ICAN Publicationshttp://hdl.handle.net/1834/178532024-03-28T20:01:14Z2024-03-28T20:01:14ZICAN - Best Practice Guide to Engage your Coastal Web Atlas User Community.http://hdl.handle.net/1834/95792021-05-19T07:01:22Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZICAN - Best Practice Guide to Engage your Coastal Web Atlas User Community.
Kopke, Kathrin; Dwyer, Ned
The long-term strategic goal of the IODE ICAN (International Coastal Atlas Network) project is to encourage and help facilitate the development of digital atlases of the global coast based on the principle of distributed, high-quality data and information. These atlases can be local, regional, national and international in scale. ICAN aims to achieve this by sharing knowledge and experience among atlas developers in order to find common solutions for coastal web atlas development whilst ensuring maximum relevance and added value for the users.
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZReport of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 5: Coastal Atlases as Engines for Coastal & Marine Spatial PlanningDwyer, NedKopke, KathrinBerman, MarciaBelpaeme, KathyO'Dea, Elizabeth (Liz)Haddad, TanyaWright, Dawn J.http://hdl.handle.net/1834/66892021-05-19T07:00:31Z2012-01-01T00:00:00ZReport of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 5: Coastal Atlases as Engines for Coastal & Marine Spatial Planning
Dwyer, Ned; Kopke, Kathrin; Berman, Marcia; Belpaeme, Kathy; O'Dea, Elizabeth (Liz); Haddad, Tanya; Wright, Dawn J.
From August 31st to November 2nd, 2011, the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) held a workshop on “Coastal Atlases as Engines for Coastal & Marine Spatial Planning”, at the UNESCO IOC/IODE headquarters in Oostende, Belgium. The workshop (aka “ICAN 5”) engaged 43 participants from 15 countries, representing 36 organizations and multiple areas of scientific and technical expertise. This meeting was a follow-up to the successful 2009 workshop on “Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean” (aka “ICAN 4”) held in Trieste, Italy, as well as workshops in 2008, 2007 and 2006.
ICAN 5 participants discussed the current and future potential of CWAs for coastal and marine spatial planning and explored the subject area in dedicated breakout sessions. A number of opportunities for how CWAs can contribute to the development of CMSP were identified whilst challenges were also highlighted.
Since ICAN 5 there have been significant developments with regard to putting ICAN governance on a more stable footing. A decision was taken to request the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO to approve ICAN as an official IODE project. This request was considered and approved at the IOC IODE Officers Meeting in February 2012. Therefore an IODE ICAN Pilot Project has been established. This is a precursor to the establishment of a full IODE ICAN Project which will be proposed to the 22nd session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXII) in March 2013. The coming months will see the development of a work plan to be presented at that session.
ICAN is entering a very exciting period in this new relationship with IODE and we look forward to seeing you at the 6th International workshop (aka ICAN 6) which will be hosted at the University of Victoria, Canada from June 16th to 18th 2013, just before CoastGIS 2013.
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZReport of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 4: Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean.Wright, Dawn J.Dwyer, NedKopke, KathrinO'Dea, Elizabeth (Liz)http://hdl.handle.net/1834/66882021-05-19T07:00:30Z2010-01-01T00:00:00ZReport of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 4: Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean.
Wright, Dawn J.; Dwyer, Ned; Kopke, Kathrin; O'Dea, Elizabeth (Liz)
From November 16 to 20, 2009, the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) held a workshop on “Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean” at the Adriatico Guest House of the UNESCO International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The workshop (aka “ICAN 4”) engaged 32 participants from 12 countries, representing 26 organizations and multiple areas of scientific and technical expertise. This meeting was a follow-up to the successful 2008 workshop on “Federated Coastal Atlases: Building the Interoperable Approach” (aka “ICAN 3”) held in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as the 2007 workshop on “Coastal Atlas Interoperability” (aka “ICAN 2” in Corvallis, Oregon, USA) and the 2006 meeting “Potentials and Limitations of Coastal Web Atlases” (aka “ICAN 1” in Cork, Ireland). ICAN 3 continued the momentum by identifying the additional opportunities for partnering on coastal web atlas development throughout Europe, demonstrating the atlas interoperability prototype to the European Environment Agency and its many partners, and initiating the development of a long-term strategy and governance model for ICAN. ICAN 2 examined best practices for achieving interoperability between atlases, and led to the design of a demonstration interoperability prototype using the metadata catalogues of two atlases. ICAN 1 examined state-of-the-art developments in coastal web atlases (CWAs) from Europe and the U.S., shared several case studies and lessons learned, and established key issues and recommendations related to the design, data requirements, technology and institutional capacity needed for these atlases.
At the conclusion of ICAN 3 it was abundantly clear that ICAN had grown from a simple idea to the cusp of a formal virtual organization, which had captured the interest of the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Commission, UNESCO, and several government agencies, companies, non-governmental organizations, and universities. However, much more work needed to be accomplished. Therefore, the activities of ICAN 4 included:
- Discussions of final implementation structures for governance (including formal procedures for receiving new members), technical activities, and continued identification of funding opportunities, so that ICAN can formally incorporate as a virtual organization (aka “community of practice”).
- Presentations on emerging atlases in European countries (especially the Mediterranean) and beyond that are making themselves relevant through policy, environmental and socio-economic indicator work and related themes.
- Continued progress on our ontology and semantic interoperability work, with an eye also toward articulating the benefits of semantic interoperability at a broader scale to non-specialists. In this we look forward to the advice and assistance of MMI and SeaDataNet, as well as to the new NETMAR (Open Service Network for Marine Environmental Data) initiative, which has already developed conceptual framework documents in this area. To this end, we also:
-- Held a small “workshop within a workshop” for atlas administrators on how to become a new node in interoperability prototype.
-- Initiated strategies on making further improvements to all those nodes (according to the Shared Environmental Information Systems (SEIS) principles of sharing information for multiple purposes, using data and systems that are accessible and interoperable).
-- Facilitated further work on partnerships, infrastructure and data exchange formats, all with the overall objective of enabling the nodes to share and communicate with each other, avoid duplication, and streamline information management.
- Presentations and discussion of user issues, including better knowledge of our atlas users, their needs, and on continued inventory, assessment, and evaluation of atlases. To this end, we discussed as part of a small “workshop within a workshop” how to improve the functionality of CWAs for general users, especially as the technology continues to change.
- Small group meetings on potential funding opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic (European Union, US National Science Foundation and government agencies) in order to continue the work of ICAN.
- Initiation of plans for a major ICAN presence at Littoral 2010 in London (European ICAN partners), as well as a standalone ICAN Americas meeting in Wisconsin, USA.
In addition, the ICAN workshop took place around a two-day Workshop on Maritime and Coastal Information Systems, organised by the EEA’s Environmental Information and Observation Network (EIONET), which was open to ICAN 4 attendees as well. The main objective of this meeting was to inform the many participating countries of the EIONET National Reference Centre (NRC) network and to allow for a first exchange of views on scope and roles in the new formation for this entity. Four participants of ICAN 4 were invited to give presentations at the EEA/EIONET workshop, which allowed EEA/EIONET to explore collaboration opportunities as a result of ICAN’s emergence. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) had originally awarded support for two ICAN workshops, so there will be a 5th international workshop (aka ICAN 5), at the headquarters of the UNESCO International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) in Oostende, Belgium, August 31 to September 2, 2011. IODE will co-host CoastGIS 2011 in Oostende immediately following ICAN 5. Objectives of ICAN 5 will include follow-up activities that we did not have time to accomplish at ICAN 4, including:
- Continued progress on our ontology and semantic interoperability work, but with an eye also toward articulating the benefits of semantic interoperability at a broader scale, to non-specialists.
- Continued engagement and servicing of users of coastal web atlases, and on continued inventory, assessment, and evaluation of atlases.
- Revisiting the main recommendations of the ICAN 1, especially evaluating atlas impact, and developing analysis and decision-support tools in atlases.
- Forming proposal teams and submissions to the next available and appropriate NSF and other grant competitions (e.g., NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education, NSF Community-Based Data Interoperability Networks, NOAA, European Framework Program, InterReg, and ESF ).
- Exchanging lessons learned in spatial data infrastructure between the US, European INSPIRE and other national and regional efforts.
- Continued implementation and improvement of new governance, strategic planning, and technical working groups.
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZReport of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 3 on Federated Coastal Atlases: Building on the Interoperable Approach.Dywer, NedWright, Dawn J.http://hdl.handle.net/1834/66852021-05-19T07:00:31Z2008-01-01T00:00:00ZReport of International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 3 on Federated Coastal Atlases: Building on the Interoperable Approach.
Dywer, Ned; Wright, Dawn J.
From July 7 to 11, 2008, the International Coastal Atlas Network
(ICAN) held a workshop on “Federated Atlases: Building on the
Interoperable Approach” at the headquarters of the European
Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The
workshop (aka “ICAN 3”) engaged 29 participants from 10
countries, representing 25 organizations and multiple areas of
scientific and technical expertise. This meeting was a follow-up
to the successful 2007 workshop on “Coastal Atlas
Interoperability” (aka “ICAN 2”) and the 2006 meeting
“Potentials and Limitations of Coastal Web Atlases” (aka “ICAN
1”). These first two workshops examined state-of-the-art
developments in coastal web atlases (aka CWAs) from Europe and the U.S., shared several
case studies and lessons learned, established key issues and recommendations related to the
design, data requirements, technology and institutional capacity needed for these atlases,
and examined best practices for achieving interoperability between them, and designed a
demonstration interoperability prototype using the metadata catalogues of two atlases. To
continue the momentum of ICAN 1 and 2 in identifying the opportunities that exist for
increased data sharing in coastal web atlases for coastal management, governance, and
conservation, it was the goal of ICAN 3 to:
1. demonstrate the atlas interoperability prototype, report on the lessons learnt and
decide on future technical activities;
2. attract and inform a larger group of potential stakeholders of the activity, and
promote an exchange of related developments in coastal and ocean information
services; and
3. develop a long-term strategy and governance model for ICAN.
2008-01-01T00:00:00Z