1. US/European Partnerships in Coastal Atlases and Coastal/Ocean Informatics Report of a Trans-Atlantic Workshop Series

2. Today’s Session Scope of our International Collaboration – Dawn Wright, Oregon State University Overview of Workshop 1 in Cork, Ireland – Val Cummins, CMRC Overview of Workshop 2 in Corvallis, Oregon – Dawn Wright, Oregon State University Technical Developments - State/Regional Perspective – Liz O’Dea, CMRC and Tanya Haddad, Oregon OCMP National CZM Perspective – Tony Lavoi, NOAA CSC

3. Complementary Projects

4. Issues of regional governance, coordination Significant capacity, varying approaches Little done to compile/assess efforts Best practices? Widespread solutions needed –Access to and documentation of data –Integration of tools –Decision support for coastal mgmt via atlases –“Semantic interoperability” Intellectual Merit - Workshop Series Goals

5. Next Speaker And now, on to Val …

6. Aims of the second workshop Improve searches between atlases –CVs and ontologies Semantic interoperability Linkages to use cases, communities Proof-of-concept ontologies “International Coastal Atlas Network” (ICAN) Large, collaborative funding proposals White paper, workshop report, journal articles Workshop 3 in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2008

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