The GAME project databasean example of interdisciplinary, open access environmental data

system in the network of biogeographical data bases and oceanographic data repositories

Marcin Wichorowski Joanna Pardus Joanna PiwowarczykInstitute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Open Research Data: Implications for Science and SocietyWarsaw, Poland, May 28–29, 2015

Oceanographic Research Area Extent

Oceanographic Research Complexity

Source: Bermuda Testbed Mooring Summary Progress in Multidisciplinary Sensing in the 4-Dimensional Ocean Tommy Dickey, UC Santa Barbara

The aim of the project is to answer the question:

What is the reaction of physically controlled Arctic marine

ecosystem to temperature rise?

Project will verify the hypothesis, that Arctic marine ecosystem is growing

up (aging) in the course of the global warming.

Evolutionary mature systems are characterized by the balanced, dispersed energy flow

with little unused organic matter. Young systems are usually simpler, with less trophic

links and excess organic matter deposited. Coastal waters of the European Arctic are

world youngest large marine ecosystem, as they were released from the ice sheet 12

thousands years ago.

The GAME Project

• Archival meteorological data from Hornsund and Kongsfjorden

• Hydrological data

• Archival hydrological data

• GIS maps of Hornsund and Kongsfjorden – bathymetry

• Microplankton spring and summer data

• Mesozooplankton spring and summer data

• Bacterial production

• Bacterial density/biomass

• Benthos density and biomass

• Respiration measurements

• Fish hydroacoustic survey

• Euphotic layer measurements

• Sedimentation rates

• Sediment & water column biogeochemistry

The GAME Project – data acquisition

seabed photos by Kajetan Deja

Data accessabilty – problems observed by EC

•Discovery of Data: Access to data and interpretation is impossible for users from outside the

community.

•Access to data: some data are classified, or treated like classified without reason. Lot of owners

desire to exploit added-value themselves, which left data in “frozen” state.

•Use of data: Data is often restricted to “research” use, which make commercial projects very

expensive.

•Cost of data: Data is being delivered with non acceptable cost to end users. Costs should be shared

between users on economy basis.

•Coherence of Data: Data is hard to use cross-disciplinary and cross-border due to weak standards

•Quality of Data: Data should be provided with metainformation on methodology, quality control

flags and originator information. Data unaccompanied by precision estimates is useless.

•Quantity of Data: Distribution of the measurements on European scale is not homogenous. Some

regions are not covered properly by monitoring activity, some measurements overlap.

Source: Iain Shepherd - EC, SeaDataNet Meeting, Madrid, 2009

"...Data and information should be available free and without

restrictions for non-commercial use by the research and education

communities, provided that any products or results of such use

shall be published in the open literature without delay. “Free and

unrestricted” means non discriminatory and without charge,

which means at no more than the cost of reproduction and

delivery, without charge for the data and products themselves..."

UNESCO IOC policy on information exchange

Integrated Oceanographic Data and Information Management System

DMZ

SAN NAS

Integrated Oceanographic Data and Information Management System

Data open for further exploitation

Sharing data through publicly available services – SeaDataNet Data Portal

Sharing data through publicly available services – SeaDataNet Data Portal

Sharing data through publicly available services – ESRI Geoportal

Sharing data through publicly available services – ESRI Geoportal

Sharing data through publicly available services – ESRI Geoportal

Sharing data through publicly available services – ESRI Geoportal

Sharing data through publicly available services – ESRI Geoportal

Sharing data through publicly available services – ESRI Geoportal

Sharing data through publicly available services – ESRI Geoportal

M. König, J. Kohler, C. Nuth. (2013). Glacier Area Outlines - Svalbard. Tromsø, Norway: Norwegian Polar Institute.https://data.npolar.no/dataset/89f430f8-862f-11e2-8036-005056ad0004 Data Licensed under: CC-BY, NLOD

Using data from repositories – Norwegian Polar Institute

M. König, J. Kohler, C. Nuth. (2013). Glacier Area Outlines - Svalbard. Tromsø, Norway: Norwegian Polar Institute.https://data.npolar.no/dataset/89f430f8-862f-11e2-8036-005056ad0004 Data Licensed under: CC-BY, NLOD

Using data from repositories – Norwegian Polar Institute

M. König, J. Kohler, C. Nuth. (2013). Glacier Area Outlines - Svalbard. Tromsø, Norway: Norwegian Polar Institute.https://data.npolar.no/dataset/89f430f8-862f-11e2-8036-005056ad0004 Data Licensed under: CC-BY, NLOD

Using data from repositories – Norwegian Polar Institute

Using data from repositories – Norwegian Polar Institute

Coclusions

•Environmental (oceanographic in particular) research demand for open access to data repositories

•Object of research is too extent, too dynamic, too diverse to be investigated by just a small group of researchers – data, information and knowledge exchange is the only way to accept the challenge and touch the pitfall

•Although the „carrot” of open data exchange brings benefit for scientific research, the „stick” is also real: the Open Research Data Pilot deployed within Horizon2020 aims to improve and maximise access-to and re-use of research data generated by projects. Participating projects will make their research data available on a voluntary basis, as specified in their Data Management Plans.

•In this context interoperability and standardisation are crucial factors of data exchange processes

•There is a growing demand to link environmental data with social information; however, the challenge is to develop common data repository that would link natural and human sciences layers

•There is a growing number of projects that undertake both environmantal and social approaches to address the very same environmental problem or phenomena; yet the results are unfortunately still poorely linked and often analyzed separately

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