SmartFish Chimaera portalChimaera portal

Yann Laurent

FAO Fisheries Department

Chimaera Presentation Outline

• SmartFish project Background

• Harmonization workshop

• Toward a Regional Fisheries Portal

SmartFish Chimaera portal

• Portal hosting plan

• Services from iMarine connectCube

• Enriching iMarine services

Chimaera iMarine collaboration

The results and summary

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Goal: provide a portal to access information and

data scattered in 3 independent source

information systems

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SmartFish Chimaera Portal

SmartFish Background

Harmonization workshopHarmonization workshop

Toward a regional portal

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SmartFish project Background

• SmartFish: EU funded project to strengthen national

and regional fishery/aquaculture policy and strategy

frameworks

– Support participating countries to fulfill international commitment

towards responsible fisheries improve food securitytowards responsible fisheries and to improve food security

• SmartFish Result 1: “Enhance Regional and National

Fisheries and Aquaculture Strategies and Policies”– Component 1M3 aims to “improve knowledge and information in

support to fisheries management processes “

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Harmonization Workshop

(june 2012)

• Aimed to address harmonization issues between the

4 main identified Information System or approach

containing data of interest of management plans

supported by the project: supported by the project:

– WIOFish: a regional knowledge base on West Indian Ocean Fisheries (http://wiofish.bluebox.co.za/)

– FIRMS: an international knowledge base including resources from West Indian Ocean (http://firms.fao.org)

– StatBase: a statistical database containing fishery statistics provided by West Indian Ocean countries (http://statbase1.smartfish.d4science.org/statbase/)

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Harmonization Workshop

(june 2012)• To identify common concepts shared across the

systems/approach including common reference data and classification as common standard for the Regional Information System.

• To identify needs for mapping concepts, defining gateways between the concepts and reference data not matching between the 4 systems.

• To bring together the previous analysis to propose

options for a Regional Information System

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Harmonization Workshop

(june 2012)?

The 3 fisheries

Information

Systems

concepts and

their relationships

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their relationships

have been analyzed

and summarized

The floor is prepared

to exploit

these structure

of information

Toward a Fisheries Regional Portal

• HW Recommendations:

– Creation of a simple portal (with simple web technologies)

– Embedding iMarine web semantic tools to offer complex

functionalities to the portal: being able to exploit data in a functionalities to the portal: being able to exploit data in a

seamless way with very little data exchanges

Not yet another centralized database

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Toward a Fisheries Regional Portal

• Achieved so far:

– Prototype 1: proof of concepts

– Prototype 2: enhanced functionalities and contents with

involvement of the community – user validationinvolvement of the community – user validation

• Now in the process of making the portal public

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Chimaera iMarine collaboration

Portal hosting plan

Services from iMarine connectCube

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Services from iMarine connectCube

Enriching iMarine services

iMarine as hosting infrastructure

• Provide portal hosting solution: sustainability and

security

• Provide StatBase hosting solution addressing KMFRI

servers’ instabilities issuesservers’ instabilities issues

• Now in the process on formalizing Service

Agreement Letter with iMarine

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Services from iMarine connectCube

• Indexing and annotation process taking into

consideration each source IS data access and sharing

policies

• Creation of search indexes and search services to • Creation of search indexes and search services to

exploit these search indexes

• Provide a list of results to the user query

� the portal embeds these services in a user friendly

way to guide the user in his data search

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Semantic services

Indexing – annotation

Chimaera hosting

-> search

Stat

Base

Semantic services to support federating data portals

Example of Chimaera, SWIO fisheries regional portal

FIRMSWIO

Fish

App. hosting

Base

Other

DB

Content is accessed and

indexed according

to each IS data access

and sharing policies

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Semantic services

Chimaera hosting

Example of Chimaera, SWIO fisheries regional portal

enriched with geographic information

-> get maps

Scalable

solution

iMarine GIS

catalogue

Associating geo-data

Other GIS

catalogue

VLIZFAO

GIS catalogues

Content is associated according

to each geographic data access

and sharing policies

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Enriching iMarine services

• In the process of embedding iMarine web semantics

tool in Chimaera: development of libraries to exploit

the search result

• Working closely with iMarine developers to integrate

the JS libraries to exploit the search result as part of

the gCube to offer a complete solution (from data

indexing to result exploitation)

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Conclusion

• Proof of concept validated: this model could

be extended to other databases and

information systems (Regional or national)

• Address the issue of data exchanges but can • Address the issue of data exchanges but can

face problems given restricting data access

and sharing policies

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