The use of Vessel Transmitted Information by fishery scientists is rapidly growing. The continuous improvement of their detail and volume has opened exciting new possibilities for scientist working in the fields of marine biology, ecology and environmental sciences. The often confidential and sensitive VTI data require that the community searches for new but solid technology solutions. In addition, the nearly real-time availability of satellite products, a possibility that could only be dreamed of a few years ago, call for a coordinated effort to develop data-products that assist scientists to discover, filter and integrate multidisciplinary data.
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The second presentation from a series of 3 was held at the Headquarters of FAO in Rome (24 May 2011), introducing some staff members the AquaMaps Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and the D4Science Supporting Technology.
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At the Headquarters of FAO in Rome (17 May 2011), some staff members were introduced in the extended capabilities of the D4Science platform.
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The SEIF initiative (SDMX for Eurostat, ICES and FAO) aims to apply SDMX to the domain of fisheries statistics at international level. The SEIF Catch 2010 exercise was recently closed with the delivery of the Catch DSD, a single set of code-lists, and a strategy for further development. The DSD created will be used by Eurostat in 2011 for SDMX catch data collection on a voluntary basis by Member States, and FAO will be able to receive and interpret data that use the DSD.
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The EGI User Forum was organised by EGI.eu, Vilnius University and LITNET in Vilnius, Lithuania, 11-14 April 2011, with the support of the EGI-InSPIRE and European Middleware Initiative (EMI) projects and local secretariat BAIP.
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Anton Ellenbroek is presenting the Integrated Capture Information System (ICIS) in this new video.
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Since March, the D4Science infrastructure offers the R statistical software. R has been integrated in the D4Science cloud infrastructure to analyze fisheries statistical data, but it promises to bring many more benefits to D4Science User communities.
Initial investigations already point to benefits for geospatial analysis, dynamic reporting, a flexible scripting environment for users, and advanced plotting. These services can benefit from the advantages that D4Science has to offer to communities; the shared WorkSpace and the powerful computing capabilities being the most obvious.
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The 6th Technical Committee Meeting (TCom) took place from 15-18 of March 2011 in Rome, Italy. The meeting was organised by FAO at its headquarter. The main topics discussed were the recent upgrade of the infrastructure, the addition of R and graphic capabilities, and new search features.
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Serge Michel Garcia`s - member of the D4Science-II External Advisory Board - article "Potential contribution of the Internet to a global community of practice for fishery management" has been published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science.
The ICES Journal of Marine Science publishes articles, short communications, and critical reviews that contribute to our scientific understanding of marine systems and the impact of human activities.
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The Metafor project is developing a Common Information Model (CIM) to describe climate data and the models that produce it in a standard way. In particular, Metafor is leading an international effort to develop controlled vocabulary and metadata collection procedures in support of the next climate model intercomparison project CMIP5 (see online questionnaire here). The core information model Metafor has developed is nevertheless very generic and can be applied to other modelling fields. This re-usability of the metadata development and tools is a high-level commitment of the Metafor development and will be at the core of this workshop.
