1. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet 3 nd Annual Plenary Meeting Madrid – Spain March 2009 - 25(14:00) – 27(13:00) SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009

2. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Closure SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid - March 25-27 2009

3. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 3 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  SeaDataNet future  Very short term : Preparation of the next annual report  Activities for the next year  On a longer term : what will be SeaDataNet after SeaDataNet project?

4. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 4 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  2008-2009 Report (third annual report)  Due on May, 15.  Prefilled forms will be sent by coordinator to all partners before April, 17 oMust be completed and transmitted by email before April, 24 for preliminary check. oFinal version on paper (signed and stamped) due before May, 5.  Preliminary report papers from coordinators to be sent before April, 30

5. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 5 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  Contract amendment in preparation (1)  Main objective oRedeploy remaining TA funds on other activities otherwise approx. 0.5M€ will not be employed  Principles o Partners funding remains unchanged o Unit for TA access remains unchanged (KiloPageView) o Funds redeployment will be based on average of reported KiloPageView for the previous two years  All partners will have to report approx. the same amount of TA access than the previous years.

6. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 6 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  Contract amendment in preparation (2)  Guidelines for remaining TA fund redeployments o approx. 15% will be redeployed on the new NA task NA8.5 - Upgrade of Partners Data Centres web portal add “Communication about SeaDataNet”, others updates, … o approx. 30% will be redeployed to the new NA task NA2.5 - Upgrade of Partners Data Systems necessary upgrades to make use of SeaDataNet standard in the NODC’s (vocabulary, data quality, …) o65% will be redeployed to existing activities Data aggregation for regional products Data and metadata preparation / upgrade for SeaDataNet V1 oSave some money to organize an added training course about “Download Manager installation and configuration”  Report on these activities will be possible for the 2008-2009 period in the limits of the provided spreadsheet

7. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 7 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009

8. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 8 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  Implementation of SeaDataNet V1  All components of V1 system are now operational Preparing data for data access is now the priority !  Continuous data management and metadata generation oPay attention on update of existing V0 entries to V1 (some issues to be solved) oRecord new entries for these directories  Improvement of data access, two options  Implement direct access to distributed data sets … using download manager automatic services oImplementation of « Download Manager » at data centre level  Be part of the V1 interim option oManual management of data requests using SeaDataNet web portal (RSM)

9. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 9 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  Regional products  Prepare the next generation (V2) of products oDefine accurately the new products oImprove data exchanges at regional level in order to improve aggregated data sets (ODV may help) oProcess the new version of products (DIVA) oHarmonize to distribution of regional products to external users Common catalogue Download and visualisation services

10. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 10 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  Next meeting(s) et IMDIS 2010 Conference  Plenary meeting 2010 will be joint with the IMDIS Conference 2010 oEnd of March (22-26, to be defined precisely) oParis - France  A training course about data preparation for SDN V1 will probably be organized in autumn 2009 (decision by steering Committee)  Regional Product Harmonization meeting ?

11. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 11 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  On a longer term, what could be SeaDataNet ?  Sustainability of developed services oDiscovery services (common vocabularies, metadata, catalogues)  Continuous maintenance of European directories oData access services  Interoperability within the distributed system mainly operated by NODC’s “Continuous operation of the distributed data system”  Development of new services, triggered by : ousers communities needs (Research, Policy makers, …) oscientific and technical state of the art New technical facilities New scientific approaches, new observations, processing and analyses methods New collaborations between marine research projects o new directives (Inspire, SMM, …) “Project mode”

12. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 12 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  On a longer term, what could be SeaDataNet?  Three complementary scales of work : oPan-European, in close relationships with international initiatives and organisations oRegional (Basin) oCountries (EC Members States + non EC countries)  An appropriate funding scheme between EC funds and National funds must be reached for the two types of activities : oMaintenance of operational services (Copernicus (Marine Core Services), EMODNET, …) oNew developments (DG-Research projects, …)

13. OBSERVATIONS & PRÉVISIONS CÔTIÈRES 13 www.seadatanet.org SeaDataNet Plenary Meeting – Madrid – March 25-27 2009  Thank you in advance for your cooperation for next report !  Thank you all for your participation to this meeting