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Sunday, 15 November 2009

The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) is pleased to announce ICAN 4: Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean. This event, by invitation only, will take place at the Adriatico Guest House, UNESCO International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 16-20 November 2009, in association with the European Environment Agency (EEA)/EIONET Workshop on Maritime and Coastal Information Systems, taking place on 18-19 November 2009. See more information HERE!

See or download the Proceedings of the West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop here. This workshop was held 23-24 April 2009 at the NOAA Western Regional Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. This highly successful event was hosted by the Washington State Department of Ecology and the NOAA Coastal Services Center. ICAN was pleased to participate in the workshop.

Suggested citation for this report is:
Purce, D., Wood, M., Kueck, J., Taylor, K., O'Dea, L., Wright, D. and Haddad, T., 2009. Proceedings of the West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA. Available online at: http://ican.science.oregonstate.edu/westcoast/

ICAN has initiated a new Coastal Web Atlas User Survey (also linked above left under About ICAN. This survey is intended to collect vital information from the user community regarding the value and utility of currently available CWAs. The survey queries the CWA user community on their personal experiences with digital atlases within their state or region of interest. What works? What doesn’t? What’s needed? ICAN hopes to gain a perspective from which to prepare specific guidelines that address the do’s and don’ts in CWA development. This should continue to encourage and enhance the future development of CWAs around the globe.

The ICAN Coastal Web Atlas User Survey is accessible through the Internet at this link. For individuals who manage or maintain CWAs we hope you will consider placing this link on your atlas site to expand the number of responders in the near future.

The Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, Cork, Ireland is pleased to announce that version 2.0 of the ICAN Atlas Mediator Prototype is up running at ican.ucc.ie or ican.ucc.ie/atlas.html. Congratulations to Yassine Lassoued and the rest of the ICAN Technical Team for this great work! The prototype seeks to inter-relate metadata and other information between an initial group of coastal web atlas nodes. The topical theme is coastal erosion. Before testing the ICAN prototype, please look at the release notes.

See or download the Report of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 3 on Federated Coastal Atlases: Building on the Interoperable Approach here. This workshop was held 7-11 July 2008, at the European Environment Agency Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Suggested citation for this report is:
Dwyer, N. and Wright, D.J., 2008. Report of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 3 on Federated Coastal Atlases: Building on the Interoperable Approach, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark. Available online at http://ican.science.oregonstate.edu/ican3_final_rpt.

Welcome to our new portal, which is still under heavy construction, but now has the basic structure in place that will be used in the coming months and years to grow this new organization and to serve your coastal web atlas needs!

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Friday, 11 July 2008

We have reached the end of this fabulous week! Several participants of the ICAN workshop engaged in final discussions on the way forward, including a very detailed discussion and refinement of our list of ACTION ITEMS, and activities of the Technical Group in the coming months. Many of us then set off for Tivoli Gardens soon thereafter to enjoy lunch aboard their floating pirate ship restaurant(!) , the gardens, and the amusement park rides! Meanwhile, Kathy Belpaeme visited the Botanical Gardens and Liz O'Dea set off on a unique geocaching adventure around the city!

A final look at the EEA headquarters building where all of our events were held.