1. INTRODUCTION TO GENERATING SERVICES
Simon Keeble – Blue Lobster IT Limited (UK)
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

2. The ODYSSEA project Tools Products & Services WP12 Management
Data Collection
Products & Services
Impact Generation
WP4 : Operational modelling
Preparatory Actions
WP5 : In-situ monitoring
WP1 : Marine data and availability and integration
WP9 : End user & policy maker involvement
WP12 Management
WP2 : Setting up the ODYSSEA observations
Generating Services
WP3 : Designing the ODYSSEA platform
WP10 : Capacity building in North African countries
WP6 : Platform Development, Operation and Maintenance
WP7 : Big Data Management and Tools Development
WP8 : ODYSSEA End- user Services
WP11 : Dissemination and communication

3. Generating services WP6 WP7 WP8
Platform Development, Operation and Maintenance
Big Data Management and Tools Development
ODYSSEA End-user Services

4. WP6 – Platform Development, Operation and Maintenance
Task 6.1: ODYSSEA Platform use cases description
Task 6.2: ODYSSEA Platform requirements
Task 6.3: ODYSSEA platform architecture
Task 6.4: ODYSSEA platform development
Task 6.5: ODYSSEA Platform Integration, Validation and Verification
Task 6.6: ODYSSEA Platform Operation and Maintenance

5. WP7 – Big Data Management and Tools Development
Task 7.1: Definition of “Big Data” processing requirements
Task 7.2: Compilation of sample datasets for development
Task 7.3: Development of algorithms
Task 7.4: Platform algorithms integration
Task 7.5: Validation and refinement of algorithms

6. WP8 – ODYSSEA End-user Services
Task 8.1: Experimental and operational platform assessment
Task 8.2: Ecosystem evaluation in each observatory
Task 8.3: End-users consultation and feedback analysis
Task 8.4: Validation and Pilot testing of the platform by selected end-users
Task 8.5: End-users services operation and maintenance

7. The ODYSSEA platform

8. Some things we said we would do
ODYSSEA will apply a user-centred approach, in which end-users and stakeholders, internal and external to the Consortium, will be involved from Day 1 of the project in the design, development and operation of the platform as well in the data collection and operations of the Observatories. Furthermore, databases will be organized, homogenized and fused to provide data in common standard type and format as well as other types and formats according to end-user requirements in order to fulfil their needs for specialized and accurate information. 1
The end-user will be able to search, retrieve and visualize data for each specific parameter within a certain time and space window using one single command, wherever the data are stored (ODYSSEA Novelty 1)
User will be able to download archived/forecasted information and receive services for any part of the Mediterranean Sea through a single system (ODYSSEA Novelty 2) 2
A set of interactive web tools will be developed for the front-end of the platform to allow the user to visualise both the location of data points (using maps) and the data values (using plots / data visualisation layers) (ODYSSEA Novelty 3) 3
Data from more observational platforms, systems and networks will be readily available to end-users through the newly developed platform. Emphasis will be placed on enriching the system i.e., with meteorological, hydrological and citizen’s science data (ODYSSEA Novelty 4) 4 5
Databases will be re-organized, homogenized and fused to provide data retrieved in a common standard type and format, as well as other types and formats according to end-user requirements (ODYSSEA Novelty 5)

9. Some thoughts
Designed and tested by Users, not developers. (Remember Windows Vista?)
Agile project management
How will ‘Generating Services’ be project managed / coordinated? 3 WP’s to coordinate with lots of overlaps. Block leaders?
“Iterative development”, “continuous integration” and working with external users - How can we educate everybody (in how we manage software development? How do we engage with them?
Importance of ensuring that the user experience / perception is good. 
Development technologies. Integration with multiple partners. Distributed development teams.
Database size (big data platform, but how much data, bring all of it in / work with distributed data etc.).
Querying / organising and visualising large data and complex data sets.

10. Competing with existing data facilities / platforms throughout Europe and improving upon. A reason for users to use ODDYSEA.
Learning from other platforms and communities (we mustn’t be closed to what else is going on around Europe but be ‘eyes open’ to other activities).
4.5 years is a long time in IT. I’d only been buying records for 3 years before CD’s came in, then laserdiscs, DVD’s. Storage ‘will’ change during the course of the project and we should be mindful (and grateful) of these developments. 
We must be careful to use technology and development methods that will still be current at the end of the project and many years after that.
We are being watched by the users and others in our community. Let’s involved them, and impress them. Create a service that others want to be part of and contribute to.

11. A little more detail