iMarine Services: presentation from COFI 2016 side event "Innovative IT solutions to support Data needs for Blue Growth – Google and iMarine examples". Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, BlueBRIDGE Director Anton Ellenbroek, Fisheries Officer - iMarine

1. iMarine Services
Regional fisheries databases
Support to fishery stock assessments
Support to aquaculture atlas map production
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, BlueBRIDGE Director
Anton Ellenbroek, Fisheries Officer - iMarine
COFI 32 Side Event on Innovative IT Solutions; Rome; July 2016
Innovative IT solutions to support Data needs for Blue
Growth – Google and iMarine examples

2. iMarine vision
The iMarine infrastructure provides data services for:
• Collaboration
• Security and confidentiality
• Integration and harmonization
• Analysis
• Publishing and sharing
iMarine and BlueBRIDGE received EU funding
Support marine fisheries and aquaculture with
cost-effective Open Science data services
Access and re-use
shared
knowledge
Contribute to
shared
knowledge

3. • Participatory approach
• An eco-system of linked infrastructures
• Accessible but with dynamic data policies
• WorkSpace (WS) for collaborative science
• Adaptable in all layers
• WorkSpaces
• Functionality
• Capacity
• Connections
iMarine principles
WS WS WS
WP
S
Read Compute/share Compute

4. A key objective; a Regional Database
in support of stock assessment and fisheries management
The iMarine platform hosts an on-line specialized database for fisheries
• Data integration and harmonization
• Data analysis
• Data sharing and dissemination
Not for a specific region, but a generic DB

5. Regional Database
Why? From several tools to One Platform
The iMarine infrastructure advantages
• Tools for fools
• User management
• Storage and reporting

6. Regional Database for fisheries
Collate and harmonize fragmented data
Analyze and present unified data
iMarine RDB: Tuna Atlas
• Collate global public tRFMO data
• Present global overviews
• Collaborative effort

7. Harmonization
• Code list management
• Data validation
• Shared formats (SDMX)
• Shared standard (FLUX)
Sharing
• Repositories
• Open Data
• Fact sheets
• Print
Aggregation
• Fisheries
• Vessel data
• Occurrences
Collection
• Multiple formats
• Multiple structure
• Multiple domains
• Data quality
MapDisplay
• GeoCode
• Store and
synchronize
• Project and share
Regional Database for fisheries
Reduce fragmentation
Regional
Database
For Fisheries
Policies
Guidelines
Best
Practices
Analysis
• Time series
trends
• Forecasting
• Modelling

8. Example analysis
Geospatial data processing of fisheries data
The iMarine platform hosts 150+ statistical / analytical / geospatial services
Tuna Atlas VRE; User oriented workspace presenting global public tuna data

9. Example Analysis
Species distribution projection
Another domain, shared services, same infrastructure
Coelacanth
Giant squid
Neural
Networks
Neural
Networks
and MaxEnt

10. Support to stock assessments
150+ statistical / analytical / geospatial services
Connected to the regional database; online support for stock assessment
• Data management
• Stock assessment support
• Algorithms and models
• Computing power
• Standards for data processing
• Reporting services
• Privacy & confidentiality requirements
• Publish it in any format in any site
• Public shared or private access cloud

11. • FAO hosts the VME-DB website and ALL Private data
• iMarine hosts the Fact Sheet Editor
• Collaborative factsheets
• Users management
• Review features
Reporting features
Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Database components

12. Integrate RDB with ancillary data e.g.
Support to National and Regional Plans of Action
• Mobile data collection
• SmartForms app for on-board reporting
• SmartForms platform (under development)
• Define input forms (for a fishery)
• Review data (using global reference data)
• Report and share data
SmartForms Input App SmartForms Platform

13. The BlueBRIDGE H2020 Project Consortium
Exploiting the iMarine e-Infrastructure
Read more: http://goo.gl/LyFhlA

14. iMarine regional database conclusion
The iMarine infrastructure regional database for fisheries approach
• Is a versatile, flexible, and low threshold IT opportunity
• Is actively supporting data management
• We welcome feedback and collaboration suggestions
• Register to the infrastructure: https://i-marine.d4science.org/
• The H2020 data services project: http://www.bluebridge-vres.eu/
• Contact @ fao: Anton.Ellenbroek@fao.org
• Ask for a demo based on this presentation: http://goo.gl/lN0J9U
• Use free on-line tools; https://i-marine.d4science.org/