generation), promote the use of common standards, and start a path towards a more harmonized approach, through a workshop.
• Maintain and further develop the EMODnet web portal for data ingestion.
• Implement operational procedures to convey data to the final repositories. The project does not aim to establish a new permanent data repository as existing ones will be used. Data can only be handed over to the final archives on condition that they are made freely available and open access to the data is guaranteed.
• Facilitate machine-to-machine data transfers. To facilitate faster data availability (near real time), direct connections to observation tools can be established without the data necessarily passing through the data ingestion portal.
• Manage a user support service to provide your data in the most appropriate format.
• Allow data providers to track the progress of publishing their data from submission on the ingestion portal to archiving in a repository.
• Participate in discussions with EMODnet partners in order to improve the efficiency of the entire collection, assembly and dissemination process.
• Maintain a summary record of the data provided.
• Engage in outreach activities to significant marine data holders whose data is not already available. A strategy must be proposed to identify and target relevant marine data holders who are not yet connected to existing data management infrastructures. This should include an approach to engaging different audiences and stakeholders.
• Improve and document the availability of data from licensed activities (eg aquaculture and offshore power generation), promote the use of common standards, and start a path towards a more harmonized approach, through a workshop.
Mariene Informatie Service MARIS BV (MARIS) - Netherlands
Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) - Greece
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (Ifremer) - France
ETT SPA (ETT) - Italy
Stichting Deltares (Deltares) - Netherlands
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) - Belgium
Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut (SMHI) - Sweden
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) - Italy
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) - Belgium
Geologian tutkimuskeskus (GTK) - Finland
52°NORTH SPATIAL INFORMATION RESEARCH GMBH (52North) - Germany
Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC) - Spain
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) - Italy
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) - Italy
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) - Germany
Institute of Marine Research (IMR) - Norway
Aarhus University - Danish Center for Environment and Energy (AU-DCE) - Denmark
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) - International
Marine Institute (MI) - Ireland
Instituto Hidrografico (IHPT) - Portugal
Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ) - Netherlands
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) - Finland
Institute of Oceanology Bulgarian Academy of Science (IO-BAS) - Bulgaria
National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa” (NIMRD) - Romania
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (IOF) - Croatia
National Institute of Biology (NIB) - Slovenia
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) - Israel
National Research Council (CNR) - Italy
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) - Spain
Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (Shom) - France
COGEA SRL (COGEA) - Italy
Middle East Technical University, Institute of Marine Sciences (METU-IMS) - Turkey
University of Liege (ULiege) - Belgium
Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) - Iceland
Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Marine Systems (TalTech) - Estonia
Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, agency of Daugavpils University(LHEI) - Latvia
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU-DNA) - Georgia
University of Malta (UM) - Malta
ORION – Joint research and development center (ORION) - Cyprus
Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic and Environment (RWS) - The Netherlands
UK Research & Innovation – British Geological Survey (UKRI-BGS) - United Kingdom
National Oceanography Center – British Oceanographic Data Center (NOC-BODC) - United Kingdom
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) - United Kingdom
Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) - Greece
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (Ifremer) - France
ETT SPA (ETT) - Italy
Stichting Deltares (Deltares) - Netherlands
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) - Belgium
Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut (SMHI) - Sweden
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) - Italy
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) - Belgium
Geologian tutkimuskeskus (GTK) - Finland
52°NORTH SPATIAL INFORMATION RESEARCH GMBH (52North) - Germany
Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC) - Spain
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) - Italy
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) - Italy
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) - Germany
Institute of Marine Research (IMR) - Norway
Aarhus University - Danish Center for Environment and Energy (AU-DCE) - Denmark
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) - International
Marine Institute (MI) - Ireland
Instituto Hidrografico (IHPT) - Portugal
Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ) - Netherlands
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) - Finland
Institute of Oceanology Bulgarian Academy of Science (IO-BAS) - Bulgaria
National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa” (NIMRD) - Romania
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (IOF) - Croatia
National Institute of Biology (NIB) - Slovenia
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) - Israel
National Research Council (CNR) - Italy
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) - Spain
Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (Shom) - France
COGEA SRL (COGEA) - Italy
Middle East Technical University, Institute of Marine Sciences (METU-IMS) - Turkey
University of Liege (ULiege) - Belgium
Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) - Iceland
Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Marine Systems (TalTech) - Estonia
Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, agency of Daugavpils University(LHEI) - Latvia
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU-DNA) - Georgia
University of Malta (UM) - Malta
ORION – Joint research and development center (ORION) - Cyprus
Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic and Environment (RWS) - The Netherlands
UK Research & Innovation – British Geological Survey (UKRI-BGS) - United Kingdom
National Oceanography Center – British Oceanographic Data Center (NOC-BODC) - United Kingdom
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) - United Kingdom
Henry Boldrini
Robert Roncella
Fabrizio Papeschi
Massimiliano Olivieri
Matthias Santoro
Lena Rettori
Paul Mazzetti