1. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 1 discovery viewing download including sub sampling, formatting QC policy Define data domains InSitu time series, profiles Bio samples Picture Video Acoustics Geo-physical Fluxes data capture monitoring Conversion to physical units Communication esonet portal ex : pangea, ifremer, … data centre archiving usersother projects interoperability : geoss observatory ex : dyfamed local centres ex : LOV observatory local centres observatory data logging local centres processing data centre regional-national data centre ex : ingv, ifremer OGC wcs wfs OpenDAP Web services QC manual Qartod SensorML Q2O standardsservices data management council certify data centres and observatories

2. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 2 Action items Create working groups on how to define best practices and assess emerging standards Make recommendations to the data management council Data capture Work on standards and international best practices SensorML, link with Qartod-Q2O Inventory of observatories : current and planned Inventory of domain of observations (eg : InSitu time series, profiles, bio samples, picture, video, acoustics, geo- physical, fluxes…) QC policy Adopt standards, vocabularies, ontologies Archive, data distribution, interoperability Links with Qartod-Q2O Discovery, visualization, download WE NEED PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS IN THESE 3 WORKING GROUPS

3. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 3 Data capture working group Work on standards and international best practices SensorML, link with Qartod-Q2O Inventory of observatories : current and planned Inventory of domain of observations (eg : InSitu time series, profiles, bio samples, picture, video, acoustics, geo-physical, fluxes…) Michael Diepenbroek, Thierry Carval (contact), Jaume Piera, Emre Damci, M. X (Loome), Maureen Pagnani, Stephane Pesant, Benoît Pirenne, Simon Jirka (to be confirmed) … Related demonstration missions : LIDO, Momar, Marmara, Loome, EuroSites, Sesame

4. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 4 Quality control and quality assurance policy Adopt standards, vocabularies, ontologies Link with DEDALO (Etna hitec) ? Link with MMI-Qartod - SeaDataNet (R. Lowry) and GEOSS, INSPIRE Link with ITIS-APHIA for taxonomy, OBIS-Marbef, EUR-OCEANS Members : T. Carval, Vladimiro Patatu, R. Lowry (?), John Graybeal, S. Pouliquen (as OceanSites), Janet Frederics (for Qartod), Maureen Pagnani (for EuroSites), Michael Diepenbroek, Stéphane Pesant The scope is data and meta-data available from observatories and data centres Certification of data centres, what are the criteria (?)

5. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 5 Archive, data distribution, interoperability on a data centres level Links with Qartod-Q2O Discovery, visualization, download Michael Diepenbroek, Benoit Pirenne, Peter Baumann (OGC-WCS EarthLook), Rainer Schlitzer (ODV), Ruggero Nicotra, Jaume Piera Analyse and comparison of standards (GSDI, OGC, OpenDAP, GRID, …) What GMES services can we deliver ?

6. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 6 Task list 1. G1 : obtain a contact person for each observatory (12 for the moment) 2. G1, G2, G3 : inventory of relevant standards 3. G1, G2, G3 : requirements collection (data types, use cases, metrics, citation) 4. G1, G2, G3 : inventory of existing codes, software 5. G1, G2, G3 : Specifications for Esonet reference architecture 6. Implementation, evaluation on the 2 phases of demonstration missions Preliminary schedule 1 & 2 : end of April 3 : online survey (subcontracted ?) Ingrid and Jaume, 4 : online survey, June 5 : fall 2008 6 : begining 2009

7. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 7 Glossary GMES INSPIRE

8. Esonet Bremen meeting, January 2008 8 Global Ocean Observing System for Climate GCOS Implementation Plan and JCOMM targets 57% 2005-2006 40% 82% 43% 72% 48%21% 80% 95%