HR: 09:30h
AN: IN31C-07    [Abstracts]
TI: Developing a Framework for Distributed and Dynamic Data Sharing Among the Coastal Ocean Community: Gulf of Maine Spatial Data Project and the Open IOOS Portal
AU: Bogden, P
EM: bogden@gomoos.org
AF: Gulf Of Maine Ocean Observing System, 350 Commercial Street, Suite 308, Portland, ME 04101 United States
AU: Bogden, P
EM: bogden@gomoos.org
AF: SURA, 1201 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 430, Washington, DC 20005 United States
AU: * Shyka, T
EM: tom@gomoos.org
AF: Gulf Of Maine Ocean Observing System, 350 Commercial Street, Suite 308, Portland, ME 04101 United States
AU: McIlhagga, D
EM: mcilhagga@dmsolutions.ca
AF: DM Solutions Group, Inc., 30 Rosemount Ave, Suite 200, Ottawa, Ont K1Y 1P4 Canada
AB: In the past year the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS), the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and DM Solutions Group worked with multiple government, academic and private industry partners to develop regional and national distributed data-sharing frameworks for the coastal ocean community. These projects were initiated by a joint FGDC and GeoConnections grant for the Gulf of Maine Framework Data Project. This project catalyzed activities in the Gulf of Maine region, building upon the years of effort at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and related developments in the NSDI and the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure. This one year demonstration project resulted in a distributed framework data resource that spans international borders and connects more than a dozen regional, State, Federal, Provincial and other types of organizations (www.gommap.org). Even though the project funding has ended the regional partnership continues to grow and has formed the basis for the Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership. Additionally, many organizations within the Canadian government are looking at this project as a model for future data sharing collaborations. Concurrent to the Gulf of Maine project, the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) program initiative leveraged the developing data sharing capacity to coordinate and develop the OpenIOOS portal (www.openioos.org), which demonstrates the capacity of the Integrated Ocean Observing System and starts putting the "I" in IOOS in an OGC-compliant fashion. These efforts have engaged the ocean-science community on the national scale. Indeed, a culture change seems to be underway that will have important implications for our nation's response to recommendations from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. This presentation will discuss the successes and lessons learned from these related projects.
UR: http://www.gommap.org
DE: 4262 Ocean observing systems
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005