1. towards a better marine data infrastructure
Iain Shepherd
European Commission
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2. why marine data is underused
Discovery of Data.
Especially difficult outside your own community
Access to data.
Confidentiality
Desire of owners to exploit added-value themselves
Use of data.
Often restricted to “research”
Cost of data.
Landsat fiasco
Coherence of Data.
Especially cross-disciplinary and cross-border
Quality of Data.
Data unaccompanied by precision estimates is useless
Quantity of Data.
Are we undersampling?
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4. public research institution 77
national government 67
university 31
international body 23
local government 18
large enterprise (more than 250 employees) 12
self-employed 11
none of these 10
industrial interest group 9
micro enterprise ( less than 10 employees)
private research institution
civil society, environmental group, charity 8
medium enterprise (between 50 and 250 employees) 7
small enterprise (between 10 and 50 employees) 5
EU project 4
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5. discovery, access and use - environmental law
INSPIRE 2007/2/EC
Access
Environmental Information Directive 2003/4/EC
Use
Public Sector Information Directive 2003/98/EC
Apply to bodies exercising public authority
Don’t override IPR
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6. collect data once and share it many times.
Design Principle 1
collect data once and share it many times.
especially if paid by public money that is funding the collection of data,
does not of course obviate the need for confirmatory measurements.
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7. develop interoperable standards
Design Principle 2
develop interoperable standards
between different disciplines as well as within communities
respect the provisions of INSPIRE implementation rules
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8. Design Principle 3 focus on sea-basins
process at laboratory level, national level, sea-basin level, European level
European level connected to sea-basin level
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9. Requires sustainable funding at EU level
Design Principle 4
Requires sustainable funding at EU level
national bodies do not have the mandate or resources to move forward on their own
concrete progress so far prompted and funded by the EU through its research or regional development programmes.
few of these initiatives continued after the end of the project.
EMODNET cannot be set up by a single burst of activity and left to the marine community to maintain.
Only the EU has the legal and financial muscle to do this.
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10. Design Principle 5 Build on existing structures
Eurogeosurveys links the national geological surveys
nearly all the EU's hydrographic offices are Members of the International Organisation.
efforts by regional sea conventions to collect pollution data on a maritime basin scale.
EuroGOOS aims at establishing a concerted European approach to operational oceanography
allow EMODNET to profit from the expertise and organisation that has been developed
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11. Design Principle 6 user driven need to develop feedback mechanisms
define priorities
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12. Design Principle 7 clarify ownership, accuracy and precision
data should be accompanied by a statement concerning ownership, rights of use, precision and accuracy
allows recognition of data providers
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13. freedom of use for publicly funded data
Design Principle 8
freedom of use for publicly funded data
conditions of use remain prerogative of owner
need to move cautiously
a number of organisations in the public domain – particularly in geology and hydrography - are concerned that the loss of income from data sales might limit their ability to process and archive data.
nevertheless the charging for data for commercial use is a brake on innovation without bringing a net gain in benefits for society
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16. to reduce operational costs
Objectives
to reduce operational costs
private industry
public decision-making
marine scientific research
to increase competition;
to reduce uncertainty
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17. public human activity fishing biology Industry (value added services)
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Sea-level rise estimate
Climate prediction
Gravel extraction, Renewable energy, Port operation, Aquaculture, etc
Practical use
WISE marine
Industry (value added services)
Target users
Public authorities
Researchers
public
Atlas of the Seas: disseminate data, clarify policies and promote sea-basin approach
Assembly and visualisation
At sea-basin level; develop complete picture, measure quality and analyse gaps (including habitat map)
fishing
other activity
human activity
Observation and collecting
space
in-situ
physics
fish
other species
biology
fishing
other activity
economics
chemistry
geology
hydrography

18. What should EU do?
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19. EU options assemble data collect data and assemble them
assemble data and develop indicators
assemble data
collect data and assemble them
assemble data and develop indicators
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20. Preparatory Actions €4,250,000 hydrography North Sea
the Celtic Seas, the Western Mediterranean, the Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean
geology
Baltic and Celtic Seas
chemistry
Black Sea
biology
Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast
habitats
Baltic, Celtic Seas and Western Mediterranean
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21. costs IMPACT Cost or benefit
Option 1 support data processing and assembly
Option 2 support data collection
(additional to benefits of option 1)
Reduced operational costs
benefit
+++
Increased competition
Reduced uncertainty ++
Increased implementation costs
Cost
€15m - €50m per year
Additional €10m- €200m per year
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22. Next steps July 2009 Impact assessment Board February 2009
Commission Communication
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