| Abstract |
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 EMODnet Ingestion is therefore to operate the EMODnet Ingestion services and network to identify, encourage and 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, which are also nodes of the European marine data management infrastructures, such as SeaDataNet, EurOBIS, EGDI, ICES, CMEMS, and others, that are feeding data and metadata into the EMODnet Thematic groups as input for generating EMODnet data products and services.
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.
EMODnet Ingestion works with a two-step approach for uptake of new data sets, both for delayed mode and for near real time data sets. In a first step data are complemented with limited metadata and then published ‘as-is’ by EMODnet Ingestion and for NRT data streams with EMODnet Physics. In a second step it is analysed if the metadata and data sets could be elaborated to community standards as practiced in the European marine data management infrastructure networks. If so, then the submitted data sets and metadata can be used by the EMODnet thematic groups as additional input for the generation of EMODnet data products.
As part of this contract, activities will be undertaken for preparing the migration of the EMODnet Ingestion portal towards the EMODnet Central Portal which will function as a one-stop-shop window for all EMODnet thematic groups and EMODnet Ingestion. In practice, the EMODnet Central Portal will run publishing services which will be fed by machine-to-machine services as developed, managed, and operated by the thematics and ingestion groups.
The consortium includes NODCs, Hydrographic Offices, Geological Surveys, Biology institutes, marine research institutes and a number of SMEs. Also it includes the coordinators of each of the EMODnet thematic portals for biology, chemistry, geology, bathymetry, physics and human activities.
HCMR from Greece acts as scientific coordinator of the project
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