| Abstract | The Ruimte voor Geo-Informatie (Space for Geo-Information, RGI) innovation programme is investing 20 million euros as an incentive to projects that bring geo specialists and geo users together. RGI's mission is: ‘the improvement and innovation of the National Geo-Information Infrastructure and the geo field of knowledge in the Netherlands for satisfactory and efficient administration and powerful industry’. NODCi (RGI014) is one of the projects in the RGI programme and comprises the implementation of a National infrastructure for access to oceanographic and marine data and information, that is interoperable with international networks and developments.
This NODCi project is undertaken by the Netherlands Oceanographic Data Committee (NODC).
In phase 1 (May 2005 – April 2006) a definition study was performed, including an analysis of the data management systems of each of the partners and the options for interconnecting these in a common model. This has resulted in an agreed and feasible concept for the NODC-i infrastructure, that has been discussed and tuned with a wide range of potential users from the maritime, shipbuilding, offshore, dredging and survey industry sectors, scientific research sector, and from the NODC-i partner organisations.
At present, phase 2 is underway, which comprises the implementation and operation of the NODC-i infrastrcture. This includes the development of the NODC-i portal, the implementation and population of metadata systems, and interconnecting the data management systems of each of the NODC members to the NODC portal to provide a harmonised and transparent overview and access to the data sets, managed by each of the NODC members. Phase 2 is well underway and will end in December 2008. The NODC-i project takes place in close communication and tuning with the SeaDataNet project, because the NODC-i infrastructure will be the Dutch node in SeaDataNet.
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