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GEOSS Data-CORE/GCI Subgroup Progress Report

Data Sharing Working Group MeetingBrussels, 11th February 2013

José Miguel RUBIO IGLESIAS

Earth Observation Sector - Management of Natural Resources Unit Directorate Environment Directorate General Research & Innovation EUROPEAN COMMISSIONJose-Miguel.Rubio-Iglesias@ec.europa.eu

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• On behalf of the DSWG, in October 2012 the Commission started contacting GEO Members and Participant Organisations who had pledged resources to the GEOSS Data-CORE to make their open resources visible and available as such.

• We have been also asking potential contributors to the GEOSS Data-CORE (ECDS, PANGAEA, SERVIR, etc.).

• After a first call for data with a moderate response, in the wake of the GEO Plenary (December 2012) we sent reminders to those who had not responded.

• The second call was more successful, with actions being taken by contributors like UKGEO or PANGAEA and commitments made by SERVIR, ITC or INTERACT Project.

Call for GEOSSDataCORE resources

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GEOSS-DataCORE original pledges (I)

Institutions & projects   GEO Member/

POINPE BrazilICARE FranceETHER FranceCNES FranceCLS FranceIFREMER FranceIRD FranceLEGOS FranceACRI France

RESIF Consortium FranceDeutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) (= Nat. Met. Service of Germany) Germany

Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) at the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) GermanyDLR/WDC-RSAT GermanyISPRA ItalyJAXA JapanEarth Observation Data Integration & Fusion Research Initiative, the University of Tokyo JapanSpanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) SpainKNMI The NetherlandsUniversity of Twente - Faculty of GeoInformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) The Netherlands

   Flagged as DataCORE   Some resources flagged as DataCORE   Not flagged as DataCORE

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Institutions and projects   GEO Member/

PO

SeaDataNet The Netherlands

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science UK

Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling UK

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs UK

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) Rivers Agency UK

Department of the Environment Northern Ireland UK

Marine Scotland UK

Forestry Commission UK

National Biodiversity Network UK

NERC British Antarctic Survey UK

NERC British Geological Survey UK

NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology UK

Plymouth Marine Laboratory UK

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory UK

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK

Scottish Environment Protection Agency UK

Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science UK

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute UK

Environment Agency UK

CDIAC (Department of Energy) US

GEOSS-DataCORE original pledges (II)

   Flagged as DataCORE   Some resources flagged as DataCORE   Not flagged as DataCORE

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Datasets from atmospheric reanalyses, Datasets on atmospheric composition developed by pilot projects for the GMES Atmosphere Service ECMWF

Several datasets EEA

GMES Sentinel missions, Envisat, Earth Explorer, ERS ESA

Different Meteosat, SAF and Metop products Eumetsat

GBIF Data GBIF

IAG IAG

ISCGM ISCGM

World Data System ICSU

Institutions and projects   GEO Member/ PO

AirNow (EPA) US

Standard Earth Science Products (NASA) US

NOAA datasets US

Foreign Agriculture Serve Crop Explorer Interface (DoA) US

Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) US

Landsat Global Land Survey (USGS) US

Many other datasets registered in GCMD (USGEO) US

GEOSS-DataCORE original pledges (III)

   Flagged as DataCORE   Some resources flagged as DataCORE   Not flagged as DataCORE

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GEO Member/PO

Organizations and Projects ContactedContacted? When?

Response? When (1st Time)?

JapanDIAS (Earth Observation Data Integration & Fusion Research Initiative, the University of Tokyo)

8/10/2012 

Italy ISPRA 8/10/2012 8/10/2012Germany Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) 8/10/2012 Japan JAXA (ALOS, PALSAR) 9/10/2012 Spain Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) 9/10/2012 Germany DLR/WDC-RSAT (Polyphemus) 10/10/2012 

GermanyFederal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

10/10/2012 

PO/Japan ISCGM (The Global Map) 11/10/2012 EEA EEA 11/10/2012 6/11/2012

Brazil INPE (DevCoCast & Earth Observation Images Catalog) 11/10/2012 14/10/2012

The NetherlandsUniversity of Twente - Faculty of GeoInformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC)

12/10/2012

France CTOH (LEGOS) 15/10/2012 

ESAESA (GMES Sentinel Missions, Envisat, ERS, Earth Explorer Missions)

15/10/2012 15/10/2012

OneGeology-Europe

OneGeology-Europe 15/10/2012 18/10/2012

ICSU World Data System 15/10/2012 19/10/2012

GermanyGlobal Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) at the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)

15/10/2012 

Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – 1st stage (I)

   Already flagged or will flag shortly resources as DataCORE  Expect to flag but not now  Won't flag neither in the short nor in the mid term  No response or no decision yet

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GEO Member/PO

Organizations and Projects ContactedContacted? When?

Response? When (1st Time)?

Eumetsat Eumetsat 15/10/2012 13/12/2012UK UKGEO 16/10/2012France ICARE (CNES, INSU, Univ Lille, Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais) 16/10/2012 France ETHER (CNES, INSU) 16/10/2012 France SPIRIT, KALIDEOS (CNES, SPOT Image) 16/10/2012 France AVISO (CNES, CLS) 16/10/2012 France / Europe HERMES (ACRI, ESA) 16/10/2012 EC EC-JRC (Digital Earth Unit) 16/10/2012 17/10/2012ECMWF ECMWF 16/10/2012 

USGlobal Seismographic Network - Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)

17/10/2012 

France SMOS (IFREMER, CNES) 17/10/2012 France, IAG IAG (IRD) 17/10/2012 France / Europe IFREMER (CERSAT) 17/10/2012 France RESIF Consortium 17/10/2012 Sweden ECDS (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) 24/10/2012 29/10/2012

-INTERACT: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (INTERACT Coordinator)

29/10/2012 

GermanyPANGAEA: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) from the University of Bremen

9/11/2012 

GermanyBundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde; UniBonn (GEOWOW FP7 Project)

11/12/2012 13/12/2012

The Netherlands SeaDataNet 13/12/2012 

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Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – 1st stage (II)

  Are flagging or will flag shortly resources as DataCORE  Expect to flag but not now  Won't flag neither in the short nor in the mid term  No response or no decision yet

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Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – 2nd stage (I)

GEO Member/PO

Organizations and Projects Contacted When?Response? When (1st Time)?

JapanDIAS (Earth Observation Data Integration & Fusion Research Initiative, the University of Tokyo)

12/12/2012 12/12/2012

Japan JAXA (ALOS, PALSAR) 12/12/2012 12/12/2012Germany DLR/WDC-RSAT (Polyphemus) 12/12/2012 14/12/2012

GermanyFederal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

12/12/2012 

PO/Japan ISCGM (The Global Map) 12/12/2012 12/12/2012

Brazil INPE (DevCoCast & Earth Observation Images Catalog)12/12/201223/01/2013   23/01/2013

OneGeology-Europe

OneGeology-Europe 12/12/2012 12/12/2012

The Netherlands

University of Twente - Faculty of GeoInformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC)

13/12/201214/12/2012 17/12/2012

ESAESA (GMES Sentinel Missions, Envisat, ERS, Earth Explorer Missions)

13/12/2012 14/12/2012

UK UKGEO 13/12/2012 13/12/2012

  Are flagging or will flag shortly resources as DataCORE  Expect to flag but not now  Won't flag neither in the short nor in the mid term  No response or no decision yet

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Organizations and Projects Contacted When?Response? When (1st Time)?

ECMWF ECMWF 13/12/2012 

South Africa SAEON Data 13/12/2012 

-INTERACT: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (INTERACT Coordinator)

17/12/2012 18/12/2012

GermanyPANGAEA: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) from the University of Bremen

17/12/2012 8/01/2013

Spain National Geographic Reference Equipment (IGN-CNIG) 17/12/2012 17/12/2012

France SPIRIT, KALIDEOS (CNES, SPOT Image) 17/12/2012 

EC EC-JRC - European Soil Data Centre 19/12/2012 3/01/2013

China Finer Resolution Observation and Monitoring - Global Land Cover 21/01/2013 US SERVIR 25/01/2013 25/01/2013

Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – 2nd stage (II)

  Are flagging or will flag shortly resources as DataCORE  Expect to flag but not now  Won't flag neither in the short nor in the mid term  No response or no decision yet

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EEA Datasets- They implemented a dedicated catalogue which contains just GEOSS DataCORE datasets. - They also updated the records in the Component and Service Registry.

ICSU (World Data System)- They will contribute the WDS to the GEOSS-DataCORE but once they have implemented the WDS Open Metadata Catalogue (available in 2013) which will be registered and tagged as such. - They are concerned about the duplication of records that may result from brokering both big capacities and their individual members at the same time.- Some updates should be made to the CSR (mainly with regards to the affiliation of some resources, i.e. there is no ICSU-WDS, which is now formally a GEO PO).

Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – Issues (I)

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ESA Datasets- "(…) While there are still open issues, ERS and ENVISAT datasets will not be registered strictly speaking as GEOSS Data-CORE datasets(…). There is no restriction at all, users are only requested to register (…)"- "(…) For what concerns the Sentinel data, the fully open data policy presented by ESA several months ago has still to be approved by the European Institutions and therefore the Sentinel datasets cannot be declared as GEOSS Data-CORE datasets (…)" - "(…) For what concerns the data provided by the GMES Services, ESA is not responsible for declaring and registering those datasets as compatiblewith GEOSS Data Sharing policy (…)"

EC – JRC Datasets (among them EU-SOILS)

- JRC datasets are accessible only for non-commercial purposes (i.e. with restrictions).

• - The development of the EU Open Data Portal may change things in the future but for the time being they cannot commit anything.

Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – Issues (II)

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Eumetsat Datasets- Their intention is to implement the GEOSS Data-CORE metadata tags in their CSW interface during the first half of 2013. - They noted that if the guidelines provided are to be used as a baseline, the provision of a more formal document would have been appropriate (e.g.: reference number, issue or issuing organisation information).- Technical questions were raised (some of them not yet responded):

- - What happens if they have more than one "UseLimitation"? - - Where should the tags other than "geossdatacore" be stored?- - More details about "geossAttribution".

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BfG – River gauging stations in Africa- They are working to get the permission from national hydrological data providers to contribute their data to the GEOSS DataCORE.- However the technical infrastructure is not ready to announce the availability of such data via the GEOSS.

Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – Issues (III)

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ECDS Catalogue- "We will definitely promote the GEOSS DataCORE within Swedish research (…) Two major Swedish research funding organizations have introduced explicit requirements for open data access in their research grants, and we expect more agencies to follow that model (…)"- "ECDS (catalogue) is registered as a GEOSS-component (…) Some ECDS data resources may have additional restrictions, so for the moment we decided not to flag ECDS as a whole as “GEOSS DataCORE (…)"- "We still need to think about the most practical way to handle this (…) We expect ECDS’ content of data resource descriptions to grow continuously, so the most attractive solution (…) will involve automatic metadata exchange mechanisms, many of which seem to be supported by our catalogue(…)"- Regarding data policies (…) we have recommended our providers to use “open licensing schemes such as Creative Commons Attribution (CC_BY)” (….) Intuitively, “CC_BY” seems to map pretty well with the tag-combination “geossDataCore” and “geossAttribution" (…).

Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – Issues (IV)

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UKGEO- They are following up the pledges but they have some questions like:

- "How are the data being used so far?"- "Can I have a look at the GEOPortal and see the way the

registered data pledges are available?"- "I’m not quite sure about the exact actions people need to

take to upload the data. It might be helpful if you could let me have a set of instructions for this."

Contacting GEOSS-DataCORE providers – Issues (V)

PANGAEA- They have updated the corresponding record in CSR and now it is visible as "GEOSSDataCORE" and "NoMonetaryCharge"

INTERACT Datasets- Decision on what to pledge to be taken during the project meeting in March.

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• Most of the entities contacted responded positively to our call.

• Nevertheless, most of them have just confirmed their contributions and still actions need to be taken.

• Those who are already taking some action appear not to completely understand what they actually have to do.We need simple step-by-step guidelines.

• We cannot forget that GEOSS is built on a voluntary basis so we need to respond quickly at the questions and doubts raised by those who are willing to participate. Providers want a named Point-of-Contact they can interact with directly.

• As a general remark, following up the contributions to the GEOSS-DataCORE and to the GEOSS in general should be a continuous effort. We need to look at how the GEO Secretariat can provide dedicated support for this work.

Lessons learnt (so far)

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• Follow-up the commitments by those already contacted, supporting them in registering and flagging their resources in the GEOSS.

• Ask for further potential contributors to the GEOSS Data-CORE, especially to the Sprint To Ministerial demonstrators.

• Ensure the real access to the GEOSS Data-CORE data, by checking the provided links in the metadata available through the GEO Portal.

• Launch a second reminder to those who still have not responded.

• Any suggestions?

Future Plans

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