16th EMODnet Technical Working Group Meeting Autumn 2024
In person meeting: At DG MARE, Brussels
Dates: 8th of October 2024 (full day)
Meeting Chair: Zoi Konstantinou (EC, DG MARE), Conor Delaney (Technical Coordinator, EMODnet Secretariat)
09:00 EMODnet TWG convenes
In order to save time some of the presentations for agenda items for the session up to 11am will be sent to the TWG before the meeting for review and the TWG will be invited to comment on those agenda items at the meeting. Those agenda items shared before the meeting will not be presented in the morning session.
From 11am we will switch over to the reports and discussions from the thematic lots, earlier if possible.
09:00 – 10:30
- Welcome & introduction (Zoi Konstantinou (DGMARE) & Conor Delaney (EMODnet))
- The ‘Terms of Reference’ to be tabled for review/change (Conor Delaney (EMODnet))
Updates and progress since previous TWG (Secretariat, VLIZ)
- Action list from 15th TWG (Conor Delaney)
- JIRA overview and usage (Tim Collart)
- OGC service monitoring Update and INSPIRE compliance and updates (Tim Collart)
Updates from Central Portal technical team on Centralization progress
- Updates to the map viewer and portal since the last TWG and Map Viewer development plan (Joana Beja/Conor Delaney)
- Map Viewer release updates
- Map viewer release plan
- Community development plan
- EMODnet Ingestion centralisation (Joana Beja/Conor Delaney)
- Metadata review process – (Tim Collart)
- Move to Drupal 10 & ECAS login update (Bart Vanhoorne)
- Update to CP catalogue (Bart Vanhoorne)
- Item on the page rationalisation of EU domain websites and how it can affect EMODnet?
- Presentation on the collection of metrics for reporting (Nathalie Tonné/Conor Delaney)
- Indicators.
- Plans for improving metric collection.
- Update on usage tracking through ERDDAP/GeoServer (Bart Vanhoorne)
10:30 - 11:00
- Technical Updates from EMODnet Thematics & Data Ingestion and EMODnet Product discussion on what should the be the goal in terms of usability of EMODnet products (All Coordinators) - 30'
- Bathymetry - 15'
- Biology - 15'
11:00 - Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 13:00
- Technical Updates from EMODnet Thematics & Data Ingestion and EMODnet Product discussion on what should the be the goal in terms of usability of EMODnet products (All Coordinators) - 90'
- Data Ingestion - 15'
- Chemistry - 15'
- Geology - 15'
- Human Activities - 15'
- Seabed Habitats - 15'
- Physics - 15'
13:00 - Lunch Break 13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:30
- Technical Updates spill over, in case we run out time in the morning session – 30'
- Discussion of the steps needed for the lots to take responsibility for the functioning of the Central Portal (45'):
- Thematics get a drupal user a/c to edit static;
- Thematics take ownership of development of viewer;
- Thematics get metagis user a/c to publish their own data.
- Review of the status of the MapViewer and discussion on proposed features – 15'
15:30 - Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:30
- Review and discussion of the status of the EMODnet Portal Static content. - 20'
- Review and discussion of the status of the EMODnet Portal Catalogue content and. - 20'
- Review and discussion on the status of EDITO. - 20'
- AOB - 20'
- Wrap up, actions, next meeting and EMODnet conference.
- Next Technical Working Group Meeting: format, date, and location (Secretariat & all).