Dawn WrightOregon State University

Ned DwyerCoastal & Marine Resources Centre, Ireland

The International The International Coastal Atlas Network Coastal Atlas Network

(ICAN)(ICAN)

FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee Meeting, Oct 8, 2008

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 2

Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Current Membership

• ICAN Workshop 3

• Interoperability Prototype

• Strategic Directions

• Conclusion

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 3

Background: Intellectual Merit

• Issues of regional governance, coordination

• Significant capacity, varying approaches

• Best practices?• Widespread solutions needed

– Access to and documentation of data– Integration of tools– Decision support for coastal mgmt via

atlases– “Semantic interoperability”

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 4

Emergence of “Coastal Web Atlases”

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

“A collection of digital maps and datasets with supplementary tables, illustrations, and information that systematically illustrate the coast, oftentimes with cartographic and decision support tools, all of which are accessible via the Internet.”

(O’Dea et al., 2007)

Coastal Zone Management, Governance

Governments, NGOs, Citizen Groups

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 5

Emergence of “Coastal Web Atlases”

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Marine Irish Digital Atlas, mida.ucc.ieOregon Coastal Atlas, www.coastalatlas.net

Magic, UK

Oregon Coastal Atlas, USA

De Kustatlas, Belgium

NOAA Digital Coast, USA

MIDA, Ireland

And many MORE …

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 7

Background: Workshop 1, Cork, Ireland

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

• To create & strengthen relationships between experts in marine & coastal mapping in North America and Europe

• To identify state of the art approaches to coastal mapping and informatics

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 8

Background: Workshop 2, Corvallis, USA

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

• Improve searches between atlases– metadata to ontologies– Marine Metadata

Interoperabilty• Semantic interoperability• Linkages to use cases,

communities• Proof-of-concept ontologies &

interoperability prototype• Large, collaborative funding

proposals

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 9

ICAN Strategic Aims• Share experiences and find common solutions to coastal web atlas

development– Knowledge portal: Guides, cookbooks, “engines”, discussion

boards, code, use cases…• Globally integrate and interoperate among locally-maintained

atlases• Inform regional decision- and policy-making across several themes:

• Climate change - coastal vulnerability• Coastal governance (boundaries, protected areas, etc.)• Coastal hazards• Population pressures• Marine spatial planning• Resource availability and exploitation

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 10

Current Membership• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 11

Workshop 3, Copenhagen, July 2008

• Advance actions in: – Technical developments

• Review of interoperability prototype

– Strategic directions– Governance structure

• Welcome new members• Link to European relevant activities• Full proceedings at

ican.science.oregonstate.edu

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 12

Interoperability Prototype

• Integrate and facilitate access to several distributed & heterogeneous coastal atlases

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

…

Global atlas

Local atlases

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 13

Technical Developments

• Focus on coastal erosion as a use-case– Overarching view : vulnerability of coastal

communities to climate change

• Key Future work on prototype– At least 6 new nodes– Implement OGC WMS on all– Implement WFS on advanced subset

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 14

Strategic Directions

• Clarified vision and goals of ICAN

• Identified a range of key activities in following areas:– Technical project development– Awareness raising and publicity– Outreach and training activities– Documentation of resources, tools, expertise– Development of ICAN portal

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 15

Governance Structure

• Generated Document outlining:– Committee structure– Governance activities– Pathway towards a sustainable funding

model

• Develop a transition plan from ad-hoc steering to formalized governance

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 16

ICAN Workshop 4

UNESCO University Trieste, Italy Autumn 2009

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 17

For More Information…

Workshop 1 in Cork, Workshop 2 in Corvallis– workshop1.science.oregonstate.edu

Workshop 3 in Copenhagen– ican.science.oregonstate.edu

ICAN Interoperability Prototype– ican.ucc.ie

• Outline

• Background

• Strategic Aims

• Membership

• Workshop 3

• Prototype

• ICAN Future

• Conclusion

Oct 2008 FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee 18

Acknowledgments

U.S. National Science Foundation

Irish National Development Plan

Marine Institute (Ireland), Marine RTDI Networking & Technology Transfer Initiative

European Environment Agency

Oregon Coastal Mgmt Program