Dawn Wright Oregon State University Ned Dwyer Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, Ireland The International The International Coastal Atlas Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) Network (ICAN) FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee Meeting, Oct 8, 2008
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Dawn WrightOregon State University
Ned DwyerCoastal & Marine Resources Centre, Ireland
The International The International Coastal Atlas Network Coastal Atlas Network
(ICAN)(ICAN)
FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee Meeting, Oct 8, 2008
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 2
Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Current Membership
• ICAN Workshop 3
• Interoperability Prototype
• Strategic Directions
• Conclusion
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 3
Background: Intellectual Merit
• Issues of regional governance, coordination
• Significant capacity, varying approaches
• Best practices?• Widespread solutions needed
– Access to and documentation of data– Integration of tools– Decision support for coastal mgmt via
atlases– “Semantic interoperability”
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 4
Emergence of “Coastal Web Atlases”
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
“A collection of digital maps and datasets with supplementary tables, illustrations, and information that systematically illustrate the coast, oftentimes with cartographic and decision support tools, all of which are accessible via the Internet.”
(O’Dea et al., 2007)
Coastal Zone Management, Governance
Governments, NGOs, Citizen Groups
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 5
Emergence of “Coastal Web Atlases”
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Marine Irish Digital Atlas, mida.ucc.ieOregon Coastal Atlas, www.coastalatlas.net
Magic, UK
Oregon Coastal Atlas, USA
De Kustatlas, Belgium
NOAA Digital Coast, USA
MIDA, Ireland
And many MORE …
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 7
Background: Workshop 1, Cork, Ireland
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• To create & strengthen relationships between experts in marine & coastal mapping in North America and Europe
• To identify state of the art approaches to coastal mapping and informatics
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 8
Background: Workshop 2, Corvallis, USA
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
• Improve searches between atlases– metadata to ontologies– Marine Metadata
Interoperabilty• Semantic interoperability• Linkages to use cases,
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 10
Current Membership• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 11
Workshop 3, Copenhagen, July 2008
• Advance actions in: – Technical developments
• Review of interoperability prototype
– Strategic directions– Governance structure
• Welcome new members• Link to European relevant activities• Full proceedings at
ican.science.oregonstate.edu
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 12
Interoperability Prototype
• Integrate and facilitate access to several distributed & heterogeneous coastal atlases
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
…
Global atlas
Local atlases
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 13
Technical Developments
• Focus on coastal erosion as a use-case– Overarching view : vulnerability of coastal
communities to climate change
• Key Future work on prototype– At least 6 new nodes– Implement OGC WMS on all– Implement WFS on advanced subset
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 14
Strategic Directions
• Clarified vision and goals of ICAN
• Identified a range of key activities in following areas:– Technical project development– Awareness raising and publicity– Outreach and training activities– Documentation of resources, tools, expertise– Development of ICAN portal
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 15
Governance Structure
• Generated Document outlining:– Committee structure– Governance activities– Pathway towards a sustainable funding
model
• Develop a transition plan from ad-hoc steering to formalized governance
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 16
ICAN Workshop 4
UNESCO University Trieste, Italy Autumn 2009
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 17
For More Information…
Workshop 1 in Cork, Workshop 2 in Corvallis– workshop1.science.oregonstate.edu
Workshop 3 in Copenhagen– ican.science.oregonstate.edu
ICAN Interoperability Prototype– ican.ucc.ie
• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion
Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 18
Acknowledgments
U.S. National Science Foundation
Irish National Development Plan
Marine Institute (Ireland), Marine RTDI Networking & Technology Transfer Initiative