ICAN 4 Workshop Program and Documents, Trieste, Italy, 16-20 November 2009
ICAN Workshop 4:
Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean
16-20 November 2009
Denardo and Lundqvist Lecture Halls
Adriatico Guest House, UNESCO International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP Mtg H206)
Centro Internazionale di Fisica Teorica
Strada Costiera 11
I-34014 Trieste (Italy)
Last update to this page: 24 November 2009
How to Reach the ICAN 4 Workshop
Information on Electrical Power and Computer Connections
Workshop Chairs: Dawn Wright of OSU, Ned Dwyer of CMRC
Draft ICAN Governance Plan (pdf)
Benefits of CWA Interoperability (doc)
Mini "Workshop w/in a Workshop" on Coastal Web Atlas Users (pdf, for Tues)
US NSF Requests for Proposals (zip, for Tues/Wed) | NSF VOSS (pdf)
For those new to ICAN, see these prior workshop reports:
ICAN 1, Cork | ICAN 2, Corvallis | ICAN 3, Copenhagen
| 7:30-9:00a | Breakfast available in Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 8:30-9:00a | Registration |
| Outside of Denardo Rm. | |
| 9:00-9:15a | Welcome |
| Welcome participants, Adriatico Guest House logistics (Dawn Wright, OSU) | |
| 9:15-9:45a | Introduction to Workshop Objectives & Agenda |
| Review outcomes of ICAN 3 (Ned Dwyer, CMRC) | |
| Agenda and objectives of ICAN 4 (Dawn Wright, OSU) | |
| 9:45-10:45a | Governance Discussion |
| chaired by John Helly, SDSC and Roy Lowry, BODC | |
| Discuss and finalize implementation structures on governance (including formal procedures for receiving new members) | |
| Goal is to put governance model into play beyond the whiteboard graphic from Copenhagen! |
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| 10:45-11:00a | Coffee Break Sponsored by ISMAR |
| 11:00-12:00 | Governance Discussion continued |
| Assign chairs and members to a central coordination team, an advisory steering group, and within the existing technical task force, an ontology content governance group to manage storage, security, change management and serving of the ICAN interoperability ontologies | |
| 12:00-1:30p | Lunch available in the Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 1:30-2:30p | CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
| Governance Discussion continued/Strategic Planning (Denardo) | |
| Discuss and finalize any remaining issues wrt governance or strategic planning | |
| Technical Task Force Discussion (Lundqvist) | |
| Various issues in preparation for Day 2 | |
| Needs/action items re: cookbook/documentation | |
| Steering/Management Breakout Results | Tech Breakout Results (.doc) | |
| EMERGING ATLASES IN MEDITERRANEAN & OTHER REGIONS (Denardo, chaired by Ned Dwyer) | |
| 2:30-3:00p | The Atlas of the Lagoon of Venice: From a Book to a Dynamic Web GIS Atlas of the Lagoon | Lagoon Information System (prototype) |
| Alessandro Mulazzani, Venice Municipality and Marine Science Institute of the National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR) | |
| 3:00-3:30p | ICAN in NETMAR |
| Roy Lowry, BODC | |
| 3:30-4:00p | Coffee Break Sponsored by OSU
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| 4:00-4:30p | Coastal Atlas of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Luis Conti, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| 4:30-5:00p | Bulgarian Black Sea Coastal Atlas |
| Hristo Stanchev, Nansen Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | |
| 5:00-5:05p | Update on Plans for Tunisian Marine Atlas |
| Yassine Lassoued, CMRC | |
| 5:05-5:35p | EMODNET, Trieste | Presentation File |
| Alessandra Giorgetti, National Oceanographic Data Center/IOC, Italy | |
| 5:35-6:00p | Concluding Discussions |
| 6:00p | Ice Breaker Reception Sponsored by the Marine Institute |
| 6:30-8:00p | Dinner available in the Leonardo Building Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 7:30-9:00a | Breakfast available in Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 8:30-9:00a | Registration |
| Outside of Denardo Rm | |
| 9:00-10:30a | Progress to Date on ICAN Prototype (chaired by Liz O'Dea) |
| Discuss further work needed on partnerships, infrastructure and data exchange formats, all with the overall objective of enabling the nodes to share and communicate with each other, avoid duplication, and streamline information management. Prototype 1.1 and additional use cases beyond coastal erosion? | |
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The ICAN Prototype (7 Mb) - Yassine Lassoued, CMRC; Tanya Haddad, OCMP; Liz O'Dea, WA Dept of Ecology The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), Semantic Prototype as Implemented by MMI | Architecture Graphic The Washington Coastal Atlas: Connecting with the ICAN Interoperability Prototype Additional resource based on discussion: Marine Spatial Planning and the US Ocean Policy Task Force |
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| 10:30-10:45a | Coffee Break Sponsored by CMRC |
| 10:45a-12:15p | Mini Workshop on Improving Existing Nodes, Adding New Ones Discussion moderated by Ned Dwyer |
| A small "workshop within a workshop" for atlas administrators on how to become a new node in interoperability prototype and about how cookbooks should be structured | |
| 12:15-1:15p | Lunch available in the Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 1:15-3:45p | Mini Workshop for CWA Users (chaired by Marcia Berman and Kathy Belpaeme) |
| Focus: 1) The user’s perspective on the impacts and outcomes of Coastal Web Atlases will be discussed from presenters who are closely linked to the CWA user community. 2) Feedback and review are essential to insure CWA developers are meeting the needs of the user audience. Surveys provide one mechanism for collecting and disseminating feedback to a broad audience. A workgroup of the ICAN User Committee has developed a survey. The second half of this mini-workshop is devoted to the survey. |
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| Contributions: - Kathrin Kopke (CMRC, Cork, Ireland, Marine Irish Digital Atlas): Web-GIS usage, user feedback and user interface |
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| - Kathy Taylor (Washington State Department of Ecology, Washington Coastal Atlas): West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop as a model for other regions (26.6 Mb) | |
| - Marcia Berman (Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Coastal GEMS, Shorelines Online): Coastal atlases within the Chesapeake Bay Region | |
| - Kathy Belpaeme (Coor Ctr for ICZM, Belgium, Belgian Coastal Atlas): User analysis of the Belgian Coastal Atlas and future user needs | |
| - David Hart (University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, Wisconsin Coastal Atlas: The Research Agenda of the Wisconsin Coastal Atlas | |
| 3:15-3:30p | Coffee Break |
| 3:45-4:30p |
Mini Workshop for CWA Users continued Discussion: 1. Testing and evaluating the User survey 2. Survey Discussion Points: • Is the survey too long? • How can we improve on this? • Very minimal survey response. Is this typical among other regions that have tried to poll users? How to encourage users to take the survey? • Is there a need for this type of survey? 3. General Discussion Points: What are the CWA components that work well? Do we have enough feedback to know what elements of a CWA meet the users’ needs. |
| 4:30-5:00p | Coastal Information System of Andalusia (WARNING: 92 Mb!) |
| Alejandro Iglesias-Campos, ETC-LUSI / Junta de la Andalusia | |
| 5:00-5:30p | Concluding Remarks/Brief Overview of EEA/EIONET Meeting for Next 2 Days/ |
| Andrus on EEA/EIONET meeting overview | |
| 6:30-8:00p | Dinner available in the Leonardo Building Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 7:30-9:00a | Breakfast available in Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 9:00-10:00a | European partners meeting on funding (Giambiagi) |
| include action item "push, via national contact points, to get a line related to ICAN activity put in the action plans for calls within FP7" | |
| 10:00-11:30a | US partners meeting on funding (common area outside of Lundqvist) |
| US NSF opportunities include NSF PIRE (currently NSF 09-505), INTEROP (currently NSF 07-565), Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (currently NSF 04-036). Funding from other agencies to be disussed. | |
| NSF competitions require focused, hypothesis-driven research questions and junior research mentoring arrangements to propose. Other agencies would be interested in more applied topics, showing/developing the utility of CWAs in both management/policy/planning realm and science. | |
| 9:00-11:30a | Tech Team Continuing Discussions (Denardo) |
| 1:00-6:00p | EEA Meeting Agenda |
| - Anne France Woestyn, DG.MARE, European Commission: Integrated Maritime Policy and the EU Atlas of the Seas - Andrus Meiner, EEA: EEA Activities Related to the Coastal Atlases: Assessments, Support to ICZM and Future Plans |
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| 4:40-5:00p | - Tony LaVoi, NOAA Coastal Services Center: Coastal and Marine Geospatial Information Sharing (including U.S. Ocean Policy and Digital Coast Initiative) |
| 5:00-5:30p | - Ned Dwyer, CMRC and Dawn Wright, OSU: The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN): Overview and Recent Activities | ICAN 4 Overview |
| 5:30-5:45p | - Liz O'Dea, Washington Department of Ecology : The ICAN Prototype |
| 7:30-9:00a | Breakfast available in Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 9:00-4:00p | EEA Meeting Agenda |
| - Andrus Meiner, EEA: Maritime Spatial Planning: The EU Roadmap and Approaches for Implementation
- Oregon Coastal Atlas and MarineMap featured in new NOAA Marine Spatial Planning portal |
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| 9:00-1:00p | Individual, small-group strategy/planning meetings for ICAN. |
| 7:30-9:30a | Breakfast available in Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 9:30-10:30a | ICAN Action Plan Session (Dawn Wright and Ned Dwyer) |
| - New action items to do resulting from ICAN 4, or any other outstanding action items | |
| 10:30-11:00a | Coffee Break (Adriatico Cafeteria) |
| 11:00a-12:30p | Concluding Discussions (Dawn Wright and Ned Dwyer) |
| - Continued discussion of action items resulting from workshop, and related recommendations, collaborations | |
| - Prepare for ICAN partner meetings in 2010 and ICAN 5 in Oostende, Belgium (2011) hosted by IODE | |
| 12:15-1:00p | Lunch available in the Adriatico Cafeteria (pay on your own) |
| 1:00-2:30p | Concluding Discussions / End of Workshop FINAL ACTION ITEM SPREADSHEET TECH TEAM GOALS SPREADSHEET |
