It still happens that marine data collected by public authorities, researchers and private
operators of coastal or offshore facilities do not arrive to the
national or regional repositories and are thus unavailable to scientists
and engineers. The aim of the EMODnet Ingestion project is therefore to develop and operate a new EMODnet portal with services that will facilitate data holders from public and private sectors to submit marine data sets for further processing and safekeeping by data repositories and subsequent distribution through EMODnet thematic portals.
The data repositories in this context are existing data managing organisations that are involved in EMODnet thematic portals such as NODCs, Hydrographic Offices, Geological institutes, Biological institutes, and others.
Primary focus is on data providers and their data sets that are not yet handled and part of the mainstream processes of these data repositories
Existing pathways for each of the EMODnet thematic portals will be analysed and streamlined, where possible, to route submitted data from the Central Ingestion portal to the appropriate data repository that will take care of processing, QC and formatting for local storage and publishing, followed by population in the European infrastructures that are driving the EMODnet thematic portals.
The
project does not aim to set up a new permanent data repository, but to develop a central service that will provide a complementary service to the existing data repositories. Moreover the project will undertake active promotion and marketing activities in order to identify relevant marine data providers that are not yet routinely submitting data sets to national data repositories and to convince and help them to submit their data packages for open access and use in national repositories and EMODnet.
The priority for exploring external data sets will be set by the EMODnet Thematic portals that are interested in a specific collection of data types.
All project partners will analyse the situation in their country and identify potential data sources and their providers for the different data themes, taking into account the priorities. Also focus will be on developing use cases such as concerning monitoring data for offshore renewable energy locations that will be instrumental as demonstrators.
The consortium includes NODCs, Hydrographic Offices, Geological Surveys, Biology institutes, marine research institutes and a number of SMEs. Also it includes the oordinators of the EMODnet thematic portals for biology, chemistry, geology, bathymetry, physics and human activities.
HCMR from Greece will act as scientific coordinator of the project.
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